18+ Only. Play Responsibly.
The first planet survived less than ten seconds.
Not the first feature.
Not the first bonus.
The planet.
I pressed spin at €1.60.
A small blue world landed along the top of the grid with two moons attached to it.
The creature above the reels opened its mouth.
One moon disappeared.
Then the other.
Then half the planet.
€1.60 returned.
The atmosphere had provided no defence whatsoever.
The World Eater closed its mouth again.
A dark gap remained where the symbols had been.
New symbols dropped into the empty positions.
One of the gaps stayed black.
Void Wild.
The game had converted planetary destruction into a substitute symbol.
That was spin one.
I had started with €260.00.
The grid was six by six, floating in space with four enormous creatures positioned around it.
One above.
One below.
One on each side.
They were different colours, but all four had been designed around the same central concept.
Mouth.
The northern one looked as though somebody had built a dragon entirely from meteorite and then forgotten every anatomical feature except teeth.
The eastern creature had crystal growths along its jaw.
The southern one glowed from inside like a volcano that had become dissatisfied with being geological.
The western one was darker, with stars visible through parts of its body.
They surrounded the grid like diners who had been told the plate was edible too.
The normal symbols were pieces of worlds.
Oceans.
Forests.
Cities under glass domes.
Volcanoes.
Crystal continents.
Moons.
Small complete planets.
Occasionally a bright Core appeared inside one.
The second spin left all four creatures hungry.
Three forest symbols connected for €0.80.
Nobody ate them.
That seemed almost disrespectful.
On the third spin, a crystal planet touched the eastern edge.
The creature there moved.
Its jaw came through the side of the grid and swallowed the first crystal symbol.
Then another.
The third symbol contained a glowing Core.
The mouth closed around it.
The creature’s eyes lit up.
Its next bite marker extended one position farther into the grid.
It had eaten the planetary centre and become better at eating planets.
There was no evolutionary middle step.
A world core was apparently protein.
The swallowed symbols paid €0.80.
Two dark spaces remained.
One turned into a Void Wild.
A new group of cities dropped beside it and almost connected.
Nothing.
Spin four brought moons along the bottom.
The southern creature leaned upward and removed three.
I had now watched one moon survive for approximately two spins longer than the first pair.
Progress.
Spin five did almost nothing.
Spin six paid another €0.80 from forests.
Six spins had cost €9.60.
They had returned €2.40.
Balance: €252.80.
Financially ordinary.
Cosmologically catastrophic.
Then spin seven arrived.
A blue planet touched the northern edge.
Crystal touched the east.
Volcanoes connected to the south.
A strip of forest reached the west.
All four creatures opened their mouths.
The grid paused.
There was still a complete world in the middle.
For roughly one second.
The northern Eater went first.
It removed two rows of symbols from the top.
€8.00.
The eastern one had the Core upgrade.
Its bite travelled farther inward.
Crystal land disappeared across the right side.
€6.40.
The southern mouth rose through a group of volcanoes.
€4.80.
The western creature took the forest edge.
€7.20.
What remained was a ragged centre containing a city, half an ocean and a moon positioned beside absolutely nothing that could reasonably orbit.
The whole central section cracked.
The surviving world folded inward.
Every remaining position turned dark.
Void Wilds filled the middle.
New symbols dropped through them.
A large combination connected across the collapsed planet.
€15.20.
Total Consumption finished at €41.60.
My balance jumped to €292.80.
The creatures settled back around the edges.
The world was gone.
No Free Spins started.
No bonus screen appeared.
No congratulatory animation tried to pretend anything had survived.
A new planet simply faded into place.
Fresh oceans.
Fresh forests.
New cities.
Two new moons.
It arrived with the quiet efficiency of somebody replacing an empty plate.
That was when World Eaters 2 had fully explained itself.
The first world had not been special.
There were more.
The second one lasted considerably longer.
Its opening spin put a city directly beside the western creature.
Nothing happened.
