​Ice Breaker

Featuring collapsing gaming symbols, win multipliers, and free spins, Ice Breaker lets players fish in frozen waters for big wins. Push Gaming offers a hammer scatter symbol to smash through the ice, revealing the wonders below. Stacked gaming symbols collapse into one-another, adding win multipliers to the equation.

Theme

This slot takes place amongst gorgeous blue skies and an icy landscape – icicles dangle off trees and reels alike! The five-by-three set of reels offers several maritime gaming symbols, including fish of various colors (enclosed in ice cubes) and a clam wild symbol. A hammer acts as scatter, while the playing card values ace through ten act as lower-value symbols. The sound design is just as cool as the theme, and as smooth as the ice players will hope to shatter. The overall play feel is smooth as ice, and even more solid.

Betting Options and Functions

Push Gaming eschews traditional pay lines in this slot, offering 243 distinct ways to win instead. Bet per spin is set simply from 0.25–100.00 the betting currency. Autoplay can engaged for up to 100 spins at a time, with optional stop limits for losses or single wins above a chosen size. Game rules, paytable information, and sound options are all available as well. The overall theoretical return to player ratio is outstanding at 96.79%.

Features

The central feature of Ice Breaker is built right into base play. Whenever two of the same fish gaming symbol appear stacked on top of each-other, the two collapse into one. The new symbol will add a multiplier to any win in which it is involved equal to the number of collapsed symbols – as this feature may repeat for as many symbols as appear stacked, this multiplier may well reach three, four, or fivefold, or more. What’s more, as the symbols collapse into one, other symbols fall into their places, allowing for the possibility of more wilds and new ways to win appearing.

When three hammer scatter symbols appear on reels one, three, and five, the free spin bonus round is triggered. Six free spins are awarded, during which time all lower-value symbols will disappear from the reels, leaving only higher-value symbols, wild, and scatter. This not only increases the chances of larger-sized wins, it also increases the likelihood of triggering wins of any size, since there are fewer symbols occupying the same number of spots on the game screen. The bonus round can also be retriggered during the feature, adding an extra six spins to the total.

Our Take

Push Gaming offers up yet another strong offering with Ice Breaker. The smooth and fun design belies a slot with significantly better than average return on investment, a fact players should note in choosing where to spend their time and money.