Frozen Tropics Slot Features

Set on a clean blue surface, a 6x3-4 grid awards payouts for matching at least 3 symbols on consecutive reels. To qualify for a prize, combinations must begin from the leftmost column and continue rightwards in an uninterrupted sequence utilizing any of the 2,304 winning ways. Each win will disappear from the view, triggering a cascade of remaining symbols and adding new instances to complete the board. Regular payouts range from 0.05 to 0.5 times the bet for forming sets of low-value royal characters and from 0.2 to 2 times for hits on premium images represented by fruit. A standard Wild appears on all reels, substituting for all paying icons during win evaluation.

Frozen Symbols

All regular symbols in the game may initially appear in one of three states:

• Level 3 - fully frozen
• Level 2 - half frozen
• Level 1 - not frozen

Frozen symbols do not explode after participating in a win. Instead, they go down one level. Unfrozen instances reveal an x1 multiplier after disappearing, which is added to a global counter that boosts any successive wins during the same cascading sequence.

Wilds exploding on reels 2 and 5 leave behind a higher random multiplier from an x5 - x100 range. Any Wild that disappears on reels 3 and 4 generates an x2 multiplier that multiplies the total value instead of being added to it.

Frozen Tropics Free Spins

Landing at least 3 Scatters activates 10 free spins. Additionally, a fixed instant prize of 2, 5, 20, or 100 times the bet will be paid for scoring 3, 4, 5, or 6 Scatters, respectively. During the bonus, the multiplier is persistent and does not reset between individual spins.

It's possible to trigger the free spins instantly for a fixed buy-in of 100 times the total stake.

Final Thoughts

Combining opposite themes in a game is undoubtedly an amusing approach that usually results in a unique audiovisual experience. Pragmatic Play decided to put hot and cold against each other in a tropical setting, much to the tune of already existing slots like Tropicool and Tropicool 2 by ELK Studios. It's not apparent if this is a deliberate imitation, yet from a purely artistic standpoint, it might feel so, looking at the fruit symbols frozen in ice cubes and the top hat-wearing bird. Still, if evaluated in a vacuum, Frozen Tropics is a likable and nicely polished scene that competently clashes two ends of the thermometer in one place. Perhaps it could use some more attention to detail and a richer environment to immerse even more, but even in the current state, there's nothing specific to complain about.

The slot's technical side offers an interesting way of connecting multipliers with regular wins. Not only mixed combinations of frozen and unfrozen symbols can pay multiple times during the same cascading sequence, but every disappearing symbol adds +1 to the total multiplier applied at the end of the spin. If that symbol is a Wild, this added value can even reach 100x or double the existing total, depending on which reels the icon lands. Brainy yet easy to follow and full of potential, especially when you trigger the bonus round in which the multiplier doesn't reset.