Ice Breaker Slot Review

Ice Breaker is a video slot from Push Gaming with 5 reels and 243 ways to win, which means at least three matching symbols appearing on the first three reels from left to right will yield a win. You’ll be able to play Ice Breaker at online casinos such as Leo Vegas, Casino Heroes or Casumo.

Ice Breaker features an icy theme with many colourful fish on the reels, besides the usual playing card symbols from 10 to A. When it comes to the theme, there’s not much we can actually talk about, but it is graphically nicely done and quite good-looking. The fish all look somewhat dopey, if not downright bored. We don’t know if that’s accidental or intentional, but it is quite comical.

The red fish is the highest paying symbol, giving you 10x your stake when you spin him five times on adjacent reels. It’s not unusual for the payouts to be small when we’re dealing with a slot that offers 243 ways of winning. Wins do occur frequently and make up for the smaller wins. Plus, there’s always the chance that you score multipliers. The Collapsing Reels will make it possible, if you’re lucky, that is.

Any two or more matching symbols that fall onto the reels on top of one another will collapse into each other, adding up to form multipliers. So, two green fish appearing stacked anywhere on the reels, will collapse to form one green fish that then has a 2x multiplier, which is applied to any winning combination the symbol becomes a part of. Also, once a symbol has vanished, it will make room for more symbols falling in from the top, potentially creating new winning combinations or even adding to the multiplier. It is possible to get several multipliers on the reels that way. And it is possible that none of them are part of a winning combination, thus not paying anything at all. That is actually the rule, if we’re being honest. But every once in a while you will get them in a winning combination and that’ll be nice.

Then there are the free spins. You need to spin the hammer onto reels 1, 3 and 5 to trigger six free spins. The main bonus now is that all playing card symbols disappear off the reels and you only get the fish trapped in ice. That way the fish come stacked more often, resulting in more collapsing reels and more multipliers. This is where the biggest wins are possible, though, again, there’s not guarantee that a multiplier will be part of a winning combination. Finally, it is possible to get another six free spins when you manage to get another three scatter symbols on the reels during the free spin feature.

The theoretical RTP (return to player) for Ice Breaker is 96.79%, which is far above average and very good value. We can definitely say that this is a realistic return, because we managed frequent wins and during the free spin feature one or two big wins as well. We don’t know whether we had a particularly good run or if it is indeed the rule, but we scored the free spin feature three times within 100 spins, which is well above what most games make possible. So, whilst the theme is not exactly sophisticated, though beautifully done, the features are great and make up for a lack of excitement in the theme. We definitely enjoyed playing Ice Breaker and can recommend that you give it a try as well. This is a slot for the budget conscious players because it won’t eat up your budget too soon.