Ready Steady Robo Slot Review & Free Play

Ready Steady Robo: Gather Gears and Build Robots For up to 500x Wins

While playing Playtech's Ready Steady Robo slot, I felt immersed in this cartoonish robot workshop, where scatters were my best friend. They helped trigger free spins with a bigger grid. But you also get to build robots with random wilds and land futuristic frames for 500x wins. Let’s take a tour of this mech production machine below.  
    
Based on a 4x4 grid with 256 ways to win in the normal game, and a 4x5 one with 625 ways during the bonus round, this slot doesn't lack features. Even though it does not have a bonus buy option, it has the well-known wilds, scatters, prize wins, and an ingenious full robot feature. The full robot will form when a robot head and body of the same colour land on top of the other. 

The base game was plain, with combinations that granted me wins of between 0.20x and 1.6x my bet, but I will dig into that a bit later.

As the normal symbols are composed of robot heads and bodies, I had to combine the parts accordingly to unlock the full robot feature, which grants wilds, adds prizes, or pays a random credit of 3x up to 10x total bet. Sounds like an interesting game, and it surely is, making me basically craft robots, but I felt a bit of disappointment. 

Normally, I would have started with the upsides, but I felt bummed out within the first few spins. While trying the game myself, I found that these robots came across as cheapskates, only paying 1.6x returns for the highest symbols. 

After a few more spins, I managed to trigger the bonus round by landing 3 scatters, which granted me 5 free spins. Note that you can land 4 scatters and get 8 free spins. Anyway, within the bonus round, I also triggered the Prize Pay Feature by landing all 5 charges and managed to get a $81.20 win with a bet of $2. 

Overall, the game felt decent, with eye-catching animations, interactive gameplay, and a decent amount of features. The audio design is amazing, with completed robots actually talking when awarding you the prizes. For example, each time I crafted one, it would pop up and say "add Wilds" in a robotic voice. 

I think Ready Steady Robo is an interesting slot game, but it really had me trying hard to get those bonus features out of it, for a 95.9% average RTP - maybe a bonus buy feature would have helped me like it better.