Volts And Bolts Introduction

Volts And Bolts is a 5-reel, 50-payline slot that comes with a Free Spins Bonus and a Robot Bonus Feature featuring High Voltage Spins. With stakes available from €0.50 to €50, Volts And Bolts uses a cartoony art style and follows a crazed character named Dr Volt in his laboratory. If you’re an Generation X kid, it may bring back memories of classic point-and-click adventures like Day of the Tentacle or Sam & Max.

Volts And Bolts Symbols

The symbol set includes A, K, Q and J card ranks, plus higher-value icons such as notebooks, wrenches, volt meters, brains and the Volts and Bolts symbol. The Volts and Bolts symbol is the top payer, returning a 5x win for 5 on a payline. A battery symbol acts as the wild, the Mad Scientist is the scatter, and the Robot is the bonus symbol. Wilds appear stacked 3 symbols tall on every reel except the first, so a full screen of wilds can’t happen. The maximum win in the base game is a rather bleak 200x.

Robot Bonus Feature & High Voltage Spins

Hitting 6 or more Robot symbols awards 5 Robot Bonus Spins. The Robot Symbols that activate the feature (along with any additional Robot Symbols that land during the free spins) will lock in place and remain there for the duration of the feature. After each spin, any adjacent Robot Symbols will convert into Robot Shapes.

Connecting 1, 2, and 3 Robot Symbols next to each other pays 1x, 3x, and 5x bet respectively. Any Robot Shape that covers 4 or more reel positions turns into a High Voltage Reel. Once the Robot Bonus ends, the High Voltage Reels will spin and randomly award cash prizes or one of the jackpots. This feature is genuinely more appealing than the free spins round, since it offers a Mini (20x), Minor (100x), Major (2000x), and a Grand (5000x) jackpot.

4 or more adjacent ROBOT symbols will award a prize as below:

Volts And Bolts Free Spins

Landing 3, 4 or 5 scatter symbols awards 12 Free Spins, plus 2x, 15x and 100x total bet for the number of symbols landed, respectively. In Free Spins, only Scientist and Wild symbols show up on reel 3, and that’s essentially the extent of the feature. The Free Spins round can be retriggered by landing 3 or more Scientist symbols again, and the Robot Bonus can also be triggered during it.

Volts And Bolts Conclusion

Volts And Bolts is a terrible game, and it’s best to be upfront about that. It comes with a fairly low RTP of 95.63% and a max win of 750x, which is only possible by landing a full screen of robots in the Robot bonus. The free spins round brings little new to the table and feels almost the same as the base game. Yes, there’s a 5,000x Grand jackpot, but don’t count on seeing it.

Free spins were oddly difficult to trigger given the poor upside, and it seems like the bulk of the value is instead concentrated in the Robot bonus. Since this is a jackpot slot, a portion of each wager goes toward funding the jackpots, which explains the slightly lower RTP. The Robot bonus activated quite often, but it never returned more than a hefty 50x.