Alien Robots Pokie Machine
Players have 243 different ways to line up symbols across the 5 reels of the Alien Robots video pokie from Net Ent, landing a prize whenever 3 or more of the same symbols stops in any position on connected reels from the left side. It’s just one of the features in this fun, cartoon style game, where there’s also bonus features like sticky wilds and free spins handed out by the mechanical marvels that fill this pokie.
If players prefer, there’s an option to configure the game with 30 paylines, winning a prize when the symbols stop across in fixed patterns, or they can simply play free Alien Robots video pokies, either to test it out before committing to real cash wagers, or simply for the fun. Those wagers start at a low limit of 0.30 per spin if the 30 lines are activated, going up to 150.00 for high roller gamblers, although to get the 243 ways system in play, the stake will need to be doubled.
Net Ent are known for the high-quality designs of their games, but Alien Robots is deliberately simply, having the lower value playing card symbols appear as if they are made from a few pixels each, while the robots look like they have escaped from the pages of a comic book.
Alien Robots
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Playing Alien Robots
There’s different payouts for lining symbols up depending on which system is chosen, but we will assume that 30 paylines have been activated and review what each is worth when landing on connected reels across one. The playing card 10 and J return 10, 50 or 150x the line bet when appearing on 3, 4 or 5 reels, while the Q and K are each worth 15, 80 or 250x and the A pays out 30, 100 or 300x.
The 5 robots are what makes this pokie unique and with some of them, we only need to see 2 across the first reels to win a prize, the smallest of which come from the blue guy who is valued at between 5 and 500x the line bet. Going up the scale, there’s a green and white robot dog, a yellow robot, smug-looking orange alien and top of the pile, we have a red robot who is worth 250x when it stops on 3 reels, while 4 are valued at 1,500x and a massive 10,000 the line bet is paid when it fills an entire payline.
The head robot is literally just a head, with a glowing pink brain inside, and this symbol is able to act as all others, apart from the scatter, if it can complete a winline. If there’s a break in the run of symbols across a line and this wild is in the right place, it will substitute for the missing symbol and players will still get coins paid out.
Free Spins Bonus
The alien spaceship, firing a bright green death ray on their unfortunate opponents, is a scatter symbol that will trigger free spins whenever it flies into any 3 or more spots at once. The number of bonus games depends on how many scatters appear, with 3 of them launching 10 spins, 4 will start 20 spins off and if 5 scatters turn up, then the top award of 50 free spins is given.
During these, the wild symbol will become an expanding wild, stretching out across any reel that it lands on and then staying locked in place while the other reels spin once again, potentially giving players lots more than the initial number of bonus games.
On top of this, any 3 or more scatters landing in a bonus spin retriggers the whole round, so players could get even more added on to the original total.
The Verdict
This reliable pokie has an interesting choice of payline or 243 ways to win options, and while the latter may cost twice as much per spin, there are lots more opportunities to get a winning combination of symbols across the reels when they don’t need to be on an active line.
The symbols may be quite simple, but they look good and are accompanied by some weird alien sound effects, while the animations are smooth and the features are potentially very rewarding. We particularly like the expanding wilds and respins in the bonus round, which will frequently result in an extra win being awarded.
If there’s a downside to this pokie it’s the fact that it isn’t mobile-optimised, which considering how many gamblers now play on their phones seems a bit of a missed opportunity, but perhaps this will be sorted out in time.