Invading Vegas Las Christmas: Slot Overview

Having already wreaked havoc in Sin City in the 2022 slot Invading Vegas, the nasty aliens are back for another round in Play’n GO’s online slot Invading Vegas Las Christmas. Stating the obvious, Play’n GO has repurposed a lot of the earlier title here, simply dressing it up with an Xmas theme. Alongside refreshed visuals, the studio has tweaked a few mechanics too, so while the core gameplay is largely familiar, the small adjustments around the edges make Invading Vegas Las Christmas look and play a bit differently, sort of.

Starting with the visuals: since it’s Christmas, there’s far more seasonal lighting and snowfall than before. Vegas still appears trashed in the base game, with the fake Eiffel Tower sliced in two and a downed UFO suggesting either terrible piloting or proof that humans fought back. Free spins bring a big shift, though, as if the city has been restored and is buzzing again. Maybe this is set before the invasion, or perhaps humans and aliens have patched things up and become pals. Either way, Invading Vegas Las Christmas leans into comedy over scares—if it were a movie, it’d feel more like enjoyable B-movie schlock than a Spielberg-style invasion thriller.

Key stats for Invading Vegas Las Christmas include a medium volatile math model and a default RTP of 96.2%, with lower versions also available. The action plays out on a 5-reel, 3-row layout with 20 paylines (paylines are fixed this time), and stakes range from 10 c to $/€50.

Wins come from 3 to 5-of-a-kind combinations, paid left to right beginning on the leftmost reel. Low symbols are casino chips marked with clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades, while the premiums are five character icons, topped by a snowman styled like Elvis as the best payer. Five-of-a-kind payouts run from 0.8 times the bet for the suit chips up to 1.6 to 8 times the bet for 5 matching premium symbols. When wilds land, they can replace any standard pay symbol to help complete combinations. A 5-wild line returns 30 times the bet.

Invading Vegas Las Christmas: Slot Features

Play’n GO hasn’t only refreshed the wrapping; it has also modified parts of the feature set. Invading Vegas Las Christmas includes mystery symbols, Lock on Re-spins, Walking Wilds, and free spins.

Mystery Symbol

When mystery symbols appear, they reveal the same matching pay symbols, or they can turn into wilds carrying an x2, x3, x5, or x10 multiplier. Any win involving multiplier wilds is boosted by the value shown. If multiple wild multipliers contribute to a win, their values are added together.

Lock on Re-spin

A re-spin activates on the center reel when reels 1 and 2 show the full stack of the matching symbol, wilds included, and no win was achieved. During the re-spin, the remaining reels are locked in place, and the re-spin feature can also lead into free spins.

Walking Wild

Stacked wilds can land on the middle reel during a re-spin. If they do, the stack turns into a Walking Wild that moves to the right by one reel on each following re-spin until it reaches the final reel. Once the Walking Wild arrives on the last reel, one extra re-spin is played on all reels. As it travels, the Walking Wild also adds 3 to 12 mystery symbols on highlighted positions. While the Walking Wild is in play, scatter symbols cannot land. However, if 3 scatters land on the near-win re-spin feature, the Walking Wild does not activate. Free spins begin instead.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatter symbols awards 12 free spins. In the free spins round, Walking Wilds travel to the left until they reach reel 1 rather than moving right. Also, more stacked high-paying symbols can land on the first two reels. A total of up to 120 free spins is possible, since hitting 3 scatters during the feature adds +12 free spins.

Invading Vegas Las Christmas: Slot Verdict

They say the more things change, the more they stay the same—and small tweaks can still leave something feeling very familiar. That was the case with Invading Vegas Las Christmas, which, changes aside, largely played like the earlier release. The previous game launched about a year ago, though, so it’s possible the details have blurred. Beyond the cheeky aliens-in-Vegas concept, it wasn’t especially unforgettable to begin with.

Invading Vegas Las Christmas isn’t particularly memorable either. Early on, it felt like enduring lots of dead spins and waiting a long time for features to show up. Lock on Re-spins landed now and then, but Walking Wilds were scarce at first—like you’d have better odds of looking up and seeing a real UFO. That might be because Walking Wilds can now drop mystery symbols (which may reveal wild multipliers), something they couldn’t do in the earlier game. If that doesn’t trigger often, Invading Vegas Las Christmas can feel like hard work. Still, after some time, the moonwalking alien Walking Wild appeared more frequently, and the momentum swung back and forth. Oddly, even with Walking Wilds, multiplier wilds, and up to 120 free spins, Invading Vegas Las Christmas tops out at a ‘mere’ 2,500x the bet max win. It’s higher than the previous game managed, but still.

From a surface standpoint, it’s hard to criticise Invading Vegas Las Christmas on presentation. It’s polished, packed with genuinely amusing touches, and the animations are impressively slick. For an alien takeover slot, Invading Vegas Las Christmas looks as good as almost anything else out there, if not better. It may not bring the kind of power needed to conquer galaxies, but it should deliver a few Christmas laughs—so long as huge, headline-grabbing stats aren’t essential.