Reel Desire

Overview Reel Desire slot

Reel Desire is the new disco themed slot from the development team at Yggdrasil Gaming. The era of disco died rather quickly at the time but somehow it managed to cling onto one form or another ever since. Disco features regularly in pop culture, as well as in slots to various degrees of success. Danger exclamation! High voltage is one such slot from Big Time Gaming and due to the combination of red-hot features and the totally reckless attitude the slot was a huge success. Although disco is not an overly original idea, wherever there is success you will find others trying to imitate. Therefore, if you are ready to put on your dancing shoes read on.

Theme and Symbols

if you are au fait with Electric Avenue from the developers at All42 Studios you will see this slot bears some resemblance. Both have chosen the neon 80s style; however, Yggdrasil Gaming have set their slot within the Reel Desire nightclub. The slot plays out over 5-reels and offers 1024 ways to wine, with the action area designed to imitate a towering DJ booth, whilst the background glows in a neon light with hearts, kisses and love signs adorning it. Disco was certainly all about the music, however, you will probably remember the platform shoes, medallions, outrageous dance moves and open chested shirts. Reel Desires soundtrack will certainly get your feet tapping and the developers have painted some of the prettiest slots you will ever see so although Reel Desire does not attain the sort of level you may expect it is a real looker.

When it comes to the symbols you can expect to come across the usual playing card suits clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades which are all lit up in neon and have the texture of an old LP record. These lower paying symbols are followed by shades, earrings, high top shoes, and a Casio wrist watch, the type which seems to have made a comeback over recent years. The two highest paying symbols are a Don Johnson lookalike and a flighty young girl, and these symbols are worth 16x to 20x your stake when you land five of either of them. The Wilds will help you out in your endeavours and they are also linked to a couple of features that we will look at next.

Game Play

If you look beyond the style and design you will see that this slot possesses some excellent statistics, which are probably better for those who chase down massive wins. The volatility of the slot is high, and this is paired with a hit rate that stands at 25.7% and offers players massive potential. Both phases in the game have been tempered by features that appear to be strategically placed to minimise returns a lot of the time, but the single spins can be insane and pay out huge wins. The return to player is the same as the unofficial slot average standing at 96% and this should suit most players, as will the bet range that starts from £0.25 per spin up to a maximum of £75 per spin. You can relive your glory disco days in this slot, and it can be played on all devices.

Features

Whilst the theme is reminiscent of Electric Avenue, the features take this back even further and you can expect to come across double wilds, Reel Desire and two free spin games. The wild in the game is represented by the cassette tape symbol and this can appear on all reels to replace any symbols thus creating a winning combination. At any time during the base game a double wild may appear on your second, third, or fourth reel and this is a wild that comes with a x2 multiplier. These symbols are also sticky and will activate a re-spin when they land.

You will also come across the Reel Desire feature in the base game and this could be a homage to the wild desire feature in Microgaming's Immortal Romance slot, as it turns 1 to 5 of your reels completely wild when activated at random.

The final symbol that you will find on the pay table is the ghetto blaster, which is the scatter, and when you land three or more in view you will be rewarded with 10 free spins. If you land four or five an extra prize of 50x or 500x your bet is added on top. You then get to choose one of the two free spin modes; one is the sticky wilds where all wild symbols stay sticky for the duration of the free spins feature or there is the multiplier where each winning spin increases a win multiplier by +1. The free spins can be reactivated in the bonus game, in the same way as they are in the base game.

Conclusion

If you were to combine Danger! High voltage and Electric Avenue the love child would strongly resemble this slot. All three have chosen a similar vibe aiming for the 70s/80s disco thing. The features are again similar with full reel Wilds, dual option free spins with either sticky Wilds or multipliers. Whilst the three games are not identical, they do have many similar elements.

Admittedly this slot does not have the outrageous attitude of the others but if it is the biggest wins you are after then Reel Desire is the slot for you. If you score an entire screen of wild/premium symbols you could win up to 20,480 times your bet. This is from a single spin and knowing that this could land at any point in the base game certainly adds to the excitement. Even when you do not fill all your five reels the Reel Desire feature can provide you with some decent winnings as can the double Wilds on occasion.

Unfortunately, the hit frequency for the free spins is not always available and it does take quite a time to activate. However, once you are in the bonus games they are not as intense as they could be. The progressive multiplier performs incredibly well as you would expect in this type of feature although it does not match the adrenaline that you may have experienced in similar games.