Quickspin seems to have hired a travel agent copywriter for their game sheet this time, as you really feel like visiting the “land of Tenoch” when reading it. Tenoch is the ruler of the Aztecs in case you had any doubt, and Azticons comes with a brand new and innovative Chaos Clusters™ mechanic. It gives the winning clusters more room to breathe, so to speak, as wins are formed as long as 5+ matching symbols are at least partially connected across the 7×7 grid.
This opens up for long winning chains, which are not possible with the conventional cluster pays engine. The visual presentation is superb, and symbols come in different stone tile sizes. This matters mostly for the Turning Twins feature, although it accentuates how the Chaos Clusters form as well. The big highlight is the unlimited progressive multiplier bonus round, and Quickspin has capped the max win at25,000xto increase the probability to 1 in 23,273,238, which is a lot higher than usual for this developer.
The mid to high level symbols pay between 1.5 to 5 x your stake for 5 in a cluster, and 500 to 5,000 x your stake for 20+ in a cluster. The‘W’ wild symbolsteps in for regular pay symbols to help complete clusters, and the wild holds no value of its own.
The trademarkedChaos Cluster mechanicmeans that you win as long as5+ matching symbolsare at least partially connected anywhere on the grid. Any win triggers theTumbling Reels mechanic, which removes the winning symbols in an explosion. New and/or existing symbols will then drop down to fill the gaps, and this process repeats indefinitely as long as you keep winning.
TheTurning Twins featurecan sometimes prolong your tumble winning streak, but only if 2 symbols of the same size and value (i.e. “twins”) are lined up horizontally on the grid. This may convert all the symbols between them into matching symbols, which awards at least one more win in the tumble sequence.
You need4+ pyramid scattersanywhere in view in the same tumble sequence to trigger theSacred Free Spins Round. This gives you7 free spins, and you get+3 spinson top of that for every triggering scatter above the minimum of 4.
Aprogressive win multiplierbecomes active in the bonus round, and it increases by+1 per tumble win. The multiplier never resets as long as the bonus round lasts. You can retrigger the feature by landing3+ scattersin the same tumble sequence, and this awards+3 extra spins(and+1 on top of that for each additional retriggering scatterabove the minimum of 3).
TheBonus Buy featureis available in some jurisdictions, but not in the UK for sure. If available, you can purchase the bonus round for150x your stake, and this guarantees 4+ triggering scatters on the spin that follows. The bonus buy RTP is 96.49 %.
You get to see a few tumble win sequences in the base game, and the Turning Twins feature really helped us out in one of them. We purchase the bonus round at 1:20 into the 4:36-minute highlights video, and this landed us 6 triggering scatters. You can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.
The colorful and vivid visual presentation captured us from the get-go, and Quickspin has no trouble making the overused Aztec theme their own. The game pace is satisfying with the turbo switched on, and the same can be said about the way the clusters form and explode off the grid. It feels easier to generate wins with their innovative Chaos Clusters system, although other factors play into this as well, of course.
The Turning Twins modifier can prolong your winning streaks, or at least end a current tumble sequence on a high note. Symbol values are solid too, making up to 5,000x possible from a single cluster. The bonus round enhances everything via the progressive win multiplier, but we wouldn’t have minded one or two more modifiers for this grid slot to be honest. It’s a showcase for the Chaos Clusters™, we get that, but still. Anyway, it’s an overall solid release with an equally solid25,000x potential.
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Cluster Tumble- is one to try if you want massive and lengthy cascading sequences like you’ve hardly ever seen before. This Relax Gaming release comes with an 8×8 cluster pays grid with 3 unique modifiers, and the FS multiplier increments by +3 each time the grid is cleared. The max win is 20,000x your stake.
Aztec Twist- is Hacksaw’s unusual and innovative take on the Aztec theme, and this cluster pays engine release comes with reels that twist horizontally. Full row wins trigger multiplier respins, and the golden mask symbol can lead to multiplier wins up to 4,000x in the bonus round.
Temple Tumble 2- is a follow-up from Relax Gaming, and the 6×6 grid looks massive when the 2 explorers are reduced to silhouettes in front of it. Clear blocker tiles to choose your bonus round modifier, and Relax’ brand new Dream Drop Jackpot feature can trigger at any time. Massive progressive jackpots can be won from it, and the overall max win is 10,045x your stake.
