Fruit Storm: Slot Overview
Pop open an umbrella all you slot enthusiasts out there; here's a weather-based game from the apparently 🌈 meteorologically minded team at Stakelogic. If one segment of the population pays particular attention to the weather, it's the agriculture 🌈 industry, and Fruit Storm's action is located on a farm full of produce and livestock. Like tornado laden slots of 🌈 the past (Victoria Wild springs to mind), twisters in Fruit Storm are a good thing because they plaster wilds to 🌈 the grid when they blow through and can trigger free spins. As well as these extras are tumbles, multiplier symbols 🌈 as high as x100, and a serene sounding cloud feature.
Fruit Storm captures the weather's multifaceted nature by splitting the screen 🌈 into 'good' and 'bad' weather. On the right, we find a pleasantly pastoral scene of a big red barn sitting 🌈 peacefully beneath relatively calm skies and before rows of crops. On the left side, chaos has been let loose by 🌈 a twister, picking up livestock like Dorothy's house in The Wizard of Oz. This would be a horrific experience in 🌈 real life, yet it's one you want to see on the reels, as tornado symbols bring with them a bunch 🌈 of benefits. The theme itself is not a new one in the world of slots, drawing heavy inspiration from classics 🌈 such as NetEnt's Tornado Farm Escape.
It'll probably be no surprise to know Fruit Storm is a highly volatile slot, given 🌈 the capriciousness of the weather. This is partly due to the potency of multiplier symbols found in the bonus round, 🌈 but if you pay extra, they also appear in the base game. How this works is that regular bets range 🌈 from 20 p/c toR$/€20 per spin in the default mode when there are no multipliers in the main game. To 🌈 get them, you activate Super Stake, which increases the stake by 25%. No matter how you choose to play Storm 🌈 Fruit, the RTP remains the same at 95.85% - whether buying free spins or activating Super Stake.
Each spin unloads 64 🌈 symbols onto an 8x8 game grid, with the goal of creating clusters of five matching symbols or more. Seven pay 🌈 symbols appear on the board - lemons, oranges, plums, grapes, apples, watermelons, and strawberries. A five-symbol cluster of them is 🌈 worth 0.2x to 1x the bet, rising to 20-150x for a 15+ sized cluster. Lastly, are wild symbols, which substitute 🌈 for any regular paying symbol.
Fruit Storm: Slot Features
The extensive list of Fruit Storm's features includes tornado symbols, multiplier symbols, free 🌈 spins with walking wilds, a cloud feature, a gamble option, and a bonus buy.
Tornado Symbols
These are scatter symbols which activate 🌈 certain features, depending on how many of them hit:
Landing 1 tornado symbol adds 1-4 wild symbols in random positions and 🌈 leaves a wild in its own position .
adds in random positions and . When 2 tornadoes are in view, 2-6 🌈 wild symbols are added in random positions while leaving wilds in their original positions .
are in view, are added in 🌈 random positions while . Finally, having 3 tornadoes in view awards 3-8 wild symbols plus wilds in the original positions, 🌈 plus, 10 free spins are awarded following any win evaluation.
Multiplier Symbols
These purple jar tiles land bearing multipliers of x2 to 🌈 x100. They only land during free spins or in the base game when the Super Stake is activated. If more 🌈 than one multiplier symbol is in view, the values are added together before being applied. One important rule is that 🌈 multiplier symbols do not have to be adjacent to winning clusters to be used.
Free Spins
As well as multiplier symbols entering 🌈 the game, tornados may add 2-3 wild symbols to the board before regular symbols tumble in at the start of 🌈 each free spin. During this bonus round, when a wild is part of a win, it moves to a random 🌈 empty adjacent position before a new cascade occurs.
Cloud Feature
This extra may appear at random on any losing spin. When it 🌈 does, the symbols in view rearrange themselves in a way to create a win.
Optional Gamble
After hitting a winning cluster, players 🌈 have the option of gambling their prize money. Picking the correct colour of a face-down card doubles the win; guessing 🌈 the correct suit quads it. Naturally, picking the wrong outcome loses the money.
Buy Feature
Players who are able to buy free 🌈 spins get four options to choose from. Paying 50x, 100x, or 200x the total bet gets you 10, 15, or 🌈 20 free spins, respectively. Or you can pay 125x to have one of the previous three options randomly awarded.
Fruit Storm: 🌈 Slot Verdict
A real game of two halves this one. The base game plod is exacerbated by its 30s saloon era 🌈 soundtrack, not doing much a lot of the time. Occasionally a twister hits the board to drop a few wilds 🌈 around the place, but they didn't tend to be game-changing wilds of the sort you might come across in a 🌈 Hacksaw slot, for example. A handful of wilds are simply added to the grid, and if you're lucky, they'll help 🌈 improve or create a winning cluster. There's nothing particularly cunning about them, and the whole vibe is noticeably chill, which 🌈 lead to a bit of laidback straw chewing until free spins eventually blew in.
Compared to the base game, free spins 🌈 are like night and day, more so if Super Stake is switched off. For one, wilds become more interesting due 🌈 to their ability to walk after any win they might be a part of. Walking wilds' lack of growing multiplier 🌈 might irk Jammin' Jars fanbois and girls, though maybe not too much, since there are multiplier symbols, and their values 🌈 can drastically improve a winning spin. The best part is that multipliers can be used no matter where they land, 🌈 Sweet Bonanza style, rather than like a wild multiplier which has to be adjacent to the cluster. Add up a 🌈 few of the larger multiplier values, and they can do some serious damage. So much so that Fruit Storm enforces 🌈 a win cap of 25,000x, lest the tornado reaches F5 on the Fujita scale.
No doubt, Fruit Storm has everything it 🌈 needs to produce crazy moments. Where the game dips is that the features are either pretty straightforward, bordering on simplistic, 🌈 or have been used extensively elsewhere. Fruit Storm does a decent job of pulling what it does have together to 🌈 occasionally get heart rates pumping, yet there's a feeling that if the spark of originality was brighter, Fruit Storm might 🌈 have been closer to an unmissable slot than just a well-made one.
