Battleship Direct Hit is a BGT licensed and Red7 developed video slot with 6 reels and up to 117,649 ways to win. Released in December 2018, you can play this game at online casinos such as ComeOn!, Casumo or Mr Green.
Land three of the bonus scatters to win 10 free spins. You can unlock an additional 10 free spins if you land more scatters while the reels are turning. Our review experts loved the innovative twists on some well-loved game mechanics that Red7.
- Spin the reels on this Red 7 game to become a fearless reel explorer during your gaming session. Enter the hidden temple in Legend of Fortune to take home the treasure loot, worth up to 1,250x your stake on a single spin.
- Red7 is inviting you on a nautical adventure full of action and events: you can sink an entire enemy ship to float right through the free spins round, or you can land a missile and eliminate all symbols above for.
Theme and basic information
You remember the battleship game from Hasbro? You and an opponent each slot your battleships in a grid and try to guess your opponent’s position. If you hit the ship and sink it, you win. This video slot is sort of taking that premise and turns it into a slot game.
Visually, the slot looks great. At least, the scene looks really good. You’re on the bridge of a battleship, looking at the controls, which include the spin button in the middle. Turrets are visible in the back that aim right and left as well. On the screen in front of you, you see the reels, various symbols that look like insignia and the card royals from 10 to A.
On the left, you see the ships you need to ‘sink’ with the rocket scatter that shoots the ships that appear above the regular reels. Usually, two types of ships will be visible here, showing you the number of spins that you can get when you sink one.
On the right, you see available set jackpots that you can win during the free spins.
The highest value symbol, which looks like the prow of a battleship, is worth 4x your stake for a 6-of-a-kind win. The other high-value symbols are worth between 1x and 2.5x your stake for such a winning combination. As you can see, the wins are miniscule even for 6 of a kind.
You can play this slot from €0.10 to €100.
Sink the battleships in the base game
The main attraction in the base game are the cascading wins. Whilst you do get a maximum of 117,649 ways to win, you will hardly ever see that number more than a few thousand wins and even then, you won’t get more than four or five wins during one spin.
The cascading wins make things a little more interesting as symbols from those winning combinations disappear off the reels and make room for more symbols and hopefully more winning combinations from above.
Additionally, the turrets my randomly fire on the reels, destroying symbols, once more making room for more symbols from above and hopefully creating wins. Here, low-paying symbols will actually be destroyed and replaced with high-value symbols.
When missiles land anywhere on the reels, they will shoot at the ships above the reels, hopefully hitting enough of those to sink them. That will rarely happen, however.
Grab a jackpot in the free spins
Should you manage to sink a battleship in one spin, you will receive between 5 and 50 free spins. Naturally, you will more regularly trigger 5 free spins rather than 50 (or even 10 for that matter).
During the free spins, the target ships above the reels can also be destroyed by scatter missiles landing on the reels. Now, however, you will either be able to trigger a jackpot or 5 additional free spins. There are 4 jackpots in total, giving you either 20x, 100x, 500x or 2,500x your stake in winnings.
By the way, wild symbols only appear on reels 2 to 5 during the free spins. Here, they can help creating winning combinations, adding to the cascading wins and making those a little more successful.
Still, unless you trigger a jackpot, wins won’t be big here either.
Conclusion: Megaways with mini pays – Not quite enough
The theoretical RTP (Return to Player) for Battleship Direct Hit is 95.9%, which is below average. And honestly, the return to player can hardly be surprising given the small wins you can get here. There may be over 100,000 ways to win, but most 6-of-a-kind wins will hardly return your stake. And mostly, you will not even get more than three or four of a kind wins.
Battleship Direct Hit is visually great. It’s unusual and immersive, even if the symbols on the reels are a little unimaginative. But the scene is cool enough. Beyond that, the slot will not keep you interested for very long, simply because the wins are so small. That’s very disappointing in the long run and obviously not very lucrative. You’ll soon be moving onto other slots, even other megaways slots.
Facts
| Mobile | Free spins |
| Yes | Yes |
| Lines | Bonusround |
| 117649 | Yes |
| Reels | Progressive |
| 6 | No |
| RTP | Wild symbols |
| 95.9% | Yes |
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| Min. Stake | Autoplay |
| 0.1 | Yes |
| Max. Stake | Multiplier |
| 100 | No |
| Volatility / Hit Frequency | Scatters |
| Medium | No |
| - | - |
The game is developed by Red7, owned by SG Gaming, a subsidiary of Scientific Games, a company that also owns WMS, Bally, Barcrest and some other developers. The game is played on a 3×3 area with 10 fixed paylines, and your bet can range from €0.10 to €200 per spin.
Main game and paytable
When you click the spin button, you’ll see a really nice and unpredictable animation of cars driving down the highway, sometimes under a bridge, before they finally stop before you. This is very cool and it greatly increases the fun from this slot game. It never gets boring as the landscape always changes.
During any base game spin, before the spin ends and the payouts are evaluated, a helicopter may drop a Wild onto the reels, and up to three helicopters may appear per spin. The Wild will only take up one space on the 3×3 board if it lands on its own, without the helicopters, and if the helicopters drop it then it will land in front of a car.
The Wild is the best-paying symbol in the game as you’ll get 50x your bet if you land all three on a winning payline. There are four high-value cars in the game and four low-value ones that have card suit symbols on them. The Limo, Police Car, Taxi and Tractor are the four high-value cars, and the first two pay 20x and 10x respectively, with Taxi paying 5x and Tractor 2.5x, while the four card suit cars pay 1.5x or 1x. This is a decent paytable but the high-value cars are rarely seen. You see Taxi from time to time, but Police Car is rare, and Limo is very rare.
Bonus features
When you land three Scatters, you’ll trigger the free spins feature and will get 10 free spins. During the free spins, a three-row tall Wild can land on any reel, and this is basically the only difference between the free spins game and the base game, but the three-row Wild replaces the helicopter Wilds which don’t appear in the free spins game. If you win less than 10x your total bet during the feature, you’ll get a 10x win guaranteed.
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Progressive jackpots – Minor, Major and Epic – can be won on any spin and any bet size, though larger bets have a bigger chance to win. It’s interesting to note that all jackpots have their respective maximum values, and when they reach them, they must be awarded to a player. Maximum values are €1.5k, €20k and €200k respectively. When a jackpot is won, it’s reset to 25% of the value that’s paid out. You see the jackpot values on the right if you’re playing for real money, and if you’re playing for fun then the values will be zero as you can’t win it.
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Theoretical return to player (RTP) is 97.14%, which is excellent, and it’s the main reason to play this game and to do so for real money. However, it’s important to note that the RTP is 97.14% with the progressive jackpots included, and the game itself has RTP of 95.14% as 2% of every bet you make contributes to the progressive jackpots.
Conclusion
This is a simple game, but then again, most 3×3 slots are. If we compare Lucky Lanes with other 3×3 slots, we immediately see this game is much more fun because of the innovative theme and the way the game is played, the Wilds are a special treat whenever you get them, and the progressive jackpots mean you can win enough money to actually buy one of the cars you see on the road. Excellent game for all 3×3 slot fans. You’ll find it in Red7 casinos, or alternatively you can try WMS casinos as they may have this game.