Space Miners Slot by Relax Gaming

Start a spin and the counter in the top corner reads 729. That's the entire base grid - 6 reels, 3 visible per reel, ways math doing its job. The number above it - 1,000,000 - is what the game wants you chasing. Getting from one to the other means clearing blockers, and clearing blockers is what Space Miners is actually about.

Metallic crates cover positions across the reel set, choking off ways and locking the grid in its starting shape. A winning combo adjacent to a blocker breaks it open. The reel column above grows a row taller, the ways count ticks up, and another asteroid drifts past in the cosmic backdrop. Wins also tumble, so symbols explode, new ones drop in, and a single lucky combo can chain through a stack of blockers without you doing anything except watching the counter climb. In the base game though, blockers reset between spins. Whatever you cleared on spin 47 is gone by spin 48, and the grid contracts back to its starting cage.

The free spins round is where that resets. Land 3+ Bonus scatters and you start with 6 spins on a grid that finally remembers progress - every blocker you clear during the bonus stays cleared for the rest of it. Stack a few cascades early and you're spinning a much larger grid by spin 4, with ways counts running into five and six figures. That's the actual variance generator. The bonus isn't really about how many free spins you get, it's about how fast you can carve the grid open before they run out. A buy option exists for players who don't want to wait for scatters - same bonus, paid entry instead of organic trigger.

Power-Ups handle the rest. They drop into a side counter as you play, and once enough have collected they fire bonus modifiers - extra wilds, multipliers, or extra scatters dropped into the next spin. It's a soft layer on top of the blocker engine, not a separate game.

Visually it's cartoon aliens running a deep-space dig site. One-eyed orange creatures, neon green and pink minions, jewel-cube symbols in cyan and magenta, all packed into a stone reel housing suspended in the void with asteroids drifting around it. The 2022 release sits between Money Train 2 and Money Train 3 in the Relax Gaming catalogue, and it's the one where the studio quietly stopped reskinning their persistent-symbol bonus and tried something structurally different. A Dream Drop progressive variant exists separately for anyone who wants the same engine bolted to a jackpot ladder.