Fat Santa is Push Gaming’s Christmas-themed spin on their Fat Rabbit formula, released in 2018. It takes the collect mechanic and expanding wild structure of its predecessor and wraps it in festive imagery — an overweight Santa, reindeer, presents, and a sleigh full of multipliers replace the rabbit and carrots, but the core mechanical DNA is very similar.

The slot plays across 25 paylines with bets from $0.10 to $100 per spin. The Christmas aesthetic is colourful and characterful — an enormous Santa dominates proceedings, and the visual design leans into the warmth and excess of the holiday season. It’s well-executed festive slot design that does more than simply reskin an existing theme.

A gift collect meter fills as gift symbols land on the reels, and completing the meter triggers Free Spins. During the feature, an expanding Santa wild appears and grows across reel positions, completing wins across the 25 lines with increasing coverage. Sleigh multipliers apply to wins during Free Spins, compounding payouts when they align with the expanding wild. The Bonus Buy option provides direct feature access, which is welcome given the high volatility.

RTP is 96.44% with high volatility and a max win of 5,000x your stake — a strong ceiling for a festive-themed slot and one of the better return potentials in Push Gaming’s library. The high RTP combined with the 5,000x max win makes Fat Santa one of the more statistically favourable Push Gaming titles available.

Fat Santa is an excellent pick for players who enjoy the Fat Rabbit mechanics with a seasonal twist. The expanding wild and multiplier combination gives it genuine upside, and 96.44% RTP makes it one of the better-returning Christmas slots around.