High Street Heist

High Street Heist Overview

Have you always fancied pulling off an Oceans 11 style heist with a huge payoff and a complicated string of subterfuge? Yes? Well, this could be the slot for you. Designed by Quickspin, this game puts you right in the centre of an exciting robbery with high stakes and thrilling features. However, from the looks of things, this heist is more The Joker than it is Oceans 11, with the main protagonists all wearing clown makeup as their disguises. Mechanically, this is a five-reel, four-row game with a top payout of 25,000x your stake and an RTP of 96.29%.

The features included here begin with the stacked symbols. Although not strictly a feature, it is worth noting that icons in this game can fall in formats up to four symbols high, giving you a better chance of scoring more wins. Next is the breaking glass feature, triggered when a fully stacked symbol lands on the reels and cracks the glazed middle rows, granting you one re-spin. Breaking all the glass rows will also award you with ten free spins. The free spin round is the main feature in this game and is played with all the glass reels unlocked, giving you 1,024 pay lines. All features will be explained in greater detail later in the review.

Theme and Symbols

The theme for this game is a jewellery store robbery or heist. As far as we can infer from the various visual clues, the narrative is that you, the player are part of a group of heavily armed criminals trying to break into a jewellery store and make good with the shop’s wares. Your accomplices are scary-looking men wearing clown makeup in suits. Will you get away with bags full of gems and necklaces, or will the authorities catch you? This is the dangerous game you play when attempting an armed heist.

Funnily enough, the background for this slot is the jewellery shop you are robbing. The aisles are full of display cases, showing off some of the finest pieces you and your clown-faced friends have ever seen. The digitally rendered image is quite convincing, including the detail on the various earrings and necklaces. The lighting is also well-considered, with a red hue tinting much of the screen, which probably means that the alarm has been triggered and the cops are on their way.
The playing board is a gold lined glossy tablet full of golden rings and other precious jewellery.

The symbols are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying symbols are the rose gold ring, the silver ring, the gold ring, the emerald ring and the ruby ring. The ruby ring is the most valuable, worth 1x the stake for the top combination. On the other hand, the more valuable symbols are the four robbers, in pink, green, orange, and red. The red one is the most valuable, worth 5x the stake for the top combination. However, the diamond is the most lucrative icon in the game, worth 12.5x the stake for the top combination. The only special in this game is the golden wild.

Game Play

High Street Heist is played on a 5-reel, 4-row machine with a maximum of 1,024 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 High Street Heist 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 very high range. The return to player percentage for High Street Heist is 96.29%, which is above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 25,000x your stake.

Features

You’ll notice that some of the rows in this game are hidden behind glass, like jewels in a case. Players must land fully stacked symbols on the reels to unlock them and, therefore, more pay lines. Breaking a row will grant you a re-spin to try and unlock the other one.

Unlocking all of the glass on the reels will grant you access to the free spins round that comes with ten free spins. All ten spins are played out on a fully open board, meaning the top number of pay lines is available to play on, giving you the best chance of scoring wins.

In this game, you will also try and fill the heist meter by landing stacks. Landing four of these will award you two additional free spins, with the meter then resetting back to zero.
Triggering the heist meter modifier also converts all of the available lowest paying symbols into the top paying diamond symbol. Once this has happened, filling the heist meter will give you a 1x boost to a multiplier on all diamond symbols and another two free spins.
This game also has a bonus buy option. However, it is not available in the UK.

Conclusion

This is a comprehensively fun and lucrative game that could see players come home with some great wins. The max win of 25,000x the stake is almost reason enough to go for this game. The RTP is promising too. The only red flag here is the very high volatility that could make things very difficult if you have a bad streak. All in all, though, Quickspin have done a great job here.