Line Busters Dream Drop

Line Busters Dream Drop: Slot Overview

Wazzup nostalgia junkies, here's one for you. It's called Line Busters Dream Drop and has been designed by Relax Gaming as a virtual trip to a video game arcade of yore. One of those dark and dingy places lined with banks of gaming cabinets supplying heavily pixelated graphics for your eyes and a myriad of accompanying bleeps for your ears. They weren't free either - you had to plug a coin in to them to have a go. If you were good, you could leave your initials on the high score screen to bask in eternal glory (or until the owner switched off the power), mentally envisaging hordes of envious newbs who could try but never outdo the 'master'. Oh yeah, Line Busters comes in two versions: one wired into Relax Gaming's Dream Drop progressive jackpot network and one which doesn't.

Line Busters Dream Drop has been designed to look like players have entered a video game arcade and are about to square off with their game of choice, and it's been very well executed. The graphics, as well as the sounds, are absolutely spot on. Relax Gaming is no stranger to designing pixelated 8-bit games. In fact, you can see four of them in the background - Santa's Stack, Neko Night, Hellcatraz 2, and Banana Town. When the reels are stationary, feel free to click the joystick to get the onscreen sprite moving while clicking the buttons fires its weapons. A nice touch, in a slot rammed with nice touches, evoking an earlier era before we all become glued to our smartphones ocularly, mentally, and emotionally it seems, for entertainment.

For bets, the DD version of Line Busters has a range of 20 c to $/€100 per spin (12% of the bet is contributed to the jackpots), while the non-DD offers 10 c to $/€200. The RTP is different, too, as the jackpot slot has a value of 94%, compared to the jackpot-less 96.1% variety. The volatility is high, and the gaming is held on a 3-reel, 5-row active area utilising 5 paylines.

Rock symbols can land anywhere on the gaming grid. Rocks are valueless chunks of nothing. Arrows may land on the leftmost reel and the middle reel, possibly possessing multipliers of up to x10. If arrows land on both reels, on the same row, and there is a non-rock symbol on the rightmost reel, players win cash. Three aliens make up the three low pays, worth 0.2 to 0.6 times the bet, while the high pays are blue, green, and yellow boxes, carrying values of 1 to 150 times the bet. There are no wild symbols.

Line Busters Dream Drop: Slot Features

Like a basic arcade game, Line Busters Dream Drop keeps things fairly straightforward as well. Its features are free spins and a free spins buy, while the Dream Drop version has progressive jackpots.

Free Spins

Free spins are triggered when arrow symbols on reels 1 and 2 connect with a free spins symbol on reel 3. The multipliers on the arrows multiply and apply their value to the amount of free spins revealed on the free spins symbol. Symbols in free spins can be stacked up to 5 high, and it is possible to trigger additional free spins during the round.

Dream Drop

The Dream Drop is triggered at random at the start of any spin. Once in the Dream Drop round, a single row of 3 positions spins. If symbols land on reels 1 and 2, then the prize on reel 3 is awarded. This could be the Rapid, Midi, Maxi, Major or Mega, possessing starting values of €1, €5, €100, €25,000, or €500,000, respectively. The bigger the stake, the bigger the chance of winning a jackpot.

Feature Buy

Not every Dream Drop slot gets a feature buy, but Line Busters Dream Drop does. At the cost of 40 times the bet, free spins are activated. The RTP for this is 94% on the Dream Drop version, 96.84% on the non.

Line Busters Dream Drop: Slot Verdict

Old-school blocky graphic slots appear every now and then, though few slot makers do it better than Relax Gaming. Line Busters Dream Drop, almost more than any of them, instantly transports players to an earlier time, where, with a bit of imagination, they can relive youthful moments in a video game arcade setting while spinning reels for the chance to win major jackpot prizes. If nothing else, Line Busters Dream Drop is in possession of massive novelty factor, making it worth checking out the make-believe trip to a gaming parlour, even if the rest of the slot isn't quite to your taste.

Gameplay experience-wise, holistically speaking, Line Busters Dream Drop is like a simpler, pared-back version of Nolimit City's slot Space Donkey. Much simpler, and that simplicity feeds into a fast-paced game. In fact, every facet of Line Busters Dream Drop is fast-paced. Consider the Dream Drop bonus, for example. In other Dream Drop slots, what often happens is a special spin randomly triggers, where, say, 5 DD symbols have to land. If this happens, then players move into the proper Dream Drop round, where each reel might be linked to a prize, and when a reel is full, the corresponding prize is awarded. It's not so faffy in Line Busters Dream Drop. Here, when the DD triggers, all you need is for two symbols to land on the first two reels, then the corresponding prize on the third reel is yours. Easy, in theory, well, uncomplicated, let's say.

Uncomplicated is the name of the game in Line Busters Dream Drop. Although it won't be for everyone, it's a game that's been lovingly crafted to take players on a trip to the not-so-distant in some ways, yet really distant in other ways, past, for some simple, pixelated, fun gaming, with a non-jackpot win cap of 5,000x. However, play the Dream Drop version, and big jackpot prizes lurk in the background like that one kid who barely speaks but who can practically high score any game just by looking at it.