Reptoids, released on November 23, 2017, is a Yggdrasil Gaming’s alien conspiracy-inspired casino game. Its game description hails it as a playful reverse time-travel to the alien theories of the 1960s, and the plot is about a fictitious expose involving aliens masquerading as administrative personnel.

Reptoids is named after the featured alien shape-shifting reptiles, just like Fruitoids (Yggdrasil, May 2014) is named after its own alien fruits. Like Reptoids, the alien theme is also in Yggdrasil’s Cazino Cosmos (January 2019), although the concept of an alien invasion and attempted global takeover is alternatively found in Super Heroes (Yggdrasil, October 2016).

Reptoids’ rivals include the Sneak a Peek series from Microgaming, Alien Farm Invasion from mFortune, and Alien Spinvasion from Rival Gaming. The Reptoids players match three, four, or five administrative personnel or insignias.

Reptoids Games Characteristics
Reptoids has a 5X3 grid and 20 fixed pay lines. There are 17 symbols: six high-paying symbols, four low-paying symbols, and seven special symbols. The high-paying symbols are the aliens’ human versions: a four-star white-haired officer in a suit; a hulky three-star military man; a two-star black female officer dressed in purple; a bespectacled one-star officer dressed in casuals and a bowtie; a red-haired female nurse; and a male police officer in a brown uniform.

The low-paying symbols: a golden insignia with three stars and chevrons (V’s); a silver insignia with two stars and chevrons; a bronze insignia with a star and chevron; and a brass insignia with a star. The special symbols consist of: a golden free spins-triggering “Scatter” coin; and six golden substituting “Wild” aliens (each Wild for the six alien versions of the personnel).

The Reptoids coin values are: $0.005, $0.01, $0.02, $0.03, $0.04, $0.05, $0.07, $0.08, $0.10, $0.20, $0.30, $0.40, $0.50, $0.70, $0.80, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00, $4.00, and $5.00. The bet sizes are: $0.10 (the minimum bet), $0.20, $0.40, $0.60, $0.80, $1.00, $1.40, $1.60, $2.00, $4.00, $6.00, $8.00, $10.00, $14.00, $16.00, $20.00, $30.00, $40.00, $60.00, $80.00, and $100.00 (the maximum bet).

The respective Reptoids payouts for three, four, and five matching personnel or insignias are as follows. The four-star white-haired administrator pays X50, X150, and X1000. The hulky three-star military man offers X40, X120, and X900. The two-star black woman has X36, X110, and X800. The bespectacled man gives X30, X100, and X700. The red-haired nurse has X24, X80, and X600. The police officer pays X20, X60, and X500.

The golden insignia pays X10, X20, and X100.The silver insignia pays X8, X18, and X80. The bronze insignia has X6, X16, and X70. The brass insignia pays X6, X12, and X60. Getting two, three, four, and five golden “Scatter” coins pays: 200 coins, 2000 coins, 20000 coins, and 100000 coins, respectively.

A mobile frame, the so-called Repto Detector, conducts imaging to smoke out pretending reptoids that it then turns into Wilds. A scatter coin might end up in the Repto Detector, thereby activating seven free spins; while imaging all six aliens offers six extra spins.

Reptoids has a non-progressive jackpot of $500,000 (equivalent to the scatters symbols’ highest payout of 5000X the $100 maximum bet). The good software has an uncluttered interface. The animated graphics are colorful and have a vintage feel, especially the humans smoothly shape-shifting into aliens on the grid (embedded on a dotted world map) of the green old school slot machine, fitted with siren lights. The sounds are otherworldly, especially the aliens mumbling inaudibly and the frequency oscillation sound effects.

Luck in Reptoids
The return to player rate of Reptoids is 96.1%; the house edge is 3.9%. It is a game of chance.