Lava Lava: Slot Overview
Lava Lava is a celebration of the hot magma-ry stuff flung from
volcanoes in displays which are 🌧️ impressive to look at – from a safe distance. Players
are provided with one, of sorts, in Lava Lava, an 🌧️ online slot from Thunderkick that
looks like it was made by the same team that made Pyramyth - both slots 🌧️ sharing a
similar feel as well as some features. Specifically, the wild multiplier element, which
is available in all phases 🌧️ of the game, and is joined by free spins with semi-sticky
wilds, avalanches, plus scatter explosions. Be sure to prepare 🌧️ for some
pyrotechnics.
Lava Lava also has a lot in common with Thunderkick's Beat the Beast
range. It has that same 🌧️ solid, chunky look and feel about it, as well as uncomplicated
gameplay, which roars and thunders as it goes about 🌧️ its business. Muscular looks greet
players when the game loads, where an imposing game grid has been plonked in the 🌧️ middle
of the screen, surrounded by smoking volcanoes and an unusual bunch of spectators who
stare up at the reels 🌧️ from the bottom of the screen. This reverence is accentuated by
the way the reels sit on a lean, as 🌧️ if even the player is down low looking up at them.
Thunderkick's graphic team can sure draw a nice illustration, 🌧️ and Lava Lava's
smouldering hot world makes a positive first impression.
Played on a 5-reel, 3-row game
panel, players are supplied 🌧️ with 15 fixed paylines to score wins on. This is a highly
volatile game, apt given the presentation of its 🌧️ subject matter, while RTP comes in
four forms. The one to look out for is the 96.14% version, possibly dropping 🌧️ away to
94%, 92%, or 90% on the less generous side depending on where you play.
Playable from
10 c/p to 🌧️ €/$100 per spin, landing three to five matching symbols across the grid from
the leftmost reel constitutes a winning combination 🌧️ which may or may not trigger a
cascade depending on whether you're in the base or bonus game. Starting things 🌧️ off are
five 9-A card royals as the low pays, worth 3-5x the bet for a five of a kind 🌧️ win. Next
are three tiki masks and a golden flower as the four premium symbols. Landing five of
these fires 🌧️ off a win worth 10 to 30 times your stake. Also, wilds appear on any reel
to replace regular pay 🌧️ symbols to complete winning lines. They're also worth 30x the
bet for a line of five and get a sticky 🌧️ quality once free spins are triggered.
Lava
Lava: Slot Features
Explosive is one way of describing Lava Lava's features, in terms
of 🌧️ function as much as form. Free spins are where wild multipliers, sticky wilds, and
avalanches climax are mixed in, but 🌧️ some of these are available in the base game, too,
let's unpick them.
Wild Multiplier
As well as replacing pay symbols, wild 🌧️ symbols also
apply multipliers to wins they are part of. The more, the better, as 1, 2, 3, 4 or 🌧️ 5
wilds on a payline apply a multiplier of x2, x4, x8, x16, or x32 to it.
Scatter
Symbols
Scatter symbols in 🌧️ view explode and remove all symbols from their respective
reel and row, except for wilds or other scatter symbols. Scatters 🌧️ are then collected by
the bonus meter - 3 collected scatter symbols trigger 10 free spins from the base game
🌧️ or retrigger 5 free spins when the bonus game is already active.
Avalanches
In the base
game, scatter symbol explosions allow existing 🌧️ symbols to drop down and fill in the
blanks, potentially leading to new wins. In the bonus game, each winning 🌧️ line explodes
dramatically from the reels and is replaced by new or existing symbols from above.
Avalanches continue like this 🌧️ as long as there is a new winning combination or a
scatter explosion.
Bonus Game
At the beginning of each free spin, 🌧️ 1 to 3 wild symbols
are placed in random positions on the reels. Each wild symbol carries 3 lives, which
🌧️ prevent it from exploding by the avalanche feature. Whenever a wild is used in a pay
line win, one of 🌧️ its lives is used.
Lava Lava: Slot Verdict
Lava Lava is a real
Thunderkick special, sure to excite players who like the 🌧️ straightforward, highly
effective games the studio is adept at turning out. We mentioned echoes of Beat the
Beast as well 🌧️ as Pyramyth, but Quickspin's hit release Hammer of Vulcan also comes to
mind and may have had a strong influence 🌧️ on Lava Lava. Not in a bad way either. On the
contrary, it was strangely comforting to review a game 🌧️ that had such a strong sense of
its maker's personality. The game's visual presentation demands attention and is a good
🌧️ representative of what's to come, namely hearty gaming for players who like it dormant
one moment, erupting the next.
Erupting is 🌧️ one way of describing the way symbols
cascade, glow, line up, and explode. Thunderkick has a real knack for the 🌧️ sort of
theatrics on display in Lava Lava, which makes everything else it does that much more
satisfying. Fortunately, the 🌧️ features in Lava Lava are as equally good as the graphics.
Perhaps not so much in the base game, but 🌧️ the sticky quality of wilds in free spins,
along with their multiplying ability, is a great combination and the cause 🌧️ of many of
Lava Lava's best moments. The final icing on top is potential, and Lava Lava steps up
there 🌧️ too, with a claimed max win figure of 10,000x the stake.
When the volcanoes had
stopped erupting, and the dust had 🌧️ settled, Lava Lava had made a highly positive
impression. As Thunderkick slots tend to be, Lava Lava is a well-oiled 🌧️ beast of a game
that looks as chunkily, reliably good to play as it is presented.
