Aztec Bonanza is a 5 reel slot from Pragmatic Play that features up to 7,776 paylines, four exciting in-game modifiers, and a free spin bonus where wins of up to 19,000x your stake are potentially up for grabs.

The minimum amount to play Aztec Bonanza is just €0.30 a spin, whilst the maximum price of play reaches a staggering €150. Players will however be happy to know that there are a total of 7 stakes to play at that range from €2.10 down to the minimum stake, this makes the game very accessible in our opinion to players of all sized budgets. 

Pragmatic Play have included the entertaining cascading reels feature into Aztec Bonanza. This popular reel mechanic plays a massive part in the structure of this slot which we will move onto in the next section. But firstly for those who do not know what cascading reels are, we shall give you an explanation. 

During your play on a cascading reels slot, when a winning combination is made the symbols that were involved in that win will be eliminated from the reels, new symbols will then drop down to fill the spaces that have been left behind, this will continue until no further winning connections are available. 

As you start your play on Aztec Bonanza the reels will have a format on 384 paylines. You will also notice that each corner of the play field is covered by slabs, and this is where the cascading reels that we mentioned earlier come in to play. 

Each time that you hit two consecutive wins it will cause one of the slabs to break and increase the amount of winning paylines, not only will this enhance your chances of winning further but it will also trigger a modifier. 

There is a specific order that the slabs will break in, and then what modifiers will be awarded. This is now explained in further detail for you below.

Completing two consecutive winning combinations will see the top left hand side of the gam come in to play. This will increase you amount of winning ways to 960, and also trigger the mystery symbol modifier. These mystery symbols will be replaced with a random symbol from the paytable. 

Four consecutive wins on Aztec Bonanza will see the top right hand side of the game unlocked, this will increase your paylines up to 2400 and also trigger the symbol modifier. This feature will see a lower paying symbol from the reels selected and turned into a higher paying one, this can produce some nice wins, but can also lead to nothing and the end of your succession of wins.

Six consecutive wins on Aztec Bonanza will see the bottom left hand side of the game brought in to the action. This will increase your paylines to 4320 and also trigger the expanded symbol modifier. This feature will see the first two reels now filled with mega symbols that are 2x2 in size, matching these up with other symbols may produce some good base game hits.

Eight consecutive wins on Aztec Bonanza will see the bottom right hand side of the game enter the fray, and with it you will reach the maximum amount of paylines which is 7,776. This will trigger another expanded symbol modifier, but this time the symbols that cover reels 5/6 will be replaced with mega symbols that are 2x2 in size.

This can potentially lead to some massive wins if you can connect the symbols all of the way across, but this isn't where the action ends. When you finally reach the point where no further winning cascades are possible you will enter the bonus round, as hitting 8 consecutive wins and unlocking all payline positions is how you trigger the free spin bonus on Aztec Bonanza.

Upon triggering the free spin feature on Aztec Bonanza you will be awarded with 5 free spins. You will also bring a special set of game reels in to play that have the maximum payline format of 7,776 ways to win. Each of the free spins will see one of the modifiers that we explained earlier become active, so with all paylines now available this can give you the potential to hit some big wins. 

Players should note that it is not possible to re-trigger this free spin bonus, so if anything magical is going to happen, you only have 5 spins for it to do so.

Aztec Bonanza very much has a Temple Tumble Megaways™ feel to it, and we think that is mainly due to the fact that you have to open the game up through consecutive wins. It is still a very good game in its own right though, and the modifiers certainly help to keep things interesting and entertaining. 

It is perhaps a little disappointing that you only receive 5 free spins for the bonus feature, with no chance of adding any extra spins, this does tend to see the bonus over in a blink of an eye. Fortunately though, the bonus rounds didn't seem overly difficult to come by, so that does help to soften the blow a little.

Not a bad slot in our opinion, but if you're a fan of these style of games you may also want to check out Voodoo Gold, Ecuador Gold, and Tahiti Gold, as they are all very similar games. 

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