Rotten Potato review
Print Studios
History is littered with civilisations that rose, dominated, and faded away. Some vanished almost entirely, while others left behind little more than fragments of their former glory. Not even kingdoms in the online slot world are safe from the forces of entropy, it seems, as the glorious reign of the taters in Print Studio's Royal Potato has been brought low in the follow-up Rotten Potato. In this game, a strange blight has infested the kingdom, causing the onset of rot. Sad for spuds perhaps, but good for players, as some of the features are connected to fungus, plague, and an actual Rotten Potato Wild appears in the bonus round, bearing witness to a once-proud kingdom mutating into a diseased playground of potentially lucrative decay.
Ponderous was a word that came to mind while initially inspecting Rotten Potato and its rules. The music meandered around the cranium like an underground stream; the characters are as eccentric as ever, and come on, potatoes? Not many studios would be creative or brave enough to shun the usual online slot imagery for the humble potato. The potatoes in Rotten Potato and the original release are anything but humble, though. We're talking blue-blooded aristocracy here, and Print Studios has taken a common household item and once again made it visually interesting. However, Rotten Potato did evoke emotions of sadness as well, as the vibrant, gold-hued kingdom of Royal Potato and Royal Potato 2 has fallen on to hard and mouldy times, like a lonely wee spud that rolled to the back of the cupboard, left to fester, rot, and grow those weird tendrils.
Rotten Potato is played on a 5-reel, 4-row matrix, with 30 winning lines for creating combinations of matching symbols. Gamblers have access to a stake range of $/€0.10 to $/€50 per spin, while the RTP is 96.26%, and the math model has been rated 9 out of 10 for volatility.
The paytable features an eccentric cast of characters such as, from top down, King Cordyceps III, Queen Mashonne, Duchess Dawnita, Countess Bloateria, Baron Braaainsley, and Lord Lurchly, as well as purple, orange, green, and blue flowers. Landing 5 matching flowers pays 1.5x to 3x the bet, or 5 matching character symbols are worth 6x to 50x the bet.
Rotten Potato's extras are SuperSpinners, two mystery features, a Potato Plague Bonus, and Feature Bets.
Fourteen SuperSpinners can be found between the reels. If a winning line crosses a SuperSpinner with a number, and the SuperSpinner is on the left of a winning symbol, that number is used to multiply that winning line. When more than one SuperSpinner is part of the same winning line, they multiply the win one by one.
In the base game, one of two mystery features may trigger before wins are evaluated. The Potato Horde covers an area of 2x2 to 5x4 in mystery symbols, while the Spreading Fungus adds 4 to 20 mystery symbols to random positions. Mystery symbols reveal the same paying symbol.
Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters in the base game triggers 10, 12, or 14 free spins, respectively. During the bonus, a 1x2 Rotten Potato Wild sits locked to the middle reel. If the Rotten Potato Wild is part of a winning combination, the positions of all winning symbols in the win become infected. In addition, a random number of non-infected positions may become infected after each spin. If the round was triggered by 5 scatters, the random infection is guaranteed. Infected positions can return as mystery symbols in later spins.
The bonus has 5 Infection Stages tracked by a meter above the reels. Infected positions are collected to progress the meter. Reaching a new stage grants extra spins and unlocks an extra SuperSpinnners multiplier, as displayed on the Rotten Potato Wild. On each spin, the value on the Rotten Potato Wild is randomly distributed to the SuperSpinners, adding to their multiplier for the spin. Reaching Stage 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 grants +3 free spins each time, except at Stage 5, where players get +1 free spin, and the extra multiplier value is 10, 15, 20, 50, and 100, respectively.
Players are able to buy their way into the Potato Plague Bonus for 103x their bet. The Mystery Features are inactive during this feature bet. It is also possible to use the Super Slider to increase the chance of triggering the bonus by dragging the slider, indicating a cost from 1.5x to 99x.
Rotten Potato is a peculiar addition to Print Studios' Royal Potato series, also peculiar, taking the eccentric charm of the original and dragging it through the mud, fungus, and unpleasantness of decay. Where Royal Potato was a colourful kingdom of aristocratic spuds, Rotten Potato drags that world into a diseased playground, though the transformation works surprisingly well both visually and mechanically. SuperSpinners provide another link to the past where they again light up the gaps between reels, making wins they are part of more valuable, as they multiply lines in succession. From there though, the gameplay between the two potato slots is quite different, as Rotten Potato branches off in a new direction.
There's still a wild symbol on screen throughout the entire free spins round, but this one has different duties to perform, passing out increasing numbers to SuperSpinners as the bonus progresses to higher levels. It didn't come across as a game you really dip in and out of quickly and expect some sort of reward. Well, technically, that could happen, but like sowing seeds and waiting for them to grow, patience may be needed to see Rotten Potato's best parts due to its progressive nature, or what Print Studios calls a bonus 'built on exponential growth.' Progression and build-up are things Print Studios excel at, as seen in Royal Potato, its Plinko slots, for example, and again here in Rotten Potato. One of the real stars of the show is those SuperSpinners, which were crucial for getting better results, putting pressure on the bonus rounds to level up as quickly as possible.
Should Rotten Potato push things to the limit, it is able to produce results up to a 20,000x cap, quite a bit less than Royal Potato, but there you have it. In fact, the game as a whole wasn't as thrilling as its Royal predecessor; the base game could be quite slow (though Mystery Features are able to rectify that), and the bonus round can bottleneck around the Rotten Potato Wild's contributions to the SuperSpinners. It's an eccentric game, very unique in presentation and design, but it was strangely low on visceral white-knuckle moments.
