Ants Attack Demo & review

Ants Attack is a 5x4, 20-line slot where four reel multipliers multiply each other on every line that runs through them, and in its free spins they never reset. Bullshark Games, a Hacksaw Gaming studio, launches it in November 2026, so our test used the pre-release demo. Expanding Wilds and Multiplier upgraders feed those lines in every mode. It suits bonus buyers and max-win hunters chasing the 12,000x cap more than players who mainly spin the base game.

How Ants Attack works

Twenty fixed lines pay three, four or five of a kind from the leftmost reel. Above reels 2 to 5 hang four multipliers, each at x1 to begin with. When a winning line crosses those reels, all the multipliers it touches are multiplied together and the product is applied to that line, so a line over three reels at x2 pays eight times its paytable value.

Lines by themselves pay small amounts, and everything that matters happens above the reels.

How the features connect:

1. Multiplier upgraders raise the multiplier of the reel they land on, reels 2 to 5 only.
2. Expanding Wilds land on any reel and spread up, down or over the whole reel, which is what completes many lines at once.
3. Three FS Scatters start Ant March and four start Colony Assault, where the reel multipliers stop resetting until the bonus ends.
4. The buy menu sells both bonuses, or puts Wilds and upgraders on every spin.

The progressive multipliers carry the game. The Expanding Wilds decide how many lines get to use them.

The pre-release demo before spin 1, still at its default $2.00 bet, with all four reel multipliers at X1. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

Reel multipliers and Expanding Wilds: what stays and what resets

Multiplier upgraders

An upgrader adds anywhere from 1x to 10x to the multiplier of the reel it lands on. Several can arrive on one spin, even on the same reel, and each then turns into a random paying symbol or a Wild, so it can help complete the line it has just boosted. In the base game every reel drops back to x1 after the spin. On base spin 27 an upgrader took reel 3 to x3, and the spin paid $4.50.

Expanding Wilds

An Expanding Wild can land on any reel and drops Wilds upward, downward or both ways to cover the reel. Only one can land per reel per spin, and a regular Wild it would cover moves to a random empty position instead. Two of them, one dropping each way, made our best base spin, spin 55, without any multiplier at all.

Wilds supply the lines and upgraders supply the size. The results worth waiting for need both on one spin.

The last free spin of our Colony Assault buy: a Wild and three Js pay 0.50 times 4, because two of the reels the line crosses stand at X2. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

How the bonuses trigger

Three FS Scatters start Ant March and four start Colony Assault. In both, the reel multipliers reset to x1 before the first free spin and then keep every upgrade until the round ends. Each FS Scatter that lands during a bonus adds one more free spin.

Ant March

Eight free spins with multipliers that build from x1. A quiet start is normal, because every reel has to be upgraded from scratch, and the round gets more valuable the longer it lasts.

Colony Assault

Ten free spins, and at least three Multiplier upgraders are guaranteed on the first one. The round therefore starts with raised reels, which is what the higher price pays for. After that first spin it works like Ant March.

Bonus buy and FeatureSpins: prices and what you get

Two of the four BONUS BUY cards are bonus buys: Ant March and Colony Assault start their round once. BonusHunt and Supply Run are FeatureSpins: a surcharge on every spin that runs until you turn it off.

The labels run hot. BonusHunt and Ant March both say Extreme, Colony Assault says Very high, and Supply Run, at High, is the calmest card on the menu. Supply Run is also the base game with both features forced on: at least two Wilds and two upgraders arrive on every spin, though the multipliers still reset between spins.

The buy menu priced from a $1 bet: two FeatureSpins cards with ACTIVATE buttons and two bonus buys, labelled Extreme, High, Extreme and Very high. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

Ants Attack returns 96.3% by its rules, and the four cards stay within a few hundredths of a point of that. The rules list no other version. The intro rates volatility at 4 out of 5 bullets, so we file it as High, while three of the four buy cards carry stronger labels. The cap holds in every mode.

Our Ants Attack demo test

Supply Run made the session. Its seventh spin spread Expanding Wilds across enough of the grid for 20 five-of-a-kind lines, with the reels standing at x1, x2, x2 and x2. Each line paid eight times its value, and the spin returned $848.00.

The tenth Supply Run spin, settled: full Wild reels and a five-K line at 1.30 times 4, a $10.40 spin. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

The base game showed both features often but small. Expanding Wilds came on 18 spins and upgraders on 25, yet no base win reached a multiplier above x3. Colony Assault behaved the same way in miniature: its guaranteed upgraders raised three reels to x2 on the first spin, no upgrader landed afterwards, and two spins of about 60x made most of its total. BonusHunt triggered Ant March on its fourth spin.

Treat these figures as one session's play, not a measure of the RTP. No bonus arrived on its own in the base game, and no reel climbed past x4 in any free spin, so the long progressive builds the cap depends on are described from the rules.

End of our bought Colony Assault: TOTAL WIN 167.20 after 10 free spins. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

Is Ants Attack worth playing?

Only if you are willing to pay for, or wait for, the features. The multiplying reels are a strong idea, and they only grow in the free spins, which never came in our base game. Bonus buyers and max-win hunters get the version of the game the intro promises. Short-session players get small lines with occasional x2 and x3 boosts.

Pick Fist of Destruction if you want wilds that also hand out fighter multipliers on a 5x4 grid. Pick Coffee Dealer for Wild reels that carry their own multipliers. Ants Attack is the choice when you want multipliers that multiply each other and keep building through a bonus.

Going by the rules, our first buy would be Supply Run: it is the only card that puts Wilds and upgraders on every spin, and its label is the mildest on the menu. In the demo, start with a few BonusHunt spins instead. They are the cheap way toward Ant March, where you can watch the reels climb.