Ice World

Low volatility and chilly theme combine with twenty paylines and several special features to bring hot spins to your screen. These things are surprisingly popular themes for online slots. We’ve certainly seen our fair share of icy winds, barren landscapes, and cold wilds for a lifetime. Booming Games hasn’t gone all in to break the mould, yet they’ve managed to craft a game different enough to at least warrant a few test spins.

Theme

There’s a friendly beast to welcome and help you along. It’s quite hard to say what his or hers exact species or being is, but something along the snowman, or in other words yeti, seems to be close enough. The air is filled with freezing winds while the reels fill up with symbols that you’d find in any snow-covered wasteland, such as bottles of oil, lamps, compasses, fishes and so forth. The ice world itself spreads far into the horizon.

Betting Options and Functions

The game is perfect for beginners and lowballers, as the stakes are quite low. Though the low volatility would suggest that massive wins are entirely missing, this doesn’t mean there is nothing to be won. There are plenty of prizes and they come around quite often. Like with most games you really want those special features to fire in order to cash out once and for all.

What you’ll find on the screen, be that on desktop or mobile, is a five times three grid of reels. Twenty paylines move through the reels from left to right, and any three to five symbol combination along these lines will net you a nice prize. The betting is controlled via a simple total bet slider.

Features

As with most other Booming Games slots, this one too comes with the gamble feature. This gives a quick chance to double any pot, as many times as you like. Just remember that the chances are always 50 - 50, and guessing wrong will lead to forfeiting the whole sum.

To land an actual special feature you need some rope. Actually, a lot of rope, with three scatters being the minimum to get the action going. There’s not much extra going on here, you simply get ten free spins, after which the normal spins resume. You do have the chance to retrigger the spins though. In addition, you also have the 4th reel acting as a wild reel, but this too is present during the normal game.

Our Take

Ice World offers very little when it comes to originality or specials. The free spins, a gamble feature, and wild reel are nice additions, but nothing extraordinary with today’s slots. What keeps the game going is the low volatility. Slots with small frequent wins are becoming a rarity, so it’s nice to have one that comes with modern graphics and features. You might end up giving this one a cold shoulder, but you should still try it. With a small bet of course.