Bonus Fruits Slot Review
Green light pours out from behind the reels, fanning into a void that darkens to near-black at the top and glows lime at the bottom, with chunky red-and-green lettering perched above it all. Everything beneath that lettering is fruit of the oldest school, and Bonus Fruits doesn’t apologise for a second of it. Inspired‘s wager here is that the classic format never needed more symbols or side games; it needed a wild worth caring about. The Joker substitutes and multiplies at the same time, up to x16 on a single winline.
It runs on a 5×4 grid with 20 winlines at an RTP of 95.51%, and its one bonus round is deliberately strange: free spins played on a completely different reel set. The register will be familiar from Centurion Megaways and Reel King Megaways, though this one strips the format back rather than stacking mechanics on top, closer to Bullion Bars Gold Collector in spirit.
Twenty Winlines and a Multiplying Joker
Wins pay left to right on consecutive reels only, and only the highest win on any winline is paid, with all wins summed up across lines. Every winfactor in the paytable is multiplied by the current stake, so the figures below are what each combination returns relative to your total bet.
Visually, the reels sit in dark purple-to-maroon panels framed with white outlines, with thin green-lit number tabs lining both outer edges of the playfield. It’s a glossy, cartoonish look, and the sunburst backdrop keeps the fruit lit from every angle. The paying symbols are the classic set, and the gaps between them are wide:
- 7 – x40 for three, x160 for four, x200 for five
- Bell – x16 for three, x60 for four, x160 for five
- Watermelon – x6 for three, x16 for four, x40 for five
- Plum and Orange – x1 for three, x4 for four, x6 for five
- Lemon and Cherries – x1 for three, x2 for four, x4 for five
The shape of that ladder matters. The 7 pays five times what the Bell does for a five-of-a-kind, and the Bell pays four times the Watermelon, so every step up the symbol chain is a real jump rather than a nudge.
Below the melon, the fruit clusters into two shared tiers: plum and orange sit together, lemon and cherries together, paying the same figures within each pair. Those lower tiers are where most lines come from, and they’re modest by design. A five-line of lemons returns four times the stake; the same line in plums returns six. That puts the pressure squarely on the top three symbols and on the wild that builds them, which is where the game’s real arithmetic lives.
The Joker is the wild, and it carries a multiplier ladder that climbs the more of them land on a winline:
- One Joker on a winline – win multiplied x2
- Two Jokers on a winline – win multiplied x4
- Three Jokers on a winline – win multiplied x8
- Four Jokers on a winline – win multiplied x16
That ladder is what makes the top symbol interesting. A 7 line on its own pays x200; the same line built through a pair of Jokers pays four times that. The Joker substitutes for any symbol, so it completes lines the fruit can’t, and it pays them out at a multiple the base paytable never reaches on its own.
The wild is doing the work a bonus round would do in a busier game. Each Joker counts only on the winline it sits on, so a screen full of wilds pays out line by line, each one taking its own multiplier and each line keeping only its highest combination.
It’s a mechanic that rewards reading the grid rather than watching it. Two near-identical spins can land very differently depending on where the Jokers fall: one Joker in the right place doubles a line, while the same spin with the wild shifted a row over can leave it dead.
Ten Free Spins on Sixty-Four Winlines
The Star is the scatter, and it pays whenever it appears on at least 3 reels. The same trigger awards 10 free spins, and then the game does something genuinely unusual: the reels change shape entirely.
Free spins are played on 3 reels with 4 slots each, on 64 winlines. That’s more than three times the base game’s line count on a fraction of the reel space, and it reframes the round as a dense, fast-paying interlude rather than an extended set piece. The compact grid means shorter lines but far more of them, with wins summed across all 64.
The structural swap cuts both ways. With only 3 reels in play, five-of-a-kind lines are off the table and every win is a three-symbol combination, so the paytable’s upper tiers don’t apply.
What replaces them is volume. 64 winlines on a grid that small means a large share of the possible arrangements are live, and the same left-to-right, highest-win-per-line, sum-across-lines rules carry over from the base game unchanged.
The Joker’s multiplier ladder stays in force during the round. A doubled or quadrupled line on a 64-winline grid adds up quickly when several land on the same spin.
The free spins round is a different game wearing the same symbols: quicker, tighter, and built on frequency rather than the big single line. There’s no stated rule for retriggering the round, so the 10 spins are what you get.
The stake can be changed between spins through the bet control, stepping up or down through the offered values, and autoplay runs until something needs your attention or the credit runs out. The rest of the control set is what you’d expect: audio on and off, a paytable view, previous bet details, and a button back to the lobby. None of it gets in the way, which is about right for a game this size.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Spinning Bonus Fruits is a lot of watching plums, with your attention pinned to wherever the Joker lands, because that’s the whole reason to be here. The one idea is a good one: a wild that multiplies as well as substitutes gives fruit symbols stakes they haven’t had in decades, and it makes every spin readable in a way scatter-driven games never manage.
Its best trick is the free spins swap, a ten-spin burst on 64 winlines that plays like a different game entirely. Its worst is the ceiling: x200 before multipliers, and only three-symbol wins once the reels shrink, so there’s no big number waiting at the end of a lucky run.
This suits players who enjoy the classic fruit format and want one sharp idea instead of five padded ones. Chasers of big ceilings and long feature ladders have plenty of other places to look. For what it sets out to do, Bonus Fruits is honest, tidy and quietly sharp.
Bonus Fruits FAQs
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What is the RTP of Bonus Fruits?
Bonus Fruits runs at an RTP of 95.51%. -
How many paylines does Bonus Fruits have?
The base game is a 5-reel game on 20 winlines, with 4 slots on each reel. The free spins round is different, playing on 64 winlines. -
What is the grid size of Bonus Fruits?
The base game uses a 5×4 grid. During free spins the reels change to 3 reels with 4 slots each. -
When is Bonus Fruits released?
Bonus Fruits’ release date is 27 August 2021. -
Who makes Bonus Fruits?
Bonus Fruits is made by Inspired. -
How do you trigger free spins in Bonus Fruits?
The Star scatter gives a win when it appears on at least 3 reels, and the same trigger awards 10 free spins. -
What does the Joker wild do in Bonus Fruits?
The Joker substitutes for any symbol and multiplies the win it forms part of: x2 for one Joker on a winline, x4 for two, x8 for three and x16 for four. -
How do free spins work in Bonus Fruits?
You get 10 free spins played on a different reel set: 3 reels with 4 slots each, running on 64 winlines. Only the highest win on any winline is paid, and all wins are summed up.
