Return to Paris

Return to Paris Overview

Have you ever wanted to be involved in a high-stake heist targeting a prestigious art museum? How about travelling to Paris to soak up the local culture? If your answer to both of these questions is yes, then do we have the slot game for you. Created by the BetSoft studio, Return to Paris is a heist themed slot set in the beautiful and iconic city of Paris. Mechanically, it is a five-reel, four-row game with 20 pay lines and an RTP of 96.06%. The top available payout is 1,056x the stake, and the volatility is rated in the average area of the spectrum.

The features for Return to Paris start with the relatively novel cops and robber feature. This bonus begins when a burglar character appears on the reels and steals a symbol from the board, and stows it underneath the matrix. Later on, a cop may appear and return the stolen symbol to the board. When this happens, players are given a payout equal to the symbol in a three by three payout multiplied by its current multiplier. Secondly, this game runs a wild explosion feature, triggered when a cop and a robber land next to each other. Should this happen, all of the surrounding icons are transformed into wilds. Finally, this game also has a free spin round. All features will be explained in greater detail later on in the review.

Theme and Symbols

The theme for this game is a museum heist located in Paris. This theme has many exciting aesthetic reference points to make the game visually engaging. These start clearly with the city of Paris itself, one of the most arrestingly beautiful cities in the world. Players can see a few touches devoted to the slot's setting, including the Eiffel Tower and the Seine River, which runs through the city's centre. Another reference point is the art gallery aspect materialised in the various art pieces on the reels, including a vase, a statue and a blue diamond.
The background for this game is a picture of the centre of Paris on a warm summer night. The moon is high and bright in the sky and impossibly large, infusing the entire scene with a feeling of romance and mystery. To the right of the board, players can see the very edge of the Eiffel Tower, one of the most iconic structures in Paris. To the right are cosy townhouses, their windows illuminated against the cool Parisian night.
However, the very centre of this picture is dominated by the Seine and its graceful banks.
The playing board for this game is a stone structure made to resemble an entryway of some sort.
The symbols for this game are split into low-value, high-value and special symbols. The low-value symbols are the J, Q, K and A in playing card royals. The A is the most valuable of these, worth 1x the stake for the top combination. On the other hand, the more valuable symbols are the vase, the bust, the crown, and finally, the diamond. The diamond is the most valuable, worth 10x the stake for the top combination. The specials are the Monalisa scatter, the robber wild, and the cop wild.

Game Play

Return to Paris is played on a 5-reel, 4-row machine with 20 fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.

The betting range for Return to Paris is 20p to £100 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.
Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.
Volatility for this slot is rated in the medium range. The return to player percentage of Return to Paris is 96.06%, which is about average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 1,056x your stake.

Features

The first feature in this game is the cop and robber bonus. This bonus starts when a robber appears on the reels and steals a symbol, taking it down to the area below the reels. This will result in the counter underneath the matrix going up by 1x. Then when a cop appears, he will bring the piece of stolen art back to the board. When he does this, the symbol pays out as it would if it were three of a kind and is boosted by whatever the current multiplier is.

The second feature in this game is the wild explosion feature, triggered when players land a cop and a robber next to each other on the board. Should this happen, all of the surrounding symbols are transformed into wilds that look like postcards. These wilds will then help you score more wins by substituting in for other symbols.

Finally, this game also has a free spins game. This bonus is triggered when players land three of the Monalisa scatter on the board simultaneously. The bonus round will then begin with moving cop and robber wilds at either end of the board. These will move one position for every spin. The spins are over when any cop meets a robber on the board.

Conclusion

Fun Parisian spins await the players of this novel and engaging slot game. There is plenty of layers to the gameplay here, and the features really ramp up the excitement, especially when you trigger the free spins. The win potential isn't too bad, with relatively low volatility and a decent RTP. However, no big wins are likely to be registered here. A solid slot all in all but not something to bet the house on.