Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe: Slot Overview
It is indeed time, folks, for another addition to one of the biggest slot series in existence, Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom's fishtastic, ever-growing, ever-recurring Big Bass range. Mixed feelings. For the most part, these are playable games designed in the time-honoured Fishin' Frenzy fashion of collecting fish money symbols with the use of wild fisherman collector symbols. On the other hand, aren't there enough of them already? Guess not if Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe has anything to say about it, delivering another round of fish money collection activity.
Vegas isn't really known for fishing, is it? Gambling and livin' the fast life seem to be more strongly associated with the town known as Sin City. Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe takes place in town, however, so maybe in an aquarium, or bah, why bother trying to justify what's going on here? To the top, we've got fountains and resorts, while beneath that is an underwater scene. Good enough to continue if the thought of the nine-hundredth BB slot hasn't put you off already.
As they often do, Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe plays out on a 5-reel, 3-row gaming matrix with 10 paylines on the board. This is a highly volatile Vegas fishing trip producing a default RTP of 96.5% when betting 10 c to $/€250 per paid game round. Players are also free to activate the ante bet, increasing the chance of triggering free spins for an extra 50% added to the stake.
On the pay symbol side, Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe has 10 to A playing card symbols, fish, tackle boxes, fishing rods, pelicans, and pink speed boats. Lines of 5 identical royals get you 5 to 10 times your bet, while full lines of the rest pay 20 to 200 times the bet. Wilds don't come on the neon scene until free spins trigger.
Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe: Slot Features
Fish symbols are also Money symbols landing with values of 2x to 5,000x the bet, which cannot be collected in the main game. However, landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols triggers 15, 20, or 25 free spins, respectively. In the base game, when 2 scatters land, there is a chance a third is brought into view via a respin or a hook feature.
Free Spins
During free spins, wild fisherman symbols may land on the reels. As well as substituting any pay symbol, wild fisherman symbols collect the value of all Money symbols in view. Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe has two type of wilds: Blue and red wilds that land are collected separately on a blue meter or red meter. Every fourth wild fisherman of the same colour collected awards another batch of +10 free spins with a multiplier applied to Money symbols collected by that wild colour. The first retrigger is an x2, the second retrigger is an x3, and the third retrigger is an x10. The feature cannot be retriggered after reaching the final level on both meters.
Randomly, Money symbols may appear on the screen if there are wild fisherman symbols and no Money symbols via a dynamite feature. Or, wild fisherman symbols may appear on the screen when there are Money symbols and no wild fisherman symbols via a hook feature. In addition, a bazooka animation may appear to change all the symbols from the screen except wild fisherman symbols to something else when there are wild fisherman symbols but no fish in view.
Feature Buy
At the bonus buy menu, there are two options. One is 100x the bet for free spins triggered by at least 3 scatter symbols. The other is 300x the bet for super free spins triggered by at least 4 scatter symbols where only 3 wild fisherman symbols of any colour collected in any meter retrigger the feature.
Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe: Slot Verdict
Even amongst the most hardcore of Big Bass fans, little to nothing about Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe is unmissable. It really is business as usual as players attempt to trigger free spins where they get the chance to hook fish Money symbols with the help of wild fisherman symbols. Okay, Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe might have two wild fisherman symbols, a red and a blue one, but this doesn't really have a major impact on the overall experience when compared to earlier BB releases. It might shake up the free spins around to a minor extent, though that's questionable, and Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe is by no means a Big Bass paradigm shift. In fact, if Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe never happened, it's unlikely even the most dedicated bass zealots would shed many tears.
The good news? Hmm, well, Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe doesn't perform any worse than the bulk of the other Big Bass slots floating about the briny. Collect Money symbols, get multipliers for doing so, haul in, cast out, repeat. Some gamblers might appreciate the lowered, collect three wilds to level up part of the super free spins buy, perhaps. Max win at 5,000x the bet isn't shabby for the series, either. Other than those pushed-for positive attributes, Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe goes through the motions just swell but adds little to a series already bursting at the seams with choice.
