Space Race is 5 reels and 20 pay-lines video slot powered by Play’n GO software. This video slot is inspired with space exploration. Thee reels are set in a metal frame and against the backdrop of multicolored galaxy with shooting stars. The high paying symbols featured in this game are theme related. Give this slot a spin here for free or visit Play’n GO Casinos to play for real money.
Before you set off to space, you are advised to adjust your bets. Coins sizes range from 0.01 to 0.25, and you can adjust it by clicking on "Coin Value". "Coins" is used to set the number of coins per line, and "Lines" will set the number of lines. "Spin" to set the reels in motion. "Auto Play" option will turn the reels automatically without interruption. If you click on "Bet Max" it will set the maximum bet allowed and turn the reels automatically at that bet.
The Wild symbol is the game logo, and it substitutes for all symbols except bonus symbol, free spins symbol and the Scatter. Also, the Wild symbol can form its own winning combos, and if you land 5 of them on an active pay-line, you can win 5000 credits.
Scatter symbol is represented as the meteor shower, and it can form scatter wins. All of the scatter wins are multiplied by the total bet staked. If you hit 3 or more of these on an active pay-line you will trigger free spins feature. Once activated, you will receive 15 free spins. During this round all scatter symbols will start acting as Wilds.
Spacecraft symbol is the Bonus symbol in the game. When you land 3 or more of these anywhere on the reels you will activate the Bonus round. This is a Battleship mini game where you will pick a position on grid where to set your craft. When you do this, a meteor shower will hit the grid and destroy a part of your shield if you take a hit. If you survive a shower you will move on to another level. You will keep moving on until you reach the final moon-grid or until your craft is destroyed completely.
Game Play
Coin Value: Set the coins size.
Coins: Set the number of coins per line.
Lines: Set the number of lines.
Bet Max: Set the maximum bet allowed.
Spin: Starts spinning the reels.
Autoplay: Turn the reels without interruption for a chosen number of times.
This Space Race game isn’t new at all, it has been around for a few years, but it has never been popular with players, and certainly not with me. Yeah, I’ve played it a few times before, over the years, but always ending with disappointment, sad to say.
Space Race plays and pays like most other slot games of about the same age, meaning, it has a reasonable paytable, both the Wild and Scatter symbols pay a win when you get them, it offers 15 free spins but without any win multiplier (don’t know why PlaynGo chose to omit the multiplier when most other similar games do have them), and there’s also a separate Bonus game in the package. Nonetheless, not everything may look good, simply because the free spins cannot be retriggered, which I simply do not like, the Bonus Game isn’t exciting at all, but worse of all, both the free spins and the Bonus games were rather hard to get, besides usually paying out measly.
During the free spins, the Scatter symbols become Extra Wilds, so perhaps this is why there isn’t any win multipliers for the free spins, but I found this to be a poor alternative instead, because those Extra Wilds hardly produced any big wins during my play sessions. Honestly speaking, I would say that even the standard 3x win multiplier would and could have produced better wins. I’ve had a few Free Spins games played, but none of them paid anything better than 20x my bet amount! That was very disappointing indeed!
The Bonus game plays with 3 Levels, the aim of which is to get to the moon. You pick one position in the grid at each level, try to survive the onslaught of meteors, but getting hit three times ends the game, but I found this sort of play to be very boring indeed! Yep, I did managed to get to the moon on two occasions, died many times at other occasions, but the best win I could get by reaching the moon was a miserable 100x win! Not encouraging at all, is it?
I was expecting a fairly interesting play on this Space race game, but after a few tries, after getting a few of those Free Spins and Bonus games, and yet not getting any decent wins, I can only say that this game cannot generate much interest for players.