Crazy Red Nest Quest Slot Review

Of all the disgusting, filthy things that human beings have decided to eat other than regular food, bird's nest has to be up there on the list. The swiftlet is a small cave bird 🐦 in Borneo, and it builds the thing out of its own hardened spit, glued to bare rock.

Getting one down means climbing a rickety bamboo pole hundreds of feet up a dark cave wall and scraping spit off the ceiling by lamplight. Sounds charming when framed this way, doesn’t it? 🤢

So the nest isn't where the treasure got stashed - the nest is the treasure. Crazy Red Nest Quest slot from Amusnet Games takes that to heart. 💰

Gameplay

Luckily, we are not scrambling around in a guano-infested cave, but rather in a highly detailed jungle somewhere. Peeking out from behind the grid is a Wheel of Fortune-type thing, and there are jackpots all over the place - more on this later.

For all its exquisite detail, which might be problematic on a phone, this game actually looks super on a mobile device in either orientation.

The 5x3 grid carries 243 ways to win (increasing to 7,776 ways), the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.

RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. is 96.33%, volatility is medium/high, and the max multiplier is 10,000x. The max win is $200,000, with bets from $0.20 to $20.

You can only play the game in euros, US dollars, Norwegian krone or New Zealand dollars.

The 4 Jackpot Cards at the top of the screen are network-wide and progressive, running across every game that carries them, and they can hit at random after any spin with no trigger to chase.

The 4 jackpots down the left are a different animal. They're fixed, and the payouts go like this: Grand at 5,000x, Major at 500x, Minor at 50x and Mini at 10x.

At the bottom of the paytable, the 9 symbol pays 0.3x for 5 of a kind, 0.2x for 4 and 0.1x for 3. Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10 are clones of each other at 0.5x, 0.3x and 0.1x for 5, 4 and 3.

Purple Owl pays 0.7x for 5 (0.5x for 4, 0.3x for 3), Blue Bird 1x, 0.7x and 0.4x, Pink Owl 1.2x, 0.8x and 0.5x, and Red Owl 1.5x, 1x and 0.7x. Yellow Owl tops the lot at 2.5x for 5, 1.5x for 4 and 1x for 3.

The Wild substitutes all symbols except the Scatter and Egg symbols, and it carries no payout of its own.

Features

FREE SPINS:

A winning combo carrying 6 or more Egg symbols opens the round. You get 6 Free Spins, and each time 3 Eggs land during the round, 1 more spin is added.

This is the engine of the whole slot. Wherever an Egg lands, a frame appears on that position, and frames come in 3 levels: wooden at Level 1, silver at Level 2, gold at Level 3.

A new Egg landing on an existing frame upgrades it 1 level, and an Egg that lands on a Level 3 frame doesn't go to waste, because it moves to a Level 1 or Level 2 position and upgrades that one instead.

When the spins run out, every framed position fills with a bird nest and the nests are opened level by level. Behind each one is either a multiplier or a Jackpot Coin, and everything revealed is collected into one single win.

• Level 1 nests hide 0.5x, 0.75x, 1x, 1.25x or 1.5x.
• Level 2 nests hide 1.75x, 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x, or a Mini or Minor Jackpot Coin.
• Level 3 nests hide 10x, 15x, 20x, 30x, 50x, 100x or 150x, or a Mini, Minor, Major or Grand Jackpot Coin.

Grand and Major Jackpot Coins can only ever come out of a Level 3 nest, so this is something to take note of.

WHEEL FEATURE:

That wheel behind the reels, which has inner and outer areas, comes in 2 versions, and they don't carry the same prizes.

Small Wheel

Landing 3 Blue Bomb symbols spins this wheel up. The Blue Bomb is a Scatter and pays nothing on its own.

The sectors cover the Mini, Minor, Major and Grand Jackpots, an UP sector that sends you to the Big Wheel, and 3 modes that open 6 Free Spins in a modified form on the normal 5x3 grid.

