Thunderkick has released Serpentico Smash, a Meso-American slot where ancient stone and tangled greenery surround a watchful serpent. Heavy symbols drop through the reels with real weight, shifting the grid as they land.
Engaging offerings
The 6×5 grid pays through clusters, with five or more identical symbols connecting horizontally or vertically and multiple clusters able to land at once. Winning symbols and scatters turn heavy, crushing everything beneath them on the same reel, bar other heavy symbols, before clearing to trigger a redrop. Payouts land before each crush.
A charge meter fills as symbols are crushed; it takes 30 steps to fully charge, with a crushed wild worth 30 on its own, and every full charge adds to a collected wilds meter capped at five. All wins run through a global multiplier that climbs from 1x through 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 25x, and 50x as multiplier symbols are crushed.
Bonus game
Three eye scatters landing on the serpent’s head trigger the bonus game with 10 free spins. The global multiplier and charge meter reset before the round, then persist throughout, and every scatter that lands adds an extra spin. Three boost options raise the chance of triggering the bonus game, with smash boost also starting multiplier symbols at 3x. A BET+ option can guarantee a specified event on every spin. Bonus buy options are available. The slot offers a 94.18% RTP, high volatility, and a 5,000x maximum win.
In a LinkedIn post, Thunderkick said:
Serpentico Smash is now live, bringing players into a Meso-American world where the serpent watches, the symbols get heavy and the reels take a proper beating.
Winning symbols and scatters can crush whatever stands beneath them, while wilds, multipliers and a global multiplier keep the pressure building.”
