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Space Spins Review
Space Spins is an arcade-inspired video slot. You'll find yourself in outer space with a backdrop featuring a big crater on a distant, alien planet. You’ll see a cartoon-style UFO with a one-eyed alien hovering to the left of the reels, and the whole slot reminds us of the classic arcade game Space Invaders.
This game has a 5x5 reel setup, but it’s been stretched to avoid looking too square. It comes with 40 ways to win and some nice space and alien-related symbols on the reels. There are 3 different expanding wilds that can land at any time, and the 4th wild can sometimes turn into one of these magic wilds also.
The free spins feature comes with sticky wilds but cannot be retriggered. You can place bets as high as £100, but the potential on this medium variance game is only 300 times your stake. The RTP of 95% is also a bit lower than the industry standard, and this gives us a House edge of 5%. The soundtrack is somewhat uncanny, but it might be trying a bit too hard to create an air of suspense.
What symbols are there?
Space Spins comes with a bunch of symbols that reminds us of the arcade classic Space Invaders, and it’s the 4 different wild symbols that have the highest payout. You’ll need 3 to 5 identical symbols on a payline to win:
- Wild Symbols - Any combination of the 4 different wilds pay 7.5x your stake for 5 on a payline
- Astronaut - Pays 5x for 5 on a payline
- Blue Space Monster - Pays 2.5x for 5 on a payline
- Green Space Monster - Pays 2x for 5 on a payline
- Saturn - Pays 1.5x for 5 on a payline
- UFO - Pays 1.5x for 5 on a payline
- Card Suit Symbols - Low-value symbols that pay 1.25x or 1x for 5 on a payline
What are the bonus features?
What’s truly special about Space Spins slot is the fact that it comes with 4 different wild symbols. Only 3 of these wilds have special abilities and features, but the regular wild can sometimes transform into one of the 3 special wilds. The special wilds are expanding wilds, and they can appear at random on the 3 middle reels in both the base game and the free spins feature to give you the following benefits:
- Orange “Rocket” Wild - expands vertically from bottom to top
- Green “Shooting Star” Wild - expands horizontally from left to right
- Blue “Sunburst” Wild - turns all adjacent symbols into wild symbols
Free spins in Space Spins
The free spins feature on Space Spins is triggered when you land 3 scatter symbols on reel 1, 3, and 5 at the same time. This will give you 8 free spins, and the feature cannot be re-triggered in any way. Any wild symbol that lands during the free spins feature will become sticky and be frozen in place until the feature ends. Not the most fancy free spins feature we’ve seen, but it gets the job done so to speak.
What is the jackpot (max win)?
There is no progressive or local jackpot you can win on Space Spins, and the potential is not extremely impressive to be perfectly honest. The max win is a measly 300 times your stake, and this is very low for a medium variance game. If you play with the highest bet level possible, you can thus win up to £30,000 here.
Where can I play Space Spins?
You can play Space Spins for real money at one of the listed casinos.
Don’t want to play for real money? No problem, you can easily play the demo for free.
Certainly, you can also play Space Spins slot on both mobile phone and tablet. Any handheld device or platform you wish to play at should work fine with this game. The rather simplistic graphics look good on smaller screens, and you can play on your iPhone, iPad, or Android devices.
SlotCatalog verdict
Space Spins is obviously inspired by the old arcade classic, Space Invaders, and it’s not a bad choice of theme for a video slot. The real problem with this game is not the archaic graphics or the sparse amount of features, but rather the mathematics of the game. The RTP is 1% lower than the industry average, the volatility is medium, and the potential is lower than many low volatility slots. If you don’t mind that, it’s a pretty decent effort.
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| 3 special expanding wild symbols | Medium variance with very low potential |
| Free spins with sticky wilds | |
| Nice arcade nostalgia |
