All Ways Fruit

It can be quite difficult to get excited over a fruit machine when you’ve reviewed slots as long as we have. Some can be incredibly innovative, but you still can’t muster the will to be impressed. Not because the mechanics themselves are bad: it’s just that you’re tired of that same non-theme after seeing it thousands of times.

And that’s for games that put in an effort to make their fruit machine nature less obvious. This one, with its generic sound effects and faux outdated user interface? It never stood a chance.

All Ways Fruits Slot Review

That’s true for the visuals, at least. All Ways Fruits is played on a five reel board, where each reel is three symbols tall. Players don’t get standard paylines in this Amatic release. Rather, the developer makes use of the All Ways Pay system… sometimes. During normal gameplay, it acts like any old 243 ways to win slot. Collect three or more identical icons in adjacent positions, starting with the leftmost reel to score a win. It’s only after you coax out the special features that All Ways Pay becomes active!

Bonuses are quite simple mechanically. They only become fun once you combine them all into a big, memorable win! Without them, they’re all barebones special features you’ve seen a thousand times before. Credit where it’s due, though, Amatic did their best to add something extra to them. It’s not just Wilds, but Wilds with a 2x multiplier. In equal measure, free spins have All Ways Pay enabled, breaking the monotony of the same old extra turns. Sadly, the Gamble bonus gets no changes.

Theme & Symbols

All Ways Fruits follows the time honored tradition of making a mandatory fruit machine release for a dash of nostalgia. We’ll be honest, we never saw the appeal. It was more than clear to us that artists were forced to deal with fruit symbols and playing card royals. Look at all the cool themes and interesting art designs we’ve received when phones and PCs improved to allow for it! Sadly, we can’t seem to evade the creeping ghost of physical machines. They seem to be here to stay.

And we can learn to live with that. What we can’t learn to live with is the person who decided this vomit-inducing color should be the background image. The vast majority of it is some kind of undefined yellowish-brown color, with a few streaks of a brighter yellow. It creates a rising sun effect, which we might find cool, if it weren’t for the background being sinfully ugly. Yes, sinfully ugly.

Icon designs are exactly what you’d expect from a fruit machine. On the board, you will find cherries, lemons, plums, apples, golden bells, grapes, watermelons and lucky sevens. A mixture of various fruits is the Scatter, used to win free spins with All Ways Pay active. The Wild symbol is rolled into the 2x multiplier icon. It’s the only way they could make it work: otherwise, it couldn’t be used to enhance five-of-a-kind wins.

How to Play All Ways Fruits

You play this game on a 5×3 board with 243 ways to win, initially. The maximum prize you can win from this release is 1000x your total stake. To get to that number, you only must collect a five-of-a-kind win of the most valuable symbol on the reels. Then, you need to get the 2x multiplier involved so it boosts to the 1000x jackpot! If it was any other slot, we’d probably tell you to quit while you’re ahead. But All Ways Fruits has ways of making that mission impossible happen!

The answer, as you might have guessed, lies in the available special features. Once free spins are active, the game makes use of All Ways Pay. That means the order at which you collect icons has been changed. No longer does the win have to go from left to right, or to follow any kind of order! So long as you have five lucky sevens roaming around, you can combine those to get a big win!

Changing your total bet is as simple as clicking the Bet button. From there, you can drag the newly revealed slider up and down, until you find a wager you’re comfortable with. What’s less stellar is how Amatic’s release handles coins and cash prizes. You don’t see cash directly: so you can only document how much each spin costs by looking at your online casino balance. Far from ideal!

Bonus Features

All Ways Fruits uses minor additions to familiar special features to create an engaging and lucrative experience. The bonuses make it easier to score the ultimate win. Of course, just because it’s easier doesn’t mean it’s actually easy. If you’re hoping to land the 1000x jackpot, you’ll have to wait for all the stars to align to make that happen!

• Free Spins

Collect three, four or five Scatters to win seven, ten or fifteen free spins. While these are active, the usual ways to win system is swapped with All Ways Pay. That means you can collect three-of-a-kind wins in reels two, three and four without any problems. It doesn’t sound that exciting until you try it out for yourself. And when you do? You’ll fall in love.

• 2x Multiplier

If this symbol is part of a winning combination, then that win will be doubled. That makes the multiplier an always welcome sight around all icons! It also helps that it’s a Wild, and can substitute for other symbols.

• Gamble

After each base-game win, you can try to enhance your prize by gambling it further. You’re taken to a separate screen where you’re made to guess either the color or the suit of the card. Guess the color right, and your win is doubled. Correctly picking the suit quadruples your win. But guess wrong even once, and you lose everything.

All Ways Fruits Payouts

All Ways Fruits has a jackpot worth 1000x your total bet. The slot’s RTP is 96%, which is the current industry average.