Pop It
Pop It is a 6x5 ways slot where flames pop kernels for big values and Popcorn Frenzy turns the popcorn into growing multipliers. I really liked the mechanic and had a few decent caramel butter popcorn moments, including a 252x win, but with only 2 bonuses in 1,000 spins the session ended in a loss. The art and animations still felt a bit raw. Not approved, but Red Comet is on my radar now.
Red Comet Studio · Stake 0.10 · 1,000 fixed spins · RTP 96.00%
Day 48 - Pop It - Slot Review
Pop It is a 6x5 slot from Red Comet, released this year, with a 96.00% RTP and a max win of 10,000x. Wins pay by ways, so you need the same symbol on neighbouring reels starting from the leftmost reel, in any row. Winning symbols vanish and new ones fall in, so a single spin can chain into several wins.
The fun part is the popcorn. Kernels land with a value on their tag, anywhere from 0.2x up to 50x your bet, and a kernel only pays when it pops. A flame pops every kernel in the 8 cells around it, and it stays until the end of the spin, so kernels that fall next to it pop too. Butter and caramel coat their cell and everything below it in the reel, so popcorn that pops on a coated cell pays x2 with butter, x3 with caramel and x10 with both. Land 3 or more projectors anywhere on the grid and you start Popcorn Frenzy with 10, 12 or 15 free spins. In the free spins every kernel pops on every spin, and every 9 popcorn fill a bucket that multiplies all your wins in the following spins, up to x25.
Plan for winning: get flames next to kernels and coated cells in the base game, then land the 3 projectors, because Popcorn Frenzy is where the buckets fill up and the multipliers start to stack.
In my 1,000 spins, 2 bonuses triggered, both with 3 projectors. One came on the very first spin, and the last one came on spin 750. Nothing big landed in either bonus round. My biggest hit of the day came in the base game, a 252x win in the last 250 spins. A bonus hit rate of only 2 in 1,000 spins felt a bit low to me.
I liked the mechanic, which is actually quite fun, but visually and animation wise the game felt a bit raw. One suggestion: a special rare flame or a heat mode that pops every kernel on the reels would be a lot of fun. With a few tweaks to the artwork and animations this game could have the potential to be a hit, but in its current state, unfortunately, it’s not approved.
I ended the session in a loss, but I had a few decent caramel butter popcorn moments :D
1000 Spins NOT APPROVED, but Red Comet is on my radar now.