Twisted Turbine Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Twisted Turbine Review

Fantasma Games is not yet a major player in the industry, but they have managed to make a name for themselves with highly original themes and a visually pleasing style. Twisted Turbine plays right into that image, as it comes with a cartoonish futuristic style and neat innovative mechanics. This is one of those games that you really need to play to fully understand, but it revolves (literally) around the rotating reel set feature that also increases the win multiplier.

Even the reel setup is highly unusual here, and it reminds us of one of those X-shaped ships in Star Wars. It all plays out on a 5-3-1-3-5 grid, and you have 225 ways to win. Bets can be placed between 20p and £100 per spin, and you can play on both mobile phone and tablet devices. The game is visually well-made as usual from this developer, but the pace of the game is a bit too slow in our opinion. The reels are set in some kind of factory (or perhaps it’s a spaceship), and there is a turbine spinning behind the reels.

The volatility can be pretty brutal in this game, and you really need lengthy cascading wins to get anywhere in the base game. The red and blue robots will give you “credit wins” of 1x your stake for 2 consecutive wins with symbols of the corresponding color, and the progressive multiplier increases up to 20x if you manage to rotate the grid 4 times. It gets even better in the bonus round, where the multiplier values increase and the credit wins don’t reset on non-winning spins. Read more about that below, and also check out our 200 spins experience (with video) further down in the review.

What are the bonus features?

This is one of those games that can sound a bit complicated when you read about them, and the bonus features are definitely unusual in Twisted Turbine slot. We will do our best to clarify everything for you here.

The simplest feature to understand is the classic Avalanche, or Cascading Wins, feature. Winning symbols are removed from the reels and replaced by new symbols, and this process continues as long as you keep landing new winning combos.

Both the red robot (on top) and the blue robot (at the bottom) have a Turbine Robot meter.

Now the bottom robot (which is the blue one at the start of the game) will be the top robot, and vice versa. The spinning of the reel set also increases the so-called rotation multiplier. This multiplier has 4 levels, and goes from 1x to 2x, 4x, 10x and 20x at the highest level.

When the cascading wins sequence comes to an end, the multiplier you have achieved will be applied to the sum you’ve racked up in the display below each of the robots. This also means that the multiplier is reset to 1x again, as you start a new round.

Free spins in Twisted Turbine

The circular mix of red/orange fire and blue electricity is the scatter symbol in this game. You will get 10, 15 or 20 free spins when you land 3, 4 or 5 scatters, respectively. The Turbine Robot meters and the Credit Wins will not reset on losing spins in the bonus round, and the multiplier values are now increased to 3x, 5x, 15x and 50x. You can also land 3 or 4 scatters during the free spins round, and this will give you 10 or 15 extra spins.

How to play

Fantasma Games runs with the same game interface on all their games, and you’ll find everything you need on the right-hand side.

We always take a closer look at what the hamburger menu is hiding when we start out with a new game, and this is where you find the paytable in this game. The dynamic paytable will display each symbol combination value based on your chosen bet level, and the payout values range from 0.5x to 2x in this game. This is pretty low values compared to many other games, but that’s not so unusual in games that come with a high multiplier potential.

It does mean that one-off wins will not be all that exciting usually, but the point of this game is to get the rotating reel-set multiplier going, as this is how you can win big. The golden W is the wild symbol, and it will step in for all regular symbols to help you form winning combos. The wild is not worth anything on its own, however.

The game runs on a Win All Ways engine, which means that you need to land a minimum of 3 matching symbols on adjacent reels starting from anywhere. This leaves you with 225 ways to win, and you can scroll further down in the paytable to read all about the game features.

The gear icon opens up the game settings for you, and here you can turn on/off the music, game sounds and skip the intro screen the next time you load the game. Click the coin stack icon below the spin button to set your bet level between 20p and £100 per spin. You can then set up the autoplay feature with between 10 and 100 autospins, and also set a win or loss limit to stop the feature as you see fit. Of course, you can also spin the reels manually, if you like to exercise your mouse finger.

Where to play Twisted Turbine?

You will usually find new games from Fantasma in a whole lot of trusted and licenced online casinos. We don’t see any reason why this should not also be the case with Twisted Turbine, as both players and operators appreciate novelty and innovation. Below we will present you with your main options, and get you on your way to playing this exciting title in no-time.

Play for real money

If we have done a good enough job of explaining this somewhat complex game for you above, you might feel ready to get into the real money action right away. You will always get the best possible overview of casinos to play Twisted Turbine at right here on this page.

Play free demo version

When a game is as unusual and complicated as this, it can certainly be a good idea to try the free demo version first. We recommend that you do this with any new game actually, and especially if you have any doubts about it at all. It’s the perfect way of getting to know the gameplay, and to see if this is something you want to spend your time and money on. We just happen to have the Twisted Turbine demo game installed at the very top of this page. Follow the link up there, and get started immediately.

The 200 Spins Twisted Turbine Experience

There is something transformerish about the robots in this game, and Fantasma has managed to breath life into them in a charming way. We looked forward to seeing how this strange creation would play out with our 200 spins test session, and we decided to go with a moderate bet level of £4 per spin at first.

Make no mistake about it, you will get plenty of dead spins in the base game here. The volatility is high, and the payouts are pretty small from the rather low-value symbols. Unless you get the multiplier going, you are basically a sinking ship here. This was the case for us at least, and we really struggled getting the darn thing to rotate.

We had a few smaller credit wins of around 4x our stake which made the red robot smile, but it was hardly enough to make us exercise any facial muscles. At a certain point we decided to up our game a little, and switched to a stake of £100 per spin. This didn’t seem to help at first, but then we suddenly triggered the bonus round.

We had 10 free spins to play out now, and the multiplier meter went all the way up to a juicy 50x. Things started out pretty well, as we got 3 cascades in a row, and managed to rotate the grid by landing 2 blue wins. All this happened on the very first free spin, and we rotated the grid once again and won a total of 13.2x our stake with help from the 5x multiplier.

Rotating the reel set and increasing the multiplier seems a lot easier in the bonus round, and we kept getting smaller wins from the 3x multiplier as the reel set rotated once every other free spin for a small while. We ran into some dead spins after that, and yet another rotating win at the very last spin. All in all, we got away with 37.6x our stake, which was not all that impressive, but we will probably be back for more at a future crossroad.

Review Summary

Twisted Turbine is cleverly designed and put together, and it’s really all about drawing those cascading wins out as much as you can. This is easier said than done however, and the base game can be a bit frustrating when things don’t go your way. We certainly got our fair share of dead spins in the base game, but things got a bit better when the bonus round was triggered.

The credit wins from each of the 2 robots will not reset between free spins, but the multiplier meter still resets once a cascade is over. This is a bit frustrating too, and big wins are in no way guaranteed from the bonus round. The pace of the game is also somewhat slow, and this is certainly not a game for players who just want a traditional slot experience. If you enjoy somewhat intricate games with the potential for long-winding cascades and big wins, you should probably give Twisted Turbine a try.

Pros

• Innovative turbine rotate credit wins feature
• Progressive multiplier up to 20x in the base game
• Free spins where credit wins don’t reset and up to 50x multiplier
• High volatility and 9,518x max win potential

Cons

• Might be too slow-paced and complicated for some players

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