Cascading Cave Slot

Are you a miner 49er? The gold rushes of the Old West are fertile ground for slots developers, and industry giant Playtech puts a diamond sparkle on the genre in this Cascading Cave slot game, first released on June 2019.

The miners in these titles are always cheerful, and often cartoony chaps, which is not terribly historically accurate, but probably there isn’t a market for games based around shanty towns, rampant lawlessness, and corruption. Perhaps there is!? A note for the designers.

The game is nicely atmospheric with a dark, underground feel. It’s a very classic looking game, with all the symbols you’d expect to find with this theme.

Is it worth your while going prospecting for precious treasures?

Let’s have a dig in and see! Read on this Cascading Cave slot review.

The Developers of Cascading Cave Slot

Playtech is the world’s largest supplier of gambling software, and they also do work in the financial services industry. They’re a massive business, employing more than 5,000 people from a base in Estonia.

Most casino companies are quite easy to get your head around, but Playtech is such a big and complex thing that their website takes you on a journey through the casino and financial trading world.

There’s no complication to the quality of their products. Playtech have more than 600 casino games on the market, and they also do a whole lot more, including sports betting, and casino management software. A number of companies offer in both the game development and casino software areas, and if you want to read up on the possible dangers to a competition of such vertical integration then please do!

Of the companies more than 500 slot games, the current favourites of UK players are: Buffalo Blitz, Age of the Gods, Blue Wizard, Epic Ape, and Gladiator JP.

The Facts and Figures about Cascading Cave Slot

Playtech brought out the Cascading Cave slot game on June 2019.

The game has a theoretical return to player of 95.83%, which is a house edge of 3.17%. These figures are about the only measure we have of how a game will play. However, gambling games are by their nature random, so it’s silly to pretend that this figure reveals much to the individual player. However, it’s fair to say that this game is a little below the current average.

The top prize isn’t below anything though: the possible biggest payout is 1,000,000 coins. Please make sure you check all prize levels and pay-out limits on the game you’re playing. Betting to win this prize runs from 10p to £500.

This is a standard 5-by-3 grid game, with 20 pay-lines, and you can play it on your desktop, tablet or mobile device if you have JavaScript and HTML5.

The Game

The controls are very retro and could be based on the buttons from the classic pub, club, and arcade slots.

At the left of the control panel is the “info” button that brings up the pay-table and simple rules. To the right of that is the betting, controlled via a plus and minus rocker that controls your total bet. In the centre is the information window. To the right of that is the Autoplay function, to the right of that is the turbo mode control, and then the start button.

How to Win

Click to check the pay-table and this is what you see:

There are two special symbols. Dynamite are Scatters, with no value, but which trigger the Diamond Drop feature.

The transparent diamond is a wild, subbing in to make the best possible wins, and paying, in its own right: 50-times stake for three, 200-times stake for four, and 2,000-times stake for five.

That matches the miner who’s at the top of the pay-table. His donkey is worth the same. The lamp pays 16, 50, and 500-times stake. The Pick axe pays 10, 24, and 250-times stake.

At the bottom of the pay-table are coloured stones: these pay between 2 and 100-times stake.

Cascading Cave Slot Bonuses

There are two bonuses on Cascading Cave slot.

The first is a Collapsing Reels, which is a respin. Any win triggers a Collapsing Cave feature. In this, losing symbols stay on the reels, unless they are over a symbol that disappears (because it was in a win), in which case the losing symbol will collapse.

This collapse can cascade on, with new wins triggering new collapses.

There is also a Diamond Drop feature. This is triggered by the scatter dynamite. Two of those trigger as many as two reels dropping; three scatters trigger up to three reels.

The feature brings in the diamonds above the reels. These flash up a number that signifies how many multiplier wilds will collapse on that reel. If you get a win on a reel in the feature then the reels collapse and another set of multiplier wilds can collapse.

The Verdict

There’s quite a lot going on in this game, and we’ll start with a criticism of the instructions, which aren’t written as clearly as they should be, particularly the material on the bonus games, which is important.

However, it’s hardly a deal-breaker, and players will understand the bonus games very quickly as they witness them in action.

Otherwise, everything here is great. Wild West games can be a bit tired, and some of them show some awful lapses of taste into garish cartoon graphics. This one’s been delivered with a bit of style, so we’ll tip our hats to the designers of Cascading Cave there.

The bonus games – though not well explained – are very well thought out, functioning as a very good stand-in for a free spins round.

The game plays as well as you would expect from the biggest company in the gaming world. That means quality graphics, animation, smooth action, and great visual effects.

There’s a slight question mark over the slightly low RTP, but you’re looking at fractions of a percentage point, and almost no player will ever notice that. Get mining diamonds today at your favourite online casino site.