Stockholm Syndrome: Slot Overview
In August 1973, convicted criminal Jan-Erik Olsson attempted to rob Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg Square in Stockholm, Sweden and ended up holding four employees hostage. It was the first crime covered by live TV in Sweden, and in an unusual turn of events, when the hostages were released, none of them testified against their captors (Olsson and friend Clark Olofsson) but instead raised money for their defence. And so was born the term ‘Stockholm syndrome’, to describe a positive psychological bond a captee forms towards their captor. Olsson later said, ‘Why didn’t any of them attack me? They made it hard to kill. They made us go on living together day after day, like goats, in that filth. There was nothing to do but get to know each other.’ With that, we come to Nolimit City‘s slot, Stockholm Syndrome, which explores this unusual connection between hostage and captor.
The last few Nolimit City reviews have been outpourings of colour, from the anarchic Punk Rocker 2, the end of society as we know it Apocalypse, to a back to the neon 90s of Outsourced. Stockholm Syndrome bucks the trend by being quite drab on the colouration side of things. Players get an onlooker’s eye view of a bank at night, where law enforcement people have pointed their guns in the hopes of hostages being released and an end to the standoff. The audiovisuals, while getting the job done just fine, aren’t the sensory explosion they often are from Nolimit City, nor as monochromatically memorable as Tombstone RIP or Deadwood RIP.
Stockholm Syndrome’s base game is played on a 3-4-3-4-3 reel area with 432 ways to win. Winning symbols explode off the reels, and new symbols fall in, which provides extra chances to win. In addition, during a game round, a randomly selected character symbol may get a win multiplier of x2, x3, x4, x5, or x10. Bet selection is 20 c to $/€100 for the base value, and two Nolimit Boosters may be added on top if you so choose. One is the Cam_Bet, which increases the stake by 50% to guarantee a scatter on the rightmost reel. The other is the Con_Bet, which is 10x the bet to guarantee a Con Man Wild on the third reel. Of the three possible RTP configurations, 96.08% is the highest, while the volatility is extreme, at 10 out of 10.
Old Swedish police car fonted P, O, L, I, S, letters are Stockholm Syndrome’s low pay symbols (though they can lead to much larger wins when linked to the features), paying up to 0.5x-0.75x for 5 OAK or 1.5x to 2.25x the bet for 6 OAK. Above them are 4 hostage character symbols and 1 captor symbol as the highs, worth 0.9x-2.5x for 5 OAK or 2.7 to 7.5 times the bet for 6 OAK. An extra reel is added for Syndrome Spins to explain how 6-of-a-kind wins are possible.
Stockholm Syndrome: Slot Features
A lot of guns, a lot of crime, and a lot of features are present in Stockholm Syndrome. The latter is made up of Con Man Wilds, xBomb Wilds, the POLIS feature, the SOS feature, the PISS feature, respins, Hostage Spins, Syndrome Spins, and bonus buys.
Con Man Wild
When the Con Man Wild lands fully stacked on reel 3, the bottom position of the reel is unlocked and becomes part of the Con Man Wild. A random character symbol (not the highest symbol) is picked, and all instances are transformed into wilds. In the main game, when the Con Man Wild lands partly from the top it is not removed by winning combinations.
xBomb Wild
xBomb Wilds substitute for any symbols except scatters. In the main game, exploding xBomb Wilds remove adjacent symbols except for wilds or scatters, increasing the win multiplier by +1 for the next collapse. All xBombs explode before the next collapse. During bonus modes, xBomb Wilds only increases the win multiplier.
POLIS Feature
This is triggered in the base game only when P, O, L, I, S symbols land in the same row in sequential order. The first four positions get locked coin values of 5x, 10x, 25x, 100x, 250x, 1,000x, 5,000x, or Max Win. The fifth position can get up to 3 keys. Each key unlocks one of the locked coin values or the Max Win. All unlocked coin values are added together and awarded.
SOS Feature
Triggered when S, O, S symbols land sequentially in the same row. The O symbol transforms into an xBomb Wild. The SOS feature only triggers in the main game when there is no win and no avalanche. In bonus modes, it always triggers.
PISS Feature
Triggered when P, I, S, S symbols land sequentially in the same column. All of the PISS symbols transform into xBomb Wilds. The PISS feature only triggers in the main game when there is no win and no avalanche. In bonus modes, it always triggers.
Respin
Hitting 2 scatters with no avalanche triggers a respin on the bottom position of the third reel, where a scatter may land.
