Durian Dynamite Slot Review

Durian Dynamite is a video slot from Quickspin with 5 reels and 20 paylines. Released in April 2019, you can play this slot in online casinos such as Mr Green, Guts or LeoVegas.

Theme and basic information

Durian Dynamite is a fruit slot. But there’s nothing classic about it. The fruits here are brightly coloured and popping in stunning 3D graphics. We’re in some sort of factory, where the fruits are rushing along the reels, spat out through tubes.

On the left-hand side we see a clear tube container that will usually contain some durian fruit – yes, this is a fruit that is actually a thing.

The background music is as funky as the theme and the graphics and fits well with the atmosphere of the whole thing.

The durian fruit itself is the wild in the game and worth 50x your stake in a 5-of-a-kind win. The melon is still worth 25x our stake in such a winning combination. The orange is worth 20x our stake for 5 of its kind and the plum 12.5x. Grapes and cherries are worth 10x and 7.5x our stake for a win like that.

The playing card symbols from 10 to A are also popping and in 3D, and whilst not particularly imaginative, they do look pretty good.

You can play this game from 0.20 to 100.00.

Exploding wilds in the base game

In the base game, you’ll want to pay attention to the middle reel. The tube at the top looks a little different and is coloured in red. When a wild durian lands on this reel, the durian fruits that you’ve collected on the left-hand side, will be launched onto the reels and land there, exploding further to create more wilds that will also land on the reels.

The durian fruit launched from the left-hand container can hit existing wilds on the reels and create 3 further wilds that will spread onto the reels. When one of those spreading wilds hits and existing wild, it will create 2 further wilds that will also spread.

This feature doesn’t hit often, but when it does, the wins it creates can be pretty awesome. And those wilds spreading looks kind of cool as well.

Extra dynamite reels and wilds in the free spins

The bonus scatter in this game is a jar with the word ‘bonus’ written on the label. The scatters only land on reels 2, 3 and 4. Three of them will give you 6 free spins. Additionally, however, you get to have three bonus picks, which will give you the following:

• Extra free spins – you can get a maximum of 36 free spins that way
• Extra dynamite wilds – added to the launcher on the left-hand side
• Extra dynamite reels – additional dynamite reels, where the durian wilds appear more frequently

Often, you will get a combination of the three extra features, which makes the free spins all the more worthwhile and can create big wins.

Conclusion: Colourful, fast and fun, but dangerously volatile

The theoretical RTP (Return to Player) for Durian Dynamite is 96.22%. That’s slightly above average and a decent value. Durian Dynamite is a very volatile slot, though, and the reels are spinning very fast, with the fruit shooting through those tubes and barely stopping to give you wins.

But there is a lot of fun to be had when playing this game and when the wild durians shoot around on the reels, you’ll be holding your breath until the explosions stop and great wins are paid out.

The base game feature doesn’t hit often, as we’ve already pointed out, but waiting for it is worth it. And the free spins make up for a lot of dry spells during the base game as well. You may need to be a little patient, but we were able to trigger the free spins regularly enough.