Cosmic Cash (Pragmatic Play) Slot Demo & Review

The theme of Cosmic Cash can easily be described as “Aliens”, but it’s a very cutesy interpretation of that slot genre – not at all like the movie “Aliens”! I think that can be said for most games in this niche, though, with Space Donkey from Nolimit City and Alien Fruits 2 by BGaming using similar graphics. However, not all titles fall into the cute category, and if you want to try a space-themed game that’s a little outside of the box, I highly suggest trying out our Reapers demo game, a creation from the outstanding Print Studios.

Ok, time to investigate the game’s paytable. The top symbol is the Wild, worth 12.5x for a winning combo of five, whilst one of the “Roswell Greys”, although he is coloured bright green here, is the top standard symbol and pays just 5x. The rest of the “high-paying” symbols include the Space Girl, who pays 3.75x; two Smaller Aliens, who both have a return of 2.5x; and a Spaceship and Ray Gun, both of which pay less than 2x your stake. The entire set of royals from nine through to Ace all pay 1.25x for a full pay line, which feels a little strange but fair enough.

Setting your bet can be done simply by using the plus and minus symbols on either side of the spin button. However, anytime you press one of these buttons, you’ll also be presented with three options allowing you to set the number of coins per line, the coin value, or your total bet. These options feel slightly unnecessary to me – the minimum bet is €0.40 per spin whilst the maximum is €200.00 per spin – and breaking this down into three separate variables doesn’t seem helpful as far as I’m concerned.

The base game features a 5×4 reel set, which spaces out the 40 paylines much more than possible on a regular-sized 5×3 playfield. Wins will be awarded and credited to your balance when three or more matching symbols connect on adjacent reels beginning from the leftmost reel.

Two main bonus rounds can triggered on Cosmic Cash. These are the Cosmic Respins feature and a free spins bonus round. How both of these are triggered and play out are explained below.

Cosmic Respins Feature

Hitting six or more of the golden coins (or “Money” symbols, as the help file calls them) will trigger the Cosmic Respins feature, which seems to be the most common bonus round offered by Cosmic Cash. It’s the familiar setup of starting with three free spins, and that counter will be reset each time an extra symbol lands anywhere on the screen. The reels change shape at the beginning of this feature, becoming just four-wide and pushing all the golden coins to the rightmost edge of the reels.

Any time you fill a row with golden coins, it will expand further to the left until it reaches the maximum size of six spaces wide; at this point, you will win the special “UFO Prize” displayed in the left row. These UFO prizes can include multipliers, jackpots, or free spins, and I completed two rows several times while testing this game.

Free Spins Feature

You can win the regular Free Spins by hitting three or more “Cosmic Cash” scatter symbols during the base game or winning them as a UFO prize from within the Cosmic Respins feature. In my experience, it was much easier to win the Cosmic Respins and then end up with ten or fifteen free spins than to hit three scatters during the base game, but it’s impossible to know whether this was just the result of random luck on my part.

Either way, the regular free spins are boosted by the addition of up to 100 extra wild symbols to the reels at the beginning of your bonus round, which makes full stacks of wilds far more common in this part of the game than during the base game. Despite this, I still didn’t have too many genuinely massive hits during the Free Spins because I always failed to complete full pay lines of five-of-a-kind. My biggest win from the free spins during testing was a little over 200x my bet.

Bonus Buy

Pragmatic Play has included the option to buy your way to the Cosmic Respins at the cost of 100x your stake, a price which seemingly guarantees that you will land ten golden coins at the beginning of your feature.