Hostage Spins
Landing 3 scatter symbols in the main game awards 7 Hostage Spins. For these, the bottom position on reel 3 is unlocked. Each time a fully stacked Con Man Wild lands, it increases the Con Man Wild win multiplier by +1 and awards +1 free spin. It also upgrades the current available lowest character symbol to the highest-paying character symbol for the rest of the spins. The xBomb multiplier is sticky in this feature, and landing a scatter symbol awards an extra +1 free spin.
Syndrome Spins
Landing 4 scatters in the base game awards 8 Syndrome Spins, played on a 3-4-4-4-4-3 game grid. Here, Con Man Wilds may land on reels 3 and 4. When partly landed, it nudges up or down to be fully visible. Character symbols are collected from the middle four reels when a Con Man Wild lands. Character symbols are collected twice if 2 Con Man Wilds land. When all 4 collect meters are full (5 collected, but collections can go beyond 5), the Syndrome feature is triggered, affecting the middle reels like so:
- Reel 3 Wild – reel 3 is covered by a wild symbol with a win multiplier depending on the collected symbol displayed below the reel. The starting multiplier is 2, incremented by 1 for each extra collected beyond 5.
- Reel 4 Infectious xWays – a new position appears and reveals a random symbol of size 2 and changes all instances of that symbol on the reels to be the same size. The collected symbol below reel 4 increases the Ways size by +1 for each extra collected symbol beyond 5.
- Reel 2 and 5 xReelSplit – each symbol on the reel is split into 2. The collected symbol below reels 2 and 5 increase their split by 1 for each extra collected symbol beyond 5 on the respective reels.
Nolimit Bonus Buy
A load of bonus buys are available at the Nolimit Bonus Buy, including: Hostage Spins – 80 times bet, Syndrome Spins – 390 times bet, Lucky Draw (one third / two thirds) – 183 times bet, Lucky Draw (50% / 50%) – 235 times bet, POLIS 1 – 150 times bet, awards 1 POLIS feature where you can land up to 3 keys, POLIS 2 – 300 times bet, awards 2 POLIS features where you can land up to 3 keys for each row, POLIS 3 – 450 times bet, awards 3 POLIS features where you can land up to 3 keys for each row, POLIS 4 – 1,500 times bet, awards 3 POLIS features with up to 3 keys, where x5, x10, and x25 are removed, or POLIS 5 – 8,000 times bet, awards 1 POLIS feature with 1 key. Max Win is guaranteed to be one of the winning possibilities.
Stockholm Syndrome: Slot Verdict
A flipside to Stockholm syndrome is Lima syndrome, where the abductor, in this case, develops positive, sympathetic feelings towards their hostages. To push the metaphor, don’t be getting the impression Nolimit City has developed some sort of Lima syndrome since the slot Stockholm Syndrome is as challenging as ever. There is no doubt that Stockholm Syndrome can pop, like William Foster in the movie Falling Down, who mentally snaps, and goes on a rampage across Los Angeles to reach his daughter’s birthday party held at the house of his ex-wife. Good film, where Michael Douglas puts on a convincing performance as a man pushed over the edge by one too many of modern life’s tics. However, it takes a fair amount of effort for Stockholm Syndrome to wind up and really swing. Till then, if it happens, the game is surprisingly low key, quite low energy, in fact, not helped by the heavy grey colouration.
However, there are highlights here to be sampled. One pinnacle is Syndrome Spins when all collect meters have been filled, thereby triggering the Syndrome feature. No mean feat to accomplish, but one that might be rewarding once achieved. Other highlights are the POLIS feature, which might seem like easy money in some ways, but crikey, 8,000x for POLIS 5? You almost need to be under the spell of online slot Stockholm syndrome to be tempted by that one. Then again, the pace of Stockholm Syndrome was quite slow, going a lot of the time, making feature buys or ante bet augmentation an attractive option. Especially the higher free spins option, as it possesses some of the most exciting parts of the game.
