Super Fruit Smash: Slot Overview

Ever feel like any feedback you send a company disappears into a bin, never to be seen again? That can happen, sure, but it doesn’t seem to apply to casino game developer Slotmill. With the studio’s 2022 release Fruit Smash, Slotmill says it ‘listened to player feedback and made the game even more fun and exciting to play.’ The result is a follow-up called Super Fruit Smash—a larger, juicier sequel with added features, broader gameplay, and an extra cherry on top thanks to increased potential. Is it truly “super”? There’s only one way to see.

Fruit Smash had a pleasantly straightforward look that wouldn’t seem out of place among a Hacksaw Gaming line-up. Like many fruit-themed slots, it was vivid and colourful, but it still packed some punch. Super Fruit Smash brings all of that back, only now the setting shifts from the forest to the seaside. The upbeat visuals return with rolling waves, palm trees, and tempting water—everything you’d want for a laid-back getaway. Just like before, though, you’ll want to stay alert, because Super Fruit Smash isn’t here to lounge around and catch some sun. It does, however, toss in fruit facts during quieter moments, which are surprisingly entertaining and informative.

On the technical side, Super Fruit Smash is a highly volatile slot, offering a return to player of 96.08% in regular mode. Pressing spin drops symbols onto a 6×6 sized grid, using a scatter pays system to form wins—whenever 8 or more matching symbols appear anywhere on the grid, they pay out and trigger the Avalanche feature. During Avalanches, all symbols in a scatter win removed from the reels, and the empty spaces are filled as new symbols fall in. The Avalanche feature continues clearing wins and refilling gaps until no further win lands.

Built to work smoothly across devices, the betting range runs from 20 p/c to $/€50 per spin. In the paytable, all ten symbols are fruit-themed. From low to high, you’ll see berries, plums, watermelons, pears, coconuts, pineapples, bananas, mangos, strawberries, and dragon fruit. Landing 8 matching symbols returns 0.2 to 0.6 times the stake, while 16 of the same symbol pays 12 to 40 times the bet. Somewhat unusually for a scatter pays slot, Super Fruit Smash also places wild symbols on the grid in several variations. Wilds can substitute for any standard paying symbol.

Super Fruit Smash: Slot Features

The feature set is one area that’s clearly been upgraded, and there’s plenty to cover: Avalanches, a Progressive Win Multiplier, Giant Symbols, Countdown Wilds, free spins, Super Free Spins, Fast Track options, and Burst Mode.

Progressive Win Multiplier

The Progressive Win Multiplier increases by +1 with every Avalanche. In the base game, the multiplier resets between spins, whereas in free spins, it does not reset until the round is over.

Giant Symbols

Alongside standard symbols, Giant Symbols may also land on the grid in 2×2, 3×3 or 4×4 sizes. They can appear at the start of a game round or at the end of one when no more wins are presently there. Giant Symbols can be fruit symbols or wilds and possess a win multiplier of up to x5, which is applied to wins made up of that specific symbol. Additionally, the Progressive Win Multiplier multiplies Giant Fruit multipliers. If 2 matching Giant Fruit land, or a Giant Wild and a Giant Fruit land, their multipliers are multiplied together before being multiplied by the Progressive Win Multiplier.

Countdown Stores

Wilds may appear with a number printed on them. This number shows how many Avalanches the wild remains on the reels before disappearing. Each Avalanche lowers the counter by 1.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatter symbols awards 8 free spins. If 3 scatter symbols land during the bonus round, +4 extra free spins are added to the remaining amount. During the round, the Progressive Win Multiplier does not reset between free spins.

Super Free Spins

If 2 scatter symbols land together with 1 Super Bonus symbol in the base game, you receive 8 Super Free Spins. In Super Free Spins, each spin has initial Giant Fruits and/or Giant Wilds with multipliers.

Fast Track

By opening the Fast Track menu, players can jump straight into Super Fruit Smash’s feature options. Here, you can purchase:

• Giant Fruit – 5x the bet for a game round with Giant Fruit.
• Giant Wild – 40x the bet for a game round with Giant Wild.
• Free Spins – 100x the bet for a game round triggering free spins.
• Super Free Spins – 450x the bet for a game round triggering Super Free Spins.

Burst Mode

Lastly, when Burst Mode is available, players can choose the stake and the number of spins, which are then played out without showing the game grid. Any wins flash up on-screen as the spins run through. Burst Mode can be stopped before all selected spins have completed.

Super Fruit Smash: Slot Verdict

Players made themselves heard, and Slotmill took it on board. Not only did the team listen, but it feels like they’ve implemented a big chunk of what came back—maybe even all of it. Either way, Super Fruit Smash has a lot going for it, and it earns the “Super” in its name. You can almost picture a customer listing complaints and requests that get more and more extreme, only for the owner to respond with, “fine, yes, we’ll do all of that,” leaving the customer stunned and wishing they’d asked for something even wilder.

It begins with the inclusion of wilds, which you might expect to be difficult to pull off in a scatter-paying slot. But it doesn’t stop there: the wild can also appear in giant form, it can stick around for a set number of Avalanches, and it can even carry a multiplier. And there’s more—multiple Giant Symbol multipliers are multiplied together before the Progressive Win Multiplier steps in to enhance the result further. It’s genuinely impressive on paper. In play, Super Fruit Smash’s collection of mechanics has the potential to come together as effectively as you’d want. And when it comes to potential, it’s obviously been boosted—after all, it would be surprising if players had asked for it to stay the same or drop. This time, Slotmill has raised the maximum payout to 12,000x the bet – double the amount possible in the non-super Fruit Smash.

Taking a step back, Super Fruit Smash may seem fairly familiar at first glance, but look closer and there are some genuinely interesting ideas at work. It’s not a full-on scatter-paying slot revolution, yet the smart adjustments are well worth exploring, and credit to Slotmill for listening to feedback and then delivering meaningful changes.