Take Santa’s Shop Review
| Take Santa's Shop | |
|---|---|
| Release | November 2020 |
| Provider | BetSoft |
| RTP | 96.08% |
| Reels | 5 |
| Paylines/Win Ways | 75 paylines |
| Progressive Jackpot | No |
| Megaways | No |
| Betting Range | $0.20 - $24 |
| Max Payout | 359x |
| Volatility | Medium |
BetSoft has thrown it’s festive offering to the mix of Christmas-themed slots for 2020 with Take Santa’s Shop. Now if you are a fan of BetSoft’s games, then you wouldn’t be wrong if something seems awfully familiar as this is basically a reskin of Take the Bank with a Christmas theme.
Although this is a bit disappointing as the gameplay is identical to Take the Bank, but Take Santa’s Shop has everything you want to see in a Christmas theme slot, and has been done beautifully. You can expect Ornament Bomb Wilds and a Santa’s Sleigh Free Spins as features on the 5×4 and 75 payline reel grid. It’s ironic that there is a robber in this slot as you will be robbed out of a decent max win with only 359x your stake on offer.
The main attractions in Take Santa’s Shop include the Ornament Bomb Feature and Santa’s Sleigh Free Spins Feature. BetSoft have also added the option of including a Buy Feature to help you get in the festive spirit.
Betting and Prizes
The number of lines per bet are fixed at 75 and you can increase or decrease your bets below the win window. The coin value betting range is from $0.20 – $24.
Take Santa’s Shop can reach a max win of up to only 359x your stake. The Holiday Robber will leave Wild bombs on the reels as he tries to Take Santa’s Shop for his own gain, but Santa’s Sleigh will give him a run for his money. Let’s take a closer look at who else is joining the Holiday Robber on the reels.
Theme and Symbols
Take Santa’s Shop slot is decorated with brilliantly designed symbols and graphics with typical festive music to make Christmas even more cheerful. Symbols include Sugar Canes, Rocking Horses, Bells, Christmas Stockings, Gingerbread Men, and Snow globes, joined by Christmas Wreath designed Royal Card Suits 9-Ace, the Holiday Robber and Ornament Bomb Wild, and the Santa’s Sleigh Scatter.
The detail in the background that encases the reel grid is beautiful in the form of Santa’s Shop covered in snow and the added Christmas details to the symbols gives the slot a festive touch.
Features in Take Santa’s Shop
Take Santa’s Shop makes use of the Holiday Robber and Ornament Bomb Wilds on the reels. Each time a Holiday Robber appears on the reels, he turns into an ornament bomb and remains on the reels for the duration of the number depicted on it. There is an Ornament Countdown meter at the bottom right of the reels, and when it reaches zero, all Ornament Bombs on the reels will explode, leaving behind Wilds that substitute for all symbols, except the Santa’s Sleigh Scatter to form potential winning combinations.
Land 3 Santa’s Sleigh Scatters on reels 2, 3, and 4 to trigger the Free Spins Feature, awarding 15 Free Spins. The Free Spins Feature comes with a random selection of 5, 7, 10 Wild Symbols that move around the grid on each spin.
If you don’t have the patience to land the Free Spins Feature, you can use the Buy Feature option to purchase the feature for 95x your stake. Here you will be able to choose the number of Wilds you want to play with.
Conclusion
BetSoft have done an outstanding job by adapting the previous Take the Bank slot to a Christmas themed slot. Usually we are not fans of reskins, but BetSoft have made Take Santa’s Shop to look like a completely different game even though the gameplay is identical.
Seeing that it is Christmas, we would have expected Take Santa’s Shop to be more generous when it comes to the max win, but I suppose we can’t always have cookies with our milk.
So if you are looking for a casual Christmas themed slot, then Take Santa’s Shop may just be the slot that will count you down to an explosion of gifts as you sleigh the reels and dash through the snow.
