Aloha! Cluster Pays Slot

First and foremost – massive kudos the way of NetEnt for breaking the mould with something seriously different. These days, you have to have balls of steel to take the risk of bringing something new to the table, as opposed to just following the usual tried and tested standards. Aloha! Cluster Pays steps away from the crowd by being one of the only slots you’ll come across with NO paylines…zero…nada…none at all. Instead, wins are calculated by way of symbol clusters – the name of the slot largely giving the game away. Long story short, land a cluster of nine or more identical symbols and boom – you’re in the money!

Also as the name gives away in an instant, the theme is one of a tropical Hawaiian fantasy land with a liberal smattering of flowers, coconuts, pineapples, seashells and masks. There’s a large (some might say semi-creepy) local fellow to the right of the screen, who seems to be having a fantastic time cheering you along and even serenading you with a special tune when you hit bigger wins.

Choose your coin value from 0.01 to 2.00 (which will always be multiplied by 10) along with your chosen bet level and hit the button to get started!

Normal play jackpots range from the sublime to the well and truly ridiculous. To land a cluster of any nine of the normal symbols in the game will net you 5X your wager…not bad. However, if you manage to fill the whole game board with any normal symbol, that’s worth 2,000X your wager. Not satisfied? Alright then – if Lady Luck is smiling enough to see you fill the whole board with red mask symbols, how about a staggering 10,000X your bet?

That’s probably enough for anyone!

There’s a curious brown box adorned with a question mark that represents the ‘substitution’ symbol in Aloha! Cluster Pays.These instantly change into whichever of the symbols around them gives you the chance of hitting the biggest win. There’s also a ‘Sticky Win Re-Spins’ feature that activates randomly after any winning cluster, which holds the current cluster in place and spins the rest. Each time one or more new symbols are added, you get another free spin.

Up to 12 free spins can be won by landing the relevant symbols, which also activates the bonus drop feature. When this happens, all the symbols that don’t pay a great deal disappear from the board and are replaced with masks…which could mean big things for you!

Gimmicks are all well and good, but with Aloha! Cluster Pays the folks at NetEnt really have come up with something awesome. Despite the fact that it’s a totally different take on the standard slots we know and love, it’s also brilliantly easy to get into and more entertaining than a dozen lesser rivals.