CherryPop Burst

Avatarux carries its PopWins format into a third outing with CherryPop Burst, following the original CherryPop and CherryPop Deluxe with a cooler, icier fruit palette and a more laid-back soundtrack than either earlier release. Wins count as ways rather than fixed lines, reading left-to-right from the first reel and right-to-left from the last, across a five-reel grid that opens at three rows (243 ways) and can grow to nine rows once the bonus round is running (59,049 ways).

Card ranks nine through Ace fill the bottom of the paytable, worth 1.2x to 1.6x for five in a row. Above the cards, a seven-strong fruit tier pays between 2.5x and 8x for five matching icons: oranges and watermelon lead a set that also includes bananas, grapes, plums, apples and blueberries. Cherries alone occupy the top spot, worth 15x.

Stakes cover an unusually wide span for the format, from 0.10 up to 300 a spin, and switching on the ante bet raises that stake by half in return for double the odds of triggering the bonus.

The base game runs on PopWins: each win clears its symbols, drops two fresh ones into the gap, and can chain into another win immediately if the replacements connect, with the reels able to climb as high as six rows before a round resets. A multiplier can also fire randomly, whether that's the moment a spin begins or partway through a win being paid out, opening at 2x and rising by 1x per pop while still in the base game.

Six rows across all five reels opens Free Spins, where the ceiling rises to nine rows and a non-winning spin only drops the grid back to its lowest point reached so far rather than all the way down. The multiplier carries over from the base game and keeps adding 1x per win, jumping to a 2x-per-win pace once the grid has filled to nine rows, and some wins hand out one to four extra spins instead of raising the multiplier.

A choice awaits once Free Spins run out: cash out the total, risk half of it for a shot at doubling or tripling that portion through the Fortune Flip Wheels, or gamble the entire amount for a shot at 3x or 10x. Players short on patience can buy in directly — 75x the stake for 5 spins, 150x for 8 spins with better odds of extra features, or 300x for 12 spins with the best odds available — while a separate 3x-per-spin option guarantees a multiplier hit on every purchased spin. RTP lands at 96.04% with high volatility, and the maximum win reaches 20,000 times the stake.