Alien Fruits in detail
Alien Fruits is the foundation stone of what BGaming has since turned into a series: a six-column, five-row grid with no paylines at all, where eight matching symbols are enough to pay regardless of where they land. The studio released it on 13 April 2023, at a point when the pay anywhere format was already saturating the market. What sets this title apart is therefore not its core mechanic but the almost brutal way it locks all of its power behind the free spins round.
In the base game, the machine is honestly rather flat. Cascades chain together — every winning combination removes its symbols and lets the ones above drop in — and the paying spin rate sits around 38%, roughly one spin in 2.6. That is frequent, but the amounts stay thin: the five alien fruits (avocado, plum, pomegranate, lemon, passionfruit) share the paytable with J, Q, K and A symbols worth almost nothing. Without a multiplier, a three or four step cascade rarely returns much more than the stake committed.
Everything changes when the scatters land. Four, five or six bonus symbols award 10, 20 or 30 free spins respectively, and that is the only place multiplier symbols appear. They take values from x2 to x100 and add up across the cascade in progress: that accumulation, and nothing else, explains the advertised maximum of 15,000 times the stake. Extra scatters during the bonus add five more spins each time. The downside is how rarely it triggers: BGaming publishes an average rate of one bonus every 395 spins. At €0.20 a spin, that means close to €80 of play before seeing the feature once.
Hence the buy button, fixed at 100 times the stake, which guarantees the minimum four scatters and can sometimes drop more. The betting range runs from €0.20 to €50 per spin: BGaming's usual floor, and a ceiling in the upper half of their catalogue. The studio also declares an absolute win cap of €225,000, a threshold you can only approach by playing near the maximum stake.
One point deserves to be stated plainly, because very few comparison sites do it: the 95.97% BGaming displays is the top setting. Like most of the studio's titles, Alien Fruits ships with several return tiers, and the operator picks the one it serves to its players. SlotCatalog explicitly flags an RTP Range option on this game. Check the real figure in the game rules at your casino before betting: at 95.97% the rate is already below the market average; at a lower tier it becomes frankly unfavourable.
