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Playing a fruit-themed slot doesn’t have to mean that it’s a classic. It can be an exotic design, taking us to Hawaii or some island close by. Hula Balua is the slot machine that’s making this happen for us. It’s an ELK Studios release, with a sloth in the lead role and Tiki statues present.
Hula Balua proposes a Pay Anywhere engine, active on 6x6 reels. I appreciated the excellent potential of the slot, with up to 25,000x paid, but the high volatility and a 94% RTP present some significant downsides. Checking out the special features, we find the Avalanche mechanic, wilds, big symbols, symbol merging, free spins, and multipliers.
Like most slot machines we got from Elk Studios, the range for the bets available here go from $0.20 to $100.
What’s surprising is the top jackpot that Hula Balua is supposed to be capable of paying. Given its high volatility, the 25,000x return is not a big surprise, but the 94% RTP suggests that it could’ve been much lower.
To win in Hula Balua you need to get 8 or more matching symbols anywhere on the reels. The slot will get you paid, and then an Avalanche mechanic triggers. New symbols are brought to replace the winning positions, and new wins may result.
Wild symbols will be around, ready to help out by acting as substitutes when appropriate.
You can also get a square or rectangular area covered by matching symbols, in which case they will be merged and will gain a multiplier (4x for 4 symbols, 6x for 6, etc.).
The big symbols can also drop on the reels directly. If it’s involved in wins, the multiplier it has will apply to all combinations.
Sticky Redrops is the name of a feature that comes randomly. A special symbol is going to be selected and turned sticky, while the rest will respin/redrop. Wilds and symbols of the same type will become sticky as well, giving you more respins.
Finally, you can get access to up to 12 free drops via 3+ scatters. It’s a feature that you can retrigger. It also has a multiplier that goes only up, it doesn’t reset from one round to the next.
It’s a slot machine with a jungle-inspired background, and with the sloth’s house visible on one side, while the other shows a waterfall. The reels are populated with exotic fruits as symbols, though some exceptions are there for the bonus symbols. It’s an excellent design, showing us fruits with oranges, mangos, kiwis, pineapples, and a few others.
Hula Balua looks great, pays much more than I expected, and the features should be fun. As always, the 94% RTP that ELK Studios started incorporating in all their recent slots is the only one bugging me. It’s worth checking out, but I wouldn’t come back for more.
