Paylines
295 connected ways (paths within 1 row up/down on adjacent reels)
Space Attacks Dream Drop landed in August 2024 and Relax Gaming clearly wanted something that wasn't another Megaways clone. The 5×5 grid uses 295 connected ways, which sits in this odd middle ground between classic 243-ways and the chaos of 117,649 Megaways setups. Symbols on reel N only link to matches on reel N+1 if they're in the same row or one row above or below. Sounds restrictive on paper. In practice it pays just often enough to keep the cascades ticking.
The base paytable is thin, and I mean really thin. Top non-wild symbol pays a measly 2x stake for five of a kind. That's not a typo. Relax built this game around the assumption you'll trigger something, because grinding standard line wins won't carry you anywhere interesting.
What does carry you are the three Special Symbols. One clones a chosen symbol type rightward across each row. Another picks symbols from reels 2 to 5 and clones each one to the leftmost column. The third transforms 1-3 symbol types into Wilds across the entire grid, and if it lands with another Special on the same spin it resolves last, which is a nice touch. All three morph into Wilds once their effect plays out. Cascades then handle the rest.
The Free Spins round is where things get genuinely unusual. You start with three spins from three Bonus scatters. Every winning spin resets your counter back to three and adds +1x to a running total multiplier that never resets mid-feature. Every dud spin ticks the counter down. Three dead spins in a row ends it. So you're chasing both survival and a multiplier that snowballs as long as you keep hitting. It's a clever twist on the usual fixed-spin format, though three consecutive blanks happens more often than you'd hope.
Dream Drop is the progressive jackpot bolted on top. Planet floats into the porthole, you blast it, the explosion reveals either nothing or one of five tiers from Rapid (€1 seed) up to Mega (€1.5M seed). Plus a daily €700 with three falls per 24h. Here's the catch: 12% of every bet feeds the jackpot pool, which is why base RTP sits at 94%. The Buy Bonus at 50x stake guarantees 3 Bonus on the trigger spin but offers zero math upgrade, also 94% RTP. No shortcut there.
Visually it's retro space-invader kitsch. Green-skinned alien king in a fishbowl helmet, neon cyan and magenta cockpit consoles, chrome royals on a navy starfield. High variance, thin base game, fat top end. Max line win caps at 8,000x though Dream Drop bypasses that ceiling entirely.