Another week has passed and a flurry of slot releases have hit the CasinoBeats inbox. Put your feet up as we guide you through a selection of what the industry has to offer, including razor-sharp underwater wins with Push Gaming, a trip to an island paradise with ELK Studios and Peter & Sons’ mutating mayhem.
Slot of the Week
Razor Ways – Push Gaming
Our latest Slot of the Week title was awarded to Push Gaming for a slot sequel that brought the studio’s shark squad back to the reels in Razor Ways, a 6×3 reel slot with 729 initial ways to win and a maximum win of x25,000 the player’s bet on offer. The underwater title uses medium-high volatility with an RTP range of 94.32-96.36 per cent.
Anastasiia Mysan, Game Producer at Push Gaming, commented: “We wanted to switch things up in this release – Razor Ways pays in ways and includes expanding reels. This also allowed us to introduce exciting new elements and spruce up the design. We’ve dived deeper into the ocean by introducing dwellers from the depths and depicting the very bottom of the underwater world.
“Each new game round presents a new opportunity to unlock a 6×6 grid with 46,656 ways to win. Razor Ways has a massive win potential with the addition of new symbols, the expanding wild and converter, along with the return of fan-favourite feature, razor reveal.”
Bonus text scatters can appear on the reels, awarding 10 free spins when three or more scatters land on the same spin.
Mystery seaweed symbols are also available, revealing identical paytable symbols across the board after dropping into play. Mystery symbols can also reveal golden sharks, which trigger the razor reveal feature.
In this razor reveal feature, each golden shark that appears can reveal instant prize symbols from x1 to x5,000 the player’s bet – which will instantly be awarded to the player.
Players could also receive multipliers of x2, x3, x5 or x10 that enhance all other instant prize symbols on the reels, collector symbols that collect all instant wins before allowing all golden sharks to spin again, or convertor symbols that choose one paytable symbol on the reels and turn them all into golden sharks – increasing the win potential further. Additionally, golden sharks can reveal scatter symbols, but only in the base game.
While the game starts with a grid size of 6×3, three locked rows sit above the standard grid. Each time a win, or instant win, is awarded in the game, one row will be unlocked. This allows for a maximum grid size of 6×6 and a number of ways to win of 46,656.
Furthermore, each win that occurs in the base game will cause a cascading feature to occur, with the winning symbols being removed from play so that new symbols can drop in from the locked reels and from above the grid.
When triggering the free spins feature, landing three, four, five or six scatters on the reels will award 10 spins but with starting grid sizes of 6×3, 6×4, 6×5 or 6×6 and starting multipliers of x1, x3, x5 or x10, respectively.
Special glowing mystery symbols can appear in the free spins feature. While these symbols work the same as standard mystery symbols, landing five across the feature will upgrade the multiplier to the next-highest level.
Wild great white shark symbols can drop into play, substituting for all low, medium and high value symbols. Also, expanding wild octopuses can drop into play, filling entire reels with wilds when they land on the grid. Expanding wilds can also offer multipliers of x2, x3 or x5.
Furthermore, special W converter wild symbols can land on the reels, spinning to randomly select one paytable symbol that is present on the grid and transform all versions of it across the board into wild sharks.
Featured Slots
Squeeze – ELK Studios
ELK Studios invited players to an island paradise where fruity cocktails are on the menu in Squeeze, a 6×7 reel slot with cluster-pays of five or more identical symbols forming wins of up to x10,000 the player’s wager. This sunny slot has high volatility with an RTP of 94%.
Wins are formed in this title when five or more identical symbols land in adjacent clusters, vertically or horizontally. Each win causes the symbols to disappear from the grid in a squeezing fashion, allowing additional symbols to appear from the top of the reels.
Furthermore, each win has the possibility to bounce back, rather than be squeezed off of the board. This will increase a multiplier that sits beside the reels by a value of one each time it occurs, with this multiplier impacting all wins during that spin.
