Crystal Catcher Slot by Push Gaming 🎰 Free Demo and Review

Crystal Catcher Review

Push Gaming is perhaps most famous for their ultra popular Razor Shark, and also their equally successful Jammin’ Jars series. The latter comes with wilds moving around, and this is also the core feature in Crystal Catcher. It plays out on a 7x7 grid set inside a mining shaft, and it gets filled with crystal symbols of different colors per spin. Cascading wins can keep your winning streak going, but what you really want is the Crystal Catcher feature.

This feature is key to larger base game wins, and it’s also your only way into the bonus round. The Wild Beetle moves around to collect special non-paying crystal symbols, and its multiplier keeps increasing as it partakes in cluster wins. It can also collect instant prize symbols worth up to 500x, and, if you’re lucky, the bonus symbol. The bonus round gives you more of the same, and the Wild Beetle multiplier never resets for payouts up to 5,000x your stake.

Crystal Catcher Slot - Reels Screen

Crystal Catcher Slot Features

You win by landing 5 to 16+ matching gemstone symbols in a cluster anywhere on the grid, and a 5 symbols win awards between 0.2 and 2 x your stake. On the upper end, a 16+ symbols win awards between 12.5 to 100 x your stake, and the red gemstone is the top-tier symbol. Winning symbols are removed via the Cascading mechanic, and the gaps are filled with new and/or existing symbols dropping down from above. This repeats as long as you keep winning.

The Wild Beetle symbol steps in for pay symbols to help complete and/or improve winning clusters, and they leave behind Gold Wild Beetle symbols when they move during the main features of this game.

Both Beetle symbols come with a multiplier attached, and it starts at x1. The wild beetle multiplier will boost all wins the wild is a part of, and the multiplier can increase from the x1 starting point via the Crystal Catcher Feature and in the bonus round.

The Crystal Catcher Feature triggers when you land a Wild Beetle in view together with a Crystal Symbol, Bonus Crystal Symbol, or Instant Prize Symbol. The Wild Beetle multiplier increases by +1 per symbol it collects of these 3, and it leaves behind a wild beetle with the same multiplier value as the moving wild beetle multiplier currently has achieved.

The Instant Prize symbols come with prizes of 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 20x, 30x, 50x, 100x, 200x, 300x, or 500x your stake. The prizes are collected when the wild beetle flies to land on the instant prize symbol, and the multiplier will boost the prize value to give you an instant win.

When a Wild Beetle lands on and collects a Bonus Crystal Symbol, you trigger the Bonus Round after the current cascading sequence comes to an end. You get 7 free spins, and the Wild Beetle is persistent between free spins. Any left behind gold wild beetle symbols are removed per cascade though, but the multiplier of the wild beetle will keep increasing for as long as the bonus round lasts.

The Ante Bet feature can be turned on between base game spins, and this will cost you 20 % more per spin (increases the RTP from 94.3 to 94.4 %). The benefit is a higher chance of triggering the bonus features, as well as more frequent Wild Beetle symbols. Non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can take advantage of the Bonus Buy menu. It comes with 2 options as follows:

• Pay 75x your stake for the regular bonus round with an RTP of 96.5 %.
• Pay 275x your stake for the super bonus round (more crystal symbols, top-tier symbols, and instant prize symbols) with an RTP of 96.55 %.

The 200 Spins Crystal Catcher Slot Experience

You get to see a few decent base game wins, with a lengthy patch of dead spins in between. We then trigger the bonus round at 1:15 into the 2:29 minute highlights video. We got 7 free spins, as nothing else is possible, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

We enjoyed the Oompa Loompa inspired soundtrack in this simple little mining gem slot from Push Gaming, and the pace of the game is excellent as well. The gemstone/crystal symbols come with different colors and sizes, and the Wild Beetle sticks out like a sore thumb in the ocean of multicolored crystals. It makes sense that the Wild Beetle takes center stage like this, as it is key to larger payouts in all stages of the game.

It’s not really all that useful until it starts to move in the Crystal Catcher feature though, but then it can collect up to solid instant prizes, as well as possibly triggering the bonus round. This is not the most brutal installment we’ve seen from Push Gaming, but Crystal Catcher is a solid mid-range release with a decent 5,000x potential. It’s not a contender for their best game ever by any means, but most players will probably have a good time with this one for a while.