Super Twins

Super Twins: Slot Overview

Put pencil to paper, and it's possible to make just about anything cute and cuddly. Take rodents, for instance. In real life, they can be nasty wee things, burrowing into walls, nicking food, leaving droppings all about the place. In the cartoon world, it's an entirely different story; just ask Mickey Mouse. It's not just Walt Disney that's making mice loveable. Hacksaw Gaming partner Backseat Gaming has gotten in on the action and developed Super Twins, which tells the story of two mice brothers and their adventures through two bonus rounds powered by a Super Wheel determiner.

If you were expecting a superhero slot, no, the twins in Super Twins are not those sorts of characters. Instead, they are mice, who kind of look like the rodent version of Mario and Luigi. Named Twitch and Tails, the siblings spend the base game in their clean and cosy home before venturing outside for the Floating Free bonus or moving on to the town streets for the Staying Stuck bonus. Wherever the twins find themselves, Super Twins is a charming slot audiovisually; though what goes on beneath the hood might be a different story.

Super Twins' gaming matrix makes use of 5 reels and 14 paylines, awarding winning combinations that land left to right from the leftmost reel. The game is technically as highly volatile as it gets, Backseat Gaming has marked this characteristic of the math model with a 5 out of 5 rating. The highest possible RTP is 96.32%, and bets of 10 c to $/€100 per base game round may be picked.

Fruit and royals make up Super Twins' paytable. Royals (10-A) are the lower paying symbol, worth 1.5-2 times the bet for 5-of-a-kind, while oranges, cherries, grapes, and strawberries pay 4 to 10 times the bet for 5 OAK. The wild substitutes for all symbols on the paytable. Wilds hit on all reels, and a line of 5 of them is worth 10 times the stake.

Super Twins: Slot Features

Super Twins lacks any sort of base game feature or modifier, but what it has as extras are a Floating Free bonus, a Staying Stuck bonus, a Super Wheel, and bonus buys.

Super Wheel

At the beginning of each bonus game, players spin the Super Wheel to determine the starting conditions. The Wheel has two sections, one awarding a global multiplier of x2 to x100, the other awarding 5 to 20 free spins.

Floating Free Bonus

Landing 3 mushroom scatters on a base game spin triggers the Floating Free bonus. The Super Wheel will determine the number of free spins and the Global Multiplier. In Floating Free, all landed wilds float and change position on the reels on each spin. Hitting 3 mushroom scatters in the round activates the Super Wheel again for extra free spins and another multiplier value, which is added to the previous value. Only one type of scatter can be on the reels at the same time.

Staying Stuck Bonus

On a base game spin, landing 3 star scatter symbols triggers the Staying Stuck bonus. The Super Wheel will determine the number of free spins and the Global Multiplier. In Staying Stuck, wilds are sticky and remain in place until the end of the feature. Hitting 3 star scatters in the round activates the Super Wheel again for extra free spins and another multiplier value which is added to the previous value. Only one type of scatter can be on the reels at the same time.

Bonus Buy

Super Twins' bonus buys have these choices up for grabs: BonusHunt FeatureSpins - 3x the bet, each spin is 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus game, Super Wheel FeatureSpins - 20x the bet to get up to 20 wilds and up to an x100 multiplier for one spin, Super-Duper WHeel FeatureSpins - 100x the bet to get up to 20 wilds and up to an x100 multiplier on one spin plus respins while wilds remain on the reels, Floating Free - 100x the bet, and Staying Stuck - 200x the bet.

Super Twins: Slot Verdict

It's tough to fall head over heels for a base game devoid of features. Spins trickled by, wins hit here and there, but ultimately, not a lot occurred in Super Twins' base game during the review. Strange that Backseat Gaming didn't tease with something there, though maybe this pushes more of the RTP into the bonus rounds? No official numbers are provided to support or refute this. One way players can add a bit more bang there is by fiddling with the Super Wheel FeatureSpins or the Super-Duper Wheel FeatureSpins, though they might be a touch too pricey for some wallets, and fair enough. Perhaps a better option, budget and patience dependent, is to activate BonusHunt FeatureSpins to theoretically blast your way into the free spins round quicker, where the action steps up several degrees. Though, for the review, bonus rounds triggered frequently enough to live without the ante bet on.

As for bonus preference, the Staying Stuck round blew the Floating Free round out of the water, no competition. Those sticky wilds just performed much better than their floating counterparts, reinforcing the enduring appeal of sticky wilds in online slots. Others may have better luck with the Floating Free, or course. Still, it's tough to beat having a few wilds in just the right spot to trigger repeat back to back wins, knowing each spin from that point onwards is going to produce a positive return. The size of the multiplier awarded at the start of the round is critical as well. In-round multiplier upgrades are not possible, but should you be lucky enough to retrigger the feature, then increasing the multiplier value can occur.

Whilst it didn't feel like one of Backseat Gaming's premier titles, Super Twins was an enjoyable release nonetheless, as its dry base game was offset by two sound bonus rounds and a 12,500x max win. The features on their own aren't overly innovative - roaming wilds, sticky wilds, win multiplier, but that doesn't stop Super Twins from rolling them neatly together along with a certain loveable mousey charm.