Sticky Bombs

Sticky Bombs Overview

Designed by Booming Games, Sticky Bombs takes players to a colourful and intriguing laboratory where various concoctions of volatile liquids bubble away. This game is a mad scientist slot with some fun features and a well thought out theme that sees players spin the reels looking for payouts that top out at 1,445x the stake. Thanks to the excellent visuals and graphics, the game has a high-quality feel to it. However, the RTP for this game is a little disappointing at 95.8%. This is a five-reel game with three rows and 20 pay lines. For more information on this slot, keep reading this review.

The features included here are four-fold. The first is the double symbols feature. The highest paying symbol in this game, the red potion, can also fall as a double symbol, counting as two regular symbols. Next is the bonus reel feature. This bonus can be activated completely at random, adding an extra reel to the gameboard. Only special symbols fall onto this reel, such as scatters, wilds and double symbols. Joining these features is the free spins bonus and the sticky wilds bonus. All features will be explained in more detail later on in the review.

Theme and Symbols

The theme for Sticky Bombs is one of mad science, complete with a large laboratory and a resident crazy professor. As you may have guessed from the game’s title, the scientist in this particular lab is rather interested in exploding substances, with each of his potions having very destructive tendencies. Thankfully, from a visual appeal point of view, these powerful potions come in a range of vibrant colours. The whole mad scientist motif isn’t done very often, so when you see a slot do it well, it is a wonder why more providers don’t use it as a theme.

The background for this game is the capacious laboratory in which the professor spends the bulk of his time. To the left and right of the paying board are bottles, flasks and test tubes of effervescent liquids roiling menacingly. Behind this display of glassware is a tall bookshelf full of heavy-looking hardbacks, no doubt on subjects such as gelignite for beginners. Unlike other laboratories, this room has a pleasant amount of warm natural light coming in from the window on the left-hand side of the screen.
The playing board is a simple wood and steel design with a black interior that helps the symbols stand out in contrast.

The symbols are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying symbols are the Q, K and A, represented as glowing tablets of different colours. On the other hand, the higher value symbols are the various potions on the reels. These come in blue, green, purple and red. The red portion is the most valuable, worth 37.5x the stake for the top combination. Finally, the specials are the wild bomb, and the crazy professor scatter symbol.

Game Play

Sticky Bombs is played on a 5-reel, 3-row machine with 20 fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.

The betting range for Sticky Bombs is 20p to £200 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.
Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.
Volatility for this slot is rated in the high range. The return to player percentage for Sticky Bombs is 95.8%, which is below average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 1,445x your stake.

Features

The first feature in this game is the double symbols feature. If you are lucky, the red potion, the most valuable symbol, will fall in a dual formation, meaning it is worth two of itself. This can be a convenient feature to boost the size of wins.

The next feature is the bonus reel feature activated at random at any point in the game. When triggered, an extra reel is added to the playing board. The only symbols that fall on this reel are specials such as scatters, wilds or double symbols. Wild symbols may also land in this reel with a 2x multiplier attached.

Next on the features list is the free spins feature, triggered when players land three scatter symbols on the reels simultaneously. This will award you ten free spins. Other special scatters landed during the free spin will add spins to your tally.
Finally, there is the sticky wilds feature, only available once within the free spins. Wilds that land during this feature will become sticky, meaning they will remain in place until the feature is over, helping to trigger wins throughout the free spins.

Conclusion

With a bag of fun features, a great theme and a wide betting range, this game is one of the better Booming Games products. However, we wouldn’t advise playing Sticky Bombs if you are looking for big-win potential. The RTP and max win are both low, and the volatility is high. Plus, as fun as the features are, they don’t exactly pay out much. Fun but not lucrative is how we’d sum this game up.