Fast Fruits DoubleMax

Does it feel like these DoubleMax slots are multiplying like the rising multiplier feature they’re built around? Yes or no, here is another one, this time it’s Fast Fruit DoubleMax from Yggdrasil Gaming partner Reflex Gaming. The title is a big giveaway, as Fast Fruits DoubleMax is indeed a fruit-filled extravaganza and one of the most retro-looking DoubleMax slots to date. It’s got the rising win multiplier, and cascade wins system with added wilds, yet Reflex Gaming has seen fit to include not one wild but four of them. Each wild does something a bit different to the other. Feel free to grab an apple, peel an orange, and join us for a look.

We mentioned the word retro in the previous paragraph, and it’s hard to think of a more apt word to describe Fast Fruits DoubleMax’s appearance. Most of the screen is taken up by a big game grid covered in massive pieces of fruit. Dripping beads of H2O, this is the sort of fruit the eyes are instantly drawn to at the supermarket. There are no bruised apples, marked bananas, dry oranges or anything like that around here. Each fruit symbol looks like it would explode with flavour when bitten into, giving Fast Fruits DoubleMax, a juicy, refreshing, classic appearance. The rest of the screen is a static lined image in the base game, but trigger free spins and the background starts zipping by as if the grid is blasting through hyperspace.

Behind all the healthy fruit lies a highly volatile math model and four RTP configurations. The highest is 95.5%, with three lower values floating around, market dependent. Players can fire in a stake of 20 p/c to £/€100 per spin and look forward to a hit frequency of around 1 in 4. Or, you can pop on the Golden Bet, which increases the stake by 25% whilst doubling the chance of triggering free spins. Winning symbols are removed from the game board, and one or more extra wilds are added in the gaps before other symbols fall to fill the other spaces. If another win is formed after a symbol drop, the process will repeat again.

Fast Fruits DoubleMax is played on a 5-reel, 3-row gaming grid with 20 fixed paylines. For the most part, winning combinations pay left to right from the rightmost side, but one of the wilds adds to this, so the game pays right to left from the rightmost edge of the board. Classic slot symbols populate the paytable. From lowest value to highest, we find a game board covered in cherries, oranges, lemons, grapes, plums, watermelons, a lucky 7 symbol, and the game’s logo. Hitting a 5-of-a-kind win pays 1 to 5 times the bet. Not massive values, yet multipliers in these sorts of games can go ballistic, helping to pick up the slack. Also helping out are those wild symbols, which substitute for any symbol except the free spins symbol.

Fast Fruits DoubleMax: Slot Features

As well as the regular Wild are three other wild symbols, plus the win multiplier, free spins, the free spins gamble, and a bonus buy.

Wilds

When wild symbols are added to the reels following a win, it could be the regular wild, or one of these:

• Super wild – substitutes for all symbols except bonus symbols. Stacks to fill all available spaces on a reel after a symbol removal.
• Boost wild – substitutes for all symbols except bonus symbols. Boosts the multiplier trail by a random amount.
• Each Way wild – substitutes for all symbols except bonus symbols. Pays wins from left to right as well as right to left when involved in a win.

Multiplier

In the base game, every win doubles the win multiplier. After a losing cascade occurs, the multiplier resets. During free spins, the multiplier starts at x1 and increases through the round and only resets when the free spins session ends.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 bonus symbols anywhere on the grid awards 7, 10, or 13 free spins, respectively. Before the round begins, if 3 or 4 bonus symbols trigger the feature. During the free spins round, the multiplier trail does not reset.

Gamble & Bonus Buy

Players may gamble their free spins to try and win the higher levels of spins. Successful gambles increase the number of free spins; unsuccessful gambles lose all of the free spins. Moreover, if you would like to buy free spins, this can be done for the cost of 100 times the bet.

Fast Fruits DoubleMax: Slot Verdict

Yggdrasil Gaming’s DoubleMax feature has shown up in all sorts of varied slot locations so far, from Irish to Christmas to dinosaurs. It has fared pretty well in all of them, and it was only a matter of time really before someone inserted the mechanic into an old-school retro slot environment to see what would happen. It might not be super surprising to see Reflex Gaming has done it, this is the studio’s third blast with the feature, after all, so the team clearly feel some kind of affinity with it. What is surprising, in some ways, is that the resulting slot, Fast Fruits DoubleMax is actually quite good. Fast Fruits DoubleMax contains most of the standard features found in these games, plus innovations not really used before in this sort of slot.

The innovations mainly come from its three non-regular wild symbols, and since wilds are added after each win, they may pop up a fair bit. Clever modifiers, too, from the random multiplier increase to pay both ways to the wild expansion. None of them is weak. The only nitpicking we could come up with really was wondering how it all would have performed on a pay-all-ways system rather than paylines. No complaints, though; the 20 paylines do the job just fine, and the rising DoubleMax Multiplier can technically do some serious damage as well. Fast Fruits DoubleMax is not the highest paying DoubleMax slot, but at 20,024x the bet max, it is hard to complain about that, too.

And so, Fast Fruits DoubleMax was a pleasant surprise when all was said and done. Reflex Gaming has a track record peppered with retro-looking games, and the studio has brought its expertise to bear to create a strong DoubleMax slot, successfully bringing the old and the new together into one potentially thrilling fruit place.