Planet Of The 'Roos

What Planet Of The 'Roos Puts on Screen

Planet Of The 'Roos opens on an alien planet in turquoise light, the ruins of a station on the skyline, and the game leaves it there: no menu screen, no preamble, just the scene and the reels over it. In Planet Of The 'Roos the art is built around one motif — a kangaroo warrior in armour with a spear levelled — and it is that motif you see on the tile before you open the game.

Working down the paytable you get an energy spear, a helmet, a crystal and a service droid, then the usual playing-card values. The palette is turquoise, sand ochre and blued steel, which is what makes the game readable at a glance in a lobby full of neighbours.

The audio is cinematic and stays out of the way until a bonus starts, at which point it changes register entirely. Vertically on a phone, Planet Of The 'Roos drops the surrounding scene and keeps the reels with the motif on them: kangaroo warrior — which is exactly what matters when the symbols are eight millimetres tall.

That consistency is why the tile works at thumbnail size, and why Planet Of The 'Roos does not get lost between the games either side of it.

How Planet Of The 'Roos Is Built

The Planet Of The 'Roos grid is 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines. Wins are read left to right from the first reel, and only the highest combination on each line counts, so a second kangaroo warrior further along the same line adds nothing. Payouts climb steeply near the top: the kangaroo warrior is worth many times what an energy spear pays, and the card ranks at the bottom exist mainly to keep a losing spin from looking empty.

King Roo Wilds is the entry to read first — the leader works as a wild and stays on his reel — because it is what turns a near miss on Planet Of The 'Roos into a paid line. The maximum quoted for Planet Of The 'Roos is 75,000× the total bet, and that figure is reached through the features rather than on a base spin — worth knowing before you judge the game by its first fifty spins.

Everything else on the grid is ordinary; Hold and Spin Bonanza is not: prize symbols freeze while the remaining positions fill in. So the honest way to read Planet Of The 'Roos is as two games stacked: the base grid, which ticks over, and the feature, which does not.

Choosing a Stake for Planet Of The 'Roos

Planet Of The 'Roos is staked per line: pick a line bet, multiply by 25, and that is what a spin costs; every Planet Of The 'Roos payout is quoted against that same line bet. Note that 75,000× the total bet is a multiplier, not a rand figure. It holds at every stake, which is what makes Planet Of The 'Roos comparable with the games either side of it in the lobby.

This one runs high volatility — it will do very little for a long time and then settle the whole session in one round. One number people look for is missing from most write-ups of Planet Of The 'Roos, and for a reason. RTG builds its games with a configurable return, so Planet Of The 'Roos has no single RTP — it has whichever RTP each operator selected. Open the info panel inside Planet Of The 'Roos to see the setting that applies to your session.

One practical note on staking Planet Of The 'Roos: changing the bet between spins changes nothing but the price, and no state carries across — each Planet Of The 'Roos spin is settled on its own. If you autoplay Planet Of The 'Roos, set it to break on King Roo Wilds — the one moment in the game you want to be watching.

Bonus Rounds Worth Waiting For

There are four things worth waiting for in Planet Of The 'Roos, starting with King Roo Wilds. None of them fire often; all of them change the shape of a Planet Of The 'Roos session when they do.

King Roo Wilds — the leader works as a wild and stays on his reel. Everything else Planet Of The 'Roos does on the base grid is a preamble to King Roo Wilds.

Hold and Spin Bonanza: prize symbols freeze while the remaining positions fill in. Watch for the Hold and Spin Bonanza trigger rather than the reels — on Planet Of The 'Roos it is easier to miss than you would expect.

Grand Jackpot on all 15 positions (a grid filled to all fifteen positions takes the top prize). Grand Jackpot on all 15 positions does not fire often on Planet Of The 'Roos, and the game is built on the assumption that you are waiting for it.

Oversized reels in free spins (the reels grow taller for the free spins). Oversized reels in free spins is the part of Planet Of The 'Roos most worth having a balance left for.

The features are the game. King Roo Wilds in particular is where the quoted ceiling of 75,000× the total bet comes from, and no amount of base-grid play approaches it.

Session Advice for the Alien Planet

On Planet Of The 'Roos the stake wants to be small relative to the balance: the game can go a long way without paying, and the only protection against that is spin count. Set the limit before the first spin of Planet Of The 'Roos rather than after a bad run — the deposit and self-exclusion tools are in the account area and take effect immediately.

For wagering purposes Planet Of The 'Roos counts as a slot, which means it contributes at the full rate, and the conditions are set out on the bonus page. Practice mode runs Planet Of The 'Roos on the same maths without the stake, which makes it the sensible place to meet King Roo Wilds.

One thing not to do with Planet Of The 'Roos is chase King Roo Wilds by raising the stake after a dry run: its trigger frequency does not change with bet size, only the cost of waiting does. The responsible gaming page collects the limit tools and the independent support contacts in one place, and they apply to Planet Of The 'Roos as to every other game here.

Planet Of The 'Roos in Short

The player Planet Of The 'Roos is for is the one who wants a game that can do very little for a long time and then do a great deal at once. The natural companion in our lobby is Princess Warrior; the corner of the catalogue is close, the feel is not.

Planet Of The 'Roos and Princess Warrior both run in practice mode, so comparing them costs nothing but the time. Start with Planet Of The 'Roos if you are prepared to sit through the quiet. Full specifications for Planet Of The 'Roos — the 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines, volatility, the top end (75,000× the total bet), the feature list and the release year — are in the table at the top of this page.

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