Samba Sunset Slot by RealTime Gaming

Two progressive meters sit above the reels, not one. Major and Minor run in parallel on every spin, seeded across the RTG network, and either can drop at random on any paid wager regardless of the symbol landing. It is a pattern RTG used on a handful of their 2016 titles, and the reason to keep an eye on the meters here is that the Minor reseeds quickly enough that catching it near the top of its cycle is not as rare as the Major implies. On the session captured for the screenshots, the Major was ticking past $1,257 while the Minor climbed from $310.

Underneath the jackpots, the game is a 243-ways All Ways Pays build with the Samba Sunset logo as the wild and a Rio beach vignette featuring Sugarloaf Mountain as the scatter. Scatter wins pay on total bet rather than line bet, which matters on a ways-pays game where the per-way stake is small. Three or more beach scatters land the Free Games round. Free Games in this RTG era run at 10 spins with a retrigger baked in, and the Samba Sunset implementation loads extra wild coverage into the bonus reels rather than sticking to multipliers alone, so the hit rate on the wild itself climbs noticeably once the round starts.

The symbol roster leans hard on the carnival theme: two separate Samba dancer premiums in feathered green and magenta headdresses, bongo drums, and a pair of maracas fill the mid-tier, and the card royals 9 through A are rendered in chunky three-dimensional letterforms painted in tropical pink, lime, turquoise and magenta with bright carnival trim. Nothing in the symbol set repeats the flat suit-card look RTG uses on its classier builds. The reel frame sits against a beach-at-sunset backdrop with palm trees silhouetted either side and Sugarloaf in the middle distance, and the vertical ALLWAYS PAYS banner runs down the left edge.

There is no buy bonus, no ante bet, no gamble, no progression meter. Bet range stretches from 50 cents to $12.50 in RTG's standard stepped increments, and the Space key works as a direct spin input in the desktop build. On a ways-pays math model with two live jackpots and one bonus round, the ceiling of 50,000x is largely parked behind a lucky dancer cluster landing during a maxed-out retrigger of the free game bonus.