Very Fruity wears the clothes of a classic fruit machine, all glossy cherries and gold-rimmed 7s on a magenta backdrop, but spend ten spins on it and the disguise slips. This is a cash-collect game first, and the fruit slot bit is mostly set dressing. The whole experience pivots on one symbol: the glowing Sun disc. Every other reel ornament is filler waiting for Suns to land.
Here's the trick that makes it tick. Each Sun that drops is stamped with its own cash value, anywhere from 0.60 up to 20.00, and 5 or more Suns scattered across the reels does two jobs from a single hit. First, you bank the Sun Bonus, which is just the sum of every value printed on the Suns sitting on screen. Second, that same hit lights up the Sunshine Free Games round. Most cash-collect slots make you pick between a collect prize OR a bonus trigger. Very Fruity hands you both off the same lucky spin, and that shared-trigger structure is genuinely uncommon.
The free games stretch the idea further. You only get 5 spins, which feels short on paper, but a brand new symbol shows up: the Big Cherry scatter, which never appears in the base game. Every Big Cherry that lands during the round pays out a value equal to the Sun Bonus that triggered it. So if your initial 5 Suns banked 47.00, each Big Cherry that drops repeats 47.00. Stack a couple and the round can quietly outrun the collect that started it. Land 5+ Suns again mid-feature and you bank a fresh Sun total plus 5 more spins, and that new figure becomes the value each subsequent Big Cherry repeats.
The base game is thinner by design. The Wild Diamond only lives on reels 2, 3 and 4, it fills in for everything except Suns and Big Cherries, which means wilds will never help you reach the bonus. A Double Cherry rides along on every base reel for small line hits. No buy button, no jackpot ladder, no extra modifier wheel. Suns are the entire route to anything resembling a big win, which makes the game feel patient rather than busy.
And then the honest part. RTP sits at 95.51%, which is noticeably below the 96% baseline most modern slots clear, and that math eats into long sessions. Five free spins is short. Min bet of $0.20 also locks out true penny players. The max win is a hard $250,000 cash cap, not a bet multiplier, so high-rollers betting $500 a spin will see ceilings faster than the spreadsheet suggests. Is the Sun mechanic clever enough to forgive a low RTP? For most casual sessions, probably yes. For grinders chasing variance, look elsewhere.