Lava Loca is a video slot powered by Booming Games. This cheerfully designed game that will take you to a beach party features 5 reels and 20 paylines. There is not a lot of action here, in terms of features, but there is a couple of most essential ones, and they can still rake in some serious dough if you get lucky. If you don’t know what to expect, we would recommend to take it for a test spin here on our page, and if you like it, you can give it a real spin in any Booming Games Casino.
How to Play Lava Loca Slot
Now, if you decide to attend this crazy party you need to know how to set the betting range. So let’s go over some basic controls in Lava Loca.
- Starting left to right, the Total Bet arrows will let you either decrease or increase your bets.
- A is the Autoplay which is there to spin the reels for you automatically once you get fed up by spinning the reels yourself.
- Spin button, of course, is there to put the reels in motion after you choose your desired bet.
- Bet Max give you a shortcut to setting the highest bet possible.
Slot Features
Lava Loca is superbly designed slot, but it is the game that is brimming with additional features. The game offers 4 different features, but they seem to be more than enough to scoop some nice looking wins.
Game logo acts as the Wild symbol in the game and it can form winning combos on its own, and when it substitutes in a win line. Wins are formed with 2 or more symbols on the active payline, and when Wild acts as a substitute, it can substitute for all the symbols in the game except for the Scatter.
Free Spins
If you land 3 or more Scatter symbols on the reels, you will trigger the Free Spins feature which will activate the Expanding Symbol feature. Before the spins start, you will hit stop to randomly choose the symbol which will be Expanding Symbol including Wild and Special symbols. When you land 3 or more Expanding symbols on at least 3 different reels, the symbols will expand vertically to cover the entire reel.
Additional 3 Scatters in the Free Spins will trigger a new set of spins that will be added to existing ones, and the Expanding symbol will remain the same.
Mystery Multiplying Wilds
Symbols with multiplying values displayed also act as a Wild symbol. However, instead of replacing a symbol, this Wild will multiply the payout in which it was involved. These Wilds appear only on the middle reel, and they cannot appear during the Free Spins feature.
Summary
Lava Loca slot comes with a theorethical RTP of 96.3%. Overall, the design of the game is amazing, and the sound effects are catchy that you will surely get the feel as if you were on a real party. Even though the game does not offer any action-like features it can still get pretty rewarding especially with the Expanding Symbols feature.
Booming Games is not among my favourite providers and I hardly ever play any of their games, except in instances where I need to play them for a screenshot contest. Nothing really strange in that, because I usually play games from my favourite providers only, and there is only a handful of them in my play list. I was playing in one such contest at Askgamblers one day and I decided to try something new on the side. That’s when I tried out this Lava Loca game for the very first time.
When I loaded up the game, that funny looking guy icon with jagged teeth, got me smiling right away – he looks quite hilarious, hahaha. Anyway, I then looked through its paytable, as I would almost always do with all new-to-me games, to see what it has to offer. The win values of the symbols are pretty good in fact, not like most other games rock-bottom values, with 5 Scatters paying a nice 200x, 5 Wilds paying 100x, whilst the regular symbols pay from 50x downwards. The game plays with 20 lines, but can also be played on just 10 lines, which is a nice option. The minimum starting bet is 0.10, so that’s one more nice point for the game.
There is a Wild Multiplier that can appear on reel 3 in the base game, awarding 2x or 4x multiplier, but doesn’t appear during the free spins feature game. Getting 3 or more Scatter symbols would award 10 free spins with an Expanding symbol, ala Book games, but this Expanding symbol includes the Wild and Scatter symbols, so this is indeed a nice change from the usual. However, more free spins cannot be retriggered, so that kinda sucks.
Maybe it wasn’t my lucky day, maybe the game wasn’t kind enough to me, because the best win that I could get after spinning a few hundred spins was only 60x. Sigh. Wish I could experience getting the expanding Wild or Scatter symbol during the free spins games, for a 2000x or 4000x win, but all I could get were the lowish regular symbols instead. Ah well, better luck next time...if there is going to be a next time for me.