Bonus Feature Selection in Slots: How Choose-Your-Bonus Features Work
Some slot bonuses stop before they start and ask you to pick. Moon Princess does it with three princesses called Love, Star and Storm. The one you choose sets how many Free Spins you start with and which Girl Power runs through the feature.
That’s a decision about the rules of the bonus. It isn’t the same as the game handing you a mode at random, or paying to get into the bonus in the first place.
What is Bonus Feature Selection?
It’s the moment a slot gives you a real decision about how the next bonus will run. The game has already decided you’re getting a bonus. What it leaves to you is which one, or which version of it.
When the choice comes up
In the games I’ve checked, it sits between the trigger and the first spin of the feature. Clear the full 25-symbol grid in Moon Princess and Free Spins are triggered, with the princess choice straight after. Raging Rhino Double Danger gives the screen a name, Bonus Choice, and four Bonus symbols take you there.
What can you choose between?
There’s no standard menu. Each game splits its options its own way, so a rule like “one option gives more spins, the other gives bigger multipliers” won’t carry from one slot to the next.
A different bonus altogether
Nip Tuck goes furthest. Three Free Skins symbols, or one with a Scanner below it, trigger Vouchers, and Vouchers lets you pick Free Skins or Lock & Load. Those are two separate bonuses rather than two settings for the same one. There’s a Super version of the choice as well, which I’ll come to.
Two different versions of Free Spins
Thor’s Rage 2 gives you 15 Free Spins for four Scatters, and you pick Storm or Thunder as the bonus starts. They play quite differently. Storm builds a Total Multiplier that’s saved as you go. Thunder swaps the Multiplier and Wild symbols for Keeper Wilds and adds a progress bar with three levels.
Moon Princess ties two things to each princess. Love starts you with four Free Spins, Star with five and Storm with eight, and the princess you pick keeps her Girl Power switched on for the whole feature. So you aren’t only choosing a number of spins. The spins and the power come together.
Different extras for the same Free Spins
HelioPOPolis keeps you in Free Spins either way. What you’re picking is the help you get on the reels: Synced Reels, which the rules say can produce huge symbols, or Expanded Win Symbol, which comes with guaranteed Wilds.
Isn’t this just Free Spins?
Most of these choices lead into Free Spins, so the two get mixed up. The Free Spins are the round. The choice decides what kind of round you get, and in Nip Tuck it can be Lock & Load instead.
When the game picks for you
Two bonus modes on offer isn’t the same as a choice. Langley Street 23 has Sticky Mystery and Sticky Wild modes, but its rules say one is awarded before the Bonus spins start. Nothing in them gives you a say, so I don’t count it as Bonus Feature Selection.
Nip Tuck shows both sides in one game. Land three Free Skins symbols with the Golden Free Skins symbol and you get Super Vouchers instead of Vouchers. You don’t choose that upgrade. The symbols do. Once you’re there, though, the choice is yours again: Super Free Skins or Super Lock & Load.
Choosing, gambling and buying in one game
Raging Rhino Double Danger is worth a closer look because it has three decisions that look alike and aren’t. Light & Wonder’s rules confirm the Bonus Choice screen, and the studio lists two features, a Collector Bonus with Unlimited Spins and Stampede Free Spins. That those two are the options on the screen comes from a specialist review rather than the developer, so I’d treat the pairing as likely rather than confirmed.
Then there’s the Free Spins Gamble. It starts from 15 Free Spins. Win the gamble and you get five more and can gamble again. Lose it and five are taken away and the feature starts. That decision puts spins you already have at risk. Bonus Choice just picks which bonus you play.
Buying your way to the choice
Some versions of the game also sell the bonus, and paying takes you to the same Bonus Choice screen the four Bonus symbols do. It gets you to the choice. It doesn’t make it for you. Feature Buy isn’t offered at GB-licensed casinos, so in Britain the symbols are the way in.
Bonus Feature Selection examples compared
| Game | Choice presented | What the choice changes | Where this comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
 Moon Princess |
Love, Star or Storm. | Starting Free Spins (4, 5 or 8) and the Girl Power active during the feature. | Play’n GO’s rules. |
 Nip Tuck |
Free Skins or Lock & Load; Super versions after Super Vouchers. | Which bonus you play. | Sneaky Slots factsheet. |
 Thor’s Rage 2 |
Storm or Thunder. | Storm: a saved Total Multiplier. Thunder: Keeper Wilds in place of Multiplier and Wild symbols, plus a three-level progress bar. | Red Tiger factsheet. |
 HelioPOPolis |
Synced Reels or Expanded Win Symbol. | The extras used during Free Spins. | In-game rules. |
 Raging Rhino Double Danger |
Bonus Choice; a specialist review names Collector Bonus and Free Spins as the two options. | Which bonus you play. | The developer confirms the choice and both features. Which two you’re choosing between comes from a specialist review. |
Bonus Feature Selection FAQ
Is “choose your bonus” the same as a casino bonus?
No. Here it means a choice inside the game itself, between bonus features the slot already has. It has nothing to do with welcome offers or promotions from the casino.
Does picking a different option change the RTP or my chances?
The choice screen doesn’t tell you that on its own. None of my sources for these five games gives a separate RTP for each option, so I can’t say one pays back more than another.
Sources reviewed
I checked these games against their own rules, developer factsheets and game pages. Some evidence is only available in-game or through authenticated sources; the public links identify the games.
Play’n GO
Sneaky Slots
Red Tiger
AvatarUX
Atlantic Digital / Light & Wonder
ELK Studios
Where this guide comes from
I check each game’s own rules for when the choice appears, what each option changes and whether the player really makes the decision. Where the sources don’t settle a detail, such as which two features sit on Raging Rhino Double Danger’s Bonus Choice screen, I say so rather than guess. Read the full research methodology