Reef Raider slot is powered by Net Entertainment software with a 7x7 grid and cluster paylines featuring the famous Avalanche mechanic. It’s taking you on a pirate life induced adventure where you will get a chance to explore various reefs and search for hidden treasures with the help of a little pirate crab. Visit this place that is filled with colourful corals here for fun, or at any of the NetEnt Casinos for real.
How to Play Reef Raider Slot
These coral reefs really know how to light up the room, but don’t get fooled by this and make sure the bets are set.
- Choose Coin Stack button to open a quick bet panel where you can set the bet sizes.
- 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.
Slot Features
The game has two types of Wilds – Clam Wild and Coin Wild symbol. If a win cluster contains at least 3 medium or low paying symbols, a Clam Wild will appear taking up a place of one of the removed symbols right before the Avalanche hits. Wild Coin appears either during the base game or the bonus Free Spins round when either Random Wilds or Cannon Blast feature gets triggered.
Multipliers
Multipliers can appear either horizontally or vertically adjacent to several winning clusters multiplying them by x2, x3, x5 or x50. Multiplier symbols are not considered as a part of the winning cluster, and the same multiplier can affect multiple wins, however, only one multiplier symbol can appear on the grid at the same time.
Treasure Trail Meter
Probably the first thing you will notice when you load the game will be the train going around the grid that has 15 uncharged bars. Each time a Calm Wild becomes a part of a cluster win and gets removed from the grid, one bar on the Trail meter will charge. Get to 3 charged bars and you will get to trigger the Anchor Drop feature, with 6 charged bars you will trigger Random Wilds, with 9 charged bars you start the Mystery Chest and with 12 charged bars the feature awarded is Cannon Blast.
When all the activated features have been played or there are no more winning clusters with Clam Wilds to be formed, the Treasure Trail meter will go back down to 0 bars charged.
Anchor Drop chooses between 1 and 3 low paying symbols randomly, and all the matching symbols will get removed from the grid before the Avalanche starts. Random Wilds will randomly place between 4 and 8 Coin Wilds on the grid. Mystery Chest replaced between 2 and 16 medium and low paying, randomly chosen, symbols with Mystery symbols that will get revealed and potentially form a cluster win. Cannon Blast will remove a random symbol from the grid along with all the other medium and low paying symbols on the same row as the chosen symbol.
Free Spins and Mystery Overlay
Hitting 15 charged bars on the Treasure Trail will award Free Spins round with 9 spins and every additional 3 bars that get charged will award extra 2 spins. Mystery Overlay modifier will get activated when the Free Spins round initiates and 5 Mystery symbols will appear on the grid as a pattern beneath the symbols in the centre. These will all reveal a win cluster made of medium and low paying symbols and you can also expect mystery symbols to appear at the start of each spin randomly. If the new mystery symbols appear adjacent to initial cluster these will join the pattern until the round ends.
Summary
Reef Raider is a well-designed slot with charming looks that has a lot to offer in terms of features. We really liked the whole package with medium volatility and x8500 max win. It’s entertaining slot with happy theme and features that, to an extent, are innovative. Take a dip and discover what lies beneath the surface, hiding in the ocean waves.
So Netent decided to go with a different idea and design with the Reef Raider slot. This is a clustered feature slot, which is I would not say a huge failure, but frustrating as can be. I used to get upset at Reactoonz when I think Garga is coming, however, this slot, will turn away from free spins in some form of way, even when you believe the odds are in your favour and the bonus should be awarded.
Let's start first – First, free spins feature/bonus 600 spins, paid x60 0 Amazing right? Hell no it is not, although I only lost x200 worth of money in 600 spins which were okay, but still not what I expected. If I could I’ll drown that little crab or kick the living crap out of him lol
Set in the backdrop of a desert and a 6 or 7x7 grid, this slot comes with a symbol remover feature, extra wilds, cannon blasts and mystery symbols. These base game features get activated when you collect 3 wilds which can be created by winning after each cascade.
Symbols are different types of shells and crystal symbols. There is no standard wild, only a wild that is created when winning almost like Golden ticket slot. There is also a paper that can land with a multiplier, it can be x2, 3, 5, 10 or x50 multiplier. If it forms part of a winning combination the multiplier is applied.
Trigger free spins means you need to collect 15 wilds, with the help of the base game features to create more winning combinations for extra wilds. During free spins, mystery symbols are active on each spin and as more normal mystery chests appear, the next spin expands on the grid with mystery symbols, eventually, this leads to big wins.
I don’t even want to explain how many times I reached 14 wilds in the first spin/cascade with 4 special effects and not one of them generated a win resulting in that last wild to trigger the free spins. Almost like Garga, when you charge up 4 meters and need one more combo needed to trigger the 5th charge, however, if all those special features play out, garga will make sure all 4 of them result in demolition and alterations resulting in no winning combination and then you turn around just before the bonus round.
This must be the most frustrating thing ever! I am done with this slot. Even though I think it's good for wagering.