Galactic Racers Dream Drop

Galactic Racers Dream Drop: Slot Overview

Developer Relax Gaming has shown a strong interest in moving vehicles in the past, trains of course, as well as automobiles as seen in Hot Rod Racers, but rarely as futuristically as what you're about to see. The game is Galactic Racers Dream Drop and is based on racing extraterrestrials, possibly in a galaxy far away, possibly this one? Galactic Racers Dream Drop is wired into Relax Gaming's popular jackpot network, where the top prize maxes out at €3,000,000, though a non-Dream Drop version is available as well. Will either Galactic Racers variant be taking the chequered flag? Time to find out.

After a quick double take confirmed we hadn't loaded Quickspin's Cash Truck by accident, Galactic Racers Dream Drop was ready to roll. That was a bit of an exaggeration, perhaps, since Galactic Racers Dream Drop doesn't look exactly like Cash Truck, but the gaming grid stitched to the back of a vehicle travelling along a road as background scenery scrolls by rang bells. In this game, the scenario is predominantly made up of buildings in a futuristic city. Maybe we're on a planet like Coruscant, which is basically one big city lacking trees or anything, which would be awful. Galactic Racers Dream Drop certainly doesn't look awful, though; rather, it does a solid job of dragging wannabe racers into its game world.

You don't need a vehicle, but you will need to select a stake, where the choices are 20 c to $/€100 per spin, and the higher the bet, the greater the chance of triggering a jackpot win. Highly volatile, the RTP on the non jackpot version comes in at 96.08%, while the Dream Drop version clocks in at 94% (the total contribution to the jackpots is 12% of the total bet). For both versions, the gaming is conducted on a 5-reel, 4-row matrix, where there are 1,024 ways to win.

The 4 lower value symbols on Galactic Racers Dream Drop's paytable are 4 sim card-looking objects, followed by 7 alien racers as the higher paying symbols. A 5 OAK win is worth 1 times the bet for the lows and 2 to 10 times the bet for the highs. Wilds help link winning combinations by substituting for any regular pay symbol.

Galactic Racers Dream Drop: Slot Features

Galactic Racers Dream Drop doesn't exactly go mental with extras. Racing alongside the Dream Drop centrepiece are Multiplier Frames and free spins.

Multiplier Frames

Multiplier Frames appear at random on 1 to 5 positions and multiply any win that goes through them. When a win passes more than one Multiplier Frame, their multiplier values are added up. In the base game, frames are cleared for the next spin.

Free Spins

Also, in the base game, hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols awards 8, 12, or 15 free spins, respectively. Any Multiplier Frames present on the triggering spin are carried over into the free spins. During free spins, more Multiplier Frames may appear, and all are sticky for the full duration of the round. In addition, Multiplier Frame values increase on each non-winning spin. Players win +1 additional free spin for every additional scatter symbol that lands during the round.

Dream Drop

A Jackpot Spin may randomly trigger before a standard spin, and the standard spin plays after the Dream Drop Bonus has finished. If at least one DD symbol lands on each reel during the Jackpot Spin, players enter the Dream Drop Bonus. Otherwise, players move back to the normal spin. The Dream Drop Bonus is played on a 5x4 grid with all DD symbols from the triggering spin on the reels. The more reels filled by DD symbols during the bonus, the greater the jackpot awarded – 1 for the Rapid, 2 for the Midi, 3 for the Maxi, 4 for the Major, and 5 for the Mega. Once a jackpot has been awarded, players move back to the standard spin. Jackpots are progressive, and the starting value for the Rapid, Maxi, Major, and Mega is €1, €5, €100, €25,000, and €500,000, respectively.

Galactic Racers Dream Drop: Slot Verdict

Reviewing Galactic Racers Dream Drop got a few thoughts floating around. Not about galactic racing, pitting the Lewis Hamiltons or the Michael Schumachers of tomorrow against the best racers in the galaxy, strangely, but more about what an intergalactic Olympic games-type event would be like. Imagine species from high-gravity planets excelling at high jump or weight lifting events, advanced alien gene splicing to create ultimate athletes, or undetectable performance-enhancing drugs cooked up by off-world technicians light years away from what is possible on planet Earth. The opposite might be true, too, though. Maybe our scientists and athletes are the best the galaxy has to offer, and Earth takes the majority of gold medals. Both are pretty mind-bending scenarios.

Presentation is a big part of Galactic Racers Dream Drop's draw. Its non-jackpot features, while solid and potentially potent, aren't the sort of mechanics which likely taxed a developer like Relax Gaming's design talents. In terms of features, Galactic Racers Dream Drop is a bit like a rally car that's had all of the extraneous bits removed to cut down on weight to squeeze out extra speed. In fact, the Multiplier Frames with multiplier values are similar to the ones gamblers got in Wild Chapo, except here, you don't necessarily have to wait until a final free spin to really feel the power of collected Multiplier Frames. Also, non-winning free spins stir the pot by increasing multiplier values, a nice touch.

It means that when putting the jackpots to one side, Galactic Racers Dream Drop is capable of producing wins of up to 10,000x the bet. That isn't Relax Gaming's largest haul by a long shot, but it is a tidy sum for lucky racers to possibly collect. By extension, Galactic Racers Dream Drop isn't Relax Gaming's finest release either, but it looks a treat while providing an absorbing game world for players with sci-fi leanings to lose themselves in for a bit and maybe do a spot of Dream Drop chasing.