Play Bell Fruit for Free

Traditionally, you might associate retro gambling designs with 3-reel slot machines. Bell Fruit ups the ante, however, with its 5 reels full of traditional fruit machine icons such as cherries, lemons, oranges, plums, grapes and watermelons. And just for good measure, this simple slot also features a golden bell symbol and a special star icon.

There's not really much more to it than that, which might disappoint some punters, especially those you are accustomed to video slots that involve captivating characters, exciting narratives and stunning sceneries.

Of course, the appeal of the retro slot machine is to be everything that a big blockbuster video slot isn't. That is: simple, classy and universally appealing. Bell Fruit provides all of these things and it's not exactly uninteresting to look at either, with plenty of colours and some sharp two dimensional icons on the reels.

The game also adds an extra layer of class by using an orchestral soundtrack, one which you might expect to provide the soundtrack for a period drama set in a stately home rather than a humble retro themed slot machine.

The great thing about any retro slot – no matter if it has 3 reels or 5 reels – is that they are effortlessly easy to play. Without any distracting animations and convoluted bonus features, inexperienced spinners can easily get the hang of how it all works while veteran punters take relax to some no-nonsense gambling action.

In order to play this game, players will need to choose whether they want to have 1, 3, 5 or 10 paylines active on the 5 reels. After that, spinners simply need to select a bet per line value from the following range of options: 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 0.50 and 1.00. That makes for a maximum potential total bet of 10.00 credits while more cautious players can wager as little as 0.01 per spin should they wish to.

With the bets in place and your fingers crossed, you can start spinning the reels. If any three or more matching icons appear in a row on an active payline from left to right, the following line bet multipliers will be given as a prize:

With a top jackpot line prize of 5,000x, players can hope to turn a maximum line bet of 1.00 credit into 5,000 coins – that's not a bad return for any slot machine.

Staying true to its classic form, Bell Fruit doesn't offer any of the usual bonus features that you might find on a video slot machine. That means that there are no wild symbols available to help punters complete their line wins, and there are no free spins available to be won either.

This game is not completely void of any special gameplay chances, however, because spinners will be able to benefit from a scattered star symbol. This icon appears on all five reels, and it doesn't necessarily need to line up on a payline to pay total bet multiplier wins of 2x when three appear and 4x when four appear.

If five scatters show up on the game screen, then punters will be given the chance to put the fate of their wins in to their own hands. This is because spinners are asked to choose one of the star scatters to reveal a random win.

Bell Fruit is not going to knock your socks off if you are familiar with playing high-octane video slots with exciting stories and cool characters. Nevertheless, this classic slot machine has plenty of charm to offer to players with a taste for retro aesthetics while a jackpot of 5,000x will appeal to players with a taste for decent winning potential.