Cubes 2 Slot Machine – Free Play & Review

Sometimes, simpler is better, but it’s not a philosophy that is always well implemented by developers. Cubes 2 seems to manage it though. What we get, is a slot machine which offers 5×5 reels, consisting of colored cubes which are arranged in a game area, where they form Cluster Pays. Quite simple looking, but effective.

Symbols are mostly cartoon-style cubes, which come colored in yellow, teal, red, green, pink or purple. X marks are placed in the four corners of the game area.

Developer

A Hacksaw Gaming creation, Cubes 2 comes from a developer which is still relatively new, being founded in 2018. So far, they’ve launched a series of scratch cards and slot machines, and it’s looking like a promising new developer.

How To Play Cubes 2

The Bet menu, placed right next to the Spin button, will allow the selection of the wager which covers the entire game area. The values listed there are between $0.20 and $100.

What you get in exchange, is a system with 5×5 reels, which will rely on Clusters of 5 to 25+ symbols, to get you paid. There are 6 types of cubes in total, and they all pay the same amount, anywhere from 0.1x to 40x the stake per cluster.

Here I am playing the Cubes 2 slot:

Special Features

As I just mentioned, the slot relies on Cluster Pays to get you paid. It should also be mentioned, that the game area expands once you start forming clusters, initially to 7×7 reels, then to 9×9, and finally to 11×11 symbols. You get paid at the end, for whatever clusters managed to form in the area.

You will notice the X marks placed in the four corners of the game area. Those are called Corner Multipliers, and they will be replaced with a number which corresponds to how many cubes are in clusters that include them. They add up, if there are multiple Corner Multipliers in a cluster. What this means, is that a cluster with 10 symbols will benefit from a 10x multiplier if one Corner cube is included, and 20x if there are two of them.

You don’t use special scatters to get into the free spins here. Cubes 2 requires instead that you form at least 5 clusters of symbols, in just as many different colors. Since you can have up to 121 symbols in view (at maximum size, with 11×11 symbols), that’s not as unlikely as it might sound.

5 free spins are awarded initially, though you could receive extra ones, with up to 12 possible in total. A sticky color will be chosen, and it will be used to keep all cubes of that type in place. This way, payouts of more than 10,500x the stake become possible. There will be additional prizes paid, when you get clusters of 50 to 90+ symbols formed, and up to 7,000x the stake is offered as a result.

Maximum Payouts

The game looks impressive, if we check out its payout potential, offering as much as 11,000x the stake in a single spin (through the resulting free spins though). Volatility can only be high in such a game, but one can rest assured that the 96.33% RTP insures that the slot will be fair overall.

Summary

Cubes 2 will offer the player a good mix of features, especially unique ones which make it special by comparison with the others. It’s highly volatile, so it’s recommended mostly to those that can take the heat of such a game.