Mobile Slots Games
Babushkas on Mobile
Provider: | Thunderkick |
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Paylines: | 17 |
Scatter Symbol: | No |
Jackpot: | Yes |
Where to Play Babushkas
Babushkas Mobile Slot Review
In a continuing effort to pick out the oddest themed slots, Thunderkick goes one step further in making Babushkas – a game about small Russian dolls on a knitted background, with 5 reels and 17 paylines. While it is not the weirdest choice in theme the Swedish developer has made, it is certainly one of the more questionable ones.
The gameplay trails along in this odd manner, where your focus is to upgrade the dolls to a smaller size, so you can get larger wins. The whole system seems a bit confusing at first, and it can drag on forever without Wilds present on the reels.
How to play Babushkas
The basic loop in Thunderkick’s release is simple enough. With 5 reels, and 17 paylines, you connect symbols left to right, with dolls of different colours and sizes falling onto the reels to make a connection. The user interface in the slot is done well enough, and a few taps will quickly show you what button does what.
On the main screen, you are able to adjust your bet level, which ranges from $0.10 up to $100. The wide range of choices will appeal to both casual players and high rollers, though the somewhat low variance may turn off the profit minded gamblers who would try out Babushkas.
The game also relies on upgrading your dolls to net larger wins. A group of winning symbols can go up a single tier to become higher paying symbols when it creates a new or longer winning line. With six symbols in total, with luck, you can chain upgrades into a massive win.
While the slot lacks any Scatters, Wilds complete that role in its place. As always, Wilds can replace any other symbol on the reel, but in this game, they only appear on reel 3. Shaped like an egg, it will spin, and if it stops spinning while showing a star, you can activate one of the three bonuses it has available.
The first is the Scare Bear, which can upgrade the lowest valued symbols on the reels depending on the bear size. A Charm Bear will upgrade all symbols by a single tier, and a Dance Bear, which gives you seven free spins, and guarantees a Wild on reel 3 while the bonus round lasts.
Jackpots and Progressives
And while that core gameplay loop can be either frustrating or super fun depending on how lucky you are with your Wilds and upgrades, there are two facts which are not so fun. One, Babushkas is not a progressive slot. And the other is that the largest win in the game is only x100 your total wager.
For players looking to get large victories, this will probably be a deal breaker, and we honestly expected a little bit more from Thunderkick, all things considered.
Bonus Games and Sign-Ups
As mentioned before, free spins come from the Dance Bear, which has a one in three chance to appear from a star-facing Wild. The seven free spins do not have any multipliers attached to them, and you are not able to retrigger the bonus while it is active.
However, the addition of a guaranteed Wild on the third reel makes the bonus a lot more interesting, so seeing a bear in a harmonica is probably a good enough guarantee that you will turn a profit for that particular round.