Space Miners Dream Drop

Theme and Design

Space Miners Dream Drop is an eye-catching slot game that fans of Gigantoonz will feel, well, right at home playing. The graphics are startlingly similar to the Play n Go titles but with a Relax Gaming flair that gives the game its own identity. The background visuals are stunning, with glowing galaxies and space debris sat behind the rocky play grid. You might already have played this game in it's original version, without the progressive. In which case you will notice that the design is exactly the same!

RTP and Variance

Space Miners Dream Drop has a high variance, meaning there could be some dry spells in terms of wins. However, when a win does hit, it’s likely to be a big one. The game has a 50,000x non-progressive max win. With that in mind, this game is probably better suited to players with a larger budget. However, if you’d like a similar space theme with much lower variance then Cosmic Rush Dream Drop Jackpot would be a great choice.

The RTP of 94% does let this game down slightly (it's under the commonly quoted average of 96%), but 12% of every spin goes directly to the progressive jackpot pool. For us, this extra boost to the big prizes is well worth the small drop in percentage returns.

Maximum Win

Relax Gaming positioned this slot to appeal to players who appreciate a brilliant top payout. With a 50,000x non-progressive max win. That’s the highest out of all of the current Dream Drops slots, so on that basis alone, it scores highly.

Of course, there’s also the progressive jackpot to consider, which makes things even more interesting! The Mega DD jackpot seeds at €500,000 and doesn’t pay out until it hits at least a million. With this in mind, Space Miners Dream Drop couldn’t do much more when it comes to big payouts.

Symbols and Paytable

Space Miners Dream Drop has an uncommon grid configuration, in that the blocks that surround the initial 3 row by 6 reel grid can be exploded (in true space mining style). As these blocks are blown out of the way, the grid expands to a maximum size of 10 rows. With it, the paylines increase until there are 1,000,000 of them. Wins require a minimum of three matching symbols on three consecutive reels, regardless of which row they’re on. 

There are 9 different pay symbols, plus a scatter and a wild. The low value symbols are the gems, which are all valued at 0.1x your bet for three, up to 0.4x your bet for 6.  Premium symbols are the aliens. These are valued at 0.2x your bet for 3 of the pink and blue ones, up to 1x your bet for 6 of the orange and green aliens. The purple alien is the most valuable of all, worth up to 5x your bet for 6 symbols.

Wild symbols can appear on any of the reels and substitute for any pay symbol to complete a payline.

Features and Gameplay

The Dream Drop jackpot feature is clearly the most exciting feature in this game, however, the expanding grid is a nice touch too. Let’s take a look at all of the features in a little more detail.

Blockers & Power Ups

As with other grid slots from Relax Gaming, like Cluster Tumble for example, central to the gameplay in Space Miners is the expanding grid. To begin, there are 6 reels and 3 rows. Above that you’ll see 4 rows of stone blocks, and below, another 3.

Each time a payline is completed then a re-spin is awarded. But first, blocks adjacent to winning symbols are removed, increasing the number of active spaces and win ways in play. If more wins are created, then more blocks are removed and another re-spin is triggered.

This process repeats until there are no more wins. At which point, the grid re-sets to its original size. At its biggest, 10 rows are revealed on the grid, and over 1,000,000 win ways.

But that’s not all. You’ll also spot ‘Power Up’s embedded in some blocks. These are special tools that take out entire rows or grids in one go when the block surrounding them is destroyed.

There are 4 types of Power Ups.

Horizontal ones destroy all blocks on the row they are on. Vertical ones destroy all blocks on the reel they are on. Crosses destroy blocks on their row AND reel. And 3x3 Power Ups destroy all blocks in the surrounding square area. The red arrows point in the direction of the blocks to be destroyed.

Free Spins

The scatter symbols are UFOs in this slot and if you land three of them anywhere on the grid then it triggers the free spins feature. You get 6 free spins as a minimum and an additional 2 spins for each and every Scatter symbol that you land while playing. 

A key point here, and a big advantage is that blocks that you destroy during the free spins rounds remain destroyed for that game, only returning when the free spins are over. This makes it easier to clock up big wins.

Dream Drop Jackpots

Maybe the most exciting feature in this game is the Dream Drops Jackpots feature. You trigger the Dream Drops Jackpots round at random. The  will change entirely to symbols that are either DD or blocks. If you land 5 DD symbols then the round begins.

There are five different columns each with one of the jackpots at the top of them (rapid, midi, maxi, major, or mega). To determine which jackpot you’ll win, click to spin and see which column fills up with DD blocks. 

• Rapid (seeded at €1)
• Midi (seeded at €5)
• Maxi (seeded at €100)
• Major (seeded at €25,000)Mega (seeded at €500,000 with a minimum payout of €1,000,000)