Space Donkey - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

It is a 6x6 slot with 46,656 ways to win. The usual RTP is 96.07%, and the variance is high. Inspired by two classic arcade games, Space Invaders and Donkey Kong, this slot has multiple arcade-style bonus games as well as wild multipliers. The max win is x14,649.

Space Donkey Slot Review

Is this a video slot or a video game? Everything about the 6x6 layout of Nolimit City’s Space Donkey is designed to recall old-school arcades, and even its bonus features fit that theme. Even the areas more like regular slots, like reels and ways to win, don’t follow the standard format, right down to the 46,656 possible win combinations. This is for fans of Space Invaders and Donkey Kong more than Darkness players.

Two Classics

Even if you’re not a gamer, they’re probably familiar. Space Invaders, the 1978 Taito shoot-em-up that revolutionised the genre and Nintendo’s Donkey Kong, the groundbreaking 1981 platformer that introduced the world to Mario. The popularity and cultural impact of these two, still adored decades later, is immeasurable, so it’s no wonder that the world of slots has tried to get in on the action.

Down the Arcade

The Space Donkey slot really does look like one of those classic arcade games. It’s a clear appeal to nostalgia, with the reels transparent so it looks like the little aircraft are genuinely flying over the waters of the background, with the mother ship dominating the top. The blue takes up most of the screen, with just a few scraps of green-clad land clinging to the edges. There are two main characters, the alien and the donkey, both also symbols.

Space Donkey RTP and Variance

Casinos can choose to adjust the RTP of the Space Donkey slot, but the usual figure is 96.07%. The variance is high.

How to Play Space Donkey

What happens when slots meet other video games?

1. Read the loading screen first - that gives you some info.
2. For everything else, check out the menu. It’ll automatically open the paytable with payout potential, rules and features.
3. Also in the menu is settings, so you can toggle music, sound effects and space bar to spin. 
4. Back on the main screen click the coin to reveal bet options and pick the one best suited to you.
5. Review your budget and limits.
6. Hit spin and have fun.
7. Always play responsibly.

How to Win at Space Donkey

One way in which Space Donkey is more like other slots than other games is that you have to create combinations of winning symbols. Of course, most online slots don’t have a 6x6 layout with as many as 46.656 ways to win. That means that whilst symbols still need to match, they can run pretty much any way as long as they start on the left and there are at least three of them.

Top Wins

• You can see the potential payouts for winning symbols, based on your current bet, on the paytable.
• Cards from 9 to A fill the bottom half with their lower pays. The smallest win for a full six matches is x0.25 your bet.
• Themed symbols are worth more. Six matches of the top monkey symbol pay 4x your bet.
• Enter the Space Donkey bonus features and your total win could change. See the next part of our Space Donkey slot review.
• Overall the max win available is x14,649.

Space Donkey Bonuses

Space Donkey leans into its arcade roots in its bonus games, where you try to play your way through the Hide N’ Seek or Seek N’ Destroy rounds. You can also watch out for wild abductions or the Hellfire feature, even in the base game.

Wild Abductions

The wild is a UFO, and we know UFOs abduct people. Here the UFO travels down a row with every win and abducts regular symbols as it goes. Every abducted symbol adds +1 to the win multiplier.

Hellraiser

For this you need the chopper symbol, which is not a regular scatter symbol like you might find in some slots. Three of them will activate the feature and start firing in various directions. Symbols hit by the fire gain the chopper’s win multiplier, which can go as high as x10.

Hide N’ Seek

Three triggering scatters turn into death traps as a monkey tries to move round the grid, collecting prizes and avoiding losing his three lives.

• Trap: lose a life.
• Grey chest: bet multiplier, cash prize, extra life, teleport to Seek N’ Destroy or nothing at all.
• Golden chest: bet multiplier.
• Alien: moves a step closer to the monkey every turn, takes a life from the monkey when they meet.
• Magician: summons all golden chests.
• King: boosts value of golden chest prizes.
• Princess: kills adjacent aliens, collects all prizes from chests.
• Stone monster: doubles value of golden chests, opens grey chests, kills the alien.

Seek N’ Destroy

Trigger from Hide N’ Seek or find the scatter symbol four times in the base game. This is more of a platformer, with monkey jumping from row to row as he tries to kill aliens and reach the mother ship. Each column and alien has a win multiplier to try and collect. Different weapons for the monkey cause different effects. Destroy the mother ship and reach Monkeypendence Day.

Max-win 14,649x

Volatility Medium

Top RTP 96.07%

Space Donkey Review - Summary 

How much you love the distinctive graphics and theme of Space Donkey is probably going to depend on how much attachment you have to the original Space Invaders and Donkey Kong. Space Donkey embraces its arcade roots whole-heartedly, though this does mean some of its features are a bit unusual and complicated compared to other slots. It does have an expansive 6x6 layout and lots of layers of gameplay.
 

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