Space Attacks Dream Drop

Space Attacks Dream Drop: Slot Overview

Take cover, players, the Martians are here, and they're attacking. Fortunately, the aliens in Relax Gaming's online slot Space Attacks Dream Drop are more of the charming cartoon variety, so humanity's arsenal of nuclear weapons should probably see us through an invasion. Maybe not, though, because in this game, the Dream Drop feature involves aliens completely annihilating planets, so perhaps they'd vaporise us from space before we got a chance to deploy. Anyway, it doesn't seem like the extraterrestrials are particularly interested in Earth in this game as such, which gives players time to attempt cracking Dream Drop Jackpots, triggering free spins, or enjoying several special symbol-fired features.

Play takes place on board an alien spaceship, which looks both futuristic and 1960s at the same time, like a sort of Jetsons spin-off. Wacky space tunes emphasise the game's overall wacky cartoonish presentation, coming over as more loveable than fearful. Plonked before the ship's viewing portal is a see-through gaming grid dropping 25 symbols onto a 5x5 matrix. It might look like a goofy drift through the universe, but Space Attacks Dream Drop is all business once you strip away the chrome outer layer.

The first port of call is bet selection, and the higher the stake, the greater the chance of winning a Dream Drop win. In the DD progressive jackpot version, stake selection is 20 c to $/€100; in the non-DD, it is 20 c to $/€125 per spin. The RTP varies as well - 94% for the DD and 96.1% for the non-DD, though the volatility is high in both.

Space Attacks Dream Drop supplies 295 connected ways to win. How this works is that winning combinations begin on the leftmost reel, and matching symbols must be connected horizontally or diagonally on consecutive reels. Winning symbols are removed by the cascade feature, making room for new symbols to drop in.

Diamonds, spades, clubs, and hearts are the low pays on this voyage, while five alien characters are the highs. Wins of 5 matching card suits pay 0.2 to 0.35 times the bet, while wins of 5 identical character symbols are worth 0.6 to 2 times the bet. Energetically formed wild symbols, which substitute for any regular pay symbols, may land on any reel. Five wilds in a win pay 2x the bet.

Space Attacks Dream Drop: Slot Features

Amongst its arsenal of features, Space Attacks Dream Drop comes with three special symbols and their associated effects, free spins where a win multiplier pops up, as well as the progressive Dream Drop Jackpots.

Special Symbols

Space Attacks Dream Drop has 3 types of special symbols - Clone One Chosen symbol, Clone symbols In All Rows, and Transform Into Wilds. Either Clone special symbol may land at the same time as the Transform Into Wild symbol. Wild transforms follow the other effect in this instance.

• Clone One Chosen symbol - one symbol is randomly picked, and all right most instances of that symbol in each row are cloned to the leftmost reel. The special symbol becomes wild. Existing wilds or scatters are not cloned.
• Clone symbols In All Rows - 5 random symbols are chosen, one in each row on reels 2-5, and cloned to the leftmost reel. The special symbol becomes wild. Existing wilds or scatters are not cloned.
• Transform Into Wilds - 1 to 3 different types of symbols are chosen to be transformed into wilds. All such symbols on the reels become wild, as does the special symbol.

Free Spins

Landing 3 'B' scatter symbols triggers 3 free spins. Each win during the feature resets the free spins counter. The round has a win multiplier that starts at x1 and increases by +1 each time free spins reset. The increased multiplier is applied to subsequent wins and resets when free spins end. It is possible to buy free spins on both Space Attacks versions for 50 times the bet.

Dream Drop

The Dream Drop Bonus may be triggered randomly at the start of any round. A DD planet appears on the display when activated. The planet is destroyed and reveals either nothing or the Rapid, Midi, Maxi, Major, or Mega jackpots, where the seed values are €1, €5, €100, €25,000, or €500,000, respectively. Each jackpot is progressive, and 12% of the total bet is contributed to the jackpots.

Space Attacks Dream Drop: Slot Verdict

As a stand-alone slot or as part of the Dream Drop network, Space Attacks has good stuff to offer in either scenario. The alien invasion angle is lightly handled, making it easy to go slink into, with hard-to-take-too-seriously, loveable alien characters sailing the cosmos on their jaunty ship. If and when humanity makes contact with beings from another world, here's hoping they are of the culturally advanced, friendly type, happy to share their wisdom and technology with us thumbed primates instead of just wiping us from their boots after they've finished stomping us into the mud. The beings in Space Attacks Dream Drop feel like the former type, but who knows? They are brandishing weapons.

They're also brandishing some pretty sweet features. The three special symbols possess nifty properties, spreading their cloning abilities or wild bestowing abilities on the grid when they do. They are useful in the free spins feature, too, which is actually quite good, despite or because of the simplicity. Usually, these resetting respins style features are paired with locking money symbols, yet if Space Attacks Dream Drop is any guide, they are able to work well with connecting wins and an increasing multiplier, too. As in a regular hold 'n win round, you want to keep the ball rolling by resetting the spin count to gather wins and grow the multiplier. Space Attacks Dream Drop is capable of doing so up to a non–jackpot cap of 8,000x the bet.

Space Attacks Dream Drop might not be one of those Relax Gaming all-timers, like Money Train 4 or Ancient Tumble, for example, but it is a sweet slot with entertaining gaming to offer players whether they blast off in the Dream Drop version or not.