Caveman (R Franco) Demo Slot - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Game Theme & Storyline

Like a mashup of Jurassic Park and Ice Age, this fun cartoon style slot takes us back to One Million Years BC when men and dinosaurs shared the earth, allegedly. So we get triceratops and T-Rex alongside sabre tooth tigers, woolly mammoths and a caveman family.

It’s the old familiar story of a hungry caveman, his starving family and a mobile larder of big old beasts packed with protein. It’s familiar from movies like The Lost World. The Land Before Time and The Good Dinosaur and though it could never have existed, the idea of cavemen hunting dinosaurs has a powerful grip on our imaginations, though R Franco play it strictly for laughs here.

Graphics & Sound

This is a campy, poppy, cartoony slot packed with paytable symbols and a great 60's style soundtrack. The reels spin out in the caveman’s cave as the snow and ice thaw outside and there are cute sound effects and animations. Visually there’s a lot going on which we’ve come to expect from R Franco.

If you loved cartoons like Ice Age, you’ll love the style of this slot. It’s definitely effective and the chomping plant, running cavewoman and exploding volcanoes amongst other animating symbols add to the fun. As ever this is a well thought out game and fans of R Franco Slot Machines will thoroughly enjoy this action packed experience.

How To Play

There’s nothing complicated about playing Caveman. You’re looking to land combos of 3 or more matching symbols on a featured payline, and you can play from 1 to 25 depending on your budget. Winning combos will only count if they land on an activated line.

You can play between 10 and 100 autoplay spins but there’s no turbo spins feature. It doesn’t matter as this game really picks up the pace anyway and you wouldn’t want to miss out on the fun and quality animations. You’re looking for the higher paying picture symbols for the biggest wins, with the caveman paying 120x your stake for 5 of a kind.

The Cavekid is the wild symbol and expands to complete new winning combos. You won’t miss the triceratops scatter and you’ll love the free spins it unlocks but don’t get trampled in the rush to the reels!

Bet Sizes And Maximum Win

It’s possible to play this slot for as little as 0.01 credit over 1 line, but most players will opt to play all 25 for 0.25 per spin. The biggest stake in this game is 1.25 credits and if that’s where you’re comfortable then a simple tap on the Bet Max button lets you play at that level.

The maximum win here is 15,000 credits from the multi-level Caveman bonus. You won’t be surprised to learn that this feature is very rarely available.

Bonus Features

This brilliant slot offers players plenty of exciting and high potential features that you can unlock through the special symbols of the Cavekid wild and the triceratops scatter.

Wild: The Cavekid symbol appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 and will expand to fill all positions on the reel. You’ll also win a multiplier prize for any wild wins as follows:

- 1 wild, 2x multiplier
- 2 wilds, 4x multiplier
- 3 wilds, 8x multiplier

Scatter: The scatter symbol will pay out from 2 symbols but you’ll need 3 triceratops scatters anywhere on the reels to trigger the 15 free spins feature. 3 or more triceratops will retrigger an additional 15 free spins up to a total of 300 per session. The wild will replace all symbols except the Cavekid, triceratops and bonus eggs.

Cave bonus: Land an egg on reels 1 and 5 during the free spins to start the cave bonus. There are 5 levels to this bonus and you’ll advance to the next one each time by picking a cave that awards a prize. You’ll continue to the next level as long as you keep picking prizes:

- Prizes that are added together
- Multipliers that multiply all prizes obtained
- Cash Out message ends the bonus

Double or quits: If you want even more action you can gamble on any base game win with a simple card colour match game. If you’re right you’ll double your prize and can gamble again. If you’re wrong you’ll win nothing and return to the base game.

Max-win 1,000x

Volatility Medium

Top RTP 97.06%

RTP & Volatility

This slot features 95% RTP which is a hypothetical measure of a potential payout ratio over the long term. This figure is best regarded as a guideline and is never a guarantee.

High volatility indicates that you’ll get bigger payouts from the free spins features. But it’s no surprise that the free spins don’t trigger very often or the cave bonus pick and win.

Our Verdict

Caveman is a great fun slot that is highly entertaining and replayable. R Franco isn't afraid to do something different with their slots and Caveman doesn’t disappoint with two different symbol sets, masses of features and huge potential - even if most players won’t be able to realise it.

We love the camp 60's aesthetic of this Flinstone’s style game and the 15,000 credit top payout is quite generous but very difficult to land in the pick and win bonus game. That said, you’ll have plenty of fun on your return visits to caveman world trying to maximise your payouts.