Break Away Deluxe

Break Away Deluxe Slot Review

Break Away Deluxe asks you to bet on how generous you want the game to be. You pick 18, 38, 68 or 88 paylines, and the return moves with the choice: 96.18% at the bottom, 96.88% at the top. It’s an unusual piece of design for a mainstream studio slot, and it quietly punishes anyone who trims the board without reading the small print.

What sets it apart is a payline count you choose, with maths that changes to match: 96.88% RTP on the full 88-line setting, dropping to 96.18% on just 18. Volatility is high, stakes run from 0.18 to 176.00 per spin, and Stormcraft Studios back it with the pedigree of Immortal Romance 2 and Thunderstruck Wild Lightning. This is the ice hockey corner of the catalogue, and it plays a faster, rougher game than either.

Base Game & Features

The grid is five reels by five rows, which is unusual for a payline slot, and you choose how many lines to enable: 18, 38, 68 or 88. Regular wins pay left to right on enabled lines, with only the highest combination counting per line. The hit rate sits at 32.16% of spins, respectable for a high-volatility game.

The RTP follows your payline choice. Playing all 88 lines returns 96.88%; 68 lines pays 96.68%, 38 pays 96.38% and 18 pays 96.18%. That’s a 0.7 point spread between settings, enough to matter over a long session. Anyone playing the full board gets the best of it.

The wild is the Break Away Deluxe logo, stacked on reels 3, 4 and 5 in the base game and substituting for everything except the scatter. The scatter is a flaming puck: it pays in any position, can’t be substituted, and it’s the route into the free spins.

Scatter pays land on the total bet rather than the line bet. Three, four or five pucks pay 17.60, 88.00 and 880.00 respectively, and scatter wins are added on top of any regular wins from the same spin.

Rolling Reels

Any regular win sets off Rolling Reels. Winning symbols are cleared away after the payout, and everything above shifts down to fill the gaps. If the shift produces another win, it pays again, and the sequence repeats until no new combination lands.

Scatter wins are the exception. They stay on the reels and shift with the rest, collected at the end of the sequence rather than as they land. Regular wins pay out as they go.

Smashing Wild

Hockey players can charge in unannounced at any point in the base game and turn reel 2, 3 or 4 fully wild. The guaranteed win pays, and the reel stays wild for any Rolling Reels that follow. It doesn’t appear during free spins, and the scatter sits out while it runs.

It’s a simple feature, but a full wild reel feeding into cascades is where the base game produces its bigger moments. A smash that lands mid-sequence can keep a roll alive well past its natural end.

Paytable Achievements

The paytable doubles as a tracker. Every regular win is logged as an achievement, and a symbol is highlighted once you’ve landed all of its winning combinations. The highlights stay on the paytable permanently, even after you exit the game. Wild substitutes and free spins wins don’t count, so only base game combinations fill the board.

Paytable

Nine regular symbols, all hockey. The values below are for three, four and five of a kind:

• Hockey Player (red jersey) – 1.12 / 5.12 / 23.52
• Hockey Player (teal jersey) – 0.80 / 4.32 / 11.52
• Goalie (red) – 0.72 / 3.52 / 8.32
• Referee – 0.72 / 2.72 / 7.52
• Players (orange/blue pair) – 0.60 / 2.32 / 6.32
• Rink – 0.40 / 1.52 / 5.12
• Goalie Mask – 0.32 / 1.52 / 4.32
• Skates – 0.20 / 1.12 / 3.92
• Zamboni – 0.08 / 0.72 / 3.52

Wins are multiplied by the bet per line, and the paytable scales with your current stake. The top prize on the game is capped at a fixed amount rather than a stake multiple, so the ceiling doesn’t scale indefinitely with bigger bets.

Break Away Deluxe Free Spins & Bonus Features

Three or more flaming pucks award 12 free spins, played at the last bet you placed. Rolling Reels stay active throughout, and two features stack on top of them. There’s no retrigger: 12 spins is all you get, so the round has to pay its way in one visit.

Growing Wilds

Wilds arrive super stacked on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 during free spins, and each stack grows by one wild every spin. By the back half of the round the right-hand reels are thick with them, and every roll that clears symbols drops more into play.

Multiplier Trail

Each consecutive roll in free spins raises a win multiplier, and the steps are fixed:

• Roll 1 – 2x
• Roll 2 – 3x
• Roll 3 – 4x
• Roll 4 – 5x
• Roll 5 and beyond – 8x

The multiplier caps at 8x and resets to 1x the moment a roll fails to complete a win. It’s an all-or-nothing ladder: a run that dies on roll two has paid almost nothing extra, while one that strings five rolls together with stacked wilds on the board pays everything at 8x.

That’s the whole design in one sentence: the free spins round builds a board of growing wilds and then asks the Multiplier Trail to survive long enough for them to matter. Wins are collected automatically throughout, so there’s nothing to click through.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

This is a game you play for one reason: the hope of a free spins round that builds and builds instead of firing once and stopping. Hockey gives it a personality most of the catalogue doesn’t have, and the ice fills the screen like the sport fills a winter.

The strength is that the whole free spins round points the same way. Wilds grow, multipliers climb, and everything pays at the top of the ladder at once. The weakness is how rarely the build holds: the multiplier dies on the first dead roll, and twelve spins with no retrigger means most rounds finish before the board ever gets thick.

So it suits patient players who enjoy a slow build and can afford the misses, and it suits hockey fans on the theme alone. Anyone chasing frequent bonus rounds or steady features will find the middle stretches cold.

Break Away Deluxe FAQs

• What is the RTP of Break Away Deluxe?

  The RTP is 96.88% when playing all 88 paylines. It drops to 96.68% on 68 lines, 96.38% on 38 lines and 96.18% on 18 lines, so the full board is the best-returning setting.
• Is Break Away Deluxe high volatility?

  Yes, it’s a high-volatility slot. Wins connect on roughly 32.16% of spins, but the bigger payouts come from extended Rolling Reels sequences and the free spins round.
• How do you trigger free spins in Break Away Deluxe?

  Three or more flaming puck scatter symbols anywhere on the reels award 12 free spins. The round can’t be retriggered, and it plays at the last bet you placed.
• How does the Multiplier Trail work in free spins?

  Each consecutive rolling win in free spins raises the multiplier: 2x on the first roll, then 3x, 4x, 5x, and 8x from the fifth roll onwards. It caps at 8x and resets to 1x if a roll doesn’t complete a win.
• What does the Smashing Wild feature do?

  It’s a random base game event: one of the middle three reels goes entirely wild, guaranteeing a win. The reel stays wild for any Rolling Reels that follow, and the feature doesn’t appear during free spins.
• Can free spins be retriggered in Break Away Deluxe?

  No. The round awards 12 spins once, with no retrigger available. All the value has to come from Growing Wilds stacking up and the Multiplier Trail surviving within that single visit.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Break Away Deluxe?

  Stakes run from 0.18 to 176.00 per spin, adjustable through total bet, coin size, coins per line and the number of lines played.
• Who makes Break Away Deluxe?

  Break Away Deluxe is made by Stormcraft Studios, the studio behind Immortal Romance 2 and the Thunderstruck Wild Lightning series.