Barber Shop Slot

At first I thought this game is kinda lame and what not but after several times playing the game I began to love it because the first few times I didn't win anything. Barber Shop reminds me of a NetEnt game called Jack Hammer and the sequel Jack Hammer 2.

They have the same game play and it is quite exciting because of the re-spin feature (basic game and free spins mode).

As ValDes mentioned before, Thunderkick games have low pay out but I believe that not all Thunderkick are the same because I did won a few big wins (or better) on this game.

In fact I've spent a lot of time playing Thunderkick games nowadays, more than NetEnt and Microgaming together :)

The biggest win I ever won was around 25 euro with only 10 cent stake per spin but It took me about 5 free spins bonus rounds to get it and I spent over 10 euro to get those 5 free spins bonus rounds. Normally you need 3 or more scatters to trigger the bonus round and like Jack Hammer you need at least 5 scatters to trigger it, that's why is hard to get them because most of the time you get 3 or 4 scatters and this causes a lot of excitement when 3 scatters appeared.

Believe it or not, although this game has a low payout I will keep playing the game just because it's kinda fun to play and very entertaining. Barber Shop is one of my favorite of Thunderkick games.

There are two ways to win on this game, play low with a large balance (more spins, longer gameplay) and play high with a more larger balance (apply only for high rollers).

There are a lot of Thunderkick games that I don't recommend and Barber Shop is not one of them.

I give this game an 8 stars rating.

I must say that ValDes is right, this game has a low payout, Jack Hammer pays a lot more but it is possible to win big with a little bit luck (okay, a lot of luck).
Other than that I find this game great!

Soon I turn 47 years old and almost every day I need to shave. I remember with nostalgia that 15 years ago I was shaving only once a week. Perhaps a part of the readers of this review are well aware of this fact. In any case, after the first hundred spins played here at Barber Shop I left the game on auto mode and I “stole” 5 minutes to have a shave. It is like the slot is saying you: you are not enough arranged. If you pay attention during the game, you can see that when the slot counts the wins the symbols change: all men who initially were unshaven, uncut or having a big mustache they are now beautifully arranged, with the beards trimmed and well rigged out.

This is the “Barber Shop” slot from Thunderkick casinos, where every game has its personality and brings something new. Perhaps here the novelties are not many except how the wins are counted: all symbols that can make a winning combination are kept (locked in place) and the slot offers respins until there are no more identical symbols. At the end the count is done. I saw in Yggdrasil two such games. But the difference from Yggdrasil is that while there the payouts were huge, here they are not too big. However, the total won is not so small to go into loss and thus you neither loose (after 2-300 spins you have a difference from the beginning of just 1-2 Euro more or less).

5 bonuses held on reels bring the Free Spins, when at each respin a multiplier is advanced. This is the way I got my only Big Win here, that is uploaded above. The last pleasant thing is the typical bet for Thunderkick (10 cents or 1 Euro) regardless the number of paylines (here 25).

Anyway the slot is nice, such a theme (that of the barber shop and of the shaved men) I have not met yet.

Basically the only part most unpleasant are the somewhat small amounts paid. Having “5 of a kind” for some symbols of the game the slot pays less than the bet. But still one must recognize that because of the rules of the game “5 of a kind” combinations are common here.

With a fixed 25-payline slot named Barber Shop I had a chance to play with an unknown developer Thunderkick. I was excited for this opportunity but I tried to not be too enthusiastic as in the past it usually resulted a bigger disappointment. So Barber Shop as its name suggests introduce us an old-school business (I don’t think many of us would use this service nowadays) and we can see by the help of the symbols so many kind of mustaches and beards. The slot is made in cartoon style and I’m not a fan of this appearing technique but somehow I like these cute icons. Maybe they seem to be a little bit one-schemed but they are well-drawn and some of them are very typical character and the entire interface gives a light entertaining visual experience.

The game segment brings something new for me and I have to say I can appreciate them and find some of them are great. Surprisingly the game can be played with as low total bet as €0.10 and because there are 25 pay lines this winning calculating method was a mystery for me at first but fortunately we don’t need to do math as the paytable shows the pays for the current bet. Anyway, there are other selectable but fix 13 different stake options from €0.20-€100 and interestingly there is no possibility to play with €25 which otherwise would be an evident bet. So assuming a €1 total bet (€0.04 line bet) and the assigned top paying line win to it is €40 so we easily can see 1000 times of line bet is the main prize.

