Tiny Terrors Slot Machine
There’s 5 reels and 25 paylines of scary monsters, dangerous-looking potions and creepy spell-books in the Tiny Terrors video slot that comes from the studios of Relax Gaming. Actually, it’s not very scary at all, as everything is in a cartoon style and even the monsters are cute characters that have special skills which can lead to some big rewards, like reel respins, expanding wilds, spreading wilds and multipliers.
Although this is going to be a popular slot at Halloween, players should take a peek if they dare, at any time of the year, as it’s a fun game that can scare up high returns to players. Like all Relax Gaming online casino slots, it’s fair, reliable and mobile optimised, so punters can spin these reels with no fear, claiming a long-term average of 98% of their wagers back as winnings, and of course, having real opportunities to claim lots of real cash prizes. The 5x3 symbol matrix is set in a strange and spikey blue frame against a cartoon town, where the unsuspecting citizens sleep in their bed as monsters crawl the streets.
The Relax Gaming company is truly international, with branches in Estonia, Malta, the UK, Finland, Sweden and Spain. Founded in 2010, it’s alleged that a chance meeting in a Maltese pub between Patrik Österåker and Jani Tekoniemi led to the creating of Relax Gaming, and while the name may suggest that this company has a relaxed attitude, the high quality of their games says otherwise.
Spooky Spins
All 25 paylines are active and to win a prize, you will need 3 or more of the same symbol to stop across one, running from the left side. Playing card heart and diamond symbols return just 5x, 10x, or 25x the per line stake when seen on 3, 4, or 5 reels, while cups of purple liquid, the poison bottle and spell-book, each decorated with a skull, pay out 10x, 20x, or 40x.
A purple spider-type beastie called Multina, yellow flame-creature named Spready and Alexpander the green octopus are the Tiny Terrors. Landing 3, 4, or 5 of a kind across a payline will be worth wins of 25x, 100x, or 200x, and then the Monster Wild powers will be unleashed.
Rather than causing mayhem and terror, these monsters are a very friendly bunch who want nothing more out of life than to award players with extra cash prizes. If you land a winning combination with any of these characters, you are paid an initial prize and then a Monster Wild feature will be triggered in a free reels respin, all accompanied by some nice animations of the relevant Tiny Terror.
Monsterous Mayhem
If the win-line was created by Alexpander, during the free respin, he can become an expanding wild symbol on a random reel, giving players a full-length view of his slimy body and hopefully giving them a good chance of completing combinations as he acts as any other symbol if needed.
Spready will expand sideways across the reels if he appears in the respin, acting as an extra wild symbol and with luck, finishing off a win-line as he does so. If Multina triggers her special powers, this angry arachnid will have a multiplier number in her web if she lands in the respin, and any wins that she helps to create will be boosted by whatever number is shown.
Although the Monster Wild powers are quite easy to trigger and come with every high value win-line created, in practice we found that occasionally, the reel respins often didn’t include any wild symbols at all, so fortunately there’s a separate free spins bonus feature to enjoy.
Frightening free Spin Feature
If all 3 Monster Wilds turn up in the reels respin, not only do you win the payouts from any combinations on the reels, but you are also given 5 free games, during which all the monsters retain their wild powers.
While 5 spins aren’t much, having so many wilds in play should help to ensure that at least some of these will have a few winning lines created before the round ends. The bonus feature can’t be retriggered though, so once the 5 spins are done, you are returned to the base games once more.
Betting on the Beasts
A wide range of potential bet sizes takes you all the way from a low limit of just 0.25 per spin all the way up to 100.00, which should be plenty for all but the highest of high rollers. Relax Gaming have also made free Tiny Terrors video slot versions, although obviously there’s no way to claim real cash awards when playing without actual stakes.
If you want to speed up the gameplay, there’s an Auto button which sets the reels spinning for as many times as you want on their own, and a useful feature is the way that you can get them to stop automatically if chosen win or loss limits are reached.
Tiny Terrors each make little noises when they appear, adding to the fun of this slot game, and there’s a tune that plays along with the game, although it’s not really related to the theme.
Other Slots to Scare up wins
Monster themed online slot games range from ones such as the zombie based Lost Vegas, or Manic House that genuinely try to scare the you-know-what out of players, to more cartoon-y games like Trick or Treat and Ooh Ahh, Dracula,
For a similar style to Tiny Terrors, you should check out the Wacky Monsters video slot from Spinomenal, that’s filled with weird and wonderful creatures who inhabit a mad scientists lab. This win both ways slot has a unique multiplier meter that increases with non-winning spins, so when punters land a winning combination it will be boosted by however much is currently on the meter, which can be up to 16x.
Howling Fun, from Eyecon, is another cartoon style game, where vampires, werewolves and random demons lead players to a free spins bonus feature, while a devil symbol is a wild multiplier that doubles the value of any win-line he helps to create.
The Verdict on Tiny Terrors
This attractive slot machine is certainly a fun game that has the potential to pay you some decent rewards and comes with nice animations and sound effects. While there’s plenty of winning spins in the base games, they tend to be lower value which suits some players who don’t like to be kept waiting before claiming a win. Those wins are accompanied by a nice skull animation as well, which adds to the monster theme.
What lets it down a bit is the lack of a wild symbol in the base games and the fact that there’s no guarantee that a wild will appear in a respin. But any free game is a nice bonus and they get triggered quite frequently, plus there’s the 5 free games where all monsters can use their special powers to complete lots of combinations.
Available across all popular mobile platforms, the Tiny Terrors video slot might not be perfect, but is definitely worth a closer look at online casinos that carry the Relax Gaming range.
