Elements: The Awakening Slot Review

Elements: The Awakening Slot Review

As a long-time NetEnt player, Elements: The Awakening grabbed me straight away with its mix of Avalanche wins and elemental free spins. The game drops you onto a glowing cosmic landscape where fire, earth, air and water creatures clash on 5 reels. Instead of simple spins, you chase chains of avalanches that charge meters and open up different Free Fall modes, each with its own wild behaviour and tempo.

Elements: The Awakening Key Information

Elements: The Awakening runs on a 5x3 layout with 20 fixed paylines, so line selection never gets in the way. The theoretical RTP sits at 96.02 percent, slightly above many video slots I play, while volatility feels low to medium. On paper the maximum win is around 1,500 times your stake, which is not huge, but the game trades extreme spikes for steadier session style payouts.

Elements: The Awakening Game Play Overview

Visually, Elements: The Awakening is one of those NetEnt slots that still looks fresh despite the 2013 release date. The 3D element beings and crystals float above a shifting cosmic horizon, backed by a chilled sci‑fi soundtrack that never grates during long sessions. Animations during avalanches are sharp and satisfying, and the game runs smoothly for me on both desktop and mobile, even with sound and effects turned up.

Gameplay in Elements: The Awakening revolves around Avalanche reels rather than traditional spins. Any winning line explodes, new symbols tumble in, and consecutive avalanches light up the Avalanche Meter while the Energy Meter tracks which element dominates. With its low to medium volatility, I usually see a steady stream of small and mid-sized hits, then occasional bursts when a long avalanche chain finally tips over into a Free Fall storm.

How to Play Elements: The Awakening

Getting started on Elements: The Awakening is simple enough. All 20 paylines are fixed, so you just tweak the bet level from 1 to 10 and the coin value from 0.01 to 0.50 until the total stake fits your bankroll. I tend to sit somewhere in the middle, as the game rewards patience more than huge all‑in swings, especially when you are waiting for those longer avalanche runs.

Wins in Elements: The Awakening land when three or more matching symbols line up from the leftmost reel along a payline. Only the highest win per line pays, but all active lines add together after each avalanche sequence. Because the symbols drop instead of spinning, every paying combination has the chance to lead into several extra drops within the same paid round, keeping the base game flowing without dead air.

I often use Autoplay in Elements: The Awakening when grinding for Free Falls, setting a batch of spins with simple stop limits. There is also a Quick Spin style option if you prefer faster avalanches. I still keep an eye on the balance though, since the feature requires four consecutive avalanches, and it can take a while before the meters line up and trigger a proper elemental storm.

Winning on Elements: The Awakening: Paytable & Paylines

In terms of payouts, Elements: The Awakening puts the elemental beings at the top of the paytable. Fire Being pays the most, followed by Earth, Air and Water Beings, with wins starting from three of a kind and climbing right up to 1,500 coins for five Fire on a line at max level. Below them sit the four matching crystals, which act as the lower symbols but still link nicely into avalanche chains.

The metallic cube wild in Elements: The Awakening appears on reels two to five and substitutes for everything, which helps turn near misses into full lines. Because all 20 paylines are fixed and clearly marked, patterns soon become second nature. After a while I found myself reading the grid almost instinctively, spotting when a single wild or extra avalanche could nudge a Fire or Earth Being combo into serious money.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x75
	4	x7.5
	3	x12.5
	5	x37.5
	4	x5
	3	x1
	5	x25
	4	x3.75
	3	x0.75
	5	x15
	4	x2.5
	3	x0.5
	5	x5
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.25
	5	x3.75
	4	x1.25
	3	x0.2
	5	x2.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.15
	5	x2.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.15

Elements: The Awakening Features and Bonuses

The heart of Elements: The Awakening lies in its Avalanche feature and the way it feeds into Free Falls. Each consecutive avalanche lights up a step on the Avalanche Meter, and four in a row award ten Free Falls. At the same time the Energy Meter tracks which element has been most active, and whichever crystal dominates decides whether you enter the Fire, Air, Earth or Water storm when the bonus kicks in.

Every Free Fall mode in Elements: The Awakening changes how wilds behave. Fire Storm wilds can spread sideways to reels one and five, Air Storm drops two sticky wilds that drift after each avalanche, Earth Storm pins wilds in place on the middle reels, while Water Storm has expanding wilds that fill a whole reel. From my sessions, Water and Fire feel the swingiest, but any mode can land solid runs when the avalanches co‑operate.

Final Verdict – Should You Play Elements: The Awakening?

I rate Elements: The Awakening as one of NetEnt’s more engaging Avalanche slots if you enjoy steady play with flashes of excitement rather than extreme variance. The four elemental Free Fall modes keep the bonus fresh, and the audiovisuals still hold up well. The cap of around 1,500x will put off jackpot hunters, but for longer, relaxed sessions chasing those storms, I keep coming back to this one.

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