Highstreet Heist Slot Review

01/05/2022 | Categories: Quickspin Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

We have received criticism for featuring too many slot probes from only a handful of top industry providers. We admit that. Thus, in the past few weeks, we have tried to diversify our review catalog by looking to investigate games from companies that have not gotten that BTCGOSU shine. Swedish-born Quickspin is one developer that boasts a tremendous reputation, yet we have looked at only one of its games to date, Hammer of Vulcan. It is time to change that.

Highstreet Heist was the one hundred slot Quickspin ever released, appearing online on March 15th, 2022. It did not chart significantly on any country’s standings from what we can tell by looking at the available data. The game does not seem to get offered in the UK, and in Quickspin’s native Sweden, it spent around ten days in the country’s reel-spinning top two hundred rankings and has now fallen out significantly, dipping below the 5,000-mark. Still, most of the time, how much a game gets played has nothing to do with its quality. So, below we explore if Quickspin’s one hundred release is up to snuff, on par, or above the grade of the products this company has churned out in the past decade.

Theme & Design

It seems to us that perhaps, Quickspin is trying to capitalize on the popularity of the high established Spanish crime drama – La Casa De Papel, also known to western audiences as Money Heist. However, the robbers’ disguises in this game seem more like something out of Christopher Nolan’s 2008 movie – The Dark Knight. Their masks and suits look straight out of the opening of that film. Hence, visually, it undoubtedly draws more inspiration from the second feature of the Christian Bale Batman franchise than the mentioned TV show.

The visuals here are cartoony, and they depict a jewelry store in what Quickspin claims is an affluent city, whose many glass displays have gotten shattered and are waiting to get pillaged. In all honesty, the graphics here resemble something you would see in a Pragmatic Play slot from about two years ago. Though colorful, they seemed a bit generic. Also, the base game of Highstreet Heist has a very meek soundtrack, and its sound effects are copies of game show ones akin to those of the former world phenomenon – Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Things get a tad more rambunctious when the bonus feature gets activated, but not too vastly to change our overall opinion of what we rate as an average presentation.

For some reason, Highstreet Heist kept going full-screen view on us. Of course, we found that annoying. Nevertheless, we cannot pinpoint if this is Quickspin’s fault. You can find virtually all the gameplay buttons on the right side of the reel grid in this game, stacked on top of each other. The bet-adjuster is below the game grid, as is the win and balance info.

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Specs & Gameplay

Highstreet Heist is a high variance spinner, with a default RTP of 94%. Note that the latter spec is one of three possible return-to-player settings this game can boast. The other two are 90% and 96.29%, depending on your chosen operator. The slot utilizes a 5×4 grid layout, where the middle two rows get covered by a glass overlay, effectively blocking those positions. So, by default, the number of ways to win implemented in this title is 32. Yet, it can increase to 1,024 in the Free Spins mode.

The bet sizes of this game move from $0.2 to $100, and the max win potential of this title is x20,024, which is impressive. According to some calculations, the odds of you landing such a win are one in one hundred million.

Wins in this reel-spinner get produced when three or more matching symbols appear on adjacent reels starting from the left-most one. They do not have to connect.

The low-paying tokens of Highstreet Heist are five different rings, generating prizes of x0.5 to x1 for five-of-a-kind. The medium-paying symbols of this game are the four masked robbers, yielding rewards of x2.5 to x5 for five identical tokens appearing on the grid. A blue diamond is the most valuable symbol of Highstreet Heist, generating a win of x12.5 when it shows up five times on different reels on the same spin.

The Wild in this title is a gold plate with an engraved W in it. It substitutes all other pay symbols.

Bonus Features

Each round in this slot begins with the two middle rows encased in a glass cover. Hitting one or more full stacks of the same symbol on a spin unlocks these two such positions on its reel and provides a re-spin. When you manage to shatter the glass above every reel on a spin/re-spin sequence, then you will get awarded ten complimentary reel rotations, effectively entering the Heist Free Spins mode. It is inside this feature that 1,024 ways to win come into play.

Here, a Heist Meter also shows up. You fill it by hitting a stack of the same symbols. When that happens (you land four stacks), you will get awarded two new complimentary reel rotations. And all the instances of the lowest valued robber symbols will get converted to a diamond. When all robber tokens have gotten converted to diamonds, filling the meter adds a +1 multiplier to diamonds and yields two extra complimentary reel rotations.

You can buy your way inside this game’s Free Spins round for a cost of x111 your stake.

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