Every win will also impact one of the four feature meters sitting beside the reel set, depending on the colour of the symbols that formed the winning combination.
When four wins have occurred with the same colour of symbols, whether low or high value, each colour meter will award its own respective feature. These meters will reset in between spins.
Blue wins trigger the ‘swap’ feature, causing two symbols to switch positions to enhance the game grid. This occurs three times for each individual feature. Meanwhile, green wins trigger the ‘upgrade’ feature, upgrading a randomly selected symbol to its high value counterpart.
However, if a high value symbol gets selected by the upgrade feature, all versions of said symbol will transform into wilds across the grid.
Orange wins activate the ‘make big’ feature, causing one symbol to enlarge to a size of 3×3 or 4×4.
Lastly, red wins cause the ‘spawn wilds’ feature to occur, replacing between two and six symbols across the board with wilds.
Each high value symbol can also appear to be vibrating, known as ‘super charged symbols’. Each time these symbols contribute to a win, they will automatically fill their respective colour meter to award a guaranteed feature.
During the free spins game mode, colour meters will not reset in between spins. Additionally, the super free spins game mode guarantees one colour feature at the start of the game mode.
Mutagenes – Peter & Sons
The limits of science have been put to the test with Peter & Sons’ latest slot Mutagenes, where scientists set out to create mutants in outer space. The slot uses 6×4 reels with 4,096 ways to win and a maximum win of up to x12,000 the player’s stake, while having high volatility with a 96.3% RTP.
Yann Bautista, Commercial Director & Founder at Peter & Sons, stated: “Mutagenes is infectious. Despite its somewhat unsettling setting, we are confident that players will fall in love with its thrilling high volatility gameplay, huge win multipliers and expanding wilds that are all on offer.”
This game uses cascading wins, meaning that winning symbols will disappear after providing their payout prizes, making way for new symbols to drop in from the top of the reels.
Each time a cascade occurs, a win multiplier above the reels will increase by a value of one. This multiplier will enhance any subsequent wins that occur but resets in between spins.
Two types of wild symbols can appear in this game, appearing on all reels other than the first. Standard W wild will drop into play to substitute for all symbols in the game other than switch scatters, while mutant wilds will expand across full reels to do so.
Additionally, an infection feature can occur randomly in both the base and free spins game modes, causing random low value symbols to transform into high value mutant head symbols.
For the free spins game mode, the win multiplier will not reset in between spins. The game mode cannot be retriggered as scatters do not appear in the free spins.
Space Attacks Dream Drop – Relax Gaming
In the second extraterrestrial slot within this list, Relax Gaming extended its Dream Drop jackpot series with Space Attacks Dream Drop, a 5×5 reel slot with 295 ways to win and a maximum win of up to x8,000 the player’s stake. This title uses an RTP of 94%.
Shelley Hannah, CPO at Relax Gaming, explained: “We are confident Space Attacks Dream Drop will charm players with its quirky art style, vibrant colours and fantastic gameplay. These elements, combined with the legendary Dream Drop jackpot promises an immersive gaming experience that’s out of this world.”
Three special symbols are available in this slot, performing bonus features each time they land on the reels.
Pink question marks can appear, which choose one random symbol on the grid, along with any identical symbols appearing to the right of it, before duplicating them to increase the win potential.
Green nuclear symbols are available, duplicating five randomly chosen symbols across the board to enhance the payout potential for that spin.
Wild transformer symbols are also included, causing between one and three types of symbols across the board to transform into wilds on any position they appear in across the board.
A maximum of two bonus symbols – question mark, nuclear or wild transformer – can appear on the board at the same time, performing their features simultaneously.
In the free spins feature, any wins that occur will reset the number of spins to three while causing a win multiplier to increase by a value of one. This multiplier will begin at x1.
Special Dream Drop planet symbols can also appear, awarding either nothing or one of the five progressive jackpot prizes – rapid, midi, maxi, major or mega.