Push gaming are gearing up for their next upcoming slot release Booty Bay. The game will launch on the 15/07/2021 and boast an impressive 20,000x max win an RTP of 96.41% and is described by Push Gaming as being highly volatile. Here we will take a look at all the games features providing first look pictures and videos before providing our overall Genius Gambling Review and Rating.
Base Game
The base game of Booty Bay is played across a 5x5 grid with low paying symbols being portrayed as bronze, silver and gold coins with the higher paying symbols being shown as the slots protagonist characters. The game requires 6 or more matching symbols to be formed in a cluster to award a win. The base game is also home to the booty wild symbols this substitutes all paying symbols, the wild has a multiplier attached with the multiplier increasing by one each time it is included in a win.
Features
The Hotzone - The central 3x3 area of the game grid and has the ability to trigger unlimited respins when at least one wild is present within the hotzone. At the end of each spin if a wild is present in the hotzone a respin is awarded with the wild moving to any adjacent position.
Locking Wilds - Triggered by landing the locking wild symbol anywhere on the reels, any wild in the hotzone is locked into position for three respins its multiplier increases by x1 each spin and the wild will not move to any adjacent places.
Swirling Rapids - Awards a respin and moves all wilds on screen into a random position in the hotzone
Treasure Map - Awards 6 random prizes with the player selecting one of the shuffled prizes these can be additional wilds, instant cash amounts or any above feature
Triple Wild Lock - Activated by having three wilds in the hotzone at the same time, these wilds are locked for three spins with their multiplier increasing by x1 each spin any wilds landed outside of the hotzone are not locked into position and continue to move to one adjacent space each spin
Booty Bay does not include a bonus or free spins round but rather has the above features that can be triggered on any spin
Genius Gambling Review
Booty Bay's wild mechanic reminded us heavily off the original Jammin Jars bonus given that wild multipliers rarely move where you actually want them too. The game when it decides to can provide the player with huge hits, multiple wilds and trigger different features all of the one spin. However what we found during our time with the slot was that Booty Bay's mechanics sometimes felt they were actively working against us. Once a wild leaves the hotzone you will no longer get a respin with the hotzone being a 3x3 grid it only takes two respins for the wild to move from the centre and therefore the best position in the game to outside of the hotzone and at least in our experience this happened a lot. Just as the multipliers of the wild grew to a point of awarding a huge hit, frustrating but also to be expected. If you can look past this feature and see the game as a chance of landing a huge 20,000x and not focus so much on the smaller 10x - 100x wins you will really enjoy Booty Bay. Its high volatility will either award you a huge win or frustratingly tease you with a chance only to award a much smaller hit than expected. Because of these reason we give Booty Bay our Genius Gambling Rating of 6 out of 10! Below we have provided a video documenting some of our time with the game and also featured below are our top 6 Genius approved casinos where you can deposit today and be awarded with a 100% match deposit bonus or some free spins, terms and conditions apply and as always please gamble responsibly.