Overview
Imagine Christmas... underground? iSoftBet's Christmas Gold Digger plunges players into a uniquely festive mine, where snow-dusted shafts meet twinkling Xmas trees and Santa hats. This charming reskin of the popular Gold Digger injects holiday spirit into every spin across its classic 5 reels, 3 rows, and 20 paylines. Despite the quirky setting, the visual design is spirited, cramming in enough seasonal décor – from bells to mistletoe – to make the 'Christmas in a mine' message loud and clear. With Medium volatility and a dazzling Max Win of 8,230x, this game offers a perfect blend of familiar, engaging gameplay with a delightful festive twist, appealing to both fans of the original and those seeking cheerful holiday thrills.
Gameplay & Features
Gold Digger came out before the iSoftBet Hold&Win deluge really set in, so maybe Gus was one of the catalysts that kickstarted the movement. Anyway, as well as Gold Hold & Win respins, Christmas Gold Digger has a trio of Gold Digger modifiers available in the base game.
• Gold Digger Modifiers
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Gold Diggin' Gus is the instigator of these features. Should hetoss dynamiteon the board,3-5 symbolsareturned into wilds. His pickaxes cantransform symbols into Gold Nuggets, while TNT ignitions explode toupgradelow-pay symbols to one kind of higher-value symbol.
• Gold Hold & Win Respins
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Gold Nuggets bearprize valuesof x1, x2, x3, x5, x7, x10, x15, x25, x30, x40, x50, x100, x250, x375, x500, x750, x1000 & x1,250 the bet. Landing5 of themtriggers the Gold Hold & Win respins feature, which initially awards3 respins. Triggering Gold Nuggets arelockedto the reels, and should new Gold Nuggets land on a respin, they are locked while returning the count back to 3. During the feature, blanks, Gold Nuggets and Gems may land. Gems arecollected, and when3 of the same typeof Gem are collected, their correspondingCash Boosteris triggered:
Blue Gemscan unlock up to three extra rows. Green Gemsincreases all Gold Nugget values in view to their higher level, but not past 1,250x. Red Gemsaward an extra respin, so when they reset the first time, for instance, it'll be four rather than three. Purple Gemsincrease the multiplier level from x2 to x5, then x10 at the most. Each Cash Booster can be collected three times at the most per respins round. When the grid is full of nuggets, or the number of spins runs out, the round ends. Then the value of all visible nuggets is awarded. The final thing to note is that landing Gems also resets the respins count back to three
Final Thoughts
It kind of goes without saying that your thoughts on the original Gold Digger slot will be pretty close to bang on the same as those about Christmas Gold Digger. At the time of the original review, Gold Digger provided an enjoyable playthrough, yet it didn't come across as being particularly spectacular, yet it clearly went on to receive a decent measure of success, spawning aMegaways remakeand now a Christmas do-over. Fans of the previous two slots might be rueing the fact that iSoftBet chose not to use theMegawaysversion for the Christmas makeover. But who knows, Christmas occurs each year, so maybe the studio is holding it back for a later release?
For now, we've got Christmas Gold Digger, which is just as pleasantly playable as the first one was; just now, it's got more boxed gifts. As a Christmas clone, it kind of works. iSoftBet has crammed in enough imagery to evoke the season without doing anything hugely special or unique to commemorate it. For something more original, Lucksome Games' bad Santa approach in Saint Nicked is well worth a look. It's a classic example of a studio deciding to honour the festive season with something not only original but humorous at the same time. Back to Christmas Gold Digger, there were few surprises, though the Hold & Win round is as good as it ever was. The original came with a max win figure of 8,320x the bet, so winning potential here is likely to be sound as well, if not exactly the same.
Scoring a solid result from Christmas Gold Digger would naturally be a rather positive outcome. However, even if the max win isn't achieved, Christmas Gold Digger is still a fun game to play, even if heading beneath the earth to engage in a spot of mining comes across as a peculiar way to celebrate the season.
