Rudolph Awakens is an Xmas Themed Slot with Attitude!

Rudolph Awakens is a comedic Christmas video slot from Real Time Gaming (RTG) with a 5×3 grid and up to 30 paylines. Rudolph is an expanding, nudging wild that triggers ten free games, and the page lists a maximum payout of 50,000x the bet per payline. RTP is not published, so read on for the specs, symbols and features.

Rudolph Awakens builds on the Rudolph vs Santa series from RTG, following ‘Return of the Rudolph’ and ‘Rudolph’s Revenge’. It adds a nudge feature, an expanded Rudolph wild and free games. If you want to continue the story, the sequel is Rudolph Unleashed.

Rudolph Awakens Slot Specs

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Theme: A Comical Christmas Twist

This is not the usual feel-good Santa story. Santa and Rudolph have had a falling out, to put it mildly. The setting is the frozen North Pole, where the transparent reels are decorated in Christmas lights. There is still plenty of evidence of a fight: caltrops laid in the snow, unexploded bombs, arrows and a half-buried hatch leading down to an underground bunker.

The artwork is cleaner and less cluttered than in the earlier games in the series. It is a funny contradiction to the ‘Jingle Bells’ tune playing in the background, and the animation adds to the comedy, from a baseball bat-swinging Rudolph to a machine gun-firing Santa.

Symbols and Paytable Basics

Four armed characters make up the top-paying symbols, and they pay from as few as two on a payline: Santa with a machine gun, a missile-carrying penguin, an elf with a flame thrower and a Mrs Claus character. The lower-paying symbols are the playing-card family of 9, 10, J, Q, K and A.

Rudolph Wild and Nudge Feature

Rudolph is the wild symbol and appears on reels 2 to 4 only. He replaces every symbol except the Extra Games symbol and is fully expanded. In the main game, when Rudolph lands partly on reel 2 or reel 4, he nudges to cover the whole reel. During the free games, he can nudge onto all three of those reels.

Free Games and Extra Games

When Rudolph fully appears on reel 3, the slot awards ten free games. The triggering Rudolph starts frozen in place and stays on the reel until the ice melts. During the free games, you can win three extra games, up to three times, when the Extra Games symbol lands on reels 1 and 5.

Bets, Paylines and Devices

The game is played on 5 reels and 3 rows with one to 30 paylines, and you can activate all 30. The coin bet range is 0.01 to 0.25. The slot runs on desktop, and on Android and iOS phones and tablets.

Where to Play Rudolph Awakens

Read more about the studio on our Real Time Gaming provider page. These casinos we review carry Real Time Gaming games:

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More Real Time Gaming Slots

Looking for something else from the studio? Try Big Santa, Bubble Bubble, Egyptian Gold or Warrior Conquest.

Our Verdict on Rudolph Awakens

Rudolph Awakens is a tongue-in-cheek take on Christmas, with a nudging expanding wild and ten free games as its main features. If you like a Christmas slot with attitude, it is worth a spin.

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