Flodder

Flodder: Slot Overview

If you're unfamiliar with Dutch cinema, it's unlikely Flodder from Red Tiger will be immediately recognisable. Flodder is a satirical film released in 1986 about a family forced to leave their state-owned house after finding toxic waste beneath it. A social worker called Sjakie decides to move the Flodders to 'Zonnedael', the best part of Amsterdam, in the hopes that the upper-class environment will have a positive effect on the family. What ensues is hilarity as the two social classes clash before reconciling at the end in a big engagement party. Flodder received mixed reviews when it was first released but went on to attract a cult following and was admitted to the Canon van de Nederlandse Film in 2007. Following the original film came Flodder in Amerika and Flodder 3, plus a TV series which aired from 1993 to 1998. Now, we have the online slot version.

Flodder the slot is played outside the family home, in the affluent part of town, with a big pink car parked in the drive. Red Tiger has added several thoughtful touches to emphasise the contrast between the suburban paradise and Flodder's wilder nature, such as a banana peel on the pavement, trash on the front lawn, and undies draped on the letterbox. The visual style is quite unique, too, and mixing cartoon graphics with a more artistic flair helps reinforce the idea that despite societal stratification, deep down we're not all so different when we make an effort to get along.

Hosted on a 5-reel, 3-row game grid, players make use of 25 fixed paylines to hit winning combinations across. Flodder's numbers aren't bad, but nothing hugely noteworthy either, starting with a theoretical return value of 95.75% and decent max win potential at 7,564x. The math model runs medium volatile, and while there are quite a lot of moving parts in the game, the vast majority only appear during the free spins bonus round. Playable on any device, stake range is limited to 10 p/c to $/€10 per spin.

Landing at least three matching symbols in adjacent reels from the left-hand side triggers a win, and Flodder provides 10 pay symbols to work with. This includes 10-A card ranks on the low side, worth 2 to 6 times the stake for five of a kind, and five characters as the high pays. These are the dog, son Kees, daughter Kees, Johnnie, and Ma Flodder, paying 8 to 50 times the stake for a winning line of five matching symbols. Three types of wild symbols land at various points, covered in the features section, to substitute for all paying symbols.

Flodder: Slot Features

Flodder's features are a mix of family members and modifiers. At any time, a Grandpa Flodder feature may join in, but the bulk of the action is saved up and unleashed when free spins are triggered.

Grandpa Flodder

In the base or bonus game, Grandpa Flodder may randomly cross the screen, waving his stick and dropping 2 to 12 wild symbols onto the reels in any position.

Free Spins

Scatter symbols appear on any reel, and landing 3 of them triggers 10 free spins with three picks from the free spins picker. Any additional scatter symbol in view awards an extra pick. Scatter symbols only appear in the base game, so the bonus round cannot be retriggered.

Free Spins Picker

Before free spins begin, two lines of liquor bottles, 20 in total, line the screen. Players click them one by one until their allocated number of picks has been used. Here it is possible to win:

• Bonus Spins – 2, 3, 4, 5, or 10 extra free spins.
• Wins multiplier – adds +1 or +2 to the win multiplier.
• Sjakie Wild – adds a 1x3 Super wild to the second and/or fourth reel.
• Wild Johnnie – upgrades the Johnnie symbols into a Wild Johnnie symbol.
• Wild Ma Flodder - upgrades the Ma Flodder symbols into a Wild Ma Flodder symbol

If a win multiplier is awarded, all wins during free spins are increased by the applicable amount. The most the win multiplier can be is x8. The other modifiers are pretty self-explanatory, mainly consisting of extra free spins, or sticky super wilds or Johnnie and Ma Flodder symbol to wild upgrades.

Flodder: Slot Verdict

Most likely, there's a regional focus like in the case of Kulta Jaska Megaways which was exclusively launched for the Finnish market. It's not the first time Red Tiger has picked an unusual form of visual entertainment to theme a slot either. That honour went to Joe Exotic; another game rammed with larger-than-life characters.

If you're unfamiliar with Flodder the film, the slot can still be fun to play, but it might feel a bit left field. However, just by reading up on the film, Flodder's charm significantly increased, the characters became more endearing, and it was hard not to root for the family. No doubt these feel-good fuzzies are how the movie gained such a cult following in the first place.

From a gaming standpoint, nothing here is new per se, yet everything has been linked to the characters and is neatly tied together. Triggering free spins is when the Flodders and their social worker get the chance to combine forces to do something special. Well, it might depend on which modifiers are awarded during the Golden Fish Tank-like pick feature, of course. During the review, full-stack wilds in conjunction with Wild Johnnie or Wild Ma worked quite well, or full-stack wilds and multipliers. Nothing amazing, but Flodder can pay out as much as 7,564x the bet when the family pulls out all the stops.

Needless to say, players who got a chuckle out of the film will be right at home in Flodder the slot. Others who have no affinity to the Flodders whatsoever could still get a kick out of the modifier pick free spins bonus round and the cartoonish antics, though the more you know about the family, the easier it is to enjoy the game.