Alchemy Fortunes Hyper Clusters

Get ready to concoct magical potions on the grid slot from All41 Studios powered by Microgaming. Alchemy Fortunes Hyper Clusters is taking you back to medieval times for a high volatility reel adventure with cascading symbols, cluster pays, charge meters, random wilds, four modifiers and a free spins round that can lead to wins of up to 1,100 times your bet in every single spin.

Slot Details

Alchemy Fortunes Hyper Clusters is a 7×7 grid slot with cascading symbols and cluster pays. Wins are awarded for clusters of five or more matching symbols landing horizontally and/or vertically connected. You can concoct reel potions on desktop, tablet or mobile from 0.20 to 100 credits per spin. The game has high volatility with a default RTP of 96.41%.

A medieval room with candles and spellbooks is opening up when you load the game with a square game grid held on a mythical stone table. The charge meter on the side to the reels will be your main feature trigger by collecting gemstones and potion bottles from winning combinations. An orchestra piece is the main audio, intermittently interupted by enchanted sounds when symbols are removed.

The pay symbols start at the low end with four gemstones in green, blue, orange and purple colours, followed by four bottles filled with potions in matching colours. The purple potion is the most valuable with 500x your bet for a cluster of 30 or more symbols. An framed icon with a blue orb is the wild symbol, substituting for all other pay symbols. There are no scatters on this slot.

Alchemy Fortunes Hyper Clusters Slot Features

Many have tried, few have succeeded in replicating the immense success of the two most popular grid slots – Reactoonz from Play’n GO and Jammin’ Jars from Push Gaming. On this occasion it is Microgaming and its partner All41 Studios who are trying their luck to impress players with Alchemy Fortunes Hyper Clustes. From the first look, it’s got a charge meter, cascading symbols and a plethora of modifiers, rather promising set-up. Let’s take a closer look whether it has what it takes to compete with the two leading games in this niche.

Just like its competitors, Alchemy Fortunes has at its core the cascading symbols mechanic with cluster pays, which Microgaming calls Rolling Reels and Hyper Clusters. At the start of a spin sequence, 49 symbols cascade from the top onto the 7×7 game grid. Hit any clusters of five or more matching symbols connected horizontally and/or vertically and you have a winner. All symbols in the combo will explode after the payout and new symbols will drop into place. This continues as long as new winning clusters hit after a cascade. All wins are accumulated and paid once a spin sequence concludes.

Helping you to get the reels rolling in the base game are Random Wilds. The feature can trigger on a losing spin only, adding three to six wilds to to random reel positions. Scoring a win after they have settled will see the spin sequence continuing as usual.

Alchemy Fortunes Hyper Clusters – Potion Swap Modifier

By now, you will have observed the Magic Potion Meter to the left of the game window. All winning symbols within a spin sequence are added to the meter, trigger a range of modifiers when you reach specific thresholds. The meter will reset between spins.

• 20 Symbols – Potion Swap: All premiums in view transform into one premium symbol
• 40 Symbols – Summon Wilds: Between three and six wilds are added to random reel positions
• 60 Symbols – Gem Crush: All low-value gem symbols are removed from the grid
• 80 Symbols – Alchemy of Wilds: All positions that were wild at some point in the spin sequence are marked and will now turn wild again.
• 100 Symbols – Fortune Free Spins: Triggers five free spins (more to that shortly).

Alchemy Fortunes Hyper Clusters – Fortune Free Spins

Triggering 5 Free Spins make the potions more potent and enhance the features. Retriggers are awarded with +5 free spins when you manage to charge the Magic Potion Meter to 100 symbols within a single free spin, no limits. Turning the bonus round even more potent are five random wilds which will be added to the grid at the start of every free spin. The meter modifiers will also trigger at the same thresholds, however, two are enhanced to provide extra potential to score big wins. Activating the Potion Swap will always transform the premiums into the most valuable bottle symbol in view while the Summon Wilds feature will guarantee minimum five random wilds to be added.

Final Verdict

Well, well, well, Garga fans will have instantly spotted the similarities and differences between the original Reactoonz slot and this Microgaming creation. While the base game is eerily identical, the main event is totally different with a free spins round, which lets Alchemy Fortunes Hyper Clusters stand by its own. The win potential is then again quite comparable, I estimate the main part to be in the 100x – 500x range with the few very lucky ones scoring the maximum of 1,100 times their bet.

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