Another week has flown by and the CasinoBeats inbox has been flooded with slot releases once again. Our latest slot round-up features a Western showdown from Booming Games and ancient Egyptian adventures with High 5 Games and Backseat Gaming.
Smoking Pistols – Booming Games
Prepare for a Mexican standoff as Booming Games has transported players to the Wild West for a 6×4 reel slot with an initial 4,096 ways to win that offers a maximum win of up to x10,000 the player’s bet.
Moritz Blume, Director of Product at Booming Games, stated: “We’re proud to put Smoking Pistols out into the world, another stunning creation from the team here at Booming Games. Everyone loves a good Western and this slot isn’t going to change that.
“Full of features and unexpected twists, we know Smoking Pistols is going to hit the bullseye with slots players around the world. So shoot to the Wild, Wild West and pick up some wild, wild wins.”
Throughout the game, cascading wins occur, causing winning symbols to disappear after providing their payout and make way for new symbols that drop in from the top of the reel set.
Additionally, each cascading win that occurs will cause an extra row of symbols to appear above the initial four reels, with a maximum board size of 6×8 available,allowing for 262,144 ways to win.
Standard wilds appear as sheriff badges, but these badges can also appear in stacks, known as charged wilds. These special wilds will multiply the winnings for each wild contribution they make before vanishing from the reels.
Moreover, wilds can drop in displaying multiplier values of up to x10, to be applied to any wins that they contribute to.
Special compass wilds can also appear, working as replicating wilds. These wilds will leave a trail of wilds behind them as they travel across the board.
Randomly triggered on a losing base game spin, a random wilds feature can occur, causing pistols to shoot up to 10 wilds in random positions across the reels.
A second chance feature is also available after random losing spins, causing pistols to shoot a row of symbols out of play, allowing for new symbols to drop in from the top.
Pistol scatters are also available, awarding 10, 15, 20 or 25 free spins when three, four, five or six land on the same spin, respectively.
Gate of the Pharaohs – High 5 Games
High 5 Games showcased split symbols galore in its latest ancient Egyptian slot title, taking players to a tomb filled with hidden riches for this 5×5 reel slot.
With an initial 3,125 ways to win and a maximum win of x3,928 the chosen bet, the slot has high volatility and an RTP range of 94-96 per cent.
Using the studio’s Power Fusion mechanic, each spin will see the reels shift and change, causing random cells to split into two, or even four, showing either two or four identical symbols within one cell.
These split symbols will count as either two or four symbols on the same payline, increasing the number of ways to win substantially, with a maximum of 100,000 ways to win available.
Pharaoh scatters can appear on reels two, three and four, triggering 15, 20, 25 or 30 free spins when six, seven, eight or nine scatters land on the same spin, respectively.
Additionally, wild scarab beetles are available on reels two, three and four, substituting for all symbols other than the Pharaoh scatters.
Throughout the free spins game mode, any cells that become split into two or four will remain that way for the duration of the game mode, unless they are split into two, in which they can still be split further into four.
The Cursed King – Backseat Gaming
The second of two Egyptian slots in this list, Backseat Gaming introduced players to a haunting mummy character for a 5×5 reel slot with 19-paylines and a maximum win of up to x12,500 the player’s wager. This spooky slot has high volatility with an RTP of 96.31 per cent.
Pharaoh wilds can appear. When these symbols drop into play on a winning spin, they will expand to cover the reel they dropped into, revealing the cursed king.
These expanded cursed king wilds substitute for all symbols other than the scatter, while presenting a multiplier between x2 and x100 that will be applied to any wins it contributes to.
Bonus eye scatters can also drop into play, triggering three, four or five free spins when three, four or five scatters land on the same spin, respectively.
While players are only given three, four or five spins in the bonus game mode, each time a cursed king wild is activated, it will award free respins that don’t impact the free spins counter.
Each expanded cursed king will randomly move one reel to the left or the right after dropping into play. This can repeatedly occur until the cursed king wild eventually shifts off of the board.
With two or more cursed king wilds able to appear on the same spin in the bonus game mode, they can merge, adding multipliers together to create one enhanced multiplier wild.
