Beach is a 20-payline video slot running on the NetEnt software platform. A the waves come in, the symbols begin spinning, the most important of which are the Bottle, which is a scatter, a wild, denoted by a Piece of Wood with ‘Wild’ written on it and the Octopus, a special kind of a wild card. Players can try the slot on this page for free or play it for real money in any of the listed NetEnt casinos.
Before spending a day at the beach and listening to the sound of the sea, players need to choose their bet. The bet level is adjusted by using the "Level" selector. The coin size, ranging from 0.01 to 1, is set with the "Coin Value" selector. “Spin” starts the game, “Max Bet” spins the reels at the highest bet, and “Auto Play” turns them for a predetermined number of times uninterrupted.
The Octopus Wild symbol emerges only on column 3 and possesses the ability to swap out the positions of any 2 symbols on adjacent positions on columns 2, 3 and 4, increasing the player’s possibility of winning. All Octopus Wild wins are doubled.
3 or more scatters will trigger the Free Wave feature. 3 Bottles will result in 8 Free Waves, 4 Bottle scatters will activate 16 Free Waves and 24 Free Waves will be awarded when 5 scatters emerge on the reels.
A 2000-coin jackpot will be won when 5 Treasure Chest symbols appear on an active payline.
Game Play
Level: Select the bet level.
Coin Value: Alter the coin size.
Spin: Play the game at the chosen wager.
Max Bet: Spin the reels at the highest bet.
Auto Play: Play the game multiple times without interruption.
Here's one more cartoon game from NetEnt, and the main character is an Octopus, acting as the Wild symbol in the game. There's nothing outstanding at all about this Beach game, but it does have pleasant and cool pastel colours in its graphics. I quite like the character of the Octopus though, always smiling, and it was fun to see it swapping symbols around to create wins. Nice animations, I must say, but that's usual of NetEnt's great presentation anyway.
Beach is one game that may provide several small wins frequently, but if you're expecting to get nice big wins with this game, you'd better forget it! The Octopus, the Wild symbol, only appears on reel 3 and doesn't pay anything for itself, but it doubles all wins with it. The Bottle, the Scatter symbol, is another non-paying symbol, and this is one instance where lots of additional wins are lost due to it not paying anything at all. I hate games that have non-paying Scatter symbols simply for this one reason! The Chest is the highest paying symbol at 2000x the line bet for 5 of them, but that is not good enough to provide any good wins! The other symbols pay from 1000x to 50x the line bet for getting any 5 of them, so the paytable is unfortunately a very low one!
However, I must say that playing Beach is quite fun and interesting. If that Octopus isn't there, you can safely dump this game into your deep freezer! Hahaha. I have played this game on many occasions so far, but none has ever given me any decent wins at all! The best win that I have gotten was only 142x my bet amount, and that came in the base game, and not during the Free Spins game. Generally speaking, all the Free Spins games that I have played paid damn poorly, ranging from 10x up to 50x wins only, so the payouts from this Beach game has much to be desired. The only consolation is that it is a fun game to play. Nothing more than that!
A Wild symbol that doesn't pay anything, a Scatter symbol that doesn't pay anything either, and a Free Spins game that doesn't have any multiplier, except for wins with a Wild symbol, to get doubled wins. All the other symbols have low win values too, so there is really nothing in the game to produce any good wins!