What Is Xmas Drop?

Xmas Drop takes Hacksaw's earlier RIP City and turns it into an in-your-face, classic Christmas release, trading that game's greyscale cat-and-mouse alley for a snowy landscape lined with snow-covered trees. Santa himself wobbles alongside the reels offering cozy action commentary that reacts as you spin, giving the whole presentation a genuinely warm, holiday charm.

The grid runs on a 5-reel layout with 19 fixed paylines, where 3 or more matching symbols landing left to right form a win. Christmas trees, candy canes and teddy bears fill the reels alongside classic card suit symbols rendered on gift boxes, and both wild symbols substitute for any pay symbol to help complete or improve combinations.

Wild Santa and Wild Gift Symbols

In the base game, everything you're looking for comes down to landing Wild Santa and Wild Gift symbols in the right combination — the same core mechanic that made RIP City's expanding wild formula so popular, now dressed for the holidays. Landing these together produces win multipliers up to a striking 200x, giving the base game genuine explosive potential well beyond what its cozy presentation might suggest.

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town and Two Wild Santas

The Santa Claus Is Coming to Town bonus feature builds on the same wild-driven formula from base play, running with increased frequency of both symbol types. Two Wild Santas FeatureSpins takes things further still, guaranteeing activated reels for Santa Wilds in a very highly volatile top-tier mode — a genuinely jaw-dropping payoff for a theme that looks traditional and almost restrained at first glance.

Bonus buy options are available where regulations permit, pushing the effective RTP as high as 96.44%, with every tier rated high volatility except Two Wild Santas FeatureSpins, which runs very highly volatile.

RTP, Volatility and the Realistic Odds

Default RTP is 96.22%, with 94.27%, 92.32% and 88.02% configurations also available depending on the operator. Volatility is rated medium (3 out of 5), and hit frequency of roughly 18% translates to a win around every 4 spins on average — a genuinely welcoming pace for most player types.

The 12,500x max win, safeguarded to end the round automatically if exceeded, is unusually solid for a medium-volatility title, achieved through Wild Santa and Wild Gift multipliers compounding during Two Wild Santas FeatureSpins. Bets run $0.10 to $100 per spin.

Our Verdict

Xmas Drop is a genuine success story for Hacksaw's seasonal reskin formula, taking RIP City's proven expanding-wild engine and giving it real festive charm without sacrificing win potential — if anything, the 12,500x ceiling comfortably surpasses its source material. The jaw-dropping Santa Wilds genuinely took reviewers by surprise given the traditional-looking theme, and the medium volatility rating with an 18% hit frequency keeps the experience welcoming for most player types. Small touches like snowflake animations and Santa's reactions add real charm without feeling dated, making this a worthy holiday-season pick even outside December.

Where to play it

We recommend Gamdom for playing Xmas Drop with real money: 15% Rakeback for 7 Days.