Tropical Bonanza Slot Review

Tropical Bonanza Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Tropical Bonanza slot is played on a 6×5 grid with Scatter Pays. iSoftBet refer the mechanic as Pay Anywhere as it means landing 8 or more matching symbols anywhere on the grid. Unlike a Cluster Pays slot, symbols can land anywhere and don’t need to be adjoined/touching.

Playable from 20p to £20 per spin, you will always begin with the minimum bet amount when the game loads. Click on the Casino Chip icon and use the plus and minus buttons to change your stake. For non UK players, there are 2 functions which may be on interest. There’s a Lightning Bolt icon in the bottom left-hand corner which enables Turbo Mode. The other is the Auto Spins feature which allows up 1,000 auto spins as well as optional loss and win limits.

Like with most iSoftBet slots, the Tropical Bonanza RTP is 95.98%. This is just below the 96% online slots return rate average. The volatility is in the medium bracket (6/10). A winning combination will land every 3.4 spins on average as it comes with a 29.3% hit frequency rate.

The maximum win or exposure is 5,887 x your total bet per spin. The bigger wins will come from the Fruit Multiplier symbols which appear in the base game and free spins.

Theme – grab yourself a cocktail and head to the beach

With a holiday theme, the Tropical Bonanza slot takes you a tropical paradise as you grab yourself a cocktail and head to the beach. Set in the Caribbean, the setting is idyllic with the reels appearing within a beach hut overlooking the clear waters. An empty cocktail glass is appropriately placed to the right of the grid.

With a relaxing calypso soundtrack, symbols on the reels are represented by juicy tropical fruit. You have bananas, kiwis, pomegranates, coconuts, mangos, watermelon slices, passion fruit, dragon fruit and star fruit. The star fruit symbol is the most rewarding with 8-9, 10-11 or 12+ awarding 10, 25 or 50 x your total bet.

There is no wild symbol in Tropical Bonanza but you there are Orange Fruit Multipliers and Golden Pineapple Bonus scatters (more details in the Bonus Features section below).

Symbol	Payouts/Info
Banana	8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 0.25, 0.75 or 2 x bet
Kiwi	8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 0.4, 0.9 or 4 x bet
Pomegranate	8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 0.5, 1 or 5 x bet
Coconut	8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 0.8, 1.2 or 8 x bet
Mango	8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 1, 1.5 or 10 x bet
Watermelon Slice	8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 1.5, 2 or 12 x bet
Passion Fruit	8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 2, 5 or 15 x bet
Dragon Fruit	8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 2.5, 10 or 25 x bet
Star Fruit	8-9, 10-11 or 12+ = 10, 25 or 50 x bet
Orange Fruit Multiplier	Contains multiplier up to 20x (base game) or 100x (free spins)
Golden Pineapple Bonus Scatter	3 triggers Free Spins feature

Tropical Bonanza Mobile

Released in early September 2022, Tropical Bonanza is optimised to play on all devices. Using HTML5 technology, you can head to a tropical beach on mobile, tablet, laptop and PC devices. If you’re a smartphone/mobile slots player, the game is compatible with iOS, Android and Windows devices.

Tropical Bonanza Bonus Features

The Tropical Bonanza slot has 7 bonus features. There are tumbles and 2 random Happy Hour modifiers which fill the cocktail glass and add a Fruit Multiplier up to 20x. In the free spins, up to 3 Fruit Multiplier symbols can land per free spin which can combine for multipliers up to 100x.

Tumble feature

When a winning combination is formed (8+ matching symbols anywhere in view), the Tumble feature comes into play. Winning symbols disappear with the remaining symbols falling to fill the empty positions. Then new symbols fall from above the occupy the newly vacated positions. This allows for successive wins. Tumbling continues until no more winning combinations appear. This feature can be found in most Megaways slots by the way.

Happy Hour features

In the base game, a Happy Hour feature can trigger randomly. With 2 available, you can benefit from shots being added to the cocktail glass or a fruit multiplier:

Look out for the Mr Crab character will may appear to signal a win of 20 x your total bet or more or the triggering of the Free Spins feature.

Free Spins feature

The Free Spins feature is activated when landing 3 Golden Pineapple Bonus scatters anywhere in view. Alternatively, each Tumble win in the base game fills a section of the empty cocktail glass. If you get 6 tumbles in a row, the glass fills completely to trigger the Free Spins feature.

With 8 free spins awarded, at least 1 Fruit Multiplier symbol will land on each free spin. Each win also triggers the Tumble feature. However, a maximum of 3 Fruit Multipliers can land per free spin. If more than 1 appear, the Fruit Multiplier values are added together and totalled. Fruit Multipliers can have values of up to 100x. It’s worth nothing that the total sum of all multipliers cannot exceed 100x on each free spin.

Look out for Golden Pineapple Bonus scatters as each one landing during the feature will give you an additional free spin. A maximum of 5 extra free spins can be won taking your potential total to 13 free spins.

In the base game, you will see a Tropical Bet feature. This costs 75 x your total bet and guarantees you enter the free spins. If you exercise this option, the RTP increases to 96.4%. This isn’t available in the UK. Finally, there is an Extra Juice feature. Increase your bet by 25% to increase your chances of triggering the free spins. This is available to UK players.

Tropical Bonanza Review Summary – chilled out version of Sweet Bonanza with a couple of extras

The Tropical Bonanza slot is an explosion of colour and fruit. Set in an idyllic paradise, the visuals are spot on from iSoftBet. In terms of the gameplay, they have taken elements from Pragmatic Play.

With tumbles keeping the base game action ticking, the 2 random Happy Hour features can see fruit multipliers up to 20x added to the reels as well as the cocktail glass filling up. I like the fact you can trigger the Free Spins feature in 2 different ways. It will take approximately 162 spins to trigger the free spins or 91 spins using the Extra Juice feature.

The bigger wins will come in the free spins as up to 3 fruit multipliers worth a total of up to 100x can land on the reels. This can lead to max wins of 5,887 x bet on each free spin.

To summarise, Tropical Bonanza is a fun slot which has enough going on in the base game and the Free Spins feature. With decent win potential, it’s a case of what could have been. This is because slots with the same Scatter Pays mechanic offer much bigger payouts.

For example, Relax Gaming’s Banana Town comes with doubling multipliers up to 64x, free spins with persistent multipliers and 10,000 x bet top payouts. Blueprint Gaming’s Bison Bonanza is another option which offers multipliers up to 500x in the free spins with a 96.5% RTP rate and 10,000 x bet wins.