Gems Bonanza slot that features 8 reels and cluster paylines that is, as the name suggests, is taking you on a South American adventure to hunt for a plethora of shiny and colorful gems. It’s nightfall and the grid is filled with sparkly gems that can offer a substantial amount of fun and ample chances of winning big. Visit this desert here for fun or at any Pragmatic Play Casino for real.
How to Play Gems Bonanza Slot
Gold fever is about to hit you hard, so make sure you have your bets set beforehand.
- Hit +/- buttons will draw up a panel where you can increase or decrease coins per line and coin value that will constitute the bet, or you can simply increase the total bet value.
- Reels will start moving the moment you hit Spin button
- Autoplay opens up a panel where you can choose Turbo Spin, Quick Spin and the number of automated spins.
- Buy Feature will take a certain compensation in order to get you into the Bonus Gold Fever round.
Slot Features
This captivating game is more than looks, and you will enjoy a number of features from super-sized symbols, cluster wins with tumbles, and random Wilds, but let’s have a breakdown here.
Wild
Wild symbol in the game substitute for all the other symbols in the game when there is a chance to form a win combo. It appears only as a part of Wild Gem and Lucky Wilds. The same Wild symbol can connect to form multiple win combos on the grid.
Tumble Feature
Each time a win combo is formed the symbols involved will disappear from the grid making room for new symbols to tumble down onto the reels and possible create new win combos. The tumbling will continue as long as there are wins to be formed.
Spin Features
The base game contains special colored markings on the grid that can appear behind any regular symbol. Each time a win is formed on top of that marker, a special feature will get triggered depending on the marking color – blue, pink, yellow, red or green.
Blue goes Nuclear that clears all symbols from the grid after all tumbles finish. Pink is the Wild Gem that takes all the instances of a random symbol from the grid, and turns it Wild. Yellow is the Square that awards 2x2 block symbols that are added in the random positions. Red is the Colossal feature that turns random symbols into blocks of 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 size. Green is the Lucky Wild that adds between 5 and 15 Wilds to the screen to random positions.
Gold Fever
At each spin a number of symbols involved in a win combo that exploded will count towards the Gold Fever Meter. When a certain number of symbols reach the top, the Gold Fever will kick off after which the meter will get reset to 0. You need to collect 114 points from a base game to trigger the feature that has 5 levels. During the round all spin modifier are guaranteed once per level and you will get a x2 win multiplier that progresses.
Once enough win symbols are collected throughout each level, you will advance to the next one. Level 2 needs 116 points and has x4 multiplier, level 3 collects 120 points with x6 multiplier, level 4 needs 125 pints and has x8 multiplier whereas level 5 needs 132 points with x10 multiplier. The feature ends when there are not enough points collected to get you to the next level.
Summary
Gems Bonanza is a highly volatile slot that is perfectly crafted to include amazing artwork and graphics. On top of all the great design, the game offers an awesome potential. RTP defaults to 96.51% and the maximum payouts are capped at x10000 your bet. Overall, the gameplay is interesting with a nice flow and the features are interesting. It will be too much to categorize this as one of the best slots that have been released lately, but it’s definitely a striking release you should tray.
Gems Bonanza is a slot game from Pragmatic Play that was released sometime last year, I believe. And I initially found out about this slot on the Pragmatic Play tournaments site, where they run social tournaments. I thought that the game had quite interesting features and quite high volatility, but there was something that made me curious to play it more.
The game itself is not a regular payline slot but instead, it has a cluster pays mechanic. Then, when it comes to the slot theme, it's kind of inspired by the Aztec treasure theme, where you're taken to an old temple and you need to collect different items to trigger slot features. Design wise, I think it's a nice looking game.
When it comes to features, the slot has a base game feature and a bonus round. In some way, it reminds me of Reactoonz, as there are 5 different features you can trigger, and the way you do it is by getting winning combinations on symbols that are highlighted. It definitely makes the base game more exciting and I also think it improves the winning potential. Also, you need to fill a meter to activate the bonus round, so having different features can definitely help to create wins and ultimately filling the bonus meter.
Once you fill the bonus meter, you activate the bonus round- it's not really a free spins feature rather than one free spin, sort of. Then one after another all 5 features are activated, and the goal is to again fill out the meter to have a level up to 2x multiplier and so on, you can get even 6x multi[lier and 8x multiplier. I've had the 6x multiplier once with a 400x bet win. And once you have a bigger multiplier, all the features can pay well. My favorite of the features is the Lucky Wilds feature where several wilds are added to the screen or the Squares features that can add a mega symbol on the reels.
I think the worst of them is the Nuclear feature which literally just removes all symbols from the reels and I never get any wins from it.
Overall, this is a decent game and it has high volatility. The base game is quite fun but to be honest, I often skip it and just buy the bonus for 100x bet as that's the most exciting part of the slot. Having said that, this is a pretty much all or nothing slot, and while you can get great wins on it, I've also had multiple bonus features not paying anywhere close to 50x bet. So I would recommend paying close attention to your balance.