Gemix is getting on now, having been released back in the early days of the mobile puzzle game craze. “Grid Slots”, as they came to be known, hadn’t quite acquired this title yet – but Play’N’Go would soon become to champion them with games such as this one, Viking Runecraft, and Legends of Olympus. There are no paylines in Gemix – instead, wins are paid according to the number of matching adjacent symbols you manage to line up on a 7×7 grid. The maximum win per spin is somewhere between 3,000x and 4,500x, depending on how you calculate it. The RTP is more than decent coming in at 96.83%.
Gemix doesn’t sport quite as many modifiers as Candy Crush and similar mobile games, but it does follow many of the same principles. Collecting wins in predetermined patterns moves you from one world to the next, with each world having its own specific look and modifiers. Some modifiers are shared between worlds, too, and there is a 3x multiplier that can activate at specific times as well.
Give our free demo slot of Gemix a try here on this page, though note that because of the way the game works we can’t guarantee which world it will start you in. This could be a good thing too, however, as each casino you play Gemix at you will always start in the first world.
| Provider | Play'n Go |
| Reels | 7 |
| Rows | 7 |
| Paylines | Cluster Pays |
| Bonus Rounds | 3 |
| Bet Range | 0.10 - 500 |
| Volatility | High |
| RTP | 96.83% |
| Our Rating | 8.5 |
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Gemix Slot Theme, Stakes, Pays & Symbols
Gemix takes much of its inspiration from Candy Crush and similar mobile games, but Play’N’Go also appears to have been inspired by older online slots such as Bejeweled and Da Vinci’s Diamonds too. The result is a game that was very unique for its time, and one that I’m almost ashamed to say I got quite into for a time! Based on my own experience, this game might even potentially have inspired some players to move away from pay-to-win mobile games such as Candy Crush (oh dear… I really am losing credibility fast here aren’t I. Ahem) But, but .. at least these types of grid slots offered you the chance to win something for your money?! Play’N’Go must have made a reasonable profit from Gemix online slot too, as they went on to create many more similar games in the years afterwards. One more thing I have to get out of the way before moving on… the music in this game is so catchy, I can still hear it in my head years after I last played the game. The moment I heard the first few bars as the demo loaded, I screamed at my smart speaker to turn the volume off! It’s not that it’s bad – it’s just one of those things you seriously do not want stuck in your head for the next three years!
Wins in Gemix are paid according to how many matching symbols you manage to accumulate in a cluster. Fifteen or more matching symbols are required for a maximum win, and the top symbol is the star. These are exceptionally rare in Gemix video slot, and I’ll bet there aren’t too many people who have ever managed to see fifteen on a screen at the same time, never mind in a cluster! The modifiers can do a lot to rebalance these odds, however. Fifteen stars pay 1,000x your stake, whilst the next symbol down, the red heart, pays 500x. The purple crescent moon comes next, at 200x your stake for 15 in a cluster, then the orange flower-shaped symbol at 100x. Things dive off a cliff quickly after this, but don’t worry – there is plenty of potential here.
The demo slot of the Gemix slot game has the minimum bet set at €0.50 per spin for some reason – I knew straight away from memory that real money play can be performed at €0.10 per spin, and double-checked this whilst writing this review. The upper limit of €100.00 per spin is correct, however. This is a huge spread, and I would not recommend betting at the upper end of this range on any game. If you are going to do it though, a lower variance game such as this represents your only hope of not going bankrupt real fast!
Base Game & Modifiers
Like many grid slots, the action in Gemix takes place on a 7×7 grid. This gives 49 spaces for gems to fall, with winning combinations removed from the grid immediately and replaced by new gems dropping in from the top. This allows you to win several times from a single spin, but more importantly in this game, it also charges the meter shown on the left-hand side of the screen. After you hit wins that include 20 or more gems in a single spin, a “crystal charge” will be triggered, activating one of the modifiers described below. Hit wins that include 40 or more gems in a single spin to activate a “supercharge”, which will multiply all of the wins from that spin so far by 3x.
Nova Blast Feature
The Nova Blast modifier feels like the least exciting of the four base features. A random symbol will explode, taking out a patch of 14 surrounding symbols at the same time. The Nova Blast can also transform adjacent symbols to aid in your next cascading win. A lot of Nova Blasts can end with nothing much happening, but when it happens to work in your favour it can also sometimes present an ultra-quick shortcut to a 15-symbol win.
Crystal Warp Feature
If the Nova Blast feels like the least exciting of the four base features then the Crystal Warp is undoubtedly the most confusing of the bunch. A single gem is picked, and all other matching gems will be warped to other locations. Think of this as a simple shuffling of the deck – the symbols do not warp automatically into beneficial positions as you may or expect, and in my experience, this feature can sometimes be as good as useless.
Light Beam Feature
Now, this is more like it! Undoubtedly the best of the four base modifiers, the light beam feature chooses a random symbol and fires out a beam in all four directions that will transform all symbols it hits into the same one where the beam began. If this should happen to be a star, congratulations – you have 14 matching symbols already. Of course, the light beam will most often choose a low paying symbol because not only does it guarantee a 14 symbol win, the chances of a 15 symbol win are very high. Cross your fingers for this one every time!
Chain Lightning Feature
The chain lightning modifier can sometimes be almost as good as the light beam, but as it connects two corners of the grid, and diagonal adjacents do not pay, it will sometimes produce a pattern of repetitive near-misses which will leave you feeling extremely frustrated. Also, which direction the chain lightning will run in is seemingly random, but you can generally bet that the lowest value corner symbol will be chosen as the starting point. I’ve had some amazing hits from the feature, but It can also be a total bust as well.
Gemix Slot Bonus Features
There isn’t a traditional bonus round or free spins feature in Gemix, but there are several things that deserve listing in this part of the review. Let’s take a look:
Super Charge Feature
I mentioned this earlier, but the super charge activates after 40 symbols have been included in winning combinations and applies a 3x multiplier to your existing win. You’d expect it to happen a little more often than it does – 40 symbols may not sound like many for a game that pays for cascading cluster wins, yet it’s quite hard to do.
Wild Bonus Feature
There is a diagram shown in the bottom right of the screen which shows the layout of the current “world”. You need to hit winning combinations on all of these squares before you move on to the next world, and the longer this takes you to do, the bigger the world bonus becomes. It isn’t clear how much of the RTP is tied up in this, but the world number can often grow to around 50-100x your stake, tempting players to keep playing until they reach the end of the current world.
World Wilds Feature
These are the unique modifiers that appear as you progress from world to world in Gemix video slot. Sometimes these wilds will only appear on non-winning spins, others they will spread from one edge of the screen to the other, and on still more screens you might have sticky wilds instead. There’s no way to know for sure how many of these there are without playing right through the game – you have to presume there is an end or a point where it loops eventually – but I don’t think I ever reached it!
Gemix Slot Review Final Thoughts
Gemix is great fun and is bound to appeal to fans of mobile puzzle games such as Candy Crush. If you don’t like the theme, perhaps take a look at Viking Runecraft instead – that is a virtual clone of Gemix, using all of the same mechanics, but with a theme that is likely to be much more appealing to male players. If it wasn’t for games such as Gemix, grid slots may never have become a subgenre of online slots in their own right – and if you like these games as much as I do, that would certainly be a bad thing. Recommended!
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