Aussies vs Emus

Aussies Vs Emus: Slot Overview

After exploring one of history's unusual meetings of man and beast in Napoleon Vs Rabbits, software designer Blue Guru Games has combed the past to pick another odd matchup to theme a slot. This time, the studio has turned to the land down under, Australia, for source material to colour the historically minded online slot Aussies Vs Emus. In this slot, players are transported back to 1932, the year of the Great Emu War when Australian soldiers unsuccessfully attempted to take control of an emu population damaging crops in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. This historical episode was turned into an action comedy film in 2023 titled 'The Emu War', and now, thanks to Blue Guru Games, it stars in an online slot.

Not a bad-looking online slot either, where the studio has crafted a realistic scene of the dry Western Australian landscape made up of dusty brown ground, twisting trees, and fast-moving clouds. You can easily imagine heat and flies while sitting on the porch of the wooden house in the background, contemplating how to reduce a pesky emu population. Trigger free spins, and the sun starts setting on a corner of the planet rarely seen in an online slot but neatly recreated by Blue Guru Games' design team.

Taking centre stage is Aussies Vs Emus' gaming grid consisting of 7-reels, holding 7 symbols each, and using a cluster pays system to award wins. Winning clusters are created when 5 or more identical pay symbols land next to each other, connected in vertical or horizontal directions. When this occurs, a payout is made, and the winning symbols are removed by the cascading feature. After symbols are removed, new ones tumble in from above, providing another chance to win on the same spin. All of this takes place under the command of a highly volatile math model generating a default RTP of 96.1% or 96.12% when buying the bonus round.

Playable from 10 c to $/€50 per spin, Aussies Vs Emus' pay symbols are grouped into low-value clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades, then high-pay cabbages, pumpkins, onions, and tomatoes. A cluster made up of 5 matching symbols is worth 0.1 to 1 times the bet, while at the upper end, a 40+ sized cluster pays 100x to 1,000x the bet. There are two wild symbols available in the game - the Aussie Wild and the Golden Aussie Wild. Both substitute for any regular pay symbol and one Aussie Wild or Golden Aussie Wild is guaranteed to land on each spin.

Aussies Vs Emus: Slot Features

Another special symbol to keep an eye out for is the Emu, which triggers the Emu Charge feature when landing at the same time as either wild. Mystery Wheat symbols also appear, as do Dynamite Mystery Boxes, which are needed to trigger the free spins round.

Emu Charge Feature

When an Aussie Wild or a Golden Aussie Wild symbol lands with an Emu symbol present, the Emu Charge feature activates. The Emu travels to the wild symbol, leaving a path of Mystery Wheat symbols in the positions it travels over. When an Emu lands with a Golden Aussie Wild, the Emu travels to any Dynamite Mystery Boxes first before the Golden Aussie Wild. Mystery Wheat symbols are reveal symbols that can land in the base game or in free spins.

Dynamite Mystery Boxes

Emu Charge paths that run over or adjacent to Dynamite Mystery Boxes or adjacent winning clusters cause these boxes to explode and reveal Mystery Wheat symbols in the adjacent area. Some Dynamite Mystery Boxes contain additional explosions that create mystery symbols in new areas of the game grid.

Instant Prize Coins Feature

This feature can trigger when landing an Emu and a Golden Aussie Wild. When triggered, the following symbols may appear from mystery symbols:

• Instant Prize Coins with values of 1x to 250x.
• Collector symbols collect the values of all Instant Prize Coins, removing them once collected. After collection, each position respins for additional Instant Prize Coins.
• Multiplier symbols which multiply the value of all present Instant Prize Coins by x2 to x10.

Free Games

Exploding 3 or more Dynamite Mystery Boxes triggers a minimum of 8 free spins. Additional boxes exploding before free spins entry award +1 spin and are added to the Symbol Removal Meter. During free spins, for every 3 boxes collected, 1 low pay symbol is removed from the Mystery Wheat reveal, and the global multiplier is increased by +1. Every exploded Dynamite Mystery Box adds +1 free spin. To buy the free spins round, players can do so for the price of 100 times the bet.

Aussies Vs Emus: Slot Verdict

Strewth cobber, the Aussies lost the Emu battle in 1932, and gamblers can get a taste of being outmaneuvered by birds while playing Aussies Vs Emus, too. It proved to be a tough nut to crack, with repeated bonus buys failing to end in a positive result. Not saying the game is unable to perform, far from it, but if you're planning to take Aussies Vs Emus on, be aware that it might be a merciless beast, ready and willing to lay in the boot when you're floundering in the dust wondering why the darn birds refuse to give up and die.

After that little moan, there are plenty of good bits in Aussies Vs Emus as well, which at points felt like ELK Studios' Wild Toro range of slots. However, instead of dropping wilds when animals charge humans, here they drop mystery symbols, which can reveal pay symbols or Coins when charges occur. Emus are able to pop Dynamite Mystery Boxes as well - handy since they are needed to enter the free spins round. In other words, there are several moving parts that help keep Aussies Vs Emus interesting. Potentially thrilling when the parts come together, where wins as high as 16,239 times the bet, one of the larger win figures in a Blue Guru Games slot, are possible. There can be a lot of convergence of parts needed to unlock Aussies Vs Emus' best bits, though, which could be frustrating when they didn't quite result in a decent result. The triggering spin on the bonus buys felt oddly scripted as well, the way Dynamite Boxes were tucked away in the top left corner.

It's not hard to picture Blue Guru Games having a bit of fun when they made Aussies Vs Emus, and with a presence in Australia, perhaps the team felt emotionally invested in the project. While similar in some ways to Wild Toro and Napoleon vs Rabbits, Aussies Vs Emus springboards from both slots while interweaving an intriguing episode from history to build a unique slot with entertainment value.