3021 AD The Bounty Hunter GigaBlox Slot Review
A thousand years from now, New York is a ruin: the Brooklyn Bridge sags into drifting smoke, skeletal towers line the horizon, and the only law left is an armoured bounty hunter named SK-1000. What 3021 AD The Bounty Hunter GigaBlox does with that world is stranger than it first looks. Its oversized blocks change how wins look on the reels, but they don’t change how often they arrive, so this is really a straight 40-payline slot wearing a very expensive costume.
Reflex Gaming built it on the Yggdrasil Gigablox system: a 6×6 grid, 40 fixed paylines, 96% RTP, medium-high volatility and a maximum win of 3,714x the stake. Underneath the chrome it plays like a classic payline game, and how much you enjoy watching huge symbol blocks slam onto a grid decides whether it works. Reflex have run the format before in Book of Blarney Gigablox and Desperate Dawgs 2 Gigablox.
Base Game & Features
Gigablox is the whole engine here. On every spin, some symbols arrive as oversized blocks rather than single tiles, up to a 5×5 square. A block that size dominates the reel it lands on, and when matching blocks line up across the 40 paylines, the wins can be chunky.
Wins pay from left to right only, needing three or more identical symbols on a payline starting from the leftmost reel. Simultaneous or coinciding wins on different lines are added together. Stakes run from 0.20 to 100 per spin, and free spins always play at the lines and bet of the spin that triggered them.
The symbol set is a conventional split of four high-paying and four low-paying symbols, with a wild that can appear on all reels and substitutes for everything except the Bonus symbol. The art direction does the heavy lifting: airbrushed sci-fi realism, neon-blue chrome on the reel frame, and SK-1000 standing watch at the left edge in a green-and-gold exosuit.
Bounty Hunter Wild Reel Feature
At the end of any spin, in the base game and in free spins, SK-1000 can spring into action, aim his gun at the reels and shoot symbols into wilds. Any symbol except the Bonus can be converted, and the animation is properly done. It’s the mechanic that makes the theme more than decoration.
The feature can’t be predicted or influenced. It fires, or it doesn’t. When it converts several symbols at once, a dead spin can turn into one of the better base game moments this title produces. The wilds it creates substitute for every regular symbol, so a single well-aimed shot can complete multiple paylines at once, and the more symbols it converts, the better the chance of a block joining a win rather than sitting uselessly beside one.
3021 AD The Bounty Hunter GigaBlox Free Spins & Bonuses
Landing five or more matching Bonus symbols anywhere in view starts the round. The count matters: you get one free spin per Bonus symbol, up to a maximum of 25, plus an immediate bonus win of 5x your stake just for getting in.
Once inside, the rules stay simple:
- One free spin awarded per triggering Bonus symbol, up to 25
- A 5x stake bonus win paid on entry
- Every Bonus symbol that lands during the feature adds one extra spin
- The Bounty Hunter wild reel feature triggers more often than in the base game
- Free spins play at the lines and bet of the triggering spin
The multiplier is the part worth watching. Every win in the round sends SK-1000 into his shooting animation and awards a multiplier on that win, climbing as high as x25. The available steps are:
- x1, x2, x3, x4, x5
- x6, x8, x10
- x15, x25
That top rung is where the real potential lives. A decent Gigablox hit carrying a x25 multiplier is the combination the whole game is built around, and the gap between x10 and x25 means the feature can pay very differently from round to round.
Because each multiplier applies to the win that triggers it rather than accumulating across the round, the maths is straightforward: a run of small wins can all land at x1 or x2, and one big block hit at x25 does more than the rest of the round combined. The retrigger rule feeds that. Every Bonus symbol that lands is a free extra spin, and the feature only ends when the spin counter runs out, so a round that keeps feeding itself stays alive for as long as the symbols keep coming.
Buy a Bonus
Where the option is available, which depends on your territory, you can buy the free spins round outright for 100x your chosen base stake. The bought bonus plays out at that stake, and there’s no altered RTP or enhanced version on offer, so what you’re paying for is skipping the wait rather than improving the round.
At 100x, it’s priced at the steep end for a round whose entry win is only 5x. That said, the retrigger rule means a good round can run long, and each extra spin is another shot at the multiplier table.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Most sessions here are spent in the base game waiting for something to happen, and SK-1000 shooting symbols into wilds is the reason that waiting doesn’t get boring. He’s on screen, he’s armed, and every now and then he rewrites a spin in front of you. The free spins round, when five Bonus symbols finally gather, is where the game pays you back for the patience.
SK-1000 himself is the best thing in it: a character whose feature actually changes outcomes rather than just filling an animation slot, in a setting most sci-fi slots would flatten into generic space chrome. The letdown is the ceiling. A 3,714x cap under a x25 multiplier feels like the game promising a hunt it then calls off early.
If you like your slots themed with real commitment and don’t measure a game by its max win alone, there’s a lot to enjoy in this ruined New York. Players chasing four-figure ceilings should look elsewhere, because SK-1000’s payday doesn’t stretch that far. For everyone else, the hunt is good company while it lasts.
3021 AD The Bounty Hunter GigaBlox FAQs
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What is the RTP of 3021 AD The Bounty Hunter GigaBlox?
96% -
How many paylines does 3021 AD The Bounty Hunter GigaBlox have?
40 fixed paylines, paying from left to right only. You need three or more identical symbols on a payline starting from the leftmost reel to land a win. -
What is the grid size of 3021 AD The Bounty Hunter GigaBlox?
It’s a 6×6 grid. Any symbol can land as a Gigablox block of up to 5×5, and blocks land on every spin. -
How do you trigger free spins in 3021 AD The Bounty Hunter GigaBlox?
Five or more matching Bonus symbols in view triggers the feature. You get one free spin per Bonus symbol, up to 25, plus a 5x stake bonus win on entry. Every Bonus symbol that lands during the round adds one extra spin. -
What is the maximum win on 3021 AD The Bounty Hunter GigaBlox?
The maximum win is 3,714x your stake. -
What is the hit frequency of 3021 AD The Bounty Hunter GigaBlox?
16.04%, meaning roughly one spin in six produces a win. It’s rated medium-high volatility. -
Can you buy the bonus on 3021 AD The Bounty Hunter GigaBlox?
Yes, where the option is available in your territory. The free spins feature costs 100x your chosen base stake and plays out at that stake. -
What does the Bounty Hunter wild reel feature do?
At the end of a spin, in the base game or free spins, SK-1000 can shoot any symbol except the Bonus symbol and change it into a wild. The wilds substitute for all regular symbols, and the feature triggers more often during free spins.
