Pollen Nation is a popular 25-payline video slot which operates on the Microgaming software platform. The game’s theme is bees and honey, so the wild card is the Wild Queen symbol and the scatter is the Scatter Bee icon. Players are welcome to test the slot on this page for free or choose any of the listed Microgaming casinos to play the game for real money.
In order to begin exploring the bee kingdom, one should select their wager first. The +/- buttons modify the coin denomination, which ranges from 0.01 to 0.5. “Select Lines” changes the number of active paylines and “Select Coins” selects the number of coins wagered. “Spin” initiates the game and “Bet Max” spins the reels at the maximum wager. Players need to click “Expert” and then “Autoplay” to play the game for a number of times uninterrupted.
3 or more Babee icons will trigger the Babee bonus game, wherein players can win up to 32,250 coins. 30 Honey Cells are displayed, behind which there are random bonus amounts hidden. Players pick Honey Cells to uncover random bonus win sums until they reach a Stop Honey Cell. Players will win the total of all the bonus win amounts revealed.
When 5 Guard Bee symbols occur on an active payline, a 1,000-coin jackpot will be won.
Game Play
+/-: Select the coin value.
Select Lines: Adjust the number of paylines played.
Select Coins: Select the number of coins wagered.
Spin: Start the game.
Bet Max: Turn the reels at the highest bet.
Autoplay: Spin the reels for a number of times uninterrupted.
I remember seeing a movie about the importance of bees in this world. I cannot remember the name of the animated movie, but it was how the world became a gloomy place when all the flowers died away, simply because the bees were forbidden from harvesting the nectar from the flowers. A very interesting and mind-opening cartoon movie. A look at how our world would be if nature's ways were prevented from happening, if all insects, animals and whatnot couldn't do what they should be doing. A brilliant movie indeed. An insight into why we should love and respect the bees, and not to kill them! Try preventing humans from doing their 'birds and the bees' thing and see what would happen! Hahaha.
The Queenbee is the Wild symbol, 5 of her paying 6000x the line bet, it substitutes for other symbols except for the Scatter and Bonus symbols, but it doesn't do anything else, making it yet another dumb Wild symbol from Microgaming. The Bee is the Scatter symbol, 5 of which pays 80x the total bet amount, and that's about it. There aren't any Free Spins game in Pollen Nation and that sucks! The baby bee, or better known in the game as Babee, is the Bonus symbol. Nope, it doesn't pay anything for itself, except to trigger the Babee Bonus game. Yeah, another dumb thing here. The Guardbee pays 1000x, the Nursebee pays 800x, the Workerbee pays 600x, and the rest pay from 200x to 50x, all per line bet for 5 of each kind. A low paytable.
In the Babee Bonus game, the babybee, Babee, has run out of honeymilk, so you need to pick from the 30 items in the beehive to feed Babee. Each pick awards a cash prize. Getting a 'Stop' ends the game. Hmm, not much of a game, I must say, and one that is not that interesting either.
My several plays on Pollen Nation all failed to provide me satisfaction in every aspect of the game. The game play was boring. There isn't any Free Spins game. The Bonus game was boring after a few plays on it. The payouts were really bad, or quite decent, from 0x up to 75x my bet amount. I got that zero payout in the Bonus game more than 3 times, and that sucked like argh! The Free Spins game can take anything from 200 spins to 400 spins to come, maybe even more, I don't really know, but I wouldn't be surprised at all. Others may have enjoyed this game, but I certainly didn't. Not even once!