Barn Festival Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Barn Festival Review

You’re taken on a refreshing trip to the countryside in this festive installment in Pragmatic Play’s scatter pay range, and Barn Festival is arguably the best one so far. The audiovisual presentation is a mood-lifter, but we would’ve preferred no hiccup-animations when the tumble wins mechanic kicks in. The base game can escalate into quite tense moments though, due to the innovative money-symbols-turn-multiplier system.

The usually inactive money symbols can thus turn a regular tumble sequence into a massive payout, not least since each money symbol may add up to +500 to the accumulated total win multiplier. The Money Respins bonus round is heavily influenced by Money Train 2, and everything is accompanied by a cheerful banjo-based soundtrack.

Barn Festival Slot - Reels Screen

Barn Festival Slot Features

The premiums pay between 10 and 50 x your stake for 12+ matching symbols anywhere in view, and winning symbols are removed via the Tumble mechanic. New and/or existing symbols will then drop down to fill the gaps, leading to indefinite extra wins per paid spin as the process repeats per new win.

Money symbols land with values between 1x and 500x, and their respective values are added together to create a win multiplier if 3+ land in the same tumble sequence. This win multiplier will then boost the total tumble sequence win. If you land exactly 3 money symbols on the first spin (before any tumbling wins), a multiplier is also created.

The other symbols will then respin until you land a winner, which is boosted by the total multiplier.

The Money Respin feature triggers when you land 4+ money symbols on the same spin, and it plays out on a cleared 4x5 starting grid where the triggering symbols are sticky. You start with 3 respins, and any non-blank symbols become sticky and reset the respins tally when they hit. In addition to the money symbols, you also get 7 special symbols as follows:

• Add Value - adds a random value to all present money symbols, before turning into a money symbol itself.
• Multiply - boosts 2 to 5 random money symbols with a random multiplier of x2, x3, x4 or x5, before it turns into a money symbol.
• Collect - adds the value from all present money symbols to itself.
• Unlock - unlocks one extra reel and turns into a money symbol.
• Persistent Add - keeps adding value to all money symbols for each new spin.
• Persistent Multiply - does the same as the regular Multiply, but for all following spins.
• Persistent Collect - does the same as Collect, but for all spins that follow.

The feature ends if you either run out of respins, smash the win cap, or fill all grid positions. If the latter happens, which requires unlocking 2 extra reels, you get a 500x bonus payout on top of everything else.

Finally, non-UK players, and anyone living in an eligible jurisdiction, may take advantage of the Bonus Buy option. You can thus purchase the Money Respin round for 100x the stake, which guarantees 4+ money symbols on the spin that follows.

The 200 Spins Barn Festival Slot Experience

You get to see a few tumble wins in the base game, before we purchase the Money Respin feature around 0:49 into the 3:41-minute highlights video.

The feature plays out for the rest of the video, and we managed to unlock both possible extra reels. Hit the play button below to see for yourself how we fared.

Review Summary

The pace of the game would have been excellent, at least with the turbo switched on, if it weren’t for the annoying little dance the symbols do before they are removed. This animation breaks up the flow, and should have been removed for the turbo option. Outside of that, Pragmatic Play dishes up a festive agriculture slot with a base game that takes the MT2 source of inspiration behind the woodshed.

The money symbol multiplier feature is pure genius, as it makes very good use of symbols that normally block regular wins. Combine that with the scatter pay system, as well as overall decent symbol values, and you got yourself a thrilling main game. The Money Respins feature is all Money Train 2, of course, and the persistent special symbols are key to cracking the 20,000x potential. That might be less than half of what MT2 offers, but it comes with a very decent 1 in 3,215,434 probability.

Pros

• Tumble wins mechanic
• 3+ money symbols turn into total win multiplier
• MT2-inspired Respin round w/ 7 special symbols
• Win up to 20,000x (1 in ∼3.2M chance)

Cons

• Beware of customizable RTP ranges
• Respin round is obvious MT2 copycat

If you love Barn Festival Slot you should also try:

Money Train 2 - is Relax Gaming’s highly popular and influential smash hit, and you get a progressive multiplier respins round to keep you warm in the base game. The big attraction is the money cart round however, and it comes with 9 modifier symbols and a very solid 50,000x potential.

Fruit Party 2 - is a cluster pays grid slot with a 7x7 setup from Pragmatic Play, and you’ll benefit from progressive multiplier wilds being spawned in empty tumble positions.

These can go as high as x256 in the base game, and x729 in the bonus round, and you can win up to 5,000x your stake.

Chicken Drop - is another volatile agriculture release from Pragmatic Play, and it comes with a 7x7 cluster pays grid. The dropped egg can be upgraded to size 6x6 with an x10 multiplier at best, and the non-resetting egg keeps building as you get one drop per bonus round spin. The max win is 5,000x also in this game.

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