Super Fruit Smash

Super Fruit Smash: Slot Overview

Do you ever get the feeling that feedback sent to a business just ends up in a recycle bin without being read? Maybe, maybe not, but this does not seem to be the case with casino game maker Slotmill. Regarding the studio's 2022 slot release Fruit Smash, the studio, in its own words, 'listened to player feedback and made the game even more fun and exciting to play.' What this means is a follow-up release titled Super Fruit Smash that is bigger and juicier than before with new features, expanded gameplay and a bigger cherry on top in the form of greater potential. Is it 'super'? Only one way to find out.

Fruit Smash was a charmingly simple-looking game that wouldn't feel out of place amidst a Hacksaw Gaming collection of slots. As fruit-filled slots are apt to do, it was bright and colourful, yet it also had a bite. All that and more is back for Super Fruit Smash. This time though, the game moves out of the forest and sets itself up at the beach. The visuals, as ebullient as ever, include lapping waves, palm trees, and inviting water - all the things necessary for a relaxing holiday. As before, stay on your toes, though, because Super Fruit Smash ain't here to lie around and work on its tan. It does, however, pop up fruit facts during downtime, which are amusingly informative.

On the business side of things, Super Fruit Smash is a highly volatile slot, generating a return to player value of 96.08% when playing in regular mode. Hitting spin drops symbols onto a 6x6 sized grid, which uses a scatter pays system to create wins – as long as 8 or matching symbols are in view anywhere on the grid, they trigger a payout and the Avalanche feature which sees all symbols in a scatter win removed from the reels whilst the gaps they create are filled by new symbols. The Avalanche feature will keep removing wins and filling their gaps until no new win appears.

Designed to run on any device, bet levels range from 20 p/c to $/€50 per spin. Looking at the paytable, all ten pay symbols supplied in the game are fruity in nature. From low to high, there are berries, plums, watermelons, pears, coconuts, pineapples, bananas, mangos, strawberries, and dragon fruit. When 8 matching symbols hit, the payout is worth 0.2 to 0.6 times the stake, while 16 of a kind pays 12 to 40 times the bet. A little unusual for a scatter pays slot, Super Fruit Smash drops wild symbols onto its grid in a number of forms. Wilds are able to substitute for any regular pay symbol.

Super Fruit Smash: Slot Features

Features are one area that has seen a tune-up, and there are quite a lot to get through, from Avalanches, a Progressive Win Multiplier, Giant Symbols, Countdown Wilds, free spins, Super Free Spins, Fast Track features, and Burst Mode.

Progressive Win Multiplier

The Progressive Win Multiplier increases by +1 with every Avalanche. In the base game, the multiplier resets between spins, whereas in free spins, it does not reset until the round is over.

Giant Symbols

As well as regular symbols, Giant Symbols can also appear on the grid in 2x2, 3x3 or 4x4 sizes. They can appear at the start of a game round or at the end of one when no more wins are presently there. Giant Symbols can be fruit symbols or wilds and possess a win multiplier of up to x5, which is applied to wins made up of that specific symbol. Additionally, the Progressive Win Multiplier multiplies Giant Fruit multipliers. If 2 matching Giant Fruit land, or a Giant Wild and a Giant Fruit land, their multipliers are multiplied together before being multiplied by the Progressive Win Multiplier.

Countdown Stores

Wilds can land with a number imprinted on them. This number indicates how many Avalanches the wild stays on the reels before it is removed. Each Avalanche reduces the counter by 1.

Free Spins

Hitting 3 scatter symbols triggers 8 free spins. If 3 scatter symbols land during the bonus round, +4 extra free spins are added to the remaining amount. During the round, the Progressive Win Multiplier does not reset between free spins.

Super Free Spins

When 2 scatter symbols land at the same time as 1 Super Bonus symbol in the base game, 8 Super Free Spins are awarded. In Super Free Spins, each spin has initial Giant Fruits and/or Giant Wilds with multipliers.

Fast Track

Opening the Fast Track menu gives players access to Super Fruit Smash's features. From here you can buy:

• Giant Fruit – 5x the bet for a game round with Giant Fruit.
• Giant Wild – 40x the bet for a game round with Giant Wild.
• Free Spins – 100x the bet for a game round triggering free spins.
• Super Free Spins – 450x the bet for a game round triggering Super Free Spins.

Burst Mode

Finally, if Burst Mode is available, players can pick the bet size and number of spins which then get played without the game grid in view. Any wins flare up on the screen as the spins tick over. Burst Mode can be ended before all of the chosen spins have been played.

Super Fruit Smash: Slot Verdict

Well, players spoke, and Slotmill listened. Not only did the team listen, but they appear to have implanted a lot of what they heard, maybe all of it? Who knows. Either way, there is a lot of good stuff going on in Super Fruit Smash, earning it the 'Super' part of its title. You can imagine a customer going through a list of grievances or requests, getting progressively more outrageous as they go along. Then at the end, the business owner is like, 'fine, yep, we'll do all of that', leaving the customer open-mouthed and wishing they'd asked for even more outlandish requests.

It starts with using wilds, which you'd assume is tricky to incorporate in a scatter-paying slot. However, it doesn't end there; the wild can also be giant-sized, it can be sticky for a certain number of Avalanches, as well as having a multiplier. Yet that's not all. More than one Giant Symbol multiplier is multiplied together before the Progressive Win Multiplier gets a chance to jump in and boost it further. Pretty impressive when you think about it. In practice, Super Fruit Smash's bundle of bits has the potential to work as well as you'd hope they would. Speaking of potential, naturally, that has been jacked. It would have been unusual, to say the least, if players had requested it to stay the same or decrease. This time around, Slotmill has pepped max payout up to 12,000x the bet – double the amount possible in the non-super Fruit Smash.

Stepping back for a moment, Super Fruit Smash might look pretty standard at a quick glance, but dig a bit deeper, and there's some really interesting stuff to uncover. It's not quite a scatter-paying slot revolution, yet the clever tweaks are worth checking out, and kudos to Slotmill for taking on feedback and then executing changes.