Fruit Shop Christmas Edition Slot

Graphics

Very much like the original version, Fruit Shop Christmas Edition has all the same great animations and features, only here they’ve been given a festive update. On the left of the reel case is a smartly dressed snowman, with a snow-covered Christmas tree on the opposite side.

The card values, 10 to Ace, appear in their bubbly blue colours, but this time they’re frozen with icicles hanging underneath. Brrrr. The fruit symbols also suffer from the cold, with the Lemon, Plum, Cherry, Orange and Watermelon all appearing inside ice cubes!

In order to heat things up, we make some winning combinations and the BIG WIN message that blazes on screen is a sure way to warm our cockles. If it ain’t broke, it doesn’t need fixing and that’s the case on Fruit Shop Christmas Edition – there’s no need to improve anything but the added snowman, ice and wintery setting definitely make it feel more festive.

Gameplay

It’s easy to play the Fruit Shop Christmas Edition slot and if you’ve already played Fruit Shop then it will seem pleasantly familiar. Everything is in the same place, with the green buttons replaced with a colder blue colour.

We use the typical NetEnt betting interface to place our stakes, along with clearly displayed coins, bets and shiny buttons to start spinning. Like its predecessor, there’s no specific bonus game but instead each fruit offers up a series of free spins. For instance, the Watermelon delivers one, two or five Free Spins for three, four or five on a payline.

The Orange gifts us one, two or five Free Spins for three, four or five on payline. And the list goes on. The Wild symbol can also appear during the Free Spins, adding a x2 multiplier to our wins. Not bad for a freezing cold trip to the greengrocers!

Verdict

Fruit Shop Christmas Edition is exactly what it says it is. A festive version of an already popular slot. There’s nothing game-changing about it, yet the icy blue demeanour of this slot gives the impression that it is a completely different game.

With a generous betting range up to £/$/€150 per spin, we can use the Free Spins and Multipliers to make us very merry indeed during the festive season, or at any time we feel like getting festive, for that matter.