Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe

Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe Slot Review

A ring of fire wraps right around this one. Red and yellow flame swirls around the reel cabinet, embers drift past the frame, and cracked lava glows along the lower edge. The argument of the game is all in that contrast: Playtech have dressed the most conservative layout they could build, a 5×3 grid with 20 fixed winlines at 96% RTP, in the loudest frame on the shelf.

Stripped of the fire it’s a plainer machine than stablemates like Buffalo Blitz or Better Wilds, and the interesting question is whether the dressing carries the old fruit formula or just distracts from how little is underneath it.

Twenty Winlines in the Fire

The reels sit in a black inset with a dark-red bevel, and everything around them burns. It’s a deliberately loud frame for a deliberately traditional layout: five reels, three rows, and 20 winlines fixed in place, numbered one to twenty. You don’t choose lines here; every spin covers all of them.

Payouts follow the usual left-to-right pattern along those lines, and only the highest combination on each line counts towards a win. Adjacent lines can each pay for their own combination on the same spin, so a screen full of matching fruit can return several line wins at once rather than one flattened total.

The symbol set is the fruit-shop standard, with a clover sitting at the top of the ladder and a mixed bag of fruit and gems beneath it. Two symbols pay from two-of-a-kind onwards, two more start at three, and the bottom tier of melon, strawberry and lemon only matters once three land on a line.

One structural detail shapes every number below: symbol values are multiples of the total bet, not the line bet. That’s worth pausing on, because it makes the figures look smaller than they are on a per-line basis while keeping the whole-screen maths simple. The ladder, per symbol, runs like this:

• Clover – 1.25x for two, 5x for three, 50x for four, 250x for five
• Banana – 0.5x for two, 1.25x for three, 5x for four, 50x for five
• Grapes – 0.5x for two, 1.25x for three, 5x for four, 50x for five
• Cherry – 0.25x for two, 0.5x for three, 2.5x for four, 12.5x for five
• Orange – 0.5x for three, 2.5x for four, 12.5x for five
• Blue gem – 0.5x for three, 2.5x for four, 12.5x for five
• Watermelon – 0.25x for three, 1.25x for four, 5x for five
• Strawberry – 0.25x for three, 1.25x for four, 5x for five
• Lemon – 0.25x for three, 1.25x for four, 5x for five

The shape of that ladder matters more than any single number in it. The top rung pays twenty times what the bottom rung does for the same five-symbol line, so the gap between a clover spin and a lemon spin is the gap between the game’s real prizes and its pocket change. Everything in between is graded smoothly, with no strange jumps hiding in the middle tiers.

What the list doesn’t show is how often each tier can realistically connect. The bottom three symbols appear on the reels doing routine work, landing three on a line often enough to keep the balance moving between the bigger hits. The clover is the prize symbol, and a full line of it is the outcome the whole grid is built around.

The Barrel Wild

The wild is a barrel marked WILD. It substitutes for every symbol except the scatter, and it can expand to fill any of reels two, three or four when it lands there.

That expansion is where the game’s muscle lives. A barrel on the middle reel can complete lines across the whole grid at once, standing in for whichever fruit the line is missing. Because it only appears on the three central reels, it can’t build a line on its own; it needs paying symbols on the outer reels to work with.

Two expanded barrels at once is the scenario the whole paytable leans on. Reels two and three both stacked with wilds means every line passing through them needs just one clover on reels one, four or five to pay the five-symbol rate. The wild can’t touch the scatter, so no barrel will ever complete a scatter award; those are collected on their own terms.

Scatter Pays Anywhere

The scatter is a crown, and it counts anywhere on screen rather than along a winline. Those awards are independent of position, so a scatter cluster in the corners pays exactly what a scatter cluster down the middle does. The ladder looks like this:

• Three scatters – 5x the total bet
• Four scatters – 25x the total bet
• Five scatters – 100x the total bet

Each step up that ladder is worth five times the one before it, which is a steeper progression than the regular symbols offer. The scatter is also the only symbol whose awards don’t interact with the wild in any way, and the two features split the work cleanly between them.

The barrel works the winlines; the crown works the gaps between them. Because the scatter doesn’t need a line, it’s the symbol that can rescue a spin the winlines have written off. Between the two of them, they cover most of what a spin can produce.

That’s the complete feature list. No free spins round, no respin mechanic, no pick’em bonus: the expanding barrel wild and the anywhere-pays scatter carry the whole game between them. There’s no bonus buy either. Autoplay is there for longer runs, with a counter that tracks how many spins remain, and a fast-forward option to hurry the reels through a losing stretch.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 6/10

This is a game with one thing on its mind, sitting inside a furnace that clearly had a bigger budget than the reels did. You come to it for the old rhythm: spin, line up fruit, watch the barrel occasionally set the middle of the grid on your side. That’s the whole appeal, and the fire frame is the reason you’d pick this version of it over any other fruit machine.

The expanding barrel is the strongest piece of design here, because it’s the only route to the ladder’s top rung: a full wild reel next to a clover does more work in one spin than the bottom three symbols do in fifty. The weakness is that there’s nothing underneath the two modifiers. No bonus round, no free spins, no build to wait for – once you’ve seen the barrel and the crown, you’ve seen everything.

It suits someone who wants a fast, clean line game with sharp presentation and no patience required, and it’ll leave feature hunters cold within ten minutes. If that’s the fire you came for, you’ll be well warmed.

Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe FAQs

• What is the RTP of Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe?

  Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe runs at 96% RTP.
• How many paylines does Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe have?

  The game has 20 fixed winlines, numbered one to twenty. Every spin covers all of them, and you don’t choose lines.
• What is the grid size of Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe?

  It’s a 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows.
• When is Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe released?

  Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe’s release date is 10 September 2023.
• Who makes Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe?

  Playtech.
• What does the wild do in Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe?

  It’s a barrel that stands in for every symbol except the scatter. When one lands on reels two, three or four, it can stretch to fill that entire reel.
• How does the scatter pay in Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe?

  The crown scatter counts anywhere on screen, so it doesn’t need a winline. Three scatters pay 5x your total bet, four pay 25x, and five pay 100x.
• Does Extreme Fruits Ultimate Deluxe have a free spins round or bonus buy?

  No. The expanding wild and the scatter are the only features, and there’s no bonus buy option. It’s a straightforward base game throughout.