Aloha! Cluster Pays Pokies
Swedish online casino games developer Net Ent has a huge range of popular pokies on the market, but one of their biggest is Aloha! Cluster Pays, a 6-reel game with symbols in 5 rows on each. Set against a backdrop of a South Pacific island, there’s no conventional payline structure, instead wins come from seeing clusters of 9 or more matching symbols bunched together, and the bigger the bunch, the higher the payouts.
Brightly coloured symbols of shells, coconuts, flowers and pineapples appear on the reels, along with some tiki-heads, each of which is over-sized to make it easier to land a cluster of them, while bonus symbols trigger wild substitutions and free spins. The island atmosphere is heightened by a nice backdrop where we see a smoking volcano to one side and a smiling tiki statue to the right, along with palm trees and pink flowers, which makes the Aloha! Cluster Pays video pokie a great-looking machine. It’s playable from just 0.10 per spin, to a generous high limit of 200.00.
Playing Aloha! Cluster Pays
Once bets have been set using the control buttons below the reels, it’s time to get them spinning and hopefully collecting some rewards. The least valuable symbol is the pink flower and the red and gold tiki head is the one that pays the most when it forms a cluster. Although it sounds like it could be difficult to get 9 matching symbols connected, because they are all stacked several high on the reels, including the larger heads, it can be relatively easy, and the connection can be up or down, left or right.
A maximum of 30 matching symbols can fill the reels, and if the red tiki completely covers all positions, the top win of 10,000x the total bet will be collected. Whenever a winning cluster is formed, the big tiki statute next to the reels will bob up and down a bit in celebration, which is an example of the nice touches Net Ent put into many of their online casino games.
Aloha! Cluster Pays
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Bonus Features
Bonus symbols will trigger extra features, with a question mark on a wooden crate being the wildcard, able to act as any other apart from the free spin icon if it’s then possible to complete a cluster, filling in the gaps in groups of matching symbols. If it’s possible to complete more than a single cluster, the wild will act as whichever symbol creates the highest-value win.
Randomly after any winning cluster is formed, the symbols that made up the win will stay locked in place while all other symbols spin again for free, and if anything can add to the cluster, not only is a new winning combination formed, but there’s another reel re-spin to enjoy. This can go on and on until no extra symbol adds to the win, and the longer this continues, the bigger the payouts are going to be, until eventually the whole screen can be filled with the same big cluster.
The free spin symbol looks like a stamp and when this turns up in any 3, 4, 5 or 6 positions at once it triggers 9, 10, 11, or 12 bonus games respectively. A unique feature ensures that players end the round on a winning spin, while also removing lower-value symbols as the games progress. This means that the chances of landing a big win increase, as there are fewer different symbols types left in play, but if the last free spin doesn’t result in a payout, then extra games will be added on until a winning cluster is formed. Any time the free spin icon appears during the round, between 1 and 4 further spins are added on to the total.
The Verdict
It’s no wonder that Aloha! Cluster Pays has become one of the biggest casino pokie machines at sites where the Net Ent range is carried. This is a great-looking game, filled with innovative features that can bring in some substantial rewards. The free spins round, with the Symbol Drop system would be enough for most pokie players, but adding the random re-spins feature really takes this game to another level.
The appealing design and fun animations are added attractions and really the only thing that would improve it is if Net Ent had made it mobile-optimised, but like much of their range, players can’t access this game via their smartphones. Anyone who wants to just test it out however, will find free Aloha! Cluster Pays video pokies at Net Ent casinos.