Squeeze

Theme and Design

Squeeze has a bold, bright, tropical theme with fruit as the high paying symbols and coloured squares as the lower paying ones. The reels sit on soft white sand and look out over a bright blue ocean, with fronds of palm trees blowing lazily. It feels like a tropical paradise.

With that said, the design isn’t all that original and it errs on the side of simple. It feels like a modern day fruit machine in some respects, there’s just not that much going on. If you like your slots classic, clean, and uncluttered then Squeeze will suit you. However, if you like a slot with lots of intricate details, you might be disappointed.

RTP and Variance

Squeeze has an RTP of 94% and high volatility, meaning you’re likely to experience dry spells interspersed with larger wins. However, the 94% RTP does seem pretty mean, consider the top prize isn’t that spectacular and the volatility is so high.

Maximum Win

Squeeze has a top payout of 10,000x your bet which is pretty decent! However, there is high volatility to consider and a fairly low RTP of 94% which does take the shine off things slightly. There are lots of other games in a similar vein that offer better max wins and more favourable RTPs, for example Fruit Storm with its 25,000x max win and 95.85% RTP

Symbols and Paytable

Squeeze is played on 6 reels and 7 rows with a cluster pays mechanic. To create wins you need to  land five or more of the same symbol in adjacent positions.

There are 8 pay symbols in the slot. The low value symbols are squares in blue, green, yellow, and red. Wins with 17 or more of these symbols pay between 5x and 8x the bet.

The premium symbols are fruits in blue, green, yellow, and red. Wins with 17 or more of these symbols pay between 50x and 250x the bet. There is also a wild symbol that doesn’t pay anything but can substitute for all pay symbols.

Features and Gameplay

Squeeze offers a whole host of juicy mechanics including some pretty exciting bonus rounds. Let’s take a look at how they all work.

Squeeze Mechanic

The squeeze mechanic works more or less exactly like a cascade mechanic. Whenever a win is created, the symbols are squeezed until they burst and make way for new symbols. If more wins are created, the fruit are squeezed again and so on until no new wins are made. 

Bounce Back Multiplier

The big difference with the squeeze mechanic is that sometimes those fruit just won’t be squeezed! If they bounce back, it increases their multiplier and makes the symbol stick around to be squeezed again, increasing the payout each time. 

Feature Meters

Perhaps the most exciting features of this slot are the feature meters. You’ll see them on the left of the reels, with each colour corresponding to its own feature. Swap (blue), Make Big (yellow), Upgrade (green), and Spawn Wilds (red). 

Every time you make a cluster it fills the meter a little (the one with the corresponding colour). Each cluster win advances the meter by one step, and once a meter is filled by three steps, the associated feature activates. Supercharged symbols fill up a meter completely if part of a winning cluster.

Symbol Features

The four symbol features mentioned above work like this:

• Swap: This feature selects two symbols to swap places, potentially creating new wins. Each activation allows for three symbol swaps.
• Make Big: This feature enlarges a symbol to either a 3x3 or 4x4 size.
• Upgrade: This feature upgrades a symbol to a higher-value symbol. If the highest value symbol is reached, it converts to a wild symbol instead.
• Spawn Wilds: This feature replaces 2 to 6 symbols on the reels with wild symbols, or sometimes supercharged wilds.

Bonus Round

Landing 3 scatter symbols activates the bonus game, awarding 5 free drops. During the bonus round, you can retrigger extra free drops. If at least one of these scatter symbols is a super scatter, the bonus game upgrades to a super bonus game (more info below). The win multiplier and feature meters from the base game are persistent. 

Super Bonus Round

If you land 3 scatter symbols, including at least one super scatter symbol, the super bonus round is triggered. You receive 5 free drops, with the possibility to retrigger more free drops. Before each free drop, one or more of the feature meters is randomly filled. The feature meters and win multiplier from the base game carry over and remain active during the entire super bonus game.