New Year Riches Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

New Year Riches Review

If your New Year’s resolution is to get rich or have fun trying, this game might just help you along the way. You can place bets between 20p and £100 per spin here, and the countdown bonus round offers plenty of excitement. Visually, the Art Deco influence is obvious, and the semi-transparent reels reveal a big city backdrop under a pristine starry sky.

The 5 premium symbols are all iconic landmarks from around the world, like the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben and some Chinese and Arabian temples. You cannot really do this game justice by comparing it to “regular slots”. It’s a highly seasonal game that will lose most of its appeal once the celebration is over, and the year starts anew with most of the world being hungover.

A screen of the New Year Riches playing space

New Year Riches slot Features

The popping champagne bottle and champagne glass is the wild symbol in this game, and it’s also the highest paying symbol of the bunch. It will step in for all regular symbols to help you create winning combos, and it also pays 250x your stake for 5 on a payline.

There is only one real bonus feature to discuss here, but it can be a really powerful one if you’re lucky. The midnight clock is the scatter symbol in New Year Riches, and you need to land 3 anywhere on the same spin to trigger the New Year Countdown Bonus Round.

You get 10 free spins to start with, as well as a 2x starting multiplier. This is a guaranteed progressive multiplier however, and it will increase by +2 for every spin. It reaches a climactic 20x boost on the 10th and final free spin, as the countdown ends with the crowd cheering “Happy New Year!”

However, you can also get 2, 4 or 6 extra spins during the feature, and this happens when you land 1, 2 or 3 scatters at the same time on any given free spin. This will freeze the countdown, and your extra spins will play out on whatever multiplier level you find yourself at. This can happen more than one time, and it can be really lucrative if you get 6 extra spins with a 20x multiplier.

The 200 Spins New Year Riches slot Experience

If you’re curious as to how this New Year’s free spins round plays out, we trigger it around 18 seconds into the highlights video. Nothing much happened during the base game in our session (which is to be expected in this game), but the bonus round was kind of exciting as it played out.

Review Summary

New Year Riches is certainly a clever idea and concept, and it somehow reminds us of Red Tiger’s Lucky Fridays.

The base game offers very little here except some decent wild wins now and then, but the good news is that the all-important bonus round is triggered around every 90 spin on average. The 5,000x potential is also solid for a medium volatile title.

Let’s face it, this game will probably not be popular on the 1st of January, to put it that way. You have to take it for what it is, a seasonal Festive title. It’s perfect for a home-alone pre-party on New Year’s Eve, before you join the celebration with your friends later on. The bonus round builds up to a pretty exciting climax every time, mirrored by the famous Times Square New Year Countdown you’ll hear in the background.

Pros

• Bonus round with +2 increasing multiplier up to 20x
• Medium volatility
• Max win potential of 5,000x your stake

Cons

• Beware of customizable RTP ranges
• Very seasonal

If you appreciate New Year Riches slot you should also try:

Lucky Fridays - is not about New Year celebrations per se, but the concept is somewhat similar. You grind all week long in a grey office job base game. However, when Friday 6pm comes along, the champagne bottle is popped and the game enters into Party Spin mode.

That's Rich - is a very posh and high-class game where you can win up to 10,000x your stake. The bonus round comes with a guaranteed win on each spin, and all wilds that land will expand and increase the progressive multiplier up to 20x.

You can even land 20x wild multipliers on the last spin, no matter what global multiplier you’ve achieved.

New Year Bonanza - is a pretty exciting New Year’s celebration from Playtech, and it comes with firework wilds that expand both vertically and horizontally. The bonus round comes with expanding reels, and multiplier wilds that also expand like in the base game.

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