Rotten Potato pairs Print Studios' trademark eccentricity with a clever progression system, but its slow build-up and restrained action leave it lacking the thrills of its Royal predecessor.
Ponderous was a word that came to mind while initially inspecting Rotten Potato and its rules. The music meandered around the cranium like an underground stream; the characters are as eccentric as ever, and come on, potatoes? Not many studios would be creative or brave enough to shun the usual online slot imagery for the humble potato. The potatoes in Rotten Potato and the original release are anything but humble, though. We're talking blue-blooded aristocracy here, and Print Studios has taken a common household item and once again made it visually interesting. However, Rotten Potato did evoke emotions of sadness as well, as the vibrant, gold-hued kingdom of Royal Potato and Royal Potato 2 has fallen on to hard and mouldy times, like a lonely wee spud that rolled to the back of the cupboard, left to fester, rot, and grow those weird tendrils.
Rotten Potato is played on a 5-reel, 4-row matrix, with 30 winning lines for creating combinations of matching symbols. Gamblers have access to a stake range of $/€0.10 to $/€50 per spin, while the RTP is 96.26%, and the math model has been rated 9 out of 10 for volatility.
The paytable features an eccentric cast of characters such as, from top down, King Cordyceps III, Queen Mashonne, Duchess Dawnita, Countess Bloateria, Baron Braaainsley, and Lord Lurchly, as well as purple, orange, green, and blue flowers. Landing 5 matching flowers pays 1.5x to 3x the bet, or 5 matching character symbols are worth 6x to 50x the bet.
Rotten Potato's extras are SuperSpinners, two mystery features, a Potato Plague Bonus, and Feature Bets.
Fourteen SuperSpinners can be found between the reels. If a winning line crosses a SuperSpinner with a number, and the SuperSpinner is on the left of a winning symbol, that number is used to multiply that winning line. When more than one SuperSpinner is part of the same winning line, they multiply the win one by one.
In the base game, one of two mystery features may trigger before wins are evaluated. The Potato Horde covers an area of 2x2 to 5x4 in mystery symbols, while the Spreading Fungus adds 4 to 20 mystery symbols to random positions. Mystery symbols reveal the same paying symbol.
Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters in the base game triggers 10, 12, or 14 free spins, respectively. During the bonus, a 1x2 Rotten Potato Wild sits locked to the middle reel. If the Rotten Potato Wild is part of a winning combination, the positions of all winning symbols in the win become infected. In addition, a random number of non-infected positions may become infected after each spin. If the round was triggered by 5 scatters, the random infection is guaranteed. Infected positions can return as mystery symbols in later spins.
The bonus has 5 Infection Stages tracked by a meter above the reels. Infected positions are collected to progress the meter. Reaching a new stage grants extra spins and unlocks an extra SuperSpinnners multiplier, as displayed on the Rotten Potato Wild. On each spin, the value on the Rotten Potato Wild is randomly distributed to the SuperSpinners, adding to their multiplier for the spin. Reaching Stage 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 grants +3 free spins each time, except at Stage 5, where players get +1 free spin, and the extra multiplier value is 10, 15, 20, 50, and 100, respectively.
Players are able to buy their way into the Potato Plague Bonus for 103x their bet. The Mystery Features are inactive during this feature bet. It is also possible to use the Super Slider to increase the chance of triggering the bonus by dragging the slider, indicating a cost from 1.5x to 99x.
Rotten Potato is a peculiar addition to Print Studios' Royal Potato series, also peculiar, taking the eccentric charm of the original and dragging it through the mud, fungus, and unpleasantness of decay. Where Royal Potato was a colourful kingdom of aristocratic spuds, Rotten Potato drags that world into a diseased playground, though the transformation works surprisingly well both visually and mechanically. SuperSpinners provide another link to the past where they again light up the gaps between reels, making wins they are part of more valuable, as they multiply lines in succession. From there though, the gameplay between the two potato slots is quite different, as Rotten Potato branches off in a new direction.
There's still a wild symbol on screen throughout the entire free spins round, but this one has different duties to perform, passing out increasing numbers to SuperSpinners as the bonus progresses to higher levels. It didn't come across as a game you really dip in and out of quickly and expect some sort of reward. Well, technically, that could happen, but like sowing seeds and waiting for them to grow, patience may be needed to see Rotten Potato's best parts due to its progressive nature, or what Print Studios calls a bonus 'built on exponential growth.' Progression and build-up are things Print Studios excel at, as seen in Royal Potato, its Plinko slots, for example, and again here in Rotten Potato. One of the real stars of the show is those SuperSpinners, which were crucial for getting better results, putting pressure on the bonus rounds to level up as quickly as possible.
Should Rotten Potato push things to the limit, it is able to produce results up to a 20,000x cap, quite a bit less than Royal Potato, but there you have it. In fact, the game as a whole wasn't as thrilling as its Royal predecessor; the base game could be quite slow (though Mystery Features are able to rectify that), and the bonus round can bottleneck around the Rotten Potato Wild's contributions to the SuperSpinners. It's an eccentric game, very unique in presentation and design, but it was strangely low on visceral white-knuckle moments.
Rotten Potato pairs Print Studios' trademark eccentricity with a clever progression system, but its slow build-up and restrained action leave it lacking the thrills of its Royal predecessor.
