Elemento: Slot Overview
Swedish-based developer Fantasma Games broadens their portfolio
with Elemento, an online slot built around the four elements of ❤️ earth, air, fire, and
water. Elemento is Fantasma's first grid slot, and the studio has made the most of the
❤️ opportunity by going relatively large. Large is an appropriate adjective to describe
the grid's size and potential. To get the ❤️ most out of Elemento, players benefit from a
host of extras such as cluster pays, avalanches, Element Wilds, free spins ❤️ plus a
progressive multiplier.
Linking Fantasma's game with one of the most popular grid slots
on the market, there's a definite ❤️ Reactoonz feel to the wide-eyed, innocent-looking
icons populating the board. Pay symbols sit within a 7x7 inner grid called the ❤️ Play
Area, while modifier symbols sit in the outer ring known as the Element Area, creating
a 9x9 sized game. ❤️ Outside this space, the rest of the screen is unusually plain for
Fantasma. Typically, their games boast rich backgrounds, often ❤️ fantasy-based, adding
depth to the activity taking place on the reels. This time, there's a more simply
designed swirling purple ❤️ cloud effect. Not that it detracts from the gameplay – more of
an observation. To the left-hand side are four ❤️ counters, keeping track of the Element
Wilds, covered below.
On the whole, Fantasma has designed a dependable grid slot, and
its ❤️ stats help bear this out. The RTP is decent already on 96.33%, but when activating
the feature buy (where available), ❤️ this rises to the outstanding figure of 97.94%. High
volatility suits the gameplay, resulting in stretches of cruising, interspersed by ❤️ long
sequences of winning avalanches. Should the ball really start to roll, then sizeable
wins are certainly on the cards.
Eight ❤️ symbols make up the regular pays, divided into
four low and four high. Lows are a little green, a big ❤️ green, a purple, and a red candy
looking symbol. Then there are four cute characters worth up to 6 to ❤️ 20 times the stake
when clusters of 15 or more appear. There is a wild, but it only appears via ❤️ features,
as we will see.
Elemento: Slot Features
Built around a cluster pays system means that
wins are formed of 5 or ❤️ more adjacent matching symbols connecting horizontally or
vertically. When clusters form, they are removed from the board so new symbols ❤️ can
avalanche down into the spaces. Avalanches cause consecutive wins to hit until no new
clusters appear, then the next ❤️ spin can occur. If a cluster win does not include an
Element Wild, one may be spawned in the Element ❤️ Area.
Elemento provides a satisfying
cocktail of features built to amplify each other's pay out ability. Central to the
action is ❤️ 4 Element Wilds which appear exclusively in the Element Area. At the start of
every spin, up to 6 wild ❤️ symbols appear at random positions in the Element Area and
shift clockwise following a successful avalanche. Now, Element Wild symbols ❤️ that are
part of a cluster win are activated, similar to the system used Maze Escape Megaways.
This also increases ❤️ the corresponding Element Meter by +1, and when avalanches end,
active elemental wilds are played out in a specific order;
Fire ❤️ Wild randomly adds 2 to
10 wild symbols to the Play Area for a new win evaluation, which may kick ❤️ off a new
avalanche sequence.
randomly adds 2 to 10 wild symbols to the Play Area for a new win
evaluation, ❤️ which may kick off a new avalanche sequence. X Flood transforms 9 symbols
in an X shape on the Play ❤️ Area into the same symbol. It's possible for 2 X Floods to
trigger on a single spin, creating 2 x ❤️ shaped patterns to increase the chance of
creating winning clusters.
transforms 9 symbols in an X shape on the Play Area ❤️ into the
same symbol. It's possible for 2 X Floods to trigger on a single spin, creating 2 x
shaped ❤️ patterns to increase the chance of creating winning clusters. Demolition picks 1
low pay symbol at random. All instances of ❤️ this symbol type are removed from the play
area, triggering a new cascade. Up to 4 symbols can be removed ❤️ from one
Demolition.
picks 1 low pay symbol at random. All instances of this symbol type are
removed from the play ❤️ area, triggering a new cascade. Up to 4 symbols can be removed
from one Demolition. Tornado chooses 1 symbol at ❤️ random and 8 symbols adjacent to this
one are either turned into the chosen type or are removed. Tornados can ❤️ trigger
twice.
If you manage to activate all 4 Element Wild symbols in a single spin sequence,
5 free spins are ❤️ your reward plus 1 free spin for the total amount of Element Wild
symbols activated in the base game spin. ❤️ In free spins, every avalanche increases a win
multiplier by +1, up to a maximum of x99. Players can also ❤️ extend the round since
activating all 4 Element Wilds retrigger the feature – without limit.
Lastly, those who
wish to jump ❤️ straight to the bonus have the option to do so using the feature buy
button. For a price of 60 ❤️ times the bet, this will set in motion a spin which is
guaranteed to trigger free spins.
Elemento: Slot Verdict
It's hard ❤️ to find too many
holes in this performance, although you may find a couple if you look hard enough. For
❤️ example, the visual appearance is one of those aspects that may divide players - some
will love the cute characters ❤️ and neon-like colours, while others may look at it as a
kind of dull Reactoonz knock-off. The test panel was ❤️ mostly positive, but not all were
into it. Another problem is that the gameplay can feel annoyingly slow at times ❤️ since
spin sequences can take a long time to complete. You often get 10 seconds of animations
for something like ❤️ a 0.5x return.
Having said that, Fantasma's first grid slot offers
everything a fan of this style could ask for, from ❤️ its successful cluster
pays/avalanche combo, to its bundle of modifiers, to multipliers in free spins. Cap it
all with a ❤️ juicy potential, and you've got a nicely playable grid slot on your
hands.
For those who like to leap right into ❤️ the thick of it, then Elemento's feature
buy is a very tempting way of cracking the game's best moments. For ❤️ one, it's
reasonably priced as far as these things go, and you don't just go straight to free
spins either ❤️ which is appreciated. Instead, you get a lengthy round of cluster wins to
activate all Elemental Wilds. It's not only ❤️ possible to collect a good number of free
spins during this process, but also pile up a solid win to ❤️ start the round off with.
This leads us to potential, where Elemento once again delivers, capable of wins as
large ❤️ as 16,000 times your stake.
If you want to nit-pick, you could say Elemento isn't
a paradigm shift. Yet, that's not ❤️ really an issue when everything else is so slickly
designed.
