Beach quite literally is themed around a beach, and that’s the image that you get for the background picture. The reels are actually invisible, so you get the symbols laid out directly on the sand. They’re polished pieces of rock or various other shells and overall this is a different kind of slot than you are used to seeing. It’s refreshing and the perfect thing to look at when you’re in the mood for a very long holiday, away from the busy life of the city.
This highly enjoyable game will give you as much as $40,000 in prizes, if the bets you place on its 20 paylines give you the right results. The game has 5 reels and the features it includes are enough to keep you busy, with free spins, multiple wilds, multipliers and scatters all available. Its designer is Net Entertainment.
Features of Beach
Both wild and scatter symbols are part of Beach, with multipliers given by the former and free spins obtained through the latter.
The Octopus wild gives you a cute creature colored in a dark red, which acts as the one capable of substituting for other icons in the game. All the wins that the Octopus contributes to, double their value. The 2x multiplier that it has attached is a great reason to wish for the wild to appear as often as possible. Unfortunately, the wild is only going to appear on the 3rd reel of the slot. The wild also has the power of swapping the positions of two symbols that are found on the columns 2, 3 or 4, in order to give you a winning combination if it can be done this way.
A second wild symbol will appear from time to time, the image of a crab sitting on a piece of wood being used for it. It can’t appear on the 3rd reel, which gets the Octopus, but the other four reels are fair game.
Free Waves Feature
The Message in a Bottle scatter symbol will get you free waves instead of free spins, an interesting way to design the game around the theme. Three scattered bottles gets you 8 free waves, four bottles gets you 16 waves and five of them will award the maximum number of 24 free waves. The free waves can be retriggered, the same scatter symbols being needed.
Betting options and jackpots
In typical Net Ent fashion, you are allowed to use multiple coins for each active line, the option being included in the Bet Level area and permitting for up to 10 to be selected in each case. The 200 coins that are part of the maximum bet will go up to $1 in value, so the wager will reach a value of $200.
The normal top payout offered is worth 20,000 coins, or 2,000 times the line bet. That should mean a maximum jackpot of $20,000, but the wild’s multiplier can double it, so $40,000 is the highest prize available.
Design and symbols
It’s a lovely game, with a design that I’ve enjoyed quite a bit, especially when the cute octopus starts moving around and swapping symbols in order to get you a better payout. The beach theme is wonderfully approached, with waves coming in and bringing stones, treasure chests, shells or special feature symbols with them. It’s a modern design, with plenty of animations and symbols that will put you in a good mood, and that’s all you can ask from a game.
Symbols: Driftwood x2 (wild), Octopus (wild), Message in Bottle (scatter), Treasure Chest (2,000x), Oyster Shell (1,000x), Conch Shell (750x), Starfish (500x), Clamshell (350x), Ace (125x), King (100x), Queen (75x), Jack (60x) and Ten (50x).
Is It Worth Playing?
Beach should be a very good choice, for any player that enjoys the high quality of the design that Net Ent usually offers, but also for anyone that wants a decent price and a complete list of features.
You will find Beach at any online casino which chooses to use software from Net Entertainment, playable either for free or for real money.