Even when ploughing through bought Syndrome Spins, it was tough to gain major traction. This is a game that can make you work hard for the good times. The Syndrome feature, with all four middle reels doing something special, has the potential to be absolutely ludicrous, and the max win is 28,873x the bet – a reference to the date of the bank job, 28/8/73. Keep in mind that once the Syndrome feature has triggered, all of the character symbol collection meters are reset for the next spin, so repeating the performance means going through a fresh collection challenge again. Not easy. There are rewards here, not to mention an engrossing theme and oodles of betting options, but Stockholm Syndrome wasn’t as viscerally exciting as a lot of Nolimit City’s games and might just be too hard going for certain gamblers’ tolerance levels.
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Isn't it amazing how the cartoonisation process can make just about anything seem cute? Take mice, for example. In real life, mice can be an extremely irritating pest, leaving droppings around the house, nibbling food, getting into the walls, and causing mayhem. However, convert mice to the cartoon world, give them a hat and a magnifying glass, and they're about the most adorable thing ever. This Pragmatic Play has done for the online slot Mystery Mice, a slot where mice have replaced people, a mystery needs to be solved, and where the game is afoot (as Sherlock Holmes used to say).
Only using that literary reference because a mousy Sherlock Holmes-type detective character stands to the right-hand side of Mystery Mice's screen, rocking up and down, magnifying glass in hand. He's sporting a big toothy grin, so the mystery in question probably doesn't involve gratuitous amounts of violence. Maybe a big cheese heist has occurred or something equally silly. Despite some arguably olden timey touches, like the detectives getup, it would appear the game is set in the modern era due to some of the music and the policeman symbol being up-to-date. Computer equipment on a desk in free spins is also a compelling clue.
Mystery Mice is a cluster paying slot held on a 6x6 gaming grid, forming winning combinations when at least 5 identical symbols are connected to each other - up, down, left or right. Players may pick a stake of 20 c to $/€240 and are able to use the feature bet to get straight into the bonus round. Highly volatile, Mystery Mice's top RTP is 96.49%, with lower return models available.
Cluster wins, and tumbles go together like mice traps and cheese, and Mystery Mice has one. It removes winning symbols from the screen after they have paid, replacing them by tumbling symbols down from the top of the grid. Tumble wins continue to award cash until no new cluster is formed. Eight pay symbols populate Mystery Mice's paytable. They are Q, K, A, a pipe, a hat, a policeman, a suspect, and a detective. Clusters made up of 5 matching symbols award 0.2 to 1 times the bet, while the biggest clusters of 15+ symbols pay 20 to 150 times the bet.
Mystery Mice: Slot Features
To help solve the mystery, players receive a tumble feature, Power Wilds, free spins, a Power Up symbol, and a feature buy.
Power Wilds
Poster symbols are wild, so they substitute for any of the pay symbols. When a wild lands, it has a clearance level number of 1 to 10. Every time the wild is involved in a win, the clearance level number goes down by 1. As long as the wild has a number, it does not explode as part of a tumble but instead drops to the lowest position on its reel. However, wilds explode if the clearance level number is 1, and they are part of a win.
Free Spins
Hitting 3 or more scatter symbols triggers 8 free spins. In addition, each triggering scatter pays 1x the bet. During the bonus round, wild symbols remain on the screen between free spins. Power Up symbols may appear during free spins, adding 1, 2, or 3 randomly to the clearance level number of all visible wilds symbols when it hits. Should 2 or more scatter symbols land, players win extra free spins.
Buy Free Spins
For 100 times the total bet, players may buy the free spins round. When doing so, the highest possible RTP is 96.5%.
Mystery Mice: Slot Verdict
One mark of an exciting cluster pays/tumble game is sparking lengthy repeat win runs where cluster after cluster forms up, pays, vanishes, then forms another win after the drop. Mystery Mice is capable of knocking together sick runs of repeat wins. Better than was first suspected after playing through the base game and not being especially wowed by the gameplay. It was okay. Power Wilds occasionally hit, linking some winning cluster action together, sticking around through repeat wins while their clearance level numbers diminished. Eh, good, not great. Something was missing.
That something is injected during the free spins round. Holding Power Wilds on the screen between spins was a game changer, working hand in hand with the way wilds drop downwards during tumbles. Combine these two effects and it is possible to get a sizable block of Power Wilds crowding the lower part of the gaming grid, triggering win after win to an almost dizzying degree at times. Power Up symbols were surprisingly useful as well at recharging Power Wild clearance level numbers to keep them sticking around. What's nice is Power Up symbols power up all wilds in view, not just a certain number of them, like, say, adjacent wilds only or a random number of them.
