Fruit Slots Slot – Free Demo

Twenty fixed lines under a palm roof

Due to the abundance of fruit in Fruit Slots, I could open with an obligatory bar-and-bell nod, but it doesn't carry a pub cabinet air to it at all. Urgent Games put it out in April 2022. The mood is more akin to a seaside break. The action unfolds on a tropical coastline strewn with bright clutter - surfboards, palm fronds and so on. I ran it for 470 spins in one sitting. This one can sit flat for a long spell, like every fruit set before it. My longest gap without a win was ten spins, ending on spin 334. The studio's blunt take on a twenty line fruit machine produces some even, low drama play.

The action unfolds on a 5x3 grid. That grid employs 20 paylines, along with Urgent Games' green hand wild. All twenty paylines are permanently live, and they form winning combinations which are read from the left when they land, with only the highest win paying on each line. A line that could be read two ways therefore pays once, at the higher of the two. Overall, the effect is close to a standard twenty line fruit slot, minus the ladder and the wheel, with a beach theme in the driver's seat.

Ten fruit and a green hand

Players on this shore begin the session off by picking stakes of their own, and there are 10 base game pay symbols. Mine was 128 a spin, which put 60,160.00 credits through the game. Those are composed of blueberries, a yellow flower, a pomegranate, a watermelon and the remainder of the fruit. The green apple and the carrot are the two best of them. As long as 3 or more of the same symbol land from the leftmost reel along one of the lines, they yield a win. Two of a kind pays at all only on the wild, the green apple and the carrot. The wild symbol, in particular, is a green hand, rather than anything you could eat.

As it fills several roles, the green hand wild is genuinely the key to scoring big with Fruit Slots. In its plain wild role it substitutes for every symbol except the Bonus and the Free Spin, to build line wins. Inside the free spins it does the same job, since the feature runs on the same symbol values as the base game. The neatest part is that it also pays on its own. Five of them on a line is the top line pay in the game, at 250 times the total bet.

Where the mangosteen sends you

The second role falls to the mangosteen, and when 3 or more show up on a line, they start Free Spins. It did that eight times in my 470 spins, first on spin 8 and last on spin 414. The rules of the bonus round are mostly the same as the base game's, with one exception. The wild is held in place for the remaining free spins.

Clearly the held wild during free spins is the most appealing aspect of Fruit Slots. The eight rounds I drew paid between 2.0 and 108.0 times the stake. Those who would sooner have the other feature need 3 or more of the orange segmented fruit on a line.

Minty’s Final Note: The wild that stays put is the only thing in Fruit Slots that changes shape, and the eight rounds it ran in earned 21% of everything my session won. The rest came off flat line pays at 128 a spin, 184 of them across 470 spins.

What 470 spins at 128 gave back

There may very well be one or two surfers at Urgent Games. Still, the reason they picked this theme might have been to set some distance between it and the usual bar-and-seven cabinet. Where most studios went retro, Urgent Games has taken the opposite route, and the beach theme they blended in fits the stats and mechanics. To be honest, the theme recedes into the background when the game is doing its thing, and turns kind of irrelevant anyway. The orange segmented fruit never lined up three across for me, so the Bonus stayed shut. By doing its thing, I am of course speaking about those repeat free spin triggers that a game like this can produce. Spin 98 came 90 spins clear of the trigger before it, and spins 106 and 117 followed within nineteen of it. Catch a good roll and the mangosteens seem to land again and again.

The base game on its own bore most of the return. Across the session I won 135,833.60 credits and closed at 175,865.60, from a start of 100,192.00. The free spins contributed 28,467.20 credits, which is 21% of everything I won. The largest of those rounds was spin 371, at 108.0 times the stake, and it took the balance to its peak of 179,641.60. My best spin was not a feature at all: spin 310 paid 28,416.00, 222.0 times the stake. The lowest the balance got was 95,993.60. 184 of my 470 spins paid something, 106 of them less than the stake.

Two fruit sets with more bolted on

Also worth a look are Hot Fruits Wheel and 20 Hot Fruit Delights for more twenty line fruit action. They arrive with rather more furniture bolted on.