Playing big: the best bonus features of modern slot games
Every player wants a unique experience. It is a home truth and good game manufacturers take that into account, offering new awesome features to mesmerize players. Slot game developers are no exception, so they take pains to make their bonus games special, sometimes making a whole new game out of it. In the quest for great bonus features, the FairWin team has accumulated the experience of the key industry players, and now shows you the best, most creative and sometimes weird bonuses in slot games.
221b Baker Street (Merkur)
When you win, a risk game starts, where you are supposed to choose the colour of the next card, thus doubling your prize. Another bonus feature — a duel, where Holmes and Moriarty shoot targets, uncovering money prizes. You can choose to take the first prize or continue further, with the chances of winning getting slim. Both features can be seen here:
Avalon 2 (Microgaming)
Here the player is offered a whole journey to find the Holy Grail. Each time a bonus game is triggered, the player moves to a new point on the way to restore peace to the realm.
- Lake of Legend. You need to reforge Excalibur, throwing the dice up to 10 times. Each value has to appear once to make the great sword whole again.
- Misty Vale — 15 free spins with a wild symbol of your choice.
- Choose Your Path — the classical fairytale choice of 3 paths:
Whispering Woods — choose one of the 5 shields as your prize. Up to 3 picks are at your disposal.
Forest Falls — 20 free spins with trailing wilds.
Dusky Moors — you need to pick a pair of matching helmets out of 12. With each try the multiplier increases.
4. Morgan’s Keep — 20 free spins with Rolling Reels.
5. Hall Of Shadows — you get to fight the Black Knight, getting money for each strike of block.
6. Isle Of Avalon — 4 wheels of fortune, the 4 numbers define your prize. You can see this feature here, from 0:30:
At the end of this game you are congratulated and shown the total prize. Now you can try this adventure again!
Fruit Spin (NetEnt)
A 5х4 game. Here, if the 3х3 scatter symbol appears on the screen, a bonus game called “lucky wheels” is launched. There are as many as 3 wheels, which makes it a sweet feature. The player gets to spin every wheel 1 time for each row of the scatter symbol on the screen. The wheels have 8 symbols, two of each kind — 200, 400, 800, free spin. NetEnt seems to favor this kind of a bonus game.
You can check this out here, starting at 0:40
Satoshi`s Secret (Endorphina)
2 bonus games. Trading game — here you pick a currency whose price, according to your instincts, will grow. Free spins are launched, and if your forecast is right, you receive a big prize.
Qwerty — when you see these letters on the reels, the hacking game is triggered. A number of bank accounts are shown, each of a different level of security. By picking one of them you set in motion the hacking process, which may or may not result in success. Here is what it looks like (pretty atmospheric):
These are the most interesting bonus features that we have encountered so far. If you know something better, feel free to share with us in the comments section or in our Telegram group.
Cash Commander (GW Games)
I want to express my admiration for this studio. The other developers` games, as a rule, lack a bonus game. Their creators usually limit themselves to making high-quality graphics or an attractive atmosphere, thus only sprucing up an old product. These guys on the contrary treat each game with special care, making its rules unique (although complex). This is truly a fresh and creative approach. It is a shame that this manufacturer is relatively unknown, I think they deserve more.
Their game “Cash Commander” enables you to achieve world domination. With each spin you gain experience, upgrade your rank and get the opportunity to conquer one of the parts of the world. Here is where the bonus game starts. You have 3 tanks, which can be placed along 3 paths. 2 of them are guarded by the enemy`s turrets, so the approaching tanks will get destroyed. Any of your remaining tanks shoot the enemy`s base, reducing its health points. After that the enemy launches a counterattack, so now it is your turn to place 2 turrets to stop the onslaught. If you win this game, you receive a special prize and bonus experience. Besides, normal spins unlock special “care packages” such as a drone which uncovers one of the paths protected by the foe, or a nuclear bomb, which wins the battle instantly. Isn`t that great?
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