Hearts Desire

Designed by BetSoft, this new game brings old-school style fruity slots into the digital age. Although this slot may look rather traditional at first glance, it is anything but, with a nice set of features, clean, attractive graphics and a playing experience that many players will be pleased with. Regarding the mechanics of Hearts Desire, it is a five-reel, three-row slot with a total of thirty pay lines. The volatility rating for this game is at the higher end of the spectrum. The RTP tips just over the industry average at 96/1%. The maximum win you can achieve on one spin here is 1,787x the stake.

Hearts Desire Overview

The features for this game begin with the free spins round, triggered when players land five or more of the scatter icons on the reels simultaneously. Stacked mystery symbols may land during this bonus round, providing additional prizes. You can also re-trigger this bonus by landing more scatters. The mystery symbols are also at play in the base game, which each reel containing one stacked mystery symbol which can transform into a regular icon or a scatter. Finally, this game also has a progressive jackpot, which can be won randomly on any spin in either the base game or free spins. All features will be explained in more detail later in the review.

Hearts Desire Theme and Symbols

The theme for this game is a classic fruity theme infused with love hearts. As a classic fruity game, this slot has normal fruit symbols such as cherries, bananas and grapes. However, it also has a whole section inspired by love hearts, from the game’s logo to the background and the overwhelming pink hearts desire graphic that turns up on the screen when you trigger the bonus free spins. Although simple, this game has an effective and diverting theme with lots of colour and vibrance. It is the perfect visual pick-me-up around this time of year, which is dull and dreary.

The game has really taken its name seriously, with a huge emphasis on the shape. The background for this game is a pink hearts motif. The image presents a repeated floating heart pattern that looks like specially shaped bubbles. The game looks more like a Valentine-themed game from this perspective rather than a classic fruity one. Either way, the image is high quality and provides an uplifting backdrop to the fierce spinning of the reels. The playing board for this game is a classic reel set with an orange border and a deep purple background.

The symbols are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying icons are cherries, melons, grapes, bananas and oranges. The oranges are the most valuable of these regular symbols paying out at 6.66x the stake. On the other hand, the more valuable icons are the lucky red sevens and the diamond icon. The diamonds are the most valuable of these, worth 33.3x the stake. The specials here are the golden hearts scatters, the wild and the pink special heart mystery icons.

Game Play

Hearts Desire is played on a 5-reel, 3-row machine with 30 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 Hearts Desire is 30p to £105 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stakes 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 Hearts Desire is 96.1%, which is above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 1,787x your stake.

Hearts Desire Features

The first feature of this game is the free spins game. It is triggered when players land five or more scatter icons (the golden hearts) on the reels at the same time. This will award you five free spins. During Free Spins, the Stacked Mysterious Symbols can appear on the reels, giving out additional prizes. Furthermore, the feature can be re-triggered if you get another scatter on the reels. There is also a special scatter represented as a pink diamond heart. It appears only during free spins and can have a multiplier of 2x, 3x, or 5x. If these become part of a formation, the attached value boosts the payout.

The next feature involves the stacked mystery icons which fall throughout the base game. Each reel contains one stacked mystery symbol that can be replaced by any basic symbol or a scatter. All mystery symbol positions are filled with the same symbol per spin.

Finally, this game also has several progressive jackpots, which are growing all the time as many players take part in this game. There are, in fact, four levels of the jackpot - Mini, Minor, Major, and Mega. No special sequence needs to take place for you to win any of these. They might just be triggered at random. The more that you bet per spin, the more you increase your odds of landing one of these jackpots.

Conclusion

If you are looking for something aesthetically classic but with some modern features and a slicker feel, this could be just the free slots you are looking for. Looking at the playing statistics, things aren’t too bad either, with a solid top payout and a decent RTP. As with many slots these days, though, the volatility is high, so you might have to wade through some duds before finding any gold. You can also try Gems Bonanza from our demo slot machine collection.