Very Fruity Slot by Light & Wonder

The glowing golden Sun discs are the only symbols that matter here, and each one lands stamped with its own cash value, anywhere from 0.60 up to 20.00 in the spins you'll see. Land five or more of them scattered across the reels and two things happen at once from that single hit. First you collect the Sun Bonus, which is simply the sum of every value printed on those Suns added together. Then those same five-plus Suns light up the Sunshine Free Games, so the collect prize and the bonus round share one trigger rather than firing separately.

The free round is short at 5 spins, but the catch is what shows up inside it. A Big Cherry scatter exists only during free games, never in the base game, and every Big Cherry that drops pays out a value equal to the Sun Bonus that triggered the round. So if your five Suns banked 47.00 on the trigger, each Big Cherry that lands repeats that 47.00. Stack a few and the round can outrun the collect that started it. Land five or more Suns again mid-feature and you bank a fresh Sun Bonus and another 5 spins, with the new total becoming the value each subsequent Big Cherry repeats.

The base game is straightforward by comparison. The Wild Diamond turns up on reels 2, 3 and 4 only and fills in for everything except the Sun and the Big Cherry, so it never helps you reach the bonus. A separate Double Cherry rides along on every reel in the base game. There's no buy button to skip ahead and no jackpot ladder running underneath, so the Suns are the entire route to anything big. That makes this a cash-collect game first and a fruit slot second.

The look splits the difference between old and new. Glossy modern renders of an orange, purple grapes, a lemon, a plum, a green watermelon and red cherries sit beside big red 7s outlined in gold, all on a deep magenta gradient streaked with soft light, the gold Very Fruity script arching over the top. It reads like a classic pub machine that someone polished up for a summer afternoon, which is roughly what Light & Wonder was going for.