Happy Apples Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Happy Apples Review

Red Tiger continues to surprise us, and it’s like a whole new crew took over the show once they started including the Bonus Buy feature (not available in the UK, of course). Happy Apples is not the Red Tiger we thought we knew, and it’s an unusual-looking game in most regards. It comes with pleasing pastel-colored visuals, and it’s definitely not your run-of-the-mill Asian-themed game. We had a good time with Happy Apples though, and it comes with a decent set of features.

The game is built around the Fortune Tree you see behind and above the 6x6 Pay Anywhere grid, and Chain Reaction wins can be prolonged via golden mystery symbol apples from it. You can also land diamond multiplier apples, and these accumulate to boost your total win. You can win up to 6,186x your stake this way, and your chances increase when both modifiers hit more frequently in the bonus round.

Happy Apples Slot - Reels Screen

Happy Apples Slot Features

Landing the minimum of 10 matching symbols anywhere pays between 0.1 and 7.5 x your stake, and 15+ of a kind pays 1.5 to 35 x your stake. There are no wild symbols in this game, which is usually the case for Pay Anywhere slots.

Winning symbols are removed via the Chain Reactions mechanic, and the gaps are filled by new and/or existing symbols dropping from above. This process repeats as long as you keep winning.

The Fortune Tree in the background comes with special apples that may drop onto the grid below at random times. The Golden or Diamond Apples will drop before the regular symbols when the feature activates, and the Fortune Tree may also help you out at the end of a Chain Reaction sequence or after a non-winning spin.

The Golden Apples land at random positions to reveal a randomly selected matching symbol type, and you can get up to 10 golden apples per Fortune Tree activation. You can get up to 3 Diamond Apples, and they come with multipliers of x2, x3, x5, x7, x10, x20, x25, x50, or x100. The multipliers are summed up above the reels, and the total multiplier boosts the total win from the current chain reactions sequence.

It resets on the spin that follows.

You need 3, 4, or 5 scatters in view to trigger the Bonus Round, and this gives you 10, 12, or 15 free spins, respectively. The Fortune Tree feature tends to activate more often in the bonus round, and you get +5 extra spins should you land 3 scatters in view.

Red Tiger has included a Bonus Buy feature menu in this game, and it’s available in some jurisdictions (not in the UK for sure). You can pay 3x your stake to get 5+ guaranteed Golden Apples, or 15x your stake to get 1+ guaranteed Diamond Apple. Finally, you can pay 70x your stake to get the Bonus Round.

The 200 Spins Happy Apples Slot Experience

You get a decent taste of the base game, before we purchase the Diamond Apple feature close to the 1-minute mark. We buy the Golden Apple feature right after that, and finally the Bonus Round at 1:34 into the 6:19-minute highlights video. You can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

It will take a while to get used to the “new” Red Tiger we have seen lately, but overall their transformation has led to interesting releases. Happy Apples is a mix of different genres, and it comes with unusual and eye-catching artwork to boot. The productive studio has completely avoided the usual Asian-theme cliches, and the result is a cute mix of animals, sweets, and fruit.

The Chain Reaction mechanic is satisfying to behold, and the pace of the game flows smoothly all the way.

The Fortune Tree feature kicks in on a regular basis to help you out in different ways, and you can build pretty solid multipliers from the diamond apples. The bonus round can be a bit hit or miss, which is hardly unusual, but it’s fun when you get plenty of Fortune Tree action and lengthy chain reactions. The 6,186x potential is unusually solid for being Red Tiger, but the top-tier RTP is also below the “magical” 96 % limit, as usual. Happy Apples is well worth checking out, however, and it had a mood-lifting effect on us at least.

Pros

• Chain Reaction mechanic
• Golden Apple mystery symbols
• Diamond Apple multiplier
• FS w/ more frequent modifiers
• Win up to 6,186x your stake

Cons

• Top-tier RTP is 95.7 % (RTP ranges)