The slot offer real great features as I mentioned and one of them is the re-spin feature which is activated each and every time if a win is completed then the winning symbols are held in their places and all other symbols on the screen re-spin once and this process lasts until one of the newcomer icon can join to the previous symbols and can form a new winning combination and increase the number of winning icons. Of course any additional line wins during re-spins trigger the feature again.

5 Bonus emblems are needed to activate side game which is a free spin series and it consist of 10 base spins. Every appearing Bonus symbol during that session gives another 2 free games (we can get max. 30 such spins) and the re-spin feature is still intact there but with greater quality as with every re-spin an assigned multiplier value increases from x1 up to x5. There’s another little add-on named Inwinity Spin which means if the bonus free spins are finished the automatic spins continue until the new table arrangements bring at least one win.

I like very much these features and find them exciting and profitable at the same time but as you can see the slot doesn’t use a traditional Wild symbol which is not a fortunate thing from the developers. Anyway, the re-spin feature has surprisingly good results as I could thank some of the bigger wins for that extra but the free spin section is the real deal here especially if the great re-spin feature is supplemented with that multiplier values.

Despite this slot graphically doesn’t fit well to my style and I just can’t find this kind of appearance attractive but with the other game segments it really could make me a fan of it and really enjoyed my introductory play session.

There is one thing that I want to mention and this is the game setting panel. This is one of the best I’ve seen as it really contains all the information what the player needs to have for playing and it really gives lot of freedom to player to change settings and customize it with lot of options. Overall, I’m very impressed with this new partnership with Thunderkick and if other products can bring along these game qualities perhaps we’ll be good friends in the future, who knows? I feel we’re in the right direction so I’m really looking forward to it.

Want a free shave? Then go to Barber Shop, but getting there may cost you some money. Hey, nothing is really free nowadays is it? Barber Shop is a fun-to-play 25 paylines slot game that doesn’t show the paylines, nor the bet per line values, as in all Thunderkick games, purely because all their games start at the minimum bet of 0.10 Euro per spin, regardless of number of paylines. A distinct advantage for low betters. Everything else about the game is simple yet pleasing, in terms of graphics quality, and with interesting sound effects too. Quite acceptable even at today’s very high standards of graphics quality, but still 1 star down.

Typically of all Thunderkick games, win values for every symbol are on the low side. The highest paying symbol, the Brown bearded man, pays 40 x bet, the next highest pays 20 x bet, while the bonus symbol do not pay anything. There isn’t any wild symbol and there’s no doubling or tripling of wins either – all wins are paid at bet value. Such a pity. 2 stars down.

Also typical is the offering of only 1 feature game, the free spins game. 5 bonus symbols trigger 10 free spins, and each additional bonus symbol appearing on the reels adds 2 more free spins, up to a maximum of 30 free spins. More free spins can be won during the free spins play but this hardly happens. Don’t ask me why. Wins in the free spins are paid in increments from x1 to x5. Every 3 or more of the same symbols appearing on a payline become sticky while all the other symbols take a respin. All additional same symbols become sticky too, are paid at the next higher win multiplier, with another respin awarded. The free spin ends when no same symbol appear on any of the active paylines. Very interesting game play, I must admit, but payouts are not big due to the absence of doubling or tripling catalysts. 1 star down.

Contrary to the simplistic characteristics of Barber Shop, the game play is actually very enjoyable and entertaining. Each time the same symbols become sticky, a respin then ensues, more same symbols appear and become sticky too, until no more appear on the paylines. Thrilling to watch indeed! Each respin win is paid at the next higher multiplier level, up to the maximum of x 5. However, there are no multipliers in the base game, so big payouts can only be had in free spins games. Nonetheless, after much attempts, wins of over 100 x bet are rather hard to get, even with several free spins games coming quite often. The biggest win I’ve had that paid about 100 x bet or more came from getting several of the Brown bearded man, but I’ve never seen all-of-a-kind win as yet. Maybe it’s possible to get, maybe not, no one knows, until someone actually wins it. Overall, Barber Shop can keep you entertained for long hours, have fun playing it, and strangely enough, it makes you want to come back and play more, won or lost! I’ve not won on Barber Shop, but every time I see this game, I end up playing it. Very addictive, so 0 star down/up, despite not having won anything big on the game.