Not every bonus round is going to lead to waves upon waves of mega wins, but Mystery Mice has the components to be able to be quite a thrill ride when those Power Wilds are stacking up on the grid going haywire with its cluster win, tumble feature combo. Just to nitpick, the game's 5,000x the bet win cap could have been higher, but this gives Prag the space to increase the number for a part 2 while peppering it with extra add-ons (should there be a sequel or something related).
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Living With Stan is a prehistoric people meets dinosaurs online slot from Blueprint Gaming's buddies Lucksome. It's a game that triggered a train of thought along the lines of 'When did we humans start naming each other?' Apparently, some of the earliest recorded examples are names like Scorpion II, Narmer, and Kushem, from around the 3000+ BC mark, but humans have been wandering the Earth a lot longer than that. Maybe, just maybe, way back in the day, when language was still in its formation stage, instead of primitive grunting sounds, a name like Stan was popular? Maybe not, but anyway, in Living With Stan, players are introduced to the Rockyfella family and their hardships with local rascally dinos who have nicked their stuff.
Cartoonish was apparently the design directive when it came to the look and feel of Living With Stan. Players peer down on an idyllic prehistoric scene of waterfalls, forest, and quirky family members. It won't take long to meet Stan and 3 members of his clan, not only because they appear as pay symbols, but they also, one by one, take turns being the Sticky Character Wild. That's the symbol with the progress bar attached; more on this below. The scene would be more idyllic if it wasn't for the dinosaurs constantly parading across the top of the reels; that'd be slightly nerve-racking. Fortunately, the Rockyfellas live in a sturdy cave, which can be clicked on to reveal items yet to be recovered, as well as those returned. This isn't just a cosmetic effect, as recovered items lead to rewards for players, which is partly why they're here.
In the base game, Living With Stan's gaming area is a 5-reel, 3-row grid with 243 ways to win, paying left to right from the leftmost column. Lucksome has rated the volatility as 6 out of 10, putting it at medium, and the default RTP comes in at 96.06% when betting 20 c to $/€200 per spin.
Stan is the highest paying symbol on the paytable, followed by his wife Rockelle, mother-in-law Gravella, and father Cliff. After them are 10 to A card royal symbols. When landing winning combinations of 5 OAK, payouts equate to 1-1.5 times the bet when made up of matching royals or 4 to 15 times the bet for matching character symbols.
Living With Stan: Slot Features
Players work with the prehistoric family in Casa di Rockyfella to get their stuff back from naughty dinosaurs via features such as Character Sticky Wilds, dropped wilds, free spins, Dinosaur Hunts, Stampedes, Casa di Rockyfella prizes, and a bonus buy.
Wild Symbol
In the main game, the middle position always has a Character Sticky Wild. Flying dinosaurs may drop extra wilds in reels 2, 3, 4, and 5. Wilds are used to substitute all regular paying symbols to help make wins.
Character Meter
Any symbol except the scatter and the Character Sticky Wild can display a sub-symbol with a number of 1, 3, 5, or 10. These values are collected by the Character Meter on the Character Sticky Wild. When the Character Meter reaches a certain trigger value, a Dinosaur Hunt is activated. The trigger value depends on the current character linked to the Character Sticky Wild. If a spin does not land new sub-symbols, the Character Meter decreases by 2, down to zero.
Dinosaur Hunt & Casa di Rockyfella Prize Panel
When triggered, the current character linked to the Character Sticky Wild attacks one of the dinos in view. The attacked dinosaur drops 1 to 5 rewards, which are either a cash prize of 0.5-5x or a Casa Object. Cash prizes are instantly awarded, whereas collected items from Dinosaur Hunts are placed in the Casa di Rockyfella Prize Panel, where they award a prize. There are 31 collectable items that award 3 to 20 free spins or cash prizes of 5-30x. Collectables can be won in any order except the last item, which is a T-Rex steak. Players may win the last prize after all other prizes have been collected at least once, which awards 8-20 free spins.
Stampede
Stampede is a random feature that may trigger on any main game spin, adding several sub-symbols to the reels.
