Item: Aztec Bonanza
Author: JohnSlots

Aztec Bonanza Slot Review

Take a good read of this Aztec Bonanza slot review where we untangle the mysterious bonus symbols of this Aztec-themed slot from Pragmatic Play. With expanding reels, 7,776 ways to win and a potential payout of up to 19,000x your stake, there are no cutting corners if you are going to win on this online slot.

SLOT FEATURES	Symbol Unlocking Feature, Free Spins, Tumbling Reels, Mystery Symbols, Giant Symbols, Symbol Transform
RELEASE DATE	5 March 2020
GAME PROVIDER	Pragmatic Play
SLOT TYPE	Video Slot
THEME	Aztec
REELS, ROWS, PAYLINES	5 Reels, 2-6 Rows, 384-7,776 ways to win
BET LEVELS	£0.30 – £150
MAXIMUM WIN	19,000x Your Stake
SCATTER SYMBOL	No
WILD SYMBOL	No
BONUS GAME	No
FREE SPINS	Yes
RESPINS	No
MULTIPLIERS	No
JACKPOT	No
RETURN TO PLAYER	96.53%
VOLATILITY	Medium

Aztec Bonanza Bonus features

This new slot is booming with Aztec Bonanza bonus features. Aside from free spins, mystery, transforming and giant symbols, the game also utilises tumbling reels. These cascading reels add more excitement to your gameplay and make a rather pleasant sound as they drop.

Though it’s a shame we can’t say the same about the animations. Instead of imaginative symbols representing the Mesoamerican culture, you’ll get to play with rather mundane images tumbling down the reels.

Mystery Symbol

The Mystery Symbol in the Aztec Bonanza slot game comes in the form of the Aztec god carving. The only way to activate the feature is to crack the top left corner of the reels. We’ll elaborate more on that below.

Symbol Unlocking Feature

Unlike conventional online slots, you’ll start playing Aztec Bonanza with 5 reels and 2-4-6-4-2 rows in a diamond formation. As reels tumble during the base game, you’ll see the grid corners start crumbling. That’s the beginning of the Symbol Unlocking feature.

Keep spinning. Every two consecutive tumbles will crack one of the 4 corners, awarding you with more symbols plus increasing your ways to win, up to 7,776! Each corner hides different awards and here’s what happens when they finally collapse:

Top-left corner: unveiled mystery symbols turn into regular paying symbols.
Top-right corner: up to 3 low-value symbols are substituted with high-value symbols.
Bottom-left corner: all symbols on reels 1 and 2 are replaced with 2×2 expanded symbols.
Bottom-right corner: all symbols on reels 4 and 5 are replaced with 2×2 expanded symbols.

Free Spins

To activate the Aztec Bonanza free spins feature, you need to fracture and unlock all 4 corners. For this to happen, you’ll need to land 8 tumbles in a row.

You’ll start with 5 free spins on the 5×6 grid and with 7,776 ways to win, which stays expanded throughout the free spins feature. What’s more, on every spin you’ll randomly activate the following features: Mystery Symbols, Symbol Transform, and Giant Symbols.

All of these features do their magic in modifying your reels the way we’ve already discussed above. You can’t retrigger it though.

Aztec Bonanza Jackpot

We have to say, the stats here are pretty impressive. With a potential win of 19,000x your stake, you won’t even think twice about an Aztec Bonanza progressive jackpot being missing from the game. Just remember, you have to play with a max bet to achieve the full slot potential.

RTP and Volatility

The combination of Aztec Bonanza RTP (96.53%) and medium volatility is quite a comfortable prospect of landing decent wins. The varying-size payouts will be quite steady throughout the game but you’ll have to budget wisely.

Bonus Spins

Whenever you can, be sure to pick up a bunch of Aztec Bonanza bonus spins – they’ll grant you access to free gameplay before spending real cash. If you don’t know where to look for these bonuses, try signing up with our trusted long-time partners, Leo Vegas and Genesis Casino.

Aztec Bonanza on Mobile

As a mobile-friendly online slot, Aztec Bonanza will be great for playing on the go. You can play it at any mobile casino site with Pragmatic games! With vivid colours and enough varied bonus features, it’ll make even the longest commute enjoyable.

What does John have to say?

As a huge potential slot, it didn’t live up to our expectations in terms of gameplay. Especially because the bonus features in the free spins round modify your reels exactly as they would in the base game. But don’t let us put you off from playing, it’s a cracking slot for that long train journey.