On a roll
Pragmatic Play has continued its recent string of releasing highly-acclaimed new slots, while a Hacksaw Gaming arm is making candy-themed waves, as two major new slots enter play.
chock-full of bonus features
Pragmatic’s Heartbreakers dropped Monday, a strikingly designed slot chock-full of bonus features, while Bullshark Games’ Gobstopper Grind rolls-out Tuesday.
The Hacksaw RGS arm took to X in April to preview the release of Gobstopper Grind, a slot it assured is “not your average sugar rush.”
While the new Bullshark title might look like just another candy-themed slot for Haribo-loving casuals, it’s anything but under its saccharine surface.
Along with Pragmatic Play’s high concept statement slot, the two standout titles showcase studios at the top of their games.
Sweet release
Players can bet as little as $0.10 on Gobstopper Grind, which at first screams just another candy-genre game for low-risk casuals, when in fact the new Bullshark Games slot is made for big bets too.
The maximum win potential is sweetened by a 10,000x multiplier, which, combined with the max bet of $100, could land serious players a $1m prize.
Gobstopper Grind’s mechanics, however, gives the math real magic in this bonus-loaded, medium volatility slot, that comes with an RTP of 96.27%.
the cascades will keep on triggering
This scatter pays slot is hosted on a 6×5 grid on which players trigger winning combinations when clusters of eight or more matching candy-shaped cards or symbols land in any position. Gobstopper Grind’s gameplay highlight is its cascade mechanic that removes winning symbols post-pay, dropping them down to refill the reels. As long as players keep landing new winning combos, the cascades will keep on triggering, with those 19+ in size paying out 20x to 75x the stake.
While Pragmatic Play’s Sugar Rush 1000 set the bar for such cell-based multipliers and Bullshark used it before in Junkyard Kings 2, Gobstopper Grind might feel familiar but is a refreshing, innovative original.
Statement slot?
Featuring an original theme set in the decadent era of Parisian cabaret and with its ultra-confident, one-word title, Pragmatic seems to be proclaiming in Heartbreakers that the studio is visually, technically, audibly, and mechanically the hottest developer of the moment.
Shortly after making a splash with Mr Null’s Wicked Wardrobe last week, Heartbreakers stands out again for its fresh, Wild West-esque saloon night theme, exquisite imagery, surprising audio-visual twists, and familiar but innovatively used mechanics.
While the Respin mechanic of Heartbreakers will be familiar as the Free Spins feature to fans of Hacksaw Gaming’s Chaos Crew, the three mechanics in the base game are modified during the bonus minigame, and can give players 10,000x their stake.
With an RTP of 96.53% and a max bet range sliding from $0.20 to $240, there’s enough going on in Heartbreakers to keep seasoned players and rookies engaged, entertained, and satisfied.
