Take Santas Shop Slot Review & Free Demo Game

Take Santas Shop Slot Machine Review

The winter holidays will typically bring some exciting Santa themed slots each year, and Betsoft is one of those companies which will often deliver great graphics, so it’s fun to see what they’re going to come up with. Take Santa’s Shop is their contribution to the winter holidays of 2020, and they do it justice, with mostly themed graphics of excellent quality.

It’s a slot with 5x4 reels and 75 lines, which incorporates interesting features, including here a progression game, free spins and wilds. While it has medium volatility, it offers fairly low rewards of up to 359x the stake per spin, or up to $7,194. RTP still ends up at the right size though, since it’s mentioned that it is expected to be 96.08%.

Betting and Prizes

You don’t actually have anything to do with the slot’s 75 lines. You’re only picking the bet value from the bottom, and its range will be $0.20 to $20.

We’re used to higher top payouts from medium volatility slots such as this one, so a 359x payout is not going to impress anyone. It only means $7,194 cash, even if you’re using the maximum bet.

On the other hand, the game is built in such a way that the base game will feel very punishing, while the free spins will have a major impact. You can see it in the hit frequency rate which is announced, of 20.12% for the base game, and 91.93% for the free spins. This means that only 1 in 5 paid spins is going to be a winner, on average. Things changes once you manage to get to the free spins, and more than 9 in 10 rounds will bring you wins there. The difference is huge, in terms of potential.

Overall, they’re expecting the game to have a 96.08% RTP, but this is for the lifetime of Take Santa’s Shop.

Take Santas Shop Game Features

If you look in the bottom right corner, you will notice a number placed on the side of a Christmas bauble. It starts from 10 and it counts down from there. Once it gets to the 10th spin, the progression game ends for the current round. Along the way, you will transform the Holiday Robbers into Ornament Bombs, and they all transform into wilds for the 10th spin. They detonate then, and will potentially bring new waves of winning combinations.

Santa’s Sleigh is in one of the other symbols, and it can be used to trigger the free spins of this slot. You need 3 scatters in view, and in exchange you get 15 free spins. A random number of wild symbols will be added to the reels, so either 5, 7 or 10, to be used each spin. They move around the game area, which holds 20 symbols in total.

You are not going to get the progression game during free spins, so it’s the random wilds that have such a big impact on the feature’s wins. There is a chance of 1 in 129 to trigger the free spins.

Theme & Design

It’s not difficult figuring out what makes this slot machine attractive. The winter holidays will have most people trying to connect with family and traditions, and Santa is definitely a part of that.

It’s a different take on Santa Claus though, using a tougher version of the man on the reels. You still find a lot of the other traditional icons, so the list includes things like Santa, the Sleigh, Snow Globes, Gift Socks, Bells, Candy Cane, Gingerbread Man, Toy Horses and a bunch of Royals which are made out of fir tree branches and lights.

Conclusion

Take Santa’s Shop looks like a very interesting new casino game for the holidays. It’s offering the right theme and design quality, the attention to detail is there, and the features are a lot of fun. You need the free spins in order to get as many rounds with fairly low wins as possible, because the base game feels rather punishing.

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