Energy Awakening: Power Up the Wild Circuit and Light the Lab on Fire
Matija Antic rated this game
5 out of 5
KA Gaming’s Energy Awakening brings a sci-fi lab setting wrapped a five-reel, three-row grid with 243 ways to win. Inside, everything comes down to wilds and respins, which trigger with any winning combo.
At least in my session, there weren't many of the small or mid hits we're all used to. On the contrary. My session started strong and stayed like that till the end. But before I retell my experience, I’ll give you some context.
Wilds here come in four colors, and each one substitutes for every other symbol on the grid to build a winning thread. The yellow wild is the first one to appear. Then, every two consecutive wins during a respin streak unlock the next color, so green joins after two wins, blue after four, and purple after six.
The more colors active, the more wilds drop onto the reels at once, and a bar on the side climbs with every return until it fills at six wins. The paytable doesn't explain what filling it does, but my best guess is that all four wild colors go active at the same time.
In my playthrough, the respin streaks usually carried me to the green and blue tiers, with single wins up to 20x my bet, and one early surge pushed a single spin to 25x my bet. The maximum streak I got was five respins, and even though I stopped one short of filling the bar, that combo closed at a 50x return on my bet.
Frankly, most of the session, I had to deal with only one respin, but those wins could go as high as 3x my bet, which is actually solid since they appeared every three to ten spins, but mostly somewhere in the middle.
At least for me, this is the peak of KA Gaming's simple slots, both in visuals and mechanics. Plus, my session was above average. That said, I definitely recommend spinning the demo version here on SlotsMate, and hopefully, you'll see the potential I saw.
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PROS - Stacked wild symbols
- Respins on every win
- High base game returns
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CONS
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