Xpander

The Xpander slot is a release from Hacksaw Gaming, which plays out on a 7x7 tumble wins grid. Its design follows the traditional simple design of Hacksaw Gaming slots with a retro-futuristic theme to the background and a fruit theme on the reels.

Using the cluster pays mechanic, the Xpander slot features a “Hopper” concept, which involves an expanding symbol that grows in both size and value. Typical fruit symbols such as grapes, watermelons, lemons and cherries grace the reels alongside bells, diamonds and other classic slot symbols. In the Xpander slot, players have the chance to walk away with 10,000 coins, which is the maximum potential win from the bonus round.

While everything else resets in the base game between winning spins, the bonus round saves your win progress and accumulates it for bigger payouts. Like many of the online slots at LeoVegas, you will find exciting bonus features such as multipliers, wilds and free spins, alongside special symbols such as Double Up and Grow.

The Xpander video slot is a feature-rich slot. Wilds are present in the base game, and Hopper multipliers, Free Spins and Scatters appear in the bonus game.

After wins are formed, the tumble feature removes winning clusters from the grid and replaces them with new symbols that drop down to occupy the empty positions. The process becomes a continuous cycle that remains active as long as you keep landing winning clusters.

To trigger the Free Spins, you need to land at least three Scatter symbols. You initially receive five Free Spins, and you can get extra spins with the help of 1UP symbols whenever they are in view.

A 2x multiplier occupies a new position on the reel mid-spin. This is the Hopper symbol, and at first, it only covers a 1x1 grid to multiply any winning cluster it is part of. If there are no more wins in the base game, the multiplier resets to the initial 2x. Thankfully, the multiplier’s progress doesn’t reset in the bonus game, and it can increase in size to cover a 4x4 grid and enable wins of up to 128x!

The Double Up symbol appears to multiply the size and value of your current Hopper multiplier by 2. You can land multiple Double Up symbols at the same time to reach a maximum multiplier value of 128x.

Watch out for the green arrow, which is the Grow symbol. This special symbol is collected whenever it lands to help you upgrade the size and value of your Hopper symbol from 1x1 to the maximum 4x4. You will need to collect three Grow symbols to reach from 2x2 and another three Grow symbols to reach 3x3, and so on until you reach 4x4. You would need nine grow symbols in a single tumble sequence to achieve the maximum 4x4 multiplier. A re-spin is also awarded every time your multiplier grows.

The cluster pays mechanic requires that you match at least five symbols adjacent to one another to form wins and cash out rewards. The low-value symbols include the fruit machine symbols, such as Watermelons, Cherries, Lemons and Grapes, which pay out 0.1 coins for a cluster of five. A cluster of 15+ pays out up to 20 coins for the fruits.

The premium symbols include Horseshoes, Bells and Red 7s. These pay 0.25 coins for five and up to 60 coins for clusters of 15+. The Diamond is the highest-paying symbol awarding between 0.5-80 coins for clusters of 5-15+. The Wild symbol steps in to enable or improve wins for the regular symbols.

All the control buttons for the Xpander video slot are located below the reels to allow easy navigation. You can set your bets by clicking the up and down arrows before hitting the spin button to spin your first round. The left side of the panel displays your balance, while the three-bar menu allows you to access the game information and configure the sound and music settings to your liking.

You can play the Xpander online slot on any Android or iOS mobile device or tablet.

This Hacksaw Gaming slot was launched to casinos on 28 July 2021. As the Xpander online slot game loads, you will see purple skyscrapers in the background. The classic fruit symbols on the reels have been designed to match the theme perfectly.

The soothing soundtrack starts out slowly and switches to a livelier tune when the features kick in. The music, design and feel of the Xpander video slot provide a calming yet action-packed atmosphere.

Hacksaw Gaming has made other well-known titles, which you can check out at LeoVegas, such as Eggstra Cash, Frutz and Lucky Shot.

Other classic fruit-themed game titles you might enjoy include Super Fruits Wild by Inspired Gaming, Fruit Party 2 by Pragmatic Play and Starlite Fruits Mega Moolah by Microgaming.