February is now underway and slot releases continue to hit the CasinoBeats inbox thick and fast. This week’s slot selection features gold-mining gunfights from AvatarUX, Slotmill’s boozy barnyard and SYNOT Games’ hold-and-win fruit-fest.
Nugget – AvatarUX
Take on a Wild West adventure in the latest slot title from AvatarUX, presenting a 6×4 reel slot with up to 531,441 ways to win. While offering players a maximum win of up to x25,000 their stake, the slot uses high volatility with an RTP range of 94-96 per cent.
Lara Falzon, CEO at AvatarUX, commented: “Nugget is a Wild West thriller that pushes players to the limit, with gunslingers galore filling the reels as players look for a max win of x25,000.
“We want to create titles that really challenge what we’re capable of, and Nugget sees us diversifying again our portfolio of games and products. With the new and innovative Golden Ways, we are bringing a brand new experience to our players and offering a fresh addition to our portfolio.”
AvatarUX’s ZapReel feature is available throughout this game, adding an extra horizontal top reel above the board that contributes an additional symbol above all six reels.
Also, cascading wins occur, causing winning symbols to disappear after providing their payout prizes, making way for new symbols to drop into play.
When payday symbols land on the board, they will award one of three bonus features at random. Each of these features will also present a number of lives from one to four, representing how many spins it will enhance.
One of these bonuses is a mystery symbols feature, which causes a cluster of golden nuggets to appear across cells in the subsequent spins, before revealing identical symbols in each of these cells.
An X-mode feature is also available from these payday symbols, causing all super high gunslinger symbols to appear with multipliers on subsequent spins.
The third and final feature offered by the payday symbols is the low-symbol removal feature, which causes all low value symbols to be removed from play for one to four spins.
When entering the free spins feature, players can either select the ‘collect’ wheel that will randomly reveal a number of spins between seven and 10, as well as a number of ways to win, with up to 86,436 available on this wheel.
Alternatively, players can choose to gamble their access to the free spins game mode to gain an enhanced feature, with the wheel able to reveal up to 14 free spins with up to 531,441 ways to win.
During the free spins game mode, a randomly triggered gold rush feature can occur, significantly increasing the chances of gunslinger and payday symbols dropping into play.
Brew Brothers – Slotmill
Moonshine multipliers feature in Slotmill’s latest title, taking players to a brewery with a 5×4 reel slot that has 40-paylines and a maximum win of up to x12,000 the player’s wager. The slot has high volatility with an RTP of 96.06 per cent.
Bonus moonshine crate scatters can appear on reels two, three and four, triggering seven free spins when three land on the same turn. Any scatter symbols that appear without triggering the free spins game mode will transform into standard wild symbols.
Multiple different wild symbols are available in this game mode, with moonshine bottles appearing on reels two, three and four to depict the game’s standard wild symbols. Each wild will substitute for all symbols in the game, other than the crate scatters.
Moonshine bottle wilds can also drop into play, displaying multiplier values of x2 or x3, which will be applied to any wins that the bottle wild contributes to.
Additionally, ‘old betty’ wilds are available on both the first and fifth reels. Each time an old betty wild lands on either of these reels, it can randomly activate a special feature that places between one and nine wilds across the three middle reels.
If the old betty feature causes a wild to be placed over an already existing wild, this wild will gain a multiplier value that increases by one with each additional wild that is placed over it.
Throughout the free spins game mode, each wild that appears on the board will stay sticky in its place for the duration of the bonus feature.
The free spins feature also causes old betty wilds to become enhanced, turning into ‘gold betty’ wilds that stay sticky on the board for the duration of the bonus game mode. These gold betty wilds will have the chance to randomly activate their added wilds feature on every free spin.
If players manage to fill reels two, three and four with 12 wild symbols, these symbols will merge together to form a giant tractor wild that covers all three middle reels.
Any multipliers that existed on the wilds in the middle reels will be added together to create one enhanced multiplier for the giant tractor wild.
Crazy Free Fruits – SYNOT Games
Familiar fruit symbols fill the reels in SYNOT Games’ latest slot release, presenting a 5×3 reel board that has five-paylines and a maximum win of up to x1,495 the player’s stake. While using medium volatility, this slot offers an RTP range of 85-98.02 per cent.
Michael Polák, Lead Game Producer from SYNOT Games, stated: “Crazy Free Fruits is another game in the SYNOT Games portfolio with a hold-and-win feature and is a continuation of the Aztec Jaguar and Tiki Princess series, but in a fruit version.
“The hold-and-win feature is available to the player for six or more hold-and-win symbols and in this feature, he can also get four levels of jackpots. Mini, minor and major will be won on the reels in the hold-and-win feature and the grand jackpot will be won if all the game fields are filled. A big boost are two special symbols that only appear in the hold-and-win feature, they are the expanding and increasing symbols.
