Robot Butler is a science fiction themed slot machine, with a design which showcases how the future might look like. From futuristic cities, to gadgets which look like some sort of mobile phones, cool cars and yes, even a robot butler. Some of the gadgets of the future look better than others, and the robot is not one of the former. It’s a Microgaming slot machine, one which I’ve enjoyed as a fan of the sci fi genre.
5 reels & 20 bet lines are provided by Robot Butler, for you to place your wagers on. The jackpot is valued at $20,000, with the included features being bonus games, scatter symbols, multipliers, free spins and a wild.
Features of Robot Butler
Both free spins and bonus games are offered by the game, with wilds and scatters helping you get them. Multipliers of up to 5x are part of it as well.
First, the Robot Butler, the only wild of the slot. It’s a retro looking robot, not quite the kind of machine that you would expect to see in the future. It’s a symbol that is capable of forming a combo of its own, with payouts of 2x to 10,000x, and needing 1 to 5 symbols together to do that. It’s also going to be of great help as a wild, being capable of taking the place of another icon in a newly formed combo.
You’re also going to get symbols with a Tray on them, and the great news is that they don’t have to appear together on a line. You only need between two and five Tray icons to be present, and in exchange the game will offer you a prize worth between 2x and 100x what your bet was.
Free Games Feature
Tray scatter symbols are responsible for the free spins being awarded, with 3+ icons being enough to award 12 spins for free. On top of that, you get to choose a Tray icon, and it will reveal a multiplier as high as 5x for those spins.
Bonus Game
The other feature is a bonus game, which starts up with the wild’s help. Having the wild on the 1st and 5th reels at the same time is enough to get this bonus game started.
You pick an item next, so that the robot can look for it. When he finds the item, you get payouts of up to 100x the bet. If he doesn’t find it, you get another chance. It can fail up to four times, and if that happens you get a consolation prize, at 4x the bet.
Betting options and jackpots
You are free to use quite a few coins for each payline, up to 20 of them, but their value will not be impressive, going from $0.01 to $0.10. You can spend $2 per line this way, or up to $40 for all 20 lines.
You can expect top payouts of 10,000 times what the line wager was, so even though you can get 200,000 coins, their maximum value will be $20,000.
Design and symbols
I enjoyed the kind of futuristic design that Microgaming used here. It’s a bit on the retro side, at least how people imagined the future a few decades ago, and it seems to be better than what passes as futuristic right now. Playing cards are unfortunately part of it, so you’re not getting as many themed icons.
Symbols: Robot Butler (wild, 10,000x), Tray (scatter, 100x bet), City (1,250x), Car (300x), Batteries (300x), Remote Control (150x), Ace (150x), King (125x), Queen (125x), Jack (100x) and Ten (100x).
Is It Worth Playing?
The game has plenty of pros to its name, like the 10,000x jackpot or the complete list of features. Even the theme and the design are cool, especially if you generally enjoy science fiction.
Robot Butler can be found at any Microgaming casino, where you get a chance to play it for real money or in free mode.
