Snake Arena Dream Drop

Snake Arena Dream Drop: Slot Overview

Relax Gaming's original Snake Arena slot dropped in 2020 and went on to enjoy popular acclaim. It evoked memories of the classic mobile phone game Snake and mixed together new yet familiar features to strike a warm note with many players. So universal the appeal, Relax Gaming has turned to Snake Arena to host their second Dream Drop slot. Snake Arena Dream Drop returns all the charm of the first game while adding the chance of striking rewards as potentially high as €10,000,000.

Most of the time, Snake Arena Dream Drop's action takes place on a 5-reel, 5-row game grid with 30 paylines. It has a faint chess board feel about it, and the reels are situated in a castle courtyard bordered by walls, turrets, and a forest. The game isn't as old school as the original Snake game by a long shot, but it has a pleasant, ever so slightly retro feel to it, all the same, thanks to the chunky visuals and bonus round similarities. The only real change at this stage is the Dream Drop info section sitting on the side of the screen, displaying current jackpot values.

RTP is another area where the two games deviate, and Snake Arena Dream Drop has a value of 94%, which includes a 12% contribution to the jackpots. Hits come at a rate of 19.53%, occurring when three or more neighbouring symbols land along a payline from the left. Medium/high volatile, Snake Arena Dream Drop can be played on any device, where players pick stakes of 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin.

Four coins reside at the lower side of the paytable coloured blue, bronze, silver, and gold, paying out 2x the bet for a five of a kind win. Moving up is a beer mug, ham, a green-eyed ring, and a crown, worth 4-20x the stake for a five-symbol hit. Two wilds appear in Snake Arena Dream Drop at various moments. One is a 1x1 sized knight; the other is the snake which can cover multiple reel positions. Both wilds replace any of the pay symbols and connect to the features, as detailed next.

Snake Arena Dream Drop: Slot Features

There's a love/hate thing going on in Snake Arena Dream Drop between the two lead characters – the knight and the snake. The first feature on the block is the Wild Chase extra which triggers randomly in the base game. When activated, the two characters peer out at each other from opposite ends of the grid. If they appear on the same reel, the snake reaches out, and the reel turns wild. Then the dance begins again. If they peek out three consecutive times and do not appear on the same reel, the feature ends. It is possible to turn all five reels wild.

Snake Arena Dream Drop Free Spins

Landing the knight and the snakehead triggers Snake Arena Dream Drop Free Spins. This is where the game acknowledges its Snake mobile game roots. On each free spin, a knight appears in a random position. After any wins are awarded, the snake slithers toward the knight's position, eats him, and grows one cell larger. For win evaluations, the knight and the snake's whole body are wild. Each time the snake eats a knight, another free spin is awarded. This process continues until the snake bumps into itself when chasing the knight or when the snake covers reels 2 to 5, thereby awarding an additional 1,000x the bet.

Dream Drop

Now for the biggie and the reason for the Snake Arena revival. At any point in the base game, a Dream Drop Jackpot Spin can randomly be awarded. Special reels appear on screen where only gold DD symbols or stone blocks land. If 5 DD symbols land, players move to the Dream Drop Jackpots bonus round. Otherwise, you simply go back to the regular game. For this iteration of the Dream Drop Jackpots bonus round, a segmented wheel spins and where it comes to rest is what the player wins. This could be Rapid, Midi, Maxi, Major, or Mega jackpots, with starting values of €1, €5, €100, €25,000, or €500,000, respectively. The Mega Jackpot is set to trigger before it reaches €1 million for the first two times. The level increases by €500,000 for the following two, then, after every second following jackpot fallout, it increases by €500k until reaching €10,000,000, where it will stay indefinitely.

Snake Arena Dream Drop: Slot Verdict

Players are definitely dealing with a different kettle of fish, or snakes, this time around. The original Snake Arena slot could hardly be classed as a massive potential slot, maxing out at 2,758.8x the bet at the most. This figure remains the same in Snake Arena Dream Drop outside the jackpot. Now though, with the potential to win up to €10,000,000 once the Mega has been filled, Snake Arena Dream Drop presents an entirely different sort of experience.

A lot of the time, most really, it's business as usual, though, albeit with a significantly different return to player value. This should be good news for fans of the original slot, as the Snake Arena Dream Drop version is as playable as ever, so players who got a kick out of playing a gambling version of a classic mobile phone game still get to enjoy that. It's got the same cute sprites, tokens, playful interplay between the two characters, and brings back memories of the era when mobile phones were more pixelated, and touch screens were a distant dream. Not that long ago, mobiles were pretty much only used for texting or calling, or playing games like Snake, compared to how central they've become now. It's astonishing to think that Motorola released the DynaTAC 8000 in 1983, with 30 minutes of talk time, the capacity to hold 30 numbers, and a price tag of nearly $4,000.

Anyway, enough of the reminiscing. The bottom line is Snake Arena is an excellent legacy game choice to be a Dream Drop host. It's a game with cute looks, fun features, and a high nostalgia factor, so it should be an attractive choice for a wide range of players looking to give the Dream Drop jackpots a crack.