Players can buy access to the bonus game mode for x125 their stake, or to a guaranteed pharaoh symbol spin that uses the bonus game’s respin feature for x50.
Additionally, an ante-bet option is available, doubling the player’s stake – without impacting paytable prizes – to gain three times the chance of activating the bonus game mode.
Candy Glyph – Quickspin
Quickspin took players on a sugary trip to candyland with its latest release, showcasing a 7×7 reel slot with cluster-pays of five or more identical symbols that offers a maximum win of up to x13,185 the player’s bet. This sweet slot has medium volatility with an RTP of 96 per cent.
When winning clusters are formed, cascading wins occur, causing the winning symbols to disappear from play and make way for new symbols to drop in from the top of the reels.
Each winning cluster will also have one of its symbols replaced by a special power wild symbol, depicted as a multi-coloured orb that substitutes for all other symbols.
If cascading wins then cause the power wild to contribute to another win on the same spin, the power wild will trigger a bonus feature that is displayed in a meter beside the reel set.
This meter can depict four different enhancements, with bonbon bombs, lollipop rockets and bouncy bean maracas able to appear in the meter’s first four slots.
While these features can appear randomly in any combination within the meter’s first four slots, in the fifth and final slot, the piñata scatter will always appear.
When triggered, bonbon bombs will be placed in a random position on the reels, causing all symbols adjacent to that position either vertically or horizontally to be removed from play, allowing new symbols to drop in.
If the lollipop rockets are activated, one random low value symbol will be removed from every position it appears in across the board.
Meanwhile, the bouncing bean maracas will cause between four and 10 wilds to be placed on random positions across the reels.
If five consecutive wins occur using power wilds on the same spin, the piñata scatter will be activated, taking players to the free spins game mode.
Players are given nine free spins, with special piñata wilds guaranteed to appear on every spin.
These wilds appear with multipliers that will apply to any wins that they contribute to. The multipliers will then increase in value after the wild contributes to a win.
After each free spin, the piñata wild will move to a random new position on the reels, keeping its enhanced multiplier value.
D-Day – Nolimit City
The latest slot from Nolimit City waged war as players face tanks, cannons and bombers on a five-reel slot with a row set-up of 3-4-5-4-3, offering 720 initial ways to win and a maximum win of x55,555 the player’s bet. This title has an RTP of 96.12 per cent with high volatility.
Throughout the base game, five bonus features can be randomly activated. However, there is a higher chance of one of these features being activated when exactly two scatters land on the same spin.
Additionally, if one of two scatters that drop in on the same spin appears on the fifth reel, the atomic wilds feature will be guaranteed.
When the atomic wilds feature is triggered either randomly or by scatters, one random cell on the board is transformed into a wild symbol that contains a multiplier of either x10, x20, x30, x50 or x100. This multiplier will be applied to any wins that the wild contributes to.
Moreover, the bomber feature can be randomly triggered, causing between two and five reels to become full reels of wilds as a plane flies over and drops wilds on the board.
If any reels contain the anti-air soldier symbol, the reel will only become stacked with wilds up until they reach said symbol. Also, if the plane drops a wild on top of an existing wild, it will gain a multiplier value, starting at x2 and increasing each time this reoccurs.
When the Stuka feature is randomly activated, planes will fly diagonally across the reels and split any symbols they fly over into two, increasing the number of ways to win for that spin. A maximum of seven planes can appear for this feature.
For the Panzer feature, two to five tanks will appear on different rows, with one per row. Every low value symbol on these rows, other than the foot soldier, will be transformed into a wild symbol.
The Howitzer feature can also be activated, randomly choosing between one and seven symbols, other than low value commandos or wilds, across the board to transform into wilds.
For the neptune spins feature, players are given eight spins with a pick-me mini-game taking place before the spins begin.
This pick-me game sees the players reveal two of the five aforementioned bonus features, which are then guaranteed to occur on at least one of the awarded free spins.
In the invasion spins game mode, players are given eight spins with three out of five bonus features to reveal and enhance the spins.
Finally, the overlord spins game mode provides the choice of four out of the five bonus features with eight free spins also awarded.
