Fruit Shop Megaways

Your favourite Fruit Shop is back with a Megaways upgrade. NetEnt has given their most popular fruit slot machine a new lease of life while also keeping the original DNA. With now up to 117,649 ways, it features wild substitutions and a free spins round triggered by scoring wins with premium symbols that can lead to wins of up to 10,000 times your bet.

Slot Details

Fruit Shop Megaways is a video slot with six reels, up to seven rows and 64 to 117,649 ways to win. At the start of every spin, the game engine will randomly select two to seven symbols for every reel, leading to a virtually unlimited number of row and symbol combinations. The game does not have a tumbling reels mechanic that can be usually found on Megaways slots. Pays are awarded for two to five matching symbols landing on adjacent reels from left to right only. You can spin the fruity reels on desktop or mobile from 0.20 to 100 credits per spin. The game has medium to high volatility with a default RTP of 96.06%. Beware, the game can be offered with secondary RTP settings at 91.01%, 93.01% or 95.06%. Always read the help file to find out which version you will be playing.

The visuals have not change much as we still get the cabin-like wooden reel frame with the striped awning. The background is a fresh, green realm on a sunny day with blue skies while traditional fruit symbols such as cherries and lemons dominate on the reel strips. A lively, more modern soundtrack mixed with reel and win count noises rounds of the upgrade.

The pay symbols start at the low wend with the card royals from 10 through to A, awarding 0.40x to 1.25x your bet for a single six of a kind. They are followed by five fruit symbols – melon, orange, lemon, plum and cherry. Hit six across the reels to win 1.5x to 12.5x your stake. The slot logo is the wild symbol, appearing on reels two to five only and substituting for all other symbols. There are no scatter on this game.

Fruit Shop Megaways Slot Features

The original Fruit Shop slot dates back to 2013, which sound almost like an eternity in our fast-moving online world. They gave it with Fruit Shop Christmas Edition a younger sibling in 2015 that kept all of the original but came with festive decorations for the holiday season. Five years later, they injected a new life and gave it the Megaways upgrade with up to 117,649 ways. Spoiler alert, not much has changed, although that is not necessarily a negative. Reason enough to take a closer look.

With the lack of cascading symbols and reactive wins, there is actually not much to report. While you can score sizeable wins in the base game due to the sheer amount of possible bet ways, the most potential is in the only feature, a Free Spins round that is triggered the soon you hit a win with any fruit symbol. The exact number of free spins the game awards initially depends on what winning combination you hit, irrespective whether it is a multi-way win. During the feature, combinations with fruits and card royals will award additional free spins.

• Cherries: Two, three, four, five or six symbol combos will get you 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 free spins respectively
• Melons, Oranges, Lemons, Plums: Three, four or five symbol combos will get you 2, 3, 4 and 5 free spins respectively.
• Card Royals from 10 to A (during free spins only): Three, four or five symbol combos will get you 1, 2, 3 and 4 free spins respectively.

The free spins round will start with an x1 multiplier, which will increase by x1 for every winning spin, up to a maximum of x10. Thereafter, all wins will be multiplied by x10. The feature ends when you run out of spins.

Final Verdict

Well, NetEnt is going full steam ahead with their Megaways upgrades for some of their existing slots. Fruit Shop Megaways completes the half dozen and it is not really that good or entertaining. Forgoing the cascading symbol mechanic takes much of the Megaways DNA away and not replacing it with some other modifier or random feature reduces the entertainment factor. Plus, the frequent free spins trigger result in often zero extra winnings which starts to annoy at some point. As for the max win potential, we noted the 10,000x bet as that has at least somewhat realistic odds at just over 1:1 billion spins. The game sheet states 20,000x bet wins at a rate of 1:428 billions spins, basically saying it won’t happen in our lifetime.

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