Scatter Symbol
In the base game, flying dinosaurs can drop eggs onto the reels, which may reveal scatter symbols. A scatter symbol guarantees entry into free spins. The number of free spins won is the total amount shown on the scatter symbols.
Free Spins
For free spins, an extra row is added to the reels, increasing the ways to win to 1,024. The Character Sticky Wild is double-stacked and roams around on each spin on reels 2 to 5. Dinosaurs above the reels can drop extra wilds onto reels 2 to 5, which may be 2 or 3 positions high. Dropped wilds may award cash prizes or multipliers. Hitting scatter symbols awards additional free spins.
Bonus Buy
The bonus buy gives players the chance to buy free spins for 60x the bet. Double Lux enabled bonus buys will retrigger again (once) if the total win is 20x the bet or less. The RTP for this is 96.18%.
Living With Stan: Slot Verdict
Whatever your thoughts on Lucksome's slot might be, smash or pass, you can't accuse the studio of clinging to a single type with a kung-fu grip. Instead, the team leaps from topic to topic, mechanic to mechanic, like an industrious magpie. This time players are treated to a romp through prehistory where humans clash with dinosaurs, which might not have happened in real life, but it's fun to pretend. Prehistory is something slot makers do like to explore, as seen before, to greater or lesser effect in games like Rock Vegas, The Tumbles, and The Flintstones, to name but three. Lucksome's production leans towards the better side of the spectrum for players who have ever had thoughts of putting a bone through their nostrils as a body decoration or cooking enormous slabs of dino meat on open fires.
Even if those images have never occurred to you, there is entertainment here to be had. Like Stickermania, the spin by spin collection of sub-symbol values keeps the base game moving along, triggering a Dinosaur Hunt when the Character Meter is full. Quite cool how each character has different attributes, such as hunt trigger, prizes, and prize value, all of which can be scoped at the paytable. Cash prizes from Dinosaur Hunts weren't particularly massive, but rewards from Casa Objects might be more exciting. Free spins, for example, where the grid expands and the Sticky Character Wild roaming about the joint, might be interesting.
Not like, supercharged, high vola interesting, Living With Stan isn't really that sort of slot. Rather, it crafts an amiable backstory through a pregame story sequence before moving into a charming prehistoric game world with a 10,000x max win (up to $250,000), where intertwined features are linked to the family's struggle to get their gear back. All in all, Living With Stan is a passable game but ultimately the actual gameplay doesn't quite match its audiovisual presentation.
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Egypt Clusterbuster: Slot Overview
Things had been relatively quiet on the Clusterbuster front for a while since Year-Round Riches Clusterbuster came out at the back end of 2023, and an attractive, big potential, rather unique-looking slot it was. Developer Red Tiger has hit the cluster-busting drawing board once again and has come back with something a lot more commonplace, thematically speaking. Egypt Clusterbuster is, as you might have guessed, an Ancient Egyptian grid slot, one which drops big ol’ wild symbols on the grid, at times releasing flying random wild symbols, occasionally with multipliers. There are a few features on offer, but many have to be unlocked, one at a time, until they are perpetually available.
It’s Egypt, so prepare your eyes for impressive statues, pyramids, scarabs, and so forth. Almost as impressive, if you’re new to Clusterbuster, is the sheer size of the 9×9 gaming grid sitting in the middle of the screen. Other than that, Egypt Clusterbuster puts up the usual Ancient Egyptian optics; quite nicely done, it should be said, but not exactly a brand new, never-before-seen tomb, as such.
Egypt Clusterbuster is a medium-high volatile game where the most desirable RTP value is 95.71%. The return actually drops a little bit to 95.69% when buying features rather than betting on individual spins. Base bets still need to be selected, and the range available here is 10 c to $/€10 per spin.
Winning clusters in Egypt Clusterbuster are formed when 5+ matching symbols are connected in horizontal and/or vertical directions. Ten to Ace card ranks are the game’s lower value symbols, while 4 classic icons of Ancient Egypt are the 4 high pays. Clusters involving 5 matching symbols pay 0.1 to 1 times the bet, and the biggest clusters of 20+ OAK are worth 3 to 50 times the bet. Wilds appear in various forms, and they all substitute any of the regular paying symbols. The symbols that are part of winning combinations disappear from the board and make way for new symbols to tumble in. Chain Reactions continue in this way until no new win is formed.