“In addition to the mentioned hold-and-win feature, there are free spins in the game, which the player gets if the scatter symbol appears on reels two, three and four. In free spins, there is one big symbol over the middle reels and it is possible to get a hold-and-win feature in free spins, if this happens, one big hold-and-win breaks into nine small ones and the classic hold-and-win feature takes place.”
Scatter stars can appear on reels two, three and four, triggering five free spins when three land on the same base game spin.
Bonus orb symbols can also drop into play, displaying monetary values between x1 and x18 the player’s bet, or jackpot values of mini (x20), minor (x50) or major (x100). Landing six orbs on the same base game spin will activate the hold-and-win game mode.
Moreover, wild text symbols can drop into play, substituting for all symbols in the game other than the scatter stars and bonus orb symbols. Landing three, four or five wilds on a winning payline will provide x1, x2 or x8 the chosen wager, respectively.
For the free spins feature, reels two, three and four merge to create one giant reel that adds nine identical symbols to the board on every free spin.
If a scatter star lands in this giant reel, five additional free spins will be awarded, with a maximum number of 15 total free spins available.
When an orb symbol appears on this giant reel, the hold-and-win game mode will be triggered, playing out before the remainder of the free spins.
In the hold-and-win game mode, players are given three spins to land as many bonus orb symbols on an empty reel set as possible. Each orb symbol that does drop into play will reset the number of spins to three.
Once all three spins have been completed, players will receive the accumulated value of all prize and jackpot values displayed on the orbs that dropped into play.
Additionally, the game’s grand jackpot prize of x500 will be awarded when all 15 spaces on the reels have been filled with orb symbols.
Two special orb symbols can appear in the hold-and-win feature, with special expanding orb symbols filling entire reels while adding their value to every other orb symbol on the board.
Furthermore, special increasing orb symbols will not expand on the reels, but will add their value to every other orb symbol present.
Triple Multi Dragons – Hölle Games
Hölle Games has transported players to East Asia for its new slot release, implementing 20-paylines into a 5×3 reel slot that offers a maximum win of x10,000 the chosen bet. With an RTP range of 84.25-95.4 per cent, the game has high volatility.
Gold coin scatters can drop into play, triggering five, eight, 12 or 15 free spins when three, four, five or six scatters land on the same spin, respectively.
Additionally, landing three, four, five or six scatters at once will award respective instant wins of x3, x6, x8 or x12 the player’s wager.
Three dragon wilds can appear throughout the base and bonus game modes, each substituting for all symbols other than scatters. Green dragon wilds can appear on reels two, three, four or five and will multiply all wins they contribute to by x2.
Also on reels two, three, four and five, red dragon wilds can drop into play, multiplying all wins that they contribute to by x3.
Lastly, gold dragon wilds will multiply all wins that they contribute to by x6. These wilds also only appear on reels two, three, four and five in the base game.
In the free spins game mode, each dragon wild will be able to appear on different reels, except the red dragon wilds which will only appear on reels two through five.
Green x2 dragon wilds can appear on reels two, three, four, five and six in the free spins game mode, while gold x6 dragon wilds can land on reels two, three, five and six.
Inferno Fireballs – Fugaso
Flaming-hot balls of fire land on the reels in Fugaso’s latest release, a 3×3 slot with five-paylines and a maximum win of up to x6,500 the chosen stake. This title has high volatility with an RTP of 96 per cent.
Fireballs depict the bonus symbols for this game, with standard fireballs appearing on reels one and three displaying with multiplied bet amount prizes displayed upon them, or jackpot values of mini (x25), minor (x50), major (x150) or grand (x1,000).
Meanwhile, special bonus fireballs can appear with a darker colour, landing exclusively in the second reel. These fireballs will perform enhanced features in the bonus game mode, which is triggered by landing three or more of any fireballs on the same base game spin.
Wild symbols are also available in this game, appearing as lucky red sevens. These symbols will substitute for all symbols in the game other than both fireballs, while providing wins worth x50 the bet when three appear across a payline.
In the bonus game mode, any special bonus fireballs that appear in the middle reel will become sticky on the board for the duration of the feature.
Players are given three spins to land as many fireballs on the reels as possible, with each symbol that drops into play resetting the number of spins to three.
Each standard fireball that appears in the first or third reel will have its value collected by any special bonus fireballs that are positioned in the middle reel, before being removed from play in the next spin.
Jackpot fireballs will also have their values collected by the special fireballs in the middle reel.
Once all three spins have been completed, the collected values displayed by the special bonus fireballs will be awarded to the player.
