New Year's Bash Slot by Habanero

The free games here aren't a fixed allocation. Three scatters drop you into a 15-spin round, which is the standard count, but a row of 10 unlit bulbs sits across the top of the bonus screen as a collection meter. Every bulb symbol that lands during the round lights one up. Light all 10 before the spins run out and the round retriggers with 15 additional spins, doubling the entry to 30. Run out of spins before the meter completes and you walk away with whatever the partial fill paid. The mechanic is built around a low-volatility math model, so the meter usually inches toward completion in chunks rather than landing as a single chain.

The base game underneath is a 5x3 with 25 fixed paylines reading left to right. A NEW YEAR'S BASH party-goer holding a champagne flute serves as the wild and substitutes for everything except the gold BASH scatter emblem. No buy-in, no Super Bet, no second bonus path. The route to the bulb round is the only feature path, which lines up with the studio's pre-2023 release calendar. Two random progressives sit overhead and can fire on any paid spin, a Grand running through the thousands of EUR and a Minor in the double digits, both drawing from the studio's shared cross-game pool rather than the time-windowed Jackpot Race format.

The art leans full party-rail. Premium symbols are framed landmark portraits set against fireworks bursts (Big Ben with London lit up behind it, the Eiffel Tower in golden firework spray, the Golden Gate Bridge in silhouette over the San Francisco bay). Card royals are inflated as helium balloons in pink, teal, green, and red, floating on visible strings between the reels. The cabinet itself is strung with warm fairy lights that twinkle independently of the spin animation, and the NEW YEAR'S BASH wordmark up top wears the kind of marquee bulb-frame styling you'd expect from a Vegas midnight party backdrop. The midnight cityscape behind the grid carries the same skyline silhouettes as the symbol art, so the cabinet feels like it's parked on a hotel rooftop somewhere watching multiple time zones cross the year line at once. 21,265x as a stake cap is unusual at this volatility level, which gives the bulb-collection round the headline ceiling players actually chase.