Aloha! Cluster Pays is a slot game from NetEnt that was released on the 22nd of March, 2023. The slot game is based on a Hawaii theme and its name is a Hawaii word used when greeting someone. NetEnt decided to develop something unique and Aloha! Cluster Pays delivers just that. The slot game offers clusters instead of paylines/payways and offers greater winning combinations.
Win up to 100,000 coins playing Aloha! Cluster Pays
Wins are completed by matching 9 or more symbols on the clusters. The slot game comes with exciting features that will blow you away. It offers the substitute symbols, free spins with symbol drop, sticky win re-spins and stacked symbols. The bonus feature game can award bigger wins since the fruit symbols that award small wins will become less and the marks symbols awarding big wins become more.
Aloha Cluster Pays game symbols
The game is set on a background of a tropical island and its clusters are filled with various symbols such as coconuts, pineapples, pearl shell, green mask, red mask, blue mask, flower, and the free spin sticker. A symbol will only become part of a cluster only if it is horizontally or vertically adjacent to the same symbol. Hitting 9 or more identical symbols in a cluster will trigger a win.
In this game you have the possibility of hitting up to 100,000 coins during the free spins bonus game. The highest paying symbol is the red mask that awards a whooping fixed jackpot of 10,000 coins when 30 symbols appear on a cluster. The mask symbols can award super mega big wins whilst all other symbols will away big and mage big wins. Usually, the mega and super mega wins are often triggered during the free spins bonus round or when you activate the sticky win re-spin feature.
Betting limits
Aloha! Cluster Pays is quite a unique game from all other NetEnt games. The game suites all types of players taking a coin range of 0.01 up to 2.00 and offers 10 bet levels each taking a max of 10 coins. It accepts a maximum wager of up to €200 and a minimum wager of €0.10. Playing the game on max bet give you an opportunity to trigger bigger wins. An added advantage of playing this slot game is that it offers more than 30 win combinations and during the free spins, you get to trigger more coins.
The Substituting Symbol
Instead of using a wild symbol, Aloha! Cluster Pays makes use of a substituting symbol that is depicted by a box bearing a question mark (?). The substituting symbol acts similar to the wild symbols but this time it cannot trigger a win by itself but rather it would have to substitute and match its adjacent symbols so as to trigger a win. Basically, the substituting symbol will transform into the adjacent symbol that creates the highest possible win in a cluster.
Sticky Win Re-spins
The sticky re-spin feature is activated at random during game play. The sticky win re-spin feature will activate on any winning combination. Once activated, the winning symbols will be held and all other symbols re-spin. During the re-spin, if similar symbols of the winning combination appear adjacent and attach thereby making the cluster to increase, you will be given yet another re-spin until no similar symbols appear attached to the cluster.
Free spin bonus game
The free spins feature game is activated by the free spin sticker symbols. You need to get 3 or more free spin sticker symbols, fully or partially appearing anywhere on screen in the main game.
- 6 free spin sticker symbols = 12 free spins
- 5 free spin sticker symbols = 11 free spins
- 4 free spins sticker symbols = 10 free spins
- 3 free spin sticker symbols = 9 free spins
You can win additional free spins during the free spins bonus feature game when 3 or more sticker symbols appear on anywhere on screen.
- 6 free spins sticker symbols = 4 free spins
- 5 free spins sticker symbols = 3 free spins
- 4 free spins sticker symbols = 2 free spins
- 3 free spin sticker symbols = 1 free spins
The free spins bonus game is known as the free spin with symbol drop. During the free spins, the symbol drop mechanism become active at which low win symbols are constantly removed and bigger win symbols remain on the reels. On the last free spins, if you do not hit a win, you are given another free spin until a winning combination is triggered.
Aloha! Cluster Pays verdict
Playing the game for the first time was quite interesting. The slot game doesn’t make use of paylines and the use of cluster seems to be quite impressive. The sticky re-spin feature was hard to hit but the free spin bonus game could be triggered with a time play of not less than 10 minutes. I discovered that mega wins and super mega wins can only be achieved playing on max bet and this call for a wager of €200 per spin which is quite high but very profitable.
