Birds! from Betsoft is a 5-reel, 3-row video slot with a difference. With the line between traditional slots and gaming apps becoming increasingly blurred, Birds! combines the best of both worlds in this highly entertaining game. 15 birds fly in with each round, and fly away again when the round is complete. The main feature is the Free Flights bonus which, once triggered, can deliver some very compelling pay outs.
Games
The game uses 10 different bird characters as the reel symbols. There are no pay lines in the traditional sense – winning combos are instead formed by landing matching bird characters adjacent to each other in horizontal or vertical groups of 3 or more. Winning groups fly away, leaving the remaining birds to cascade down and new ones to fly in and fill the gaps, creating more possible winning chances. It’s cute, fun and refreshingly different.
Design
A sunny small town street with a cute church-on-a-hill, or sun-drenched rolling farmland provide the colourful and cheery backdrop for Birds! The birds are all perched on three wires suspended between lampposts across the street or gateposts in the countryside. The colours are bright without being in your face, and the bird characters are a nice mix of quirky personalities. The graphics are sharp and engaging, there are some cute animations, and the chirpy soundtrack pulls the whole feel of the game together brilliantly.
Bonuses and Features
Wild – the multicoloured bird is the Wild, and replaces all other birds to help create additional winning combosFree Flights Meter – this sits to the side left of the reels, and ranks up a notch with every consecutive winning flight of birds that takes off from the wires. When the meter reaches 4 in any given round the Free Spins features is triggered, the number of which increases depending on the number of winning flights in the triggering round – 4, 5, or 6 deliver 8, 12, and 20 Free Spins respectively, with 7 winning flights delivering 14 Free Spins + the Number of Winning Flights at that pointGamble Feature – after any winning round in the base game players can choose to gamble some or all of their winnings on the toss of a coin. This can be repeated until you collect, or run out of money to bet
