Cirque du Soleil Amaluna Slot Review

Cirque Du Soleil Amaluna is a dazzling slot, true to its name. This is the second title in this series from Bally Technologies, after the success of Cirque Du Soleil Kooza, drawing on their license agreement with the hit show. This slot does full justice to the largest contemporary circus producers in the world, with dazzling visuals and authentic soundtrack from Cirque Du Soleil. 

Bally technologies have done a great job by bringing the mystique and wonders of the hit show Cirque Du Soleil Amaluna to life in this slot. The world-class acrobats and artists who have made this show a big hit worldwide influence the overall décor of this slot.

The background stays true to the story of Amaluna, displaying an island governed by goddesses. Bally Technologies have successfully managed to inculcate bold colors and elaborate animations to bring the atmosphere of the show to an online slot. The overall color combination of rich blue waters and a stormy sky gives this slot a very magical feel. The authentic soundtrack from the show completes a mind-blowing design resulting in one of the most visibly appealing slot games available online.

This impressively designed slot has 5 reels and 4 rows, with 40 different paylines.

The symbols of the Cirque Du Soleil Amaluna slot are all items and characters regularly associated with the show. The lower paying symbols are face cards (playing cards from J to A). The other symbols are vibrant red and blue colored flowers, along with fans and masquerade masks. The premium symbols of this slot are two goddesses dressed in red and blue.

The Goddessess’ shield, which they use to defend their island from attacks, represents the wild symbol while a peacock feather denotes the bonus symbols.

The 5 slot reels in this game contain progressive Jackpot scatter pays as well as a bonus wheel that awards coins, two different free spins as well as a Pick and Click bonus game.

The minimum bet per spin in this slot is $0.40, while the maximum is $100. A single 5 of a kind win can pay between 0.5x to 10x your bet.

The RTP of this brilliantly designed slot is 96%.

Amaluna Basic Controls

• The basic controls of this slot game lie at the bottom of the display screen which shows all the reels and symbols.
• On the lower right-hand corner we can see the  “ +  and  - ”  signs which can be used to toggle your betting stake. The minimum bet per spin is $0.40 while the maximum bet is $24.
• In the middle of the control pad below the screen, click on the Spin icon to spin the slot machine.
• Next to the Spin icon, is a play/repeat icon which can be clicked for auto play. Which means you can set a fixed number of autospins at the same stake for faster gameplay. You can choose between 10, 50, 100 and 200 auto spins.
• Below the control pad, at the bottom of the screen we can see our available balance, as well as our previous winnings and line-wise winnings.

Gameplay And Bonus Features

• The  player has to land 3 or more symbols on any of the 40 paylines to activate cash prize. Landing 3 of the Wild symbols pays out 15x your stake.
• Jackpot prizes can be triggered by landing 3 or more scatter symbols. There is a potentially 50x pay out if a player manages to land 11 scatter symbols.

• The player needs to land 3 bonus symbols to activate the Bonus Wheel, which is the best feature of this game. The Bonus Wheel has 8 different wedges, with 4 of them containing coin prize icons, 1 is a Respin and Win Spin option, and 3 more bonus features which are explained below. Landing on one of the 4 coin prize icons leads to another spin of a wheel which displays coin wins ranging from 3x to 50x your stake.

• Respin And Win – Landing on this icon will again trigger another wheel, which will only display the other 3 bonus features. Spinning it again can activate on of those features.
• Pick And Click – This bonus feature has the lowest win potential in this game. Prizes are worth between 8x and 50x. There are 4 levels in this feature and each awards one pick from 4 artists revealing different prizes.
• Moon Goddess Free Spins – This feature awards 10 free spins. It starts with a 1x multiplier but everytime a special moon symbol lands on the reels, two extra spins will be added, or the win multiplier will increase by 1x. Prizes between 5x and 62.5x.
• The Meteor Free Spins – Up to 25 free spins can be triggered in this feature, with extra wild symbols. 4 to 12 of these can land on every spin.

Cirque Du Soleil are the world’s largest contemporary circus producers, with hundreds of shows all over the world. The Amaluna show on which this slot is themed, premiered in 2012 in Montreal, Canada. It is loosely based on William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, and garnered rave reviews over the years. The Story of Amaluna is about Goddesses protecting an island from men who have survived a shipwreck in a storm, and been washed ashore.