Anderthals Slot Review

You will play with 40 paylines across 5 reels and 4 rows. Released in March 2020, this game can be played at online casinos such as Rizk, Casumo or ComeOn!

Theme and general information

Anderthals, a play on the word Neanderthals, takes us all the way back to the Stone Age when early humans, their close relatives and dinosaurs peacefully cohabitated the earth. Wait, what? That never happened. Neanderthals were slowly but steadily removed from the evolutionary stage by the spread of early homo sapiens. And dinosaurs went extinct long before even the first humanoids could be called such.

In any case, Anderthals may not be paleontologically accurate, but it is cute anyway. We get Andy and Annie Anderthal on the reels alongside a wild dinosaur, low value card suit symbols, a burning torch symbol (which is a scatter) and the Anderthals logo. That and the wild both pay 8x our stake for a win of 5 on a payline. Annie is worth 5x our stake for such a win and Andy pays 4x our stake still.

Overall, this is a good-looking slot and Just For the Win has a target audience to whom they cater, always somehow hitting the mark with somewhat more unusual themes and features that keep you spinning for a while.

You can play this game from 0.10 to 100.00 per spin.

Random features in the base game

Above the reels, you’ll notice, well a bunch of foodstuffs (such as broccoli or meat) strung up. They come with various modifiers that may be activated during the base game. These are so-called Feature Spots and they are activated, if two or more of those burning torch scatters (the Feature Symbol) land on the reels.

• 1x Bet or 2x Bet – A cash prize of 1x or 2x your stake is awarded after any other payline wins are paid out.
• Extra Wilds – Additional Wilds are added to the reel of the Feature Spot
• Expanding Wilds – A Wild that lands on an active Feature Spot will expand to cover the whole reel.
• Wild x2 or Wild x3 – Wilds on these active reels will get a 2x or 3x multiplier (but only one of them, not both)
• Re-spins – A single re-spin is awarded that includes Expanding Wilds, Wild x2, Wild x3.
• Free spins – The free spins are triggered

Free spins with more of the same

If one Feature Symbol lands on a Feature Spot with the Free Spins, we get 8 free spins. For any additional activated Feature Spots with a free spin symbol we get +2 free spins.

During the free spins, all Feature Spots that we active when the free spins were triggered, continue to be active for the duration of the free spins. Which features we get does change on each spin, though.

Verdict: A cute little slot that will mostly enthral its target audience

The theoretical RTP (Return to Player) of Anderthals is 96.12%, which is a little above average and solid. This is a very volatile slot, however, and the hit frequency sits at about 20%. It’s best to be careful with your budget.

Interestingly, if you keep your bets on the smaller side, which the target audience of this slot is prone to, the maximum payout of this game is 11,000x our stake. At maximum bet level, that changes to 2,219x our stake, though.

Just For the Win knows how to make visually appealing slots with interesting themes that tend to be rich in features. The mathematical model of their slots needs some improvement, however, and not everyone will like this game. The volatility might be high, but the game play is only interesting to casual players. High rollers will be bored fairly quickly as the game does not yield consistently good results.

There are some, who will love Anderthals. And some who will try it once and then forget that it was ever made.