The Final Countdown (Big Time Gaming) Slot Demo & Review

It makes sense that players like to listen to music during a slot session. I’m the same. I usually mute the sound of the slot I’m playing and put on my favourite tunes. The great thing about slots like The Final Countdown is that you don’t have to bother, as you already have something great to listen to. That’s why I love playing music slots, such as Def Leppard’s Hysteria from Play’n Go and  Nolimit City’s DJ Psycho and The Rave, as you can bop away while you play. 

While we’re collectively tapping our feet and nodding our heads, let’s get into the payouts that can come from symbol combinations on The Final Countdown. The Purple Gem is the best, with 25x the stake payable once six lands across consecutive reels. The Red Gem is next up with a 2.5x return, while the Blue and Green Gems pay up to 1.5x and 1.25x, respectively. The Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten, and Nine represent the lower pays and are worth a maximum of 1x, 0.75x, 0.6x, 0.6x, 0.5x, and 0.4x. 

Big Time Gaming isn’t renowned for supporting the broadest range of betting options on their slots, especially regarding the upper limits, and that’s the case once again. You can spin from a minimum of €0.20 to a maximum of €20.00.

A 6-reel, 4-row, and 4,096 ways to win configuration has been implemented on The Final Countdown. Winning combinations are formed when three or more matching symbols line up across consecutive reels. The one exception is the Purple Gem, which also pays for two-symbol combinations. 

Reel Clone & Wild Clone

On any spin in the base game or the free spins bonus, there is the chance that between two and four reels between reels two and five will clone to reveal the same symbols in the same order.

Depending on how many reels were cloned, any wild symbols upon those reels will expand to fill their reels and hold a multiplier value. If 2, 3, or 4 reels were cloned, those wilds would hold a 4x, 27x, or 256x win multiplier, respectively. Those multipliers apply to the payouts of any winning combinations created with the aid of the wild symbols.

Those epic wild multipliers continue in the slot’s two main bonus games. You can choose between them whenever three or more scatter symbols land anywhere in view. 

Countdown Free Spins

This bonus gives you 8 free spins, with a 2×2-sized roaming multiplier wild on every spin. Each scatter that lands during the bonus will decrease a countdown timer by up to 3 (it starts at 10), and each time that counter reaches zero, the bonus re-triggers. Furthermore, each re-trigger of the bonus increases the multiplier value of the roaming up to a maximum of 256x.

Heading For Venus Free Spins

Alternatively, you can choose 15 free spins with the guarantee that the Reel Clone feature triggers on everyone. Furthermore, there is a chance that a Velocity Wild can land on the cloned reels, and when it does, it has the potential to hold and increase a multiplier value of up to 888x.