Fiesta Cubana

Latin countries are known for their party culture, and that's exactly what you'll find with the Fiesta Cubana slot by Side City Studios. It has a hot-and-heavy visual style with lots of dancing, drinking and partying, and the action doesn't stop there. The soundtrack is also hopping, and you'll find that the feature set is designed around giving players a tremendous degree of action during all phases of the game. If you're the type of player who likes a fast-paced and vibrant experience, then this is a game that you will not want to miss out on.

Format and Layout

The tone of any online slot starts with its format. Here you can see that everything is geared towards a lot of action thanks to the five-reel, three-row and 243-ways format. This layout turns every symbol into a scatter that pays on consecutive reels starting from the left and working to the right, and that means you have hundreds of ways to get paid on each spin. You'll be wagering 25 coins on each turn, and the coin values range from $0.01 to $10 apiece. The game minimum is subsequently $0.25 per spin, and you can bet as much as $250 per spin as well.

Fiesta Cubana Wild Symbol

The wild symbol for Fiesta Cubana is actually the logo for the game. It's somewhat interesting because it only appears on the middle reel, but it still ends up being what's probably the most important symbol in the entire slot. The reason for this is that it helps to trigger the main bonus feature, which can actually come up fairly often, and so it's able to give you a lot of value in a different way than what wild symbols typically do. This helps to create a different style of gameplay than what most titles offer, which makes the game stand out from a gameplay perspective quite a bit.

We should point out that, like most wild symbols, this one does not substitute for the scatter symbol.

Respin Bonus Feature

There are five major symbols in this game that show off dancing and other characters based around the party culture. If you get a win with one of these symbols that includes the wild symbol, then you'll trigger the Fiesta Cubana slot's respin feature. Those symbols will lock into place, and all of the other symbols will spin to give you chances to extend your wins or give you even more respins with new winning combinations that use the wild. This offers quite a bit of value by raising the average size of your wins when you include the wild symbol.

Free Spins Bonus Round

The scatter symbol is a beautiful car, and it shows up on the middle three reels only. If you get the car scatter on the second, third and fourth reels at the same time, you'll be given a 50x payout multiplied by your entire bet size. Additionally, you'll be given a set of free spins. The wild symbol is held in the middle spot of the third reel during all of your free spins to give you better chances of winning. This also drastically increases your chances of hitting the respin feature, so these two features combine to give you even better payouts.

Key Symbols and Prizes

The prizes in this game are actually simplified in a way that we haven't ever seen before that makes it super easy to remember what the payouts are. There are five top symbols that feature characters in closed-in boxes. There are people dancing and playing music in these symbols, and all five of them pay 100x for five of a kind. Then you have five lower-tier symbols, and they are not closed in boxes. They are mostly drinks, cigars, musical instruments and similar. All five of them pay out 50x for five of a kind. These wins are multiplied by your entire bet size, so they're like 2,500x and 250x line bet wins, respectively, which are pretty good-sized pays.

Our Thoughts

The Fiesta Cubana slot by Side City Studios takes a different approach to several key apsects of online slots that players probably take for granted. In particular, we're talking about how wild symbols give value and how pay tables are structured. In this case, they both combine to give you a great type of action-packed experience, and even though the gameplay is a little different than what you might be used to, it's still familiar enough that you won't feel like you're out of place.