Banana Town Dream Drop: Slot Overview

Whoa, dudes and dudettes—these Dream Drop slots are spreading like crazy, turning up everywhere with almost ridiculous frequency. The title here is Banana Town Dream Drop, a refreshed take on Relax Gaming’s earlier retro monkey-themed slot Banana Town. The original asked players to suspend disbelief a little (or a lot), thanks to its gangster primates and piles of bananas—both of which return. The big addition this time is a chunky progressive jackpot network bolted on top.

For a remake, Banana Town Dream Drop stays extremely faithful to the original, with the main tweaks tied to the jackpots. Visually, if you ignore the jackpot meter, you could easily mistake one for the other. The banana-fuelled caper begins outdoors on a street next to a building watched over by two sunglass-wearing bouncer types, while a big boss character relaxes with a cigar on the balcony. Everyone looks oddly upbeat, so the banana import/export “business” must be booming. Trigger free spins and the action shifts indoors, but the overall feel remains hardcore, blocky retro—very much in line with other Relax Gaming creations like Hellcatraz or Hellcatraz 2 Dream Drop.

As with most remakes, some elements are unchanged while others have been adjusted. One notable shift is the return to player: it drops to 94% if you choose the DD version, whereas the non-DD version sits at a solid 96.12%. Scoring 5 out of 5, Banana Town Dream Drop is a highly volatile slot and works on tablet, mobile, or desktop. It’s funny to think how far mobile play has come since the era this style is nodding to. Stakes range from 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin, and the higher the bet, the better the odds of landing a jackpot.

Banana Town Dream Drop runs on a 6-columned, 5-row grid and uses a scatter pays approach for wins. In short, whenever at least 8 matching symbols appear anywhere on the board, a payout is triggered. For 8-of-a-kind, payouts range from 0.5 to 2 times the bet, while 12+ of a kind returns 2 to 12 times the bet. Symbol-wise, the low pays are blue, green, red, and yellow bananas, while the top symbols are 5 monkey character icons. Wild symbols aren’t used at any point in this game. What it does include is a cascading wins mechanic, where winning symbols disappear and new ones fall in from above.

Banana Town Dream Drop: Slot Features

Banana Town Dream Drop’s add-ons include Multiplier Upgrades, free spins, and the Dream Drop Bonus.

Multiplier Upgrade

Each pay symbol type in Banana Town Dream Drop has its own dedicated multiplier. That multiplier affects every win involving the matching symbol type. Multipliers begin at x1 and double in value following each win for that symbol. Also, random upgrades can be applied at the start of a new spin to a random selection of symbols. The maximum multiplier available is x64.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatter symbols grants 8 free spins, plus 1 extra free spin for every additional scatter. Multiplier levels built up in the base game carry over into free spins, and any upgrades remain persistent until the feature ends. Hitting a bonus symbol during free spins awards an additional free spin. Finally, if you’d rather not wait for the bonus to arrive naturally, you can purchase it in the non-DD version for 100 times the bet.

Dream Drop Bonus

The Dream Drop Bonus triggers at random ahead of a spin. When it activates, 15 boxes appear and the player to pick ‘n click them one by one to uncover jackpots. Collecting 3 of the same jackpots awards the matching prize. As a guide, the starting values for the Rapid, Midi, Maxi, Major, or Mega are €1, €5, €100, €25,000, or €500,000, respectively.

Banana Town Dream Drop: Slot Verdict

Fans of retro-style slots and progressive jackpots have plenty to enjoy with the pixel-heavy output Relax Gaming has been putting out around the time of writing—Hellcatraz 2 Dream Drop and now Banana Town Dream Drop. If you’re into old-school visuals and jackpot hunting, these are pretty good days. That said, the style won’t be for everyone. Players who grew up with blocky graphics because there was no alternative—and who needed a fair bit of imagination to get immersed—may find it a touch dated. But if you remember Pac-Man munching ghosts, Mario dodging Donkey Kong’s barrels, or Zelda bouncing around the screen, Banana Town Dream Drop does a strong job of pressing the nostalgia button.

It should also appeal to anyone drawn to some of the biggest jackpot prizes around, since these games can deliver serious potential. The Dream Drop setup aims for a capped top value of €10,000,000, and once it reaches that point, it stays there permanently. Of course, most players won’t land the Mega Jackpot—far from it. Still, the upside is that the rest of Banana Town Dream Drop is entertaining enough to keep hopeful jackpot chasers engaged while they take their shot. Pragmatic Play may have dominated much of the scatter win space, but having other choices is usually a plus. That’s true here, where Banana Town Dream Drop pairs a straightforward—yet sometimes very effective—multiplier upgrade system with each regular pay symbol. This supports wins up to a capped maximum of 10,000 times the bet.

That cap matches what the original Banana Town offered, so unless the reduced RTP is a deal breaker (and the non-DD version is always an option), Banana Town Dream Drop comes across as the stronger pick. At least, it will be for players who want a big jackpot slot—and if you can chase it in a setting that channels early video game history, even better.