Bayraktar

The game’s name directly corresponds to its theme, since it is named after an unmanned combat vehicle that is set for medium altitudes and features remote control capability. Given the game’s mission, you as a player are essentially striking down targets until you miss, which also results in a miss.

If we are to take the theme seriously, it only makes sense for some sort of counterattack to occur in case of a miss. However, realism is scarcely a concern for most online casino games, and there’s no reason why this should be the case with Bayraktar. But this minor detail being overlooked did occasionally make its way to our minds as we tested the game.

Bayraktar certainly has all the visual elements in place to keep it engaged. The mines game features a background where you can see camera coverage of the ground, where the targeted tanks are situated. There are even coordinates and a compass on the screen, which made the game very immersive for us.

What’s interesting is that the game features no additional soundtrack, and the player is only left with the accompanying SFX. The choice of leaving out an accompanying soundtrack is quite apt and ends up enhancing the overall gameplay.

This is where we found Bayraktar to be a bit unsatisfactory. Its RTP (return-to-player) is 95%, which is usually 96% or above for most minesweeper games. This might deter some players. We’d still been happy if there were any additional bonuses, but Bayraktar doesn’t offer any of those either.

It, however, offers medium volatility, which allows us to make bolder moves while playing it. The game offers an extensive range of options that can help you increase or decrease the level of risk you’re willing to encounter.

The number of possible targets you can have in one session is 22 out of 25, meaning there’s a 12% chance you’ll miss and end up losing. Inversely, you can take a significantly higher risk by opting to have 5 out of 25 targets, with the chance of losing skyrocketing to 80%.

However, when you play with only 5 possible targets, you also stand to gain more. It was quite exciting for us to see that we can make $4.75 with a successful hit while betting only $1.

The higher the risk, the better the reward! At its highest, the game features an x2180 multiplier, which makes it possible for players to potentially rake in six figures when playing at the lowest possible risk. At the highest level of risk, the final limit for the multiplier is at x50470, and the sky’s the limit.

Bayraktar deserves props for being ahead of the curve with its easily accessible design. Everything is meticulously crafted, whether we’re talking about its different options for automatic and manual betting, or the display of game details such as targets left, the likelihood of a shot being missed, and the reward you stand to gain with each successive hit.

There are two control panels that players need to interact with before making the bet. While the betting bar offers only the option to change the bet amount between the maximum ($100) and minimum ($0.1), it’s conveniently placed underneath the main screen. The other panel concerns the level of volatility you’re choosing to play with, with pre-coded options of 5, 15, 20, or 22 targets. Both the bet amount and the number of Targets can be changed according to the player’s preference. A lot of the demo games we’ve reviewed feature convoluted interfaces, but luckily, that isn’t the case with Bayraktar given the attention-to-detail its design features.

There’s another panel for viewing the overall bets being made. You can check out all the bets being made in real-time, all the top bets that yielded the most out of the mines game, and your bets. We found this to be extremely helpful as we sought to craft strategies based on our bets, or when we wanted to see how other players were faring during their game play.

Mines games are designed for fast gameplay, and thus these games aren’t too rich in features. That being said, Bayraktar is a different beast in that regard. There are a few things about Bayraktar that stand out, which helped us have an immersed experience.

• The gameplay of Bayraktar is enhanced through its automatic mode. This is a standard within Minesweeper games, but since there’s a level of customization involved in the title, players can simply choose the level of targets they’re gunning for, choose the number of cycles they’ll play for, and take it from there. We found this to be extremely fun, and since there’s barely any strategy that can stand against RNG-driven games, it’s one of the most thrilling ways of enjoying Bayraktar.
• The game is straightforward. Since there are no complex symbols within the game other than the multiplier, there’s barely any cognitive load that can deter players.