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ELK Studios · 2023 · collector birds / feature eggs

Pirots on a phone

PORTRAIT ✓ 2.4 s TO PLAYABLE BIG BUTTONS FREE DEMO

Upright works. 2.4 s to playable over cellular, and big buttons once it is there.

The phone check

Yes HOLDS PORTRAIT 202 of 306 do
2.4 s TO PLAYABLE Over the 2.1 s median
Big buttons TOUCH TARGETS comfortable
4 TAPS FROM THE LOBBY Search box to a spinning board

Spin and bet sit where a thumb already is. One hand, no stretching. The demo pulls about 10 MB before the first tap registers, which on a poor bar is where the 2.4 s goes. Getting money back out is a separate count and we keep it at cashout.

One build, one return figure

Only one configuration of Pirots is licensed, at 94%, so there is nothing to check and nothing to get wrong. That puts it in the minority: 123 of 306 titles here ship in two or three builds, and nothing on screen tells you which one loaded.

Where it sits on the board

That puts it 76 of 306 on our phone score, which weighs orientation first, then how long you wait, then whether the buttons are a sensible size. It runs 0.3 s over the 2.1 s board median, which you notice on a weak bar.

For context, 7 of the 10 ELK Studios games on this board hold portrait and the studio median is 1.9 s.

What the game is

ELK Studios shipped it in 2023 on a 6x6 collector grid board running collector birds / feature eggs. Four parrot collectors roam the grid gobbling matching gems and feature eggs that expand the board and upgrade wins.

High volatility, so treat the demo as a look at the rhythm and not at the maths. C$0.20 a spin, so twenty dollars runs to roughly 100 of them. Ceiling is 10,000x and it is not going to happen to you.

The rest of it

StudioELK Studios
Released2023
Board6x6 collector grid
Mechaniccollector birds / feature eggs
VolatilityHigh
Top licensed return94%
House edge on that build6%
Max win10,000x
Minimum stakeC$0.20
Spins on twenty dollarsabout 100
Free demoyes, no account needed
Tagsbirds, collector, popular

Done with the demo?

Every app we have taken apart is at app teardowns, ranked on install size, crashes and how many taps stand between a balance and a submitted withdrawal. The full list of sites that ship one is at sites.

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