Contact Slot

The Ancient Mayan civilization is said to have been established by aliens who were worshipped as gods. The civilisation’s technological understanding and education are rumoured to have been a direct result of their extra-terrestrial CONTACT. It is both the ‘contact’ with extra-terrestrials and the contact of symbols forming cluster wins that we celebrate on the reels of this engaging slot machine!

Play’n GO takes the ancient theme and translates it into a beautiful feature-rich online cluster slot game, which is surely one of the best games that they have ever produced. Turn to winning ways with cascading reels, row multipliers, free spins, and re-spins.

Theme and Background of Contact

The scene is set in the forest undergrowth, where the colourful reel set forms the entrance to a Mayan pyramid. In the background we see trees, palms, and other prominent temples and architecture. 

The game visuals are magnificent, offering the best graphics by this Play’n GO to date. The most alluring visual features in the game are the reel symbols. These are made up of various indigenous Mayan hieroglyphics, such as 4 different coloured traditional masks, and various animal symbols, including: a monkey, a jaguar, a snake, a raptor, and a turtle.

The slot further overloads your senses by offering an enchanting synthesized soundtrack in the background, to provide an ambient atmosphere. As soon as you win, though, the tribal drums will begin to beat, sending a tremble deep down into your chest. The Shamanic chants are enthralling and must be heard to be fully appreciated - we recommend grabbing your headphones and allowing the soundtrack to wash over you. 

Game Mechanics of Contact

This game is a cluster slot, which is played over a massive 5x7 reel grid. There are no set paylines, and wins are made by forming clusters of adjoining matching symbols on the screen. To qualify for a cluster, a group of 5 or more symbols must be in contact with each other over the grid.

Each spin of the reels will cost you between 0.20 and 100 coins. Spinning the reels at max bet could see you win you up to €151,750.00 in the free spins round. The reels do not spin in the traditional rotating sense. Rather, the blocks fall into place on the reels. The game is underpinned by a cascading reel engine, which means that when wins appear, certain symbols will disappear and allow new symbols to fall down and fill the spaces from above. 

The difference in this particular cascading feature lies in the fact that it is not the winning cluster that disappears from the reels. Instead, the winning combo remains, while all non-winning symbols are remove from the screen. The winning icons will fall to the bottom while new symbols stack on tp of them in the hopes of creating more winning combinations.

Slot Features of Contact

Contact is a feature-rich game title that sees most of its action revolve around a tiered Win Multiplier feature and 2 Free Spin bonus games (which benefit from additional booster symbols):

Multipliers

During the base game you will see that there are x2, x3 and x4 win multipliers marked alongside their respective rows. Since winning symbols stay on the reel stacking wins up to those levels will trigger the relevant multipliers on your total wins!

During the Bonus and Super Bonus rounds these multipliers are boosted to x2, x3, x4 and also 5x on their respective paylines – and come with an additional twist. Activating these payline multipliers works the same way as in the base game, just keep stacking wins!

Free Spin Bonus Rounds

There are 2 free spin bonuses that can be triggered in this game:

1. The standard BONUS ROUND is triggered if winning clusters stack up to the top row in the base game. If this occurs, you will trigger 3 initial free spins, with the extra multiplier row and a cascading re-spin.

2. The SUPER BONUS ROUND will offer you 6 free spins, with all of the benefits of the BONUS ROUND, if you manage to fill the entire grid with clusters.

In both features, stacking symbols up to rows 1, 4, and 7, you will trigger one of the following three game feature add-ons:

• Block Destroyer: In the BONUS ROUND this feature will destroy 1 multiplier block and allow others to cascade down to add additional multipliers. In the SUPER BONUS ROUND, it will destroy 3 multiplier blocks.

• Symbol Upgrade: In the BONUS ROUND, one cluster combination will be upgraded to the next highest symbol for increased win value. In the SUPER BONUS ROUND, all clusters will be upgraded.

• Extra Free Spins: In the BONUS ROUND, you will receive 1 extra free spin allocation for your tally of spins, but in the SUPER BONUS ROUND, you will receive an additional 3 free spins to rack up wins with.

A Final Word on Contact

Play’n GO are certainly one of the main suppliers of premium quality slot games, globally. If you are a lover of ancient civilization themed slots, Contact is a Must-Play game. As with most Play’n GO slots Contact has a very high variance, which means that big wins do not come all that often, but when they do pitch up, especially in the bonus rounds, they will be worth the wait.