Beast Below Slot review

Delve into the eerie ocean depths of Beast Below slot and listen to the alluring calls of the fabled Sirens with multipliers of up to 200x!. Tame them, and let them show you the way to finding sunken treasures. Or, dive deep yourself into the unknown waters and sneak your way around the mythical Lovecraftian leviathan. Steal their riches from right under their nose or succumb to the fate of countless sailors before you, forever lost to the sea's merciless depths.

Betting Options and Bonus Features

Presented on a 5-reel, 4-row grid, Beast Below provides 14 fixed paylines and a number of robust features. Your aim is to secure matching symbols along a payline. You’ll need 3 to 5 matching symbols and your reward will depend on the symbol quality.

Certain game elements, such as the Wild symbol, will help you form these winning combinations. The symbol is illustrated by a ship’s Anchor and acts as a substitute that replaces any standard pay symbol. It also possesses its own value. Landing a full line of Wild Anchor symbols will reward you with 20x your stake.

The main feature of Beast Below, however, is the Expanding Siren mechanic. Sirens symbols act as Wild symbols expanding upwards to the top of their reel. Expanded Sirens display a multiplier value of 2x to 200x applicable to any win it's part of. Furthermore, if you manage to land multiple Expanded Siren symbols, their multiplier values are combined! This feature is also present and improved in one of the bonus rounds of the game. 

The Siren's Call Bonus Game is activated via FS Scatter symbols; you'll need at least 3 of them to land in a single spin. Doing so will award you 10 free spins, during which, your likelihood of acquiring Siren symbols increases. You’ll also unlock a new special Pink Siren symbol. These offer a better chance to land big wins as they stay on the reels and nudge upwards by one position with each spin. The entire bonus game can be extended indefinitely by landing additional FS symbols. 2 FS symbols award 2 additional spins and 3 FS symbols award 4 free spins.

As for The Down Below Bonus Game, it gets triggered when four FS Scatter symbols land in the base game, providing 10 free spins. Here, Siren symbols are replaced with Expanding Diver Symbols. The core function is the same, however, each diver symbol is sticky and carries 3 Oxygen Charges. These charges are depleted and used with each spin but in return, the Diver symbols stay on the reels and move from side to side, refreshing their Wild Multipliers, which are between 2x and 200x. You can have up to 3 moving Diver symbols present at once.

Hacksaw Gaming also offers multiple optional bonus buy options for Beast Below:​

• BonusHunt FeatureSpins - Increase your chance by 5 times to trigger a bonus game for 3x your stake.
  
• Siren FeatureSpins - For 50x your stake, guarantee at least 2 Siren symbols to land.
  
• The Sirens Call Bonus Game - Unlock the Siren's Call Bonus Game for 120x your stake.
  
• Down Below Bonus Round - Unlock the Down Below Bonus game for 200x your stake.
  

Roshtein’s Take

Beast Below is another high-quality project from Hacksaw. They might have many other similar titles, revolving around Expanding Wilds, but they are also of similar standard and quality. “If it ain't broke why fix it” kinda thing, right? Both bonus games are extremely volatile and the visual design is quite spectacular.