Eleven cartoon aliens crowd a 5×4 grid here, lit by neon containment tubes and parked in front of a violet planet horizon. A one-eyed orange blob, a spiny green lizard, a purple porcupine with worried eyes, a red crustacean, a blue jumpsuited droid in a chain harness. Off to the left, a yellow space-tank wedges itself into the frame. Off to the right, the nose cone of a rocket. The Space Goonz logo up top sits in chrome pink-and-blue lettering that looks borrowed from an 80s arcade flyer, and Habanero's custom CarismaGothic typeface gives the whole cabinet a slightly retro-future feel.
The red robot icon does two jobs that most slots split across two separate symbols. It substitutes as a Wild on the base paytable, and it also triggers the bonus when 3 or more land anywhere on the reels. There's no dedicated scatter at all. The tier scaling is wide and a bit ridiculous, in a good way: three Wilds award 10 free spins, four push it to 20, and a full five-Wild landing drops 50 free spins, which is the highest free-spin count Habanero builds into any cabinet they make. Because the trigger and the substitute are the same icon, a hot spin that pays a line of three robots also drops you into the bonus on the same hit.
Inside Free Spins the same Wild count flips into a second mechanic. Two or more Wilds in a single spin trigger Symbol Upgrade: a random high-paying alien gets permanently swapped for an even higher-paying one for the rest of the round. The upgrade is cumulative, so a second trigger shuffles another symbol up the ladder, and the paytable keeps climbing. Retriggers stack the counter on top of that. Twin random progressives sit above the playfield, Minor on the left meter and Grand on the right, both drawable on any paid spin without a symbol condition. No buy-feature shortcut, no ante-bet chip, so the only way into the round is to land Wilds organically, which on medium volatility can take a while. Space Goonz is an official Habanero partner release on Respinix.