Year Round Riches Clusterbuster Slot Review

Year Round Riches Clusterbuster RTP, Details & Wager Limits

As the name suggests, Year Round Riches Clusterbuster is the 4th installment in Red Tiger Gaming’s Clusterbuster slot series. As such, the game is played on a 9×9 grid, with a cluster pays mechanism. However, only 72 positions are in play as the middle is occupied with the Clusterbuster pane, which we’ll talk more about later.

To create a win, simply land 5 or more matching symbols horizontally or vertically adjacent to each other. You’ll also find that winning clusters disappear from the reels, allowing more symbols to drop in and take their positions. This ‘chain reaction’ gives you the chance of winning more than once on each spin.

You can play the slot for as little as 10p up to £4 per spin, which is quite a narrow betting range. If you like playing for higher stakes, check out other grid slots. You can use the + and – buttons below the reels to adjust your stake and players from outside the UK can also use an Autospin feature. This allows you to play between 20 and 100 times without clicking. There’s also a Turbo Spin function for faster gameplay.

Year Round Riches Clusterbuster has an RTP rate of 95.74%, which is slightly lower than the 96% online slot average. The game also has a high volatility and offers max wins of 20,482 x stake per spin. Bigger wins come via the bonus features, which we’ll talk more about later.

Theme – watch the seasons change and relax

Load up the Year Round Riches Clusterbuster slot and we’re sure you’ll feel relaxed. The game is based on the four seasons which you’ll find represented beautifully in each quadrant of the background. The soundtrack is also peaceful and reminds us of a ballet rather than a slot machine. It’s far more mature than both Blobsters Clusterbuster and Good Luck Clusterbuster, showing Red Tiger Gaming’s range and artistic skill.

On the reels, lower paying symbols include 10 to Ace royals. Higher paying symbols represent the seasons, and include snowflakes, acorns, and roses, The sun is the highest value symbol, rewarding you with 250 x your stake for a cluster of 35 or more symbols.

The game does not feature a scatter symbol, but a leaf wild symbol can land throughout the base game and free spins. These substitute for any regular paying symbols.

Symbol	Payout/Info
10	Up to 10 x stake
Jack	Up to 12 x stake
Queen	Up to 14 x stake
King	Up to 16 x stake
Ace	Up to 20 x stake
Snowflake	Up to 50 x stake
Acorn	Up to 100 x stake
Rose	Up to 150 x stake
Sun	Up to 250 x stake
Wild	Substitutes for all symbols above

Year Round Riches Clusterbuster mobile

Like all Red Tiger Gaming slots, Year Round Riches Clusterbuster has been optimised for all devices. Running on the latest HTML5 technology, you can enjoy the slot on mobile, laptop, PC, and tablet.

Although the game is available to mobile casino players, we do recommend playing it on laptop or desktop. The grid design can be confusing on smaller screens, and you wouldn’t want to miss the beautiful artwork.

Year Round Riches Clusterbuster Bonus Features

The Year Round Riches Clusterbuster slot boasts 3 main bonus features, plus a Bonus Buy option for players outside of the UK. This includes the Clusterbuster feature, 4 modifiers, and a free spins feature. Read on to learn more about how the features work, and how rewarding they are.

Clusterbuster Feature

As we mentioned earlier, the Clusterbuster is a 3×3 block in the centre of the reels. These symbols are inactive and locked into the reels. All outer tiles are divided into 4 sections, representing the seasons of year.

Randomly during spins, one of these sections may become active. When this happens, you must form a cluster adjacent to the Clusterbuster block to unlock a feature.

Modifier Features

When you break the outer positions belonging to the active season, you will trigger the season’s corresponding feature:

• Spring – Reveals a random multiplier of 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 50, 80, or 100x. Multipliers are applied to all wins on the current spin.
• Summer – Release a tidal wave over the reels that will transform random non-winning tiles on the screen into the same random symbol.
• Autumn – Causes leaves to fall over the symbols. The leaves then transform into wilds.
• Winter– Snowballs will hit random symbols on the grid. After that, an ice crack will start from those hit symbols, and this will travel over a random number of non-winning symbols. All symbols affected by the crack transform into the initially hit symbols. Several snowballs can hit different symbols on the reels, triggering more than one ice crack.

Free Spins Feature

If you break all outer positions on the Clusterbuster, you receive 10 free spins. On each free spin, at least one random season will be active on the Clusterbuster, though all 4 may be activated too.

If more than one Season feature is activated, the features play out in this order; Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Destroying all positions on the Clusterbuster triggers +7 additional free spins.

Bonus Buy Feature

Like most new slots, Year Round Riches Clusterbuster comes with a Bonus Buy feature. This isn’t available in the UK, though players elsewhere have 2 options:

Year Round Riches Clusterbuster Slot Review Summary — unique theme but not as relaxing as first appears

First of all, Year Round Riches Clusterbuster is a beautiful slot. Compared to the other Clusterbuster games, it has the most unique theme and we’re impressed by the graphics and soundtrack. It’s definitely designed for a more mature audience, though don’t let the relaxing vibe fool you.

There is no guarantee you’ll activate a Clusterbuster feature on each spin though it did trigger quite frequently, despite the slot’s high volatility. The Spring feature was a favourite, as it can offer multipliers up to 100x. The Winter feature is also lucrative, but when you unlock the Free Spins feature things really get going.

With the guarantee of at least one season feature active, and the chance of all 4 active too, the Free Spins feature is your best chance at getting close to those 20,482 x stake max wins.

Overall, the Year Round Riches Clusterbuster slot adds something new to the Clusterbuster series and might be one of Red Tiger Gaming’s best looking slots.