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The Fruit Shop Christmas Edition slot game transports you to a world in which the snow and the coins are falling. To get involved all you need to do is to select your stake and pay lines before spinning the slot’s reels. Then you can sit back as these symbols mix and match into a winning fruit salad.

• The only difference between the Fruit Shop Christmas Edition and the original Fruit Shop slot is the fact that the backdrop and reel symbols have something of a festive look and feel to them on the Christmas Edition of that slot.
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• This Christmas themed edition of the popular slot game Fruit Shop will soon put you in the Christmas spirit, as the shop is bookended by a colourful snowman and a beautifully decorated Christmas.

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Never ones to follow rather than lead, it took a long time before NetEnt eventually caved in to the demands of the market and started to release holiday themed slots in line with the rest of the market. The very first of these was the Fruit Shop Christmas Edition slot, essentially a clone of the popular Fruit Shop slot with a different skin. In fact, the word essentially doesn’t cover it – this is an exact copy of the original game. Ok, we concede that it’s fun to get involved with the seasonal festivities but it hardly entices players to take spins on the game at any other time of the year if the game isn’t unique. It seems that in their frustration at being forced to do a holiday slot, the game designers at NetEnt took one look at the design brief and said ‘’add snow to a popular game and send it back to marketing’’.

Now, slightly cynical analysis aside, you have to give the game team their due for selecting a game which is amongst the most popular in the range to do this with. Who knows, maybe, if you have never played the original game then the Fruit Shop Christmas Edition will introduce you to the delights of one of the best fruit machines currently out there. We say that with no cynicism at all because the medium variance Fruit Shop slot really is a great game to play – in either summer or winter.

Christmas Fruit Salad

At its heart the classic fruit machine must deliver several key ingredients to be successful. Firstly, it must be easy to play and the Fruit Shop slot certainly fills that role. With 15 fixed paylines in play, you’d have to look at much more old school slots such as Cool Diamonds to find something simpler. You get all the control you need and more to customise your play experience on this fruity little number, including a fully selectable auto play feature for those of us who like to spin away for a set period of spins. There’s a very easy to use paytable to keep track of the paylines but, as they are highlightable when you hover over them with the cursor – you are only likely to need this on the mobile version of the slot.

One area the Fruit Shop slot steps away from the norm in the fruit machine genre is with its volatility level. The bulk of popular fruit slots are high variance games, often with lower RTP’s and hit ratios but higher one-off rewards. Fruit Shop, on the other hand, manages to leverage NetEnt’s high RTP and combine it with a medium variance level. This keeps the risk slightly lower than some classic slots but maintains a high enough win potential for broad player appeal. You can see that the game is geared for a wide range of slots fans by the bet level which runs from just 0.15 credits all the way to a massive 150 at max bet.

As a NetEnt slot it will surprise no one to see that this is an exceptionally well-finished game both visually and aurally. True, you don’t get the big animation sequences of the top 3D slots from the Swedish developer but, everything which is in the slot is exceptionally high quality. There are some great niche touches too, lining the game up with the Christmas theme. For example, a net little red and white candy cane outline the spin button on the seasonal version of the slot. It’s such attention to detail that continues to mark NetEnt out as leaders in the free slot game field.

If you haven’t played the original game, you won’t yet know that despite a medium volatility, it can pay out decently in the base game round. In fact, many people dismiss the game far too quickly without looking at the way the fixed wild in particular is actually quite a special little symbol. Any win that completes with the wild is given a 2x multiplier, which often turns fairly mediocre triple combinations into the same value you would have gotten only from four of a kind. Of course, as with any slot, you could hit that big full five icon combination and, on the Fruit Shop slot, that would see the usually low-value Cherry icons granting you a sweet 2000 coin reward.

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