Exotic Butterfly Pokie
Set in and around an enchanted forest, Exotic Butterfly is a charming pokie from Williams Interactive that sees not just butterflies across the 5 reels, but also flowers, ladybirds, caterpillars and a beautiful fairy. While there’s lots of opportunities to line these colourful symbols for a win, players will also be treated to wild substitutions and a free spins round with extra wilds on the reels.
Players can have a flutter on this game, from respected developer IGT, at land based and online casinos.
Playing Exotic Butterfly
This game is filled with colour, which is hardly surprising considering the topic, but even away from the butterflies there’s plenty to see, including a beautifully designed background image of a garden in autumn, where a bridge crosses a stream and toadstools grow under the shade of a tree.
The reels are bright red, which offsets the symbols very nicely, and running left to right across them, there’s 40 paylines, so players will need to stake at least 0.40 to get all of the game activated.Wins occur whenever 3, 4 or 5 of the same symbol type land across a line on connected reels running form the left side and there’s a paytable that lists how many coins are returned to players with each combination.
9, 10 and J symbols will be worth 5 coins, 15 or 50 when landing on 3, 4, or 5 reels across a line and the Q and K playing card symbols are worth a little more, paying out 75 coins for a full line of 5. The A is naturally the top-value card symbol at 8, 20 or 100 coins.A flower, the caterpillar and a ladybird are the main picture symbols and will each pay 15, 40 or 200 coins when stopping on 3, 4 or 5 reels, but the standard symbol that players will be most pleased to see is the fairy, as she only needs to be on reels 1 and 2 on a line to pay out 2 coins and a full 5 will be worth 500.
Exotic Butterfly
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Bonus Features
So far, we haven’t seen any butterflies, so it’s about time at least one flew onto the reels. A bright blue Monarch butterfly should suffice, as it looks very nice, pays out the biggest wins and even acts as a wild symbol.
Just 2 butterfly symbols are needed on a line to be worth 5 coins, with 3, 4 or 5 of them paying out 25, 125 or 400. But because it’s also wild, if players have a matching symbol on reels 1 and 3 for example, and the butterfly on reel 2, all across a line, the butterfly will substitute for the other symbol and players get paid out for a line of 3. It can also extend winning combinations across the 4th and 5th reels for higher prizes.
The scatter symbol looks like a gold ornament with a plant growing out of it, although quite what it’s supposed to represent isn’t made very clear. Whatever it is, players win 8 free spins when 3 scatters turn up in any positions at once, with 4 of them triggering 12 spins and if 5 scatters turn up, 15 free games are awarded.During these spins, any butterfly wild on reel 5 will shoot sparkles across the other reels at the end of the spin and turn other random symbols into further wild symbols, so players stand a better chance of picking up a few wins before the free games come to an end.
The Verdict
Although Exotic Butterfly may look quite nice, it’s a fairly standard pokie that holds few surprises. That’s a definite plus point for the many players who are looking for an easy game to learn, but others may be put off by the lack of any thrilling bonus features.
Free spins are always welcome, and having extra wilds in play should help to make this a rewarding round, while the winning potential can be extended even further asit’s possible to retrigger them over and over with more scatters.
Beyond this, thestandard gameplay is perfectly acceptable, if nothing amazing, so anyone looking for a nice-looking, easy to play game that has the potential for some frequent wins in a bonus game, should certainly try Exotic Butterfly.