You can’t help but enjoy the warm, Christmas-y vibes of Piles of Presents. The game trundles along nicely with a few wins helped along by the occasional wild of two whilst you wait for one of the main events to trigger.
It’s the free spins round that brought us the most joy. It’s like a real Christmas morning with lots of modifiers to unwrap revealing all kinds of treats. Just For The Win have done a good job of making this part of the game feel special.
It starts with unlocking the round – land three or more Santas to get 6 free spins. Then you get 3, 4 or 5 picks depending on whether you landed 3, 4 or 5 Santas on the reels. Each pick is s present to unwrap and will reveal one of a series of modifiers.
Picking Features in Piles of Presents For Free SpinsYou might get 3, 4, 5, 6 or 9 free spins; a 1x, 2x or 3x multiplier; a mid-level symbol upgrade to a wild; a low-level symbol upgraded to mid-level; or a low-level symbol upgraded to a wild.
Now, once you’ve unwrapped your gifts, the free spins start. If you’re lucky you’ll have a few upgrades, some nice multiplier action and some extra spins. The round already starts with a 1x multiplier so any extra from the feature pick is just added to this total. And as we found out, you can land more Santa symbols and pick up more features. When 2, 3, 4 or 5 Santas land you go back to the tree with 1, 2, 3 or 4 more picks.
Extra upgrades, more multipliers and more spins just add to your chances of scoring better payouts. And whilst we didn’t experience this ourselves, if you get another pick on the final free spin then it’s guaranteed to be more spins to keep you going.
And after all that, you’ll be given one big payout when you run out of spins or you hit the 5,000x max win cap.
Total Winnings From a Free Spins Round In Piles of PresentsFinally, there is one more gift Santa has up his sleeve for Piles of Presents – a Christmas Wheel with four possible jackpot prizes – 15x, 40x, 250x or 5,000x. This proved an elusive feature to us. To trigger you must collect mistletoe that appears randomly with mid-level symbols on any spin. When collect mistletoe then there is a chance of unlocking the Wheel. But it’s not guaranteed … it feels a bit like a random prize draw for every player who spins on the game.
