Octobeer Fortunes slot runs on 5 reels and 20 pay lines that are inspired by what other than the German seasonal beer festival that has become insanely popular over the years, and all is a tribute to everyone’s favourite alcoholic beverage – beer. Hoist your beer stein at this year’s Oktoberfest tribute at any Pragmatic Play Casino for real, or here for fun.
How to Play Octobeer Fortunes Slot?
This festival is no joke, so make sure you have your bets set before you start chugging beer.
- Hit +/- buttons will slide up a panel to help you set your bets by increasing or decreasing either the total bet or the coin value and bet separately.
- Spin button will get the reels moving.
- Autoplay opens up a panel that lets you choose the number of automated spins and whether and when you want them to end.
- Buy Free Spins will let you buy your way into the feature.
Slot Features
Wild symbol in the game can help substitute for all the symbols in the game to help form winning combinations, except for the Money symbol. It can appear on all reels and it will also collect the values of Money symbols.
Money Collection
Beer Stein is the Money symbol that can appear on all reels, and if you hit 5 or more of them on the same spin, you will trigger the Free Spins feature. Money symbols will take on a random value from a predefined set on each spin. The values it can take on are x0.5, x1, x1.5, x2, x3, x4, x5, x7.5, x10, x20, and x50 the total bet. Whenever at least one Wild symbol hits alongside the Money symbol, for every Wild, the total value of all money symbols will get awarded.
Free Spins
If you trigger the free spins round it will start with 9 spins, but before the feature starts, all the triggering Money symbols values will get collected and turned into a starting value for the progressive feature. During the round, all the Money symbol values that hit will get collected, and each Wild that hits will award the collected value. The Free Spins feature, cannot be retriggered.
Buy Free Spins
Opting to buy your way into the feature will allow you, for different compensation levels, to buy the different number of starting Money symbols that range between 5 and 15 for the price ranges between x100 and x200 the bet, respectively. However, all Money symbols will still have random values assigned and Free Spins count is always 9.
Summary
Octobeer Fortunes looks great, but it lacks that x-factor that will make it stand out. Despite the good graphics and artwork, the game lacks the soul that you can find in a real-life Oktoberfest and is overflowing with clichés. In terms of the gameplay, the progressive feature in the Free Spins round makes it somewhat more appealing, but the max wins you can pour stops at x4500 the bet.
Octobeer Fortunes is a 5 reel slot with 20 paylines from Pragmatic Play. The game was released just about a month ago, right around the time of Oktoberfest, so no wonder the game name is Octobeer Fortunes. Of course, as the name already tells,the game is inspired by Okteberferst so you can expect beer symbols and lady barmaids as the main symbols in the game.
When it comes to the game mechanics, they're very simple. You have 20 paylines, a wild symbol, which is the lady barmaid, high value and low value symbols as well as beer symbols with coins. In the base game whenever a wild lands on the same spin as the beer symbols, you will collect the winnings from the beers. To be honest, I haven't had any big base game wins, only a few 15x-30x wins due to the beer coin symbols landing with wilds. Therefore I don't find the base game to be too exciting.
Other than that, there's only one bonus feature which is the free spins bonus round. You need to get 5 or more money symbols (beer symbols) to land the free spins, or alternatively you can buy the bonus. However, if you decide to buy the bonus it comes at a cost at 100x and more- that's up to you. In any case, whether you buy the bonus or get it organically, you'll get 9 free spins. However, what changes are the amount of beer coins you start.
Once you land the 5+ beer symbols, their value will be added up. In the free spins, whenever you land a beer symbol with a wild, you'll get the coin win- but in the free spins, you'll also get the total beer coin value that you have accumulated - the one you started your free spins with plus any additional beer icons you've landed in the free spins. That's why the bonus buy allows you to buy up to 15 beer icons so that your beer collection amount is bigger. Having said that, the bonus round is very volatile. I have had a few bonus buys where I've bought the maximum beer icons but couldn't land any beer icons with wilds in the free spins, which make them pointless. But my best win in the game was when I had a decent beer coin value and landed 2 wilds on a few spins, which resulted in a 350x bet win.
Overall it's a simple game and the bonus round is quite volatile. I think it's quite entertaining simply due to the free spins round and with some luck you can get decent wins. But I'm not sure I would recommend the higher bonus buys as they can easily result in a loss.