Egypt Clusterbuster: Slot Features
The features to find, or unlock rather, are chain reaction wins, the Clusterbuster concept, Ancient Orb Progress, Ancient Orb features, free spins, and two feature buys.
Clusterbuster
A 3×3 sized cluster of inactive locked tiles is present in the middle of the grid. The outer tiles of the inactive cluster unlock when winning clusters are adjacent to them. Breaking all outer tiles opens the cluster and releases its prize. Broken parts of the cluster reset at the start of each spin.
Ancient Orbs Progress
Each of the game’s orb modifiers is represented by an orb above the grid. All orbs except the green orb are locked at the start of a session. Releasing a scarab in the 3×3 Clusterbuster unlocks the next modifier in line. When a new modifier unlocks, it triggers on the next spin. During that spin, a new modifier cannot be unlocked, and at the end of it the next scarab is encased in the Clusterbuster, ready for release in the same way. All unlocked modifiers may randomly trigger on future spins, but progress is saved per bet level. More than one unlocked modifier may trigger on the same spin. Orb unlocking goes Blue – Red – Purple. After all orbs are unlocked, the free spins scarab is encased in the Clusterbuster and is not replaced after it activates. The Ancient Orbs are:
- Green Orb – when triggered, any pay symbol may land as a 3×3 super symbol. All super symbols that land will be of the same type. Up to 3 super symbols may land on a spin.
- Blue Orb – when triggered, up to 3 blue Super Wilds, 3×3 in size, land on the spin.
- Red Orb – when triggered, a 3×3 red Super Wild lands. After participating in a win, the Red Super wild turns into 9 scarabs, which fly over the reels and land in random positions as wilds.
- Purple Orb – when triggered, a 3×3 Super Wild with a win multiplier of x2 to x10 lands. After participating in a win, the Super Wild turns into 9 scarabs that fly over the reels and land in random positions as wilds, holding the same win multiplier as the Super Wild. The multiplier applies to all wins in which the wilds participate. If more than one wild is part of a win, multiplier values are added up.
Free Spins
Each time the free spins scarab is released from the Clusterbuster, 10 free spins are awarded. The Clusterbuster does not appear in free spins, and the round cannot be retriggered. During free spins, there is an increased chance of triggering orb modifiers.
Feature Buy
From the feature buy, players can get 10 free spins for 90x the bet or any Super Wild for 20x the bet.
Egypt Clusterbuster: Slot Verdict
For a cluster paying slot held on an enormous grid, gaming spaces don’t come much bigger than those in Red Tiger’s Clusterbuster line. In saying that, 9 positions are covered by the Clusterbuster block, knocking out some of the space which could have been used to create wins. At least, in the base game, busting goes like this and has done for a while. At least since Red Tiger created Thor’s Lightning way back when, maybe earlier. However, while that game has similarities, it is not an official Clusterbuster slot. Like Blobsters Clusterbuster and Dragons Clusterbuster, the need to unlock features is present in Egypt Clusterbuster. This is a technique Red Tiger utilises quite a lot, and while it adds to the anticipation element when removing the outer tiles of the Clusterbuster block, some players might not have time for that.
These feature unlocks generally don’t take a huge amount of time to work through, though there are no guarantees, of course. And once unlocked, the available features are there forever (locked to bet levels), meaning they can trigger at any time. Ancient Orb effects are quite good. For starters, you get a 3×3 sized pay symbol before progressing onto 3×3 wild symbols, which are technically able to connect a significant number of clusters, especially if 3 decide to hit. From there, the Orbs get even better, going from wild symbols spreading across the grid to having a multiplier added not only to the 3×3 Super Wilds but to those wilds fluttering to other positions. The flying wilds were actually quite nice.
Egypt Clusterbuster doesn’t compete with the last CB game, Year-Round Riches, in terms of potential riches, but it is able to knock out wins of up to 6656.7x the bet, so it can’t be accused of being stingy in max payouts department. However, it can’t boast of having creatively picked and presented subject matter, being a dime-a-dozen Ancient Egyptian slot. But this slot topic is popular, and the gameplay isn’t bad, so keyboard tomb raiders looking to bust clusters might find the odd wave of entertainment here.
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