Free slot: Rocket Reels

How Rocket Reels works

The world of astronomy is something that is not common in the online casino world. There are very few providers that have themed their games around this particular environment. With its latest creation Rocket Reels, Hacksaw Gaming has decided to take a risk. When you visit this slot, you will be immersed in the middle of rocks, in the heart of a planet where many precious stones abound. The sound, symbols and animations reflect this world perfectly. A starting grid of 7 horizontal rows and 7 columns awaits you in Rockets Reels. Connections are made in cascades, which means that a round stops as soon as no more connections are possible. Each time a connection takes place, the symbols that are part of the connection disappear to make room for new symbols. There are several features to get your teeth into on Rocket Reels while free games can also be unlocked.

The first feature in the basic game is the flying saucer. This can only be triggered when rockets are present on the turn.

As you can see in the following screen, once the flying saucer is present on your screen, it will remove between 20 symbols minimum and all symbols in the slot. However, all multipliers that are present on the starting grid remain in the same place.

As mentioned in the previous feature presentation, rockets can appear on any game turn, whether paid or free. Three types of rockets are available in the Rocket Reels slot.

Every time a rocket appears on your screen, it will take off and leave multipliers behind. For the small rocket, the multipliers that can appear vary between times 1 and times 5. For the medium-sized rocket, the multipliers vary between times 10 and times 20. Finally, the last rocket is the one with the highest multipliers available to players, ranging from times 25 to times 75.

The different symbols of Rocket Reels

Like many slot machines in the online casino world, Rocket Reels provides players with a wild symbol. The wild symbol connects with all symbols in the slot machine except the one that gives the bonus feature. The wild has no value of its own, it only takes on the value of the symbol it connects with.

Then there are premium symbols. These are called premium symbols because they don't appear very often on your starting grid, but pay more than other symbols as soon as they are part of a connection. They are represented by planets of different colours: purple, blue, orange, red and green. The following screen shows the value of each symbol according to the number of connections it makes. The starting bet is €1.

Then there are 5 non premium symbols. As you might expect, these symbols are so called because they appear more often than the other symbols, but pay less when they are part of a connection. They are represented by stones of different colours. You have the stone: yellow, blue, green, orange and pink. As in the previous screen, the value shown in the following photograph is for a starting bet of €1.

The different connections of Rocket Reels

Rocket Reels is a slot machine that has a starting grid that is considered large compared to other slots on the market. On this slot machine, there are no connecting lines, as connections are made in blocks. So, for a connection to occur, a single symbol must make a block of 5 symbols. The more symbols that touch each other from the bottom/top or right/left, the bigger your final win will be. The following screen shows two starting grids. On the first one a valid connection is shown. On the second, the developers of Hacksaw Gaming show us an invalid connection.

How the Rocket Reels bonus works

As explained in the presentation of this slot, Rocket Reels has a bonus feature. To trigger it, you will need to get at least three astronauts on a single spin.

All the features present in the basic game are also present in the free games. There is no difference. The following screen shows a connection of symbols with multipliers. As soon as a symbol is part of a connection where multipliers are present, these will add up to a final multiplier which will be applied to your connection.

Our opinion on Rocket Reels

What we think of Rocket ReelsAs usual, Hacksaw Gaming has done a great job with their Rocket Reels slot. First of all, you will be immersed in the space universe where a magnificent jackpot awaits you. In fact, by playing this Hacksaw Gaming creation you can win up to 10,000 times your original bet. Unfortunately for it, Rocket Reels is a slot with a 94.38% RTP (theoretical return to players), which puts it in the lower middle range of slots on the market. The great strength of this slot is the large number of features that are present in the base game. However, the fact that the features are the same during both the pay and free spins spoils this very high quality slot a little. Finally, for those who don't want to wait to get the bonus, the buy-in bonus feature is present and will cost you 129 times your original stake.