Golden Nest has every Egg lay down a Level 3 frame directly, skipping all that upgrading. Mega Egg drops oversized Eggs on the 1st spin covering 2x2, 3x3 or the full 5x3, and every cell they cover gets a Level 1 frame.

The Bomb Feature detonates the Bomb symbols on the 1st spin in a chain running rightward, laying a Level 1 frame on every cell it hits and upgrading a level on any cell a second bomb reaches.

Win any jackpot off the wheel and you go back to the base game.

Big Wheel

You get here by landing on the Small Wheel's UP sector, or by hitting a winning combination with 2 Blue Bomb symbols and 1 Golden Bomb symbol.

This wheel carries the Major and Grand Jackpots only, plus Extra versions of the same 3 Free Spins modes. In the Extra versions the grid opens up to 5x6 for 7,776 ways, with the 5x3 symbols carried up into the new top 3 rows.

So it's a straight trade. The 2 small jackpots come off the wheel, and the board doubles in height while you go after the 2 big ones.

JACKPOT CARDS:

There's nothing to trigger. Jackpots fire at random once a spin has finished and the winnings are collected, and you're guaranteed one of the 4 levels when it does.

The round plays on top of the base game without ending it. Autoplay pauses for it and resumes afterward.

You get 12 face-down cards and keep picking until 3 matching suits show. The suit sets the level, with Clubs at the bottom, then Diamonds, then Hearts, and Spades at the top.

These 4 pots are the progressive ones, shared across every game carrying the feature.

They grow from a percentage of the bet, nothing is deducted from your own bet to feed them, and you win whatever the pot has accumulated at the moment that third matching suit shows.

One thing to know: a Jackpot Cards win can't be sent to the Gamble round.

GAMBLE:

Any win of 35x or less can go to the cards. You pick red or black on a face-down card - a correct call doubles the win, and a wrong one takes it and ends the round.

You get up to 5 attempts per game. The last 5 cards sit on a History strip, and the Collect button banks the win instead.

One wrong call and the whole win is gone, so decide before you tap, not after.

BUY BONUS:

The 100x buy opens the Free Spins round and guarantees at least 6 Egg symbols, 200x buys the Small Wheel with 3 Bomb symbols guaranteed, and 300x buys the Big Wheel with 2 Bomb and 1 Golden Bomb.

Performance

Like I said before, I'm just happy I didn't have to squelch through poop of any sort to score a win, so that's already a plus. Another plus for me was how smoothly the game ran on all my devices. It will time out on you if ignored, but that's normal.

Maximum Win

Take the max multiplier of 10,000x, apply it at the top bet of $20, and the max win of $200,000 is what comes out the other end. The minimum bet is $0.20.

Conclusion

The game's money all lands at the end of the Free Spins round, when the nests crack open. Only the gold Level 3 frames matter, because those are the ones hiding the big multipliers and any Jackpot Coin.

The math inherent in the winning ways is the most interesting thing here, and it isn't the doubling it looks like. Ways multiply once per reel while the grid only adds positions, so moving up to an Extra mode multiplies your ways by 32.

Per position on screen, that's 16 times denser. That's the actual gap between the base game and the Extra modes.

The cheapest buy bonus gets you the Free Spins round where the money actually is, and at that price it's a fair deal.

The most expensive one, the Big Wheel, is now the only door to the board where the max multiplier is possible. The catch is that it buys a wheel spin, not the mode, and that wheel can land the Major or Grand, or any of the 3 Extra modes.

Mid-bet players who'll buy the cheapest round regularly get the best of this game, since that's the shortest line to the nests. Anyone grinding the base game at minimum bet shouldn't bother, because the paytable won't carry them anywhere worth going.

Slot Details

Game Provider: Amusnet Games
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: 243
RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.

RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 96.33%
Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).

The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk you’re taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a game’s RTP.: Medium/High
Bonus Round: Yes
Progressive: Yes
Free Rounds: Free Spins
Max Multiplier: 10,000x
Max Win: $200,000
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