Rotiki: Slot Overview
Editor's note: Rotiki is available on all Soft2Bet casinos from
June 23. The public release is set for ♣️ July 14, 2024.
Software provider Play'n GO has
released a good number of grid slots over the years, some of them, ♣️ like Reactoonz,
going on to attain bona fide classic status. The studio certainly knows a thing or two
about making ♣️ these types of games and has filled them with all manner of math and
feature combinations. To pad out the ♣️ collection, they've made a grid slot catering to a
different segment of the market. How can we put it… for ♣️ players after something,
gentler? The game is called Rotiki, a Pacific Island-themed game full of cluster pays,
respins, and a ♣️ bonus round Treasure Room feature.
A larger than usual game panel sits
in the middle of the screen between burning torches, ♣️ and towers of mask-like items,
while hills, foliage, and a smoky volcano smoulders in the background. Rhythmical
drumming drives the ♣️ soundtrack and clicking on the towers on the two sides of the grid
elicits a chanting vocal effect. The first ♣️ impressions were quite good, and Rotiki's
stack of sturdy looking rock symbols had an inviting 'come smash us' look about
♣️ them.
Rotiki is playable on any device, where stakes start at 5 p/c per spin at the
lowest setting rising toR$/€100 ♣️ at the highest. Hit spin, and 48 symbols drop into an
6-column, 8-row game area, creating a win when 5 ♣️ or more identical symbols connect in
vertical and/or horizontal directions. In a twist, initial wins trigger a respins
feature rather ♣️ than a cascade feature.
To the symbols, where normal pays include four
lower value in-theme icons and four high pay masks. ♣️ Value-wise, hitting a regular five
symbol cluster is worth 0.2 to 1x the bet, while at most, a 48-symbol combo ♣️ is worth 20
to 100 times the stake.
Rotiki: Slot Features
Following an initial win, 3 respins are
awarded. The winning symbols ♣️ are locked in place while the rest of the symbols spin. If
winning symbols land on the respins, they are ♣️ also held in place. If a row is filled
with winning symbols, +3 additional respins are awarded.
When respins end, if ♣️ any wild
symbols are part of the win, they spin on their own. When they stop spinning, they may
remain ♣️ as wilds or turn into Hanumi or Whakarei symbols. Hanumi merges connecting
clusters into one type of symbol cluster – ♣️ always the highest value. Whereas Whakarei
upgrades the cluster to a random mask symbol. After this has happened, the win ♣️ is
evaluated.
The Treasure Room
If you manage to cover all symbols on the grid with
winning symbols, the Treasure Room bonus ♣️ round is opened. The point of the bonus is to
build as large a multiplier as possible. Players get a ♣️ certain number of picks and then
click squares on a grid. Clicked squares reveal blanks, +5 picks, +1 to the ♣️ multiplier,
or the Special symbol, which maxes the multiplier out at x10. The round ends when the
picks have been ♣️ used or the Special symbol is revealed. Then, the winning total going
into the Treasure Room bonus is boosted by ♣️ the multiplier accrued during the
feature.
Rotiki: Slot Verdict
While digging around online to see if there was any
real-life basis for ♣️ the word Rotiki, we came across an 'article' on an alternative
tongue-in-cheek website. In it, 'Rotiki' was described as 'the ♣️ poor man's Hawaii',
where visitors get free shells and may come across its strangely fierce crab. Yeah, it
felt like ♣️ we were getting punked reading that, and at times in Rotiki the slot, it felt
like we were getting punked ♣️ there too. At least it did at the start before we'd really
gone over the paytable with a fine-toothed comb. ♣️ What's the appropriate response to
landing a winning cluster spanning more than half of an 8x6 sized game grid and ♣️ only
getting 2x the bet for it?
It takes a mindset readjustment to get the most out of
Rotiki. Forget scoring ♣️ hugely juicy cluster payouts or chaining together crazy long
consecutive cascading wins. Respins can be quite long in duration, but ♣️ it is weird how
low payouts can be, even when almost every position on the grid is covered by winning
♣️ symbols. Usually, when so much of the board was covered, it was because more than one
winning symbol type had ♣️ been used to do so. As an example, the first time we made it
through to the Treasure Room bonus, ♣️ the full grid win value going in was 2.4x the
bet.
Rotiki just does things differently, and there may be players ♣️ drawn to its unique
characteristics. Once we got over the shock induced by its trivial payout values,
filling the grid ♣️ and moving to The Treasure Room became something of a personal
challenge. There was something oddly compelling about the mission. ♣️ Perhaps part of the
compulsion is knowing the chance of achieving Rotiki's maximum payout is 1 in 21,541,
which is ♣️ low for an online slot. However, reality bites after finding out the max win
is only 1,000x the bet, which ♣️ on some level does feel fair enough for this sort of
game.
We know Play'n GO has a black belt in ♣️ making grid slots, practically redefining
the genre on more than one occasion. That gets them off the hook to a ♣️ degree for
Rotiki, and the studio must have had certain players in mind when they made it. Those
who feel ♣️ drawn by Rotiki's charms should be satisfied with the unique type of
experience it has to offer. Anyone else might ♣️ be as bafflingly amused as we were.
