Dublin Up DoubleMax

Dublin Up DoubleMax Overview

Travel to an enchanted Irish forest full of clover and fairies in this exciting new online slot game from the developers at Reflex Gaming. As a smaller studio, part of the larger Yggdrasil company, Reflex has access to the producer’s Double Max mechanic, which you might have seen in Raptor DoubleMax, which helps give players much more value for their spin. Mechanically, this is a five-reel, three-row game with 25 pay lines. The maximum win you can find here on one spin is 20,024x the stake.

The features of this game are many and various, starting with the cascade dynamic, which is activated every time a win is found and replaces all the winning symbols with another set. This dynamic gives players more chances to win from the same spin. This game also has a multiplier bonus, wild symbols, a Fairy Magic feature and even a free spins round. Finally, the game also offers risk and bonus buy options.

Theme and Symbols

Regarding the theme for this game, Reflex Gaming has chosen to theme this slot around the traditional Irish Luck aesthetic that is perpetually popular in the slot gaming industry. This means the screen is full of fairies, lucky horseshoes, leprechauns, and more clover than you have seen in your entire life. There is even a pot of gold overflowing with coins imprinted with Gaelic patterns. Indeed, they have pushed the Irish look to the extreme here.

The background for this game is a typical Irish wood. A typical Irish woodland as seen here is made up of a variety of trees, including oak, ash, birch, and willow. There are a variety of shrubs and bushes, as well as a thick layer of moss and lichen. The ground is covered in a thick layer of leaves, and there is a variety of small animals scurrying around. The air no doubt, is filled with the sound of birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves.
The playing board for this game looks like some sort of celebratory sign with clovers decorating the corners and stitches.

The symbols are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying icons are the J, Q, K and A in playing card royals. The A is the most valuable of these, paying out at 1.2x the stake for the top combination. On the other hand, the more valuable symbols are the horseshoe, the hat, the pot of gold and the Dublin Up logo. The logo is the most valuable of these, worth 5x the stake for the top combination. The specials included here are the lantern multiplier, the shamrock wild, and the babbling brook scatter.

Game Play

Dublin Up DoubleMax is played on a 5-reel, 3-row machine with 25 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 Dublin Up DoubleMax 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 high range. The return to player percentage for Dublin Up DoubleMax is 95.5%, which is below average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 20,024x your stake.

Features

The features for this game start with the cascade dynamic, triggered every time a player scores a win. When this happens, all the winning symbols are removed from the reels and replaced by a new set. This dynamic continues until a new set does not form a win.

The next feature is the multiplier bonus. The multiplier starts at 1X and doubles every time a win is made. Five cascading wins will, for example, take the multiplier up to 32X. The multiplier resets to 1X when no more cascades are found in the base game. So the multiplier only grows with consecutive cascading wins. However, in the free spins game, the multiplier does not reset.
The next feature is the wild bonus. The wild in the game substitutes for any other icon in the game barring the specials to help form wins.

Next is the Fairy Magic feature, which is triggered at random. When it is, the fairy at the side of the reels will remove a random set of symbols for the reels to trigger cascades and potentially lots of wins.

Finally, we have the free spins game activated when players land three or more scatters on the reels at the same time. The more scatters you land to trigger the bonus, the more spins you are granted. At this juncture, you can also choose to gamble to win more spins in a 50/50 card game. However, we would recommend you don’t do this, as if you lose, you’ll lose your free spins entirely. You can also gain more spins by landing additional scatters from within the bonus round.

This game also offers a risk bet option to risk any win for a chance to grow your win in a spin-the-dial game. It also provides a bonus buy which allows players to purchase entrance to the free spins round (this option is not available in the UK).

Conclusion

A classic and exciting game, Dublin Up DoubleMax brings all the fun of classic Irish-themed slot games and cutting-edge online gambling together in one great product. The only downsides here are the relatively low RTP and the creepy fairy character to the left-hand side of the reels, which is very unnerving. Mechanically though, and from a features perspective, this is a great product.