The following spin placed another city next to it.
Still nothing.
A third connected the group.
The western mouth moved.
Two buildings disappeared instantly.
The third survived because it sat one square deeper.
There was no evacuation.
The city simply stopped being architecture and became €1.60.
A Void Wild appeared in one of the missing spaces.
Forests dropped around it.
€2.40.
The second world had already developed a hole.
The creatures waited.
Over the next dozen spins, very little matched the scale of the first disaster.
A moon disappeared for €0.80.
Several ocean symbols paid €1.60 without being eaten at all.
One Core landed too far from an edge and survived an entire spin, glowing uselessly in the middle like the safest object in the universe.
Twelve spins cost €19.20.
Returns totalled €7.20.
Balance: €280.80.
The second planet remained present.
Damaged, but present.
Then the southern creature got its Core.
A volcanic symbol landed on the bottom row.
Behind it sat another.
Behind that, the glowing centre.
The southern jaw rose.
One volcano.
Second volcano.
Core.
The creature swallowed all three.
Its bite depth increased.
The next time it opened its mouth, it would reach farther.
That seemed unnecessary.
The mouth was already the approximate width of a continent.
A few spins later, it demonstrated the upgrade.
A chain of volcanic symbols formed along the bottom and extended upward.
The southern creature bit through the first layer.
Then the second.
Then one square deeper than before.
A small city sat at the top of the chain.
The bite stopped immediately underneath it.
The city survived.
Below it, almost everything had become black space.
It looked less like urban planning and more like the last building left on a pizza.
The Void Wilds filled.
A win formed for €3.20.
The city continued existing.
Eight spins through that section cost €12.80 and returned €6.40.
Balance: €274.40.
Then three Eaters attacked on the same spin.
North.
East.
South.
The west stayed still.
The northern mouth removed a strip of ocean.
The eastern creature ate crystals.
The southern one carved upward through volcanoes.
Most of the right side vanished.
The bottom vanished.
Part of the top disappeared.
The second world was left hanging from the western corner.
One forest.
One moon.
A city.
Two ordinary symbols.
The western creature had everything required to finish the job except a matching connection.
It remained still.
The moon sat beside its mouth.
Untouched.
That was probably the safest moon of the session.
It had accidentally landed next to the only creature not currently hungry.
The destroyed sections refilled.
The planet repaired itself.
New oceans covered the bottom.
Crystals returned to the right.
A city dropped into a place where a continent had been missing a second earlier.
World reconstruction took approximately the same time as the spin animation.
The creatures did not acknowledge this.
Another ten spins followed.
The second planet got bitten repeatedly but never disappeared.
A western forest chain paid €3.20 after being consumed.
A northern moon group became €1.60.
One normal city combination survived without intervention for €2.40.
Another Void-assisted hit produced €2.40.
Total returned: €9.60.
Those ten spins had cost €16.
Balance: €268.00.
The world still looked healthy enough from a distance.
Up close it had been rebuilt several times and one of its oceans had existed in three different locations.
The final stretch was quieter.
Nine spins.
One €1.60 forest hit.
A €1.60 moon win.
One bite on the eastern edge for another €1.60.
Everything else remained either unconnected or uneaten.
The creatures still moved occasionally.
Jaws opened.
Space flashed.
The second planet refused to provide another complete meal.
Those nine spins cost €14.40.
They returned €4.80.
The balance settled at €258.40.
I had started at €260.
Forty-six paid spins had included one complete planetary annihilation, several missing continents, repeated moon consumption, a city surviving above a volcanic bite, multiple sections of space converted into Wilds and an entirely new world being delivered after the first one ceased to exist.
Total damage to me:
€1.60.
One spin.
The four creatures remained around the second planet.
The northern one opened its mouth slightly as the reels settled.
There was still plenty left to eat.
I left it there.
Apparently the cheapest thing in the universe was the universe.
The paytable in Dolphin Hot 1 reads like a horror script.