Evolution rolls out Balloon Race live slot

• Online Casinos
• 04. 07. 2024.
• Nemanja Lazarevic

Evolution has just announced the launch of Balloon Race, an online slot with a live bonus round that resembles their trademark game shows. The latest live slot is enough to suggest that the highly regarded software provider is keen to build on the success of Crazy Pachinko and Crazy Coin Flip pokies with live bonus.

Combining their world-leading game show interface and ideas with online slot technology from its partners from Nolimit City, Big Time Gaming, NetEnt and Red Tiger, Evolution seems determined to dominate yet another online casino vertical.

Qualifying phase

Thanks to Chief Product Officer Todd Haushalter and his incredibly talented team, Evolution has become the world leader in creating incredibly entertaining live game shows, and they now seem to have set their sights on vowing pokie lovers as well.

At first glance, Balloon Race is a simple five-reel slot, featuring 10 fixed paylines, and a 96.09% RTP, where payouts are awarded just like in most other online pokies.

Base game is called Qualification Phase and the main goal is to trigger the Balloon Race Bonus. The bonus round is triggered either by three Scatters anywhere on the reels or three Expanding Wilds, and that is when the magic happens.

After qualifying, any mutlipliers collected up to 30x are added and carried over to the Balloon Race Bonus.

You also have the option to increase their chances of activating the Balloon Race Bonus with XXXtreme spin (costs 5x the bet and guarantees one Scatter or Expanding Wild) or Super XXXtreme spin (costs 50x the bet and guarantees two Scatters or Expanding Wilds).

Top-Up phase

Before the Bonus starts, you can participate in the Top-Up phase, placing either a new bet to the same value of the qualifying bet or increasing it.

3-6 balloons containing a possible Top-Up value are then released and those that reach the top of the screen will add corresponding values to the total Bonus value.

Following the Top-Up phase, a plane will award random multipliers for each of the four colours (yellow, purple, green, red), to determine the final multiplier amount for the live Bonus.

Balloon Race Bonus Game

Balloon Race Bonus takes players directly into a live game show environment, where the game host takes charge. The bonus resembles a hot air balloon race, where ball drawing machine decides which of the four coloured balloons soars into the clouds on each draw.

There are a total of 80 balls, 20 in each colour, and the first balloon that flies five positions up awards the corresponding multiplier. Once the race ends, all the multipliers collected in the process are calculated together.

The bonus round seems it can be quite lucrative, so there are no doubts slot players everywhere will be chasing those Scatters and Expanding Wilds to trigger the innovative bonus feature.