Club Tropicana Happy Hour Slot Review

Club Tropicana Happy Hour will be mobile-ready and available across various devices. Knowing the provider's releases so far, we expect it to boast top-class graphics, generous bonus features, and a good RTP.

The Club Tropicana - Happy Hour Slot Game

By now, it’s pretty apparent that both Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom are suckers for franchises. I bet it’s why the long-time duo have chosen to advance the Club Tropicana adventure, released in 2023, with this new release, dubbed the ‘happy hour’.

And just like that, you have yourself Club Tropicana - Happy Hour, which, honestly, looks like a half-brother to the original. Once again, you’re heading to a beach bar, but under the golden sunset skies, suggesting it's early evening—a perfect time for happy hour!

A heavily bearded man, who acts as the bartender, stands next to the 5x4 matrix. He’s the same dude who graced all the fishing escapades in Big Bass. But instead of the fishing overalls and gear, he has a flowery shirt and a cocktail mixer. In summary, it’s a pretty solid design completed with an upbeat tropical melody.

Symbols and Payouts

This Bigger Bass Splash rendition does away with fishing-related things and replaces them with happy hour-related ones. As such, the ten regular symbols include various fruits and cocktails.

The Club Tropicana - Happy Hour slot features 12 paylines. A win occurs when identical symbols appear on adjacent reels on the lines, from the leftmost reel to the right. A winning combination’s payout equals the corresponding paytable value multiplied by the total bet.

Onto the symbols now. The low-paying tier consists of the Cherries, Lemons, and Oranges, worth 0.2x to 5x the bet, and the Grapes and Watermelon, worth 0.2x to 10x the stake.

Then, the premium symbols include the following:

• Cocktails - 1x, 5x, and the total money value amount (for 5 or more OAK).
• Flower & Coconut Drink - 2x, 10x, and 50x the bet.
• Umbrellas - 3x, 15x, and 100x the stake.
• Cocktail Mixer (pays for 2 or more OAK) - 0.5x, 5x, 20x, and 200x the bet.

The Cocktails in Club Tropicana - Happy Hour also serve as Money symbols. They assume a random value between 2x and 5,000x bet, which you can win during the free spins.

Finally, take note of the Bartender wild, which only appears during the free spins, and can substitute for all the regular symbols. The scatter is your ticket to the free spins!

Club Tropicana - Happy Hour Slot Bonus Features 

The money-collecting and multiplier features are housed in the free spins. Then, you have an ante bet and two feature buy options.

Free Spins

Manage 3 to 5 scatters in the Club Tropicana - Happy Hour base game to trigger the bonus round with 10, 15, and 20 free spins, respectively. Also, whenever only 2 scatters appear in the base game, the third one can be added by a random respin or beer that pulls one of the reels upwards to reveal another scatter.

Before the feature plays out, up to 5 modifiers applied to the subsequent round will be randomly selected:

• More Cocktails on the reels.

• More Bartenders on the reel strips.

• Increased chances of hitting more Beers, Exotic Drinks, and Shakers during the round.
• The round starts from level 2 in the progressive feature.
• The following round starts with +2 more free spins from the beginning, and 2 more spins per retrigger.

Every wild that lands on the Club Tropicana - Happy Hour reels during the free spins collects all the Money symbol values on the screen.

The wilds are also collected until the end of the round. Every 4th wild you collect retriggers the feature with +10 free spins and increases the Money symbol collection multiplier to 2x, 3x, and 10x for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th levels, respectively.

The feature cannot be retriggered after the 4th level. Randomly, the following actions can happen during the bonus:

• Exotic Drinks Spin - triggers when there are Bartenders on the reels without Cocktails, the Cocktails can randomly appear after the free spin.
• Randomly, when there are Cocktails but no Bartenders on the screen, a beer will appear after a free spin, pull its reel upwards, and introduce Bartender symbols.
• Shaker Animation - when there are Bartenders on the screen but no Cocktails, the animation can change all the screen symbols except for Bartender symbols to something else.

Ante Bet & Bonus Buy

The Club Tropicana - Happy Hour slot has an ante bet, which increases the bet by +50% when toggled on. In return, it boosts the chances of winning the free spins but deactivates the buy bonus option.

Meanwhile, there are two feature buy options:    

• Pay 100x bet to trigger the free spins instantly.
• Pay 350x bet to activate the super free spins, with all the modifiers for the bought round already awarded.

How to Win at Club Tropicana - Happy Hour Slot

Gambling on this game means spinning a 5-reel, 4-row gameboard, hoping that winning combinations will form.

So, how does it happen? Essentially, you should aim to land matching symbols along any of the 12 predefined paylines and on adjacent reels from the leftmost side to the right. A win equals the corresponding paytable value multiplied by the selected bet!

It’s also worth mentioning the €0.10 to €300 Club Tropicana - Happy Hour betting values.

You ignite a spin by pressing the Spacebar or tapping the Spin button. Otherwise, you can fire up several subsequent spins through the Autoplay window. Furthermore, the game also has Turbo and Quickspin functions for speeding up the reel spins.

Club Tropicana - Happy Hour Slot RTP & Volatility

This game’s theoretical RTP is a constant 96.50%, regardless of the mode you’re playing. Then, it's highly volatile and can award up to 5,000 times the stake!

The Concluding Thoughts

Have you ever squeezed water from a piece of cloth with your hands until it is nearly dry? But keep squeezing the garment, hoping for more water to drip out? While some of you may protest that this isn’t part of the unending series, how do you explain its features cloned from Bigger Bass Splash?

It’s as if Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom just can’t let go of the money collection feature, which has been key in the Big Bass franchise. And since most players are probably starting to get tired of repeating the same features in a fishing adventure, the duo has opted to incorporate it into something different. 

The visuals in this new game are spellbinding. But the gameplay won’t impress anyone who has gambled on previous similar games, especially the Big Bass editions. However, at least the betting range was wide enough, and it offered an ante bet and bonus buy options.

But is it worth the risk? For beginners only, or those who played the original Club Tropicana and want advanced action. Otherwise, you'd better look away if you’re someone who doesn’t fancy repeated experiences.