Reel Desire Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Reel Desire Review

No decade has been glorified as much as the 80s, at least not in recent times. For whatever reason, disastrous haircuts combined with horrible color combinations still have immense nostalgic value to this day. Yggdrasil has decided to capitalize on this with Reel Desire, a tribute not only to the neon-lit 80s style disco, but also to several other popular slots, as you will see further down in the review.

The math model is rock solid here, sporting a massive 20,480x potential, an average RTP of 96 % and medium to high volatility. You can place bets between 25p and £75 per spin, which should suit most player types, and there is plenty of excitement to be found in the feature department also. You have 2 bonus round options, and truly massive wild wins can be landed at any given time in the base game.

Reel Desire Slot Reel Screen

Reel Desire Features

You can land the wild symbol on all 5 reels here, and it comes in the form of a cassette tape with the word “wild” written in front. The wild can step in for all regular pay symbols, and thus help you form winning combinations.

You can also land a Gold Disc Double Wild on reels 2, 3 and 4, and these come with a 2x multiplier attached. When the Double Wild lands, you are granted a respin with the wild frozen in place. If you land a new Double Wild on the remaining middle reels, the process repeats. All the multipliers will multiply with each other, which can lead to significant payouts.

The Reel Desire feature can also trigger at random times in the base game. This feature is clearly a tip of the hat to the Wild Desire feature in Microgaming’s legendary Immortal Romance. You will see 1 to 5 reels turn completely wild when this feature is triggered, which again can lead to massive base game payouts.

You trigger the bonus round whenever you land at least 3 of the ghetto blaster scatter symbol anywhere in sight. You get 10 free spins no matter what, and 4 or 5 scatters gives you an initial scatter win of 50x or 500x your stake, respectively.

You will then get to choose between 2 different free spin rounds:

• Sticky Wilds Free Spins - all wilds that land becomes frozen in place for the duration of the bonus round.
• Multiplier Free Spins - a progressive multiplier will increase with +1 for each win.

You can also retrigger the feature by landing at least 3 scatters on the same free spin. This gives you 10 new spins added to your tally, and there is no upper limit as to how many times you can do this.

The 200 Spins Reel Desire Experience

We didn’t get all that much action in the base game in our test session, but we had a few okay wild wins. The bonus round is triggered at 1:19 into the highlights video, and you can safely skip right to it if you don’t feel like watching base game grinding. We went with the sticky multiplier option, and you can see how we fared by smashing that play button.

Review Summary

Yggdrasil has clearly allowed themselves to be inspired by BTG’s Danger High Voltage when they created Reel Desire. There are obvious similarities in both the 80s disco theme and in the bonus features, but this is certainly not a copycat effort. The single spin 20,480x potential is higher than what the source of inspiration offers, and the theme in Reel Desire is more mainstream friendly.

The possibility of landing a full screen of wilds via the Wild Desire feature is ever-present. This means that the insane 20,480x max win can strike like lightning from a clear blue sky at any time. Also the multiplying 2x Double Wild can be helpful at times, but the bonus round seems a bit hard to trigger.

The progressive multiplier option is your best bet if you want larger payouts, and we regretted going with the sticky wilds, as only 1 landed for most of the session.

Pros

• 2x multiplying Double Wilds on the 3 middle reels
• Land between 1 and 5 wild reels at random times
• Optional progressive win multiplier or sticky wilds bonus round
• Win up to 20,480x your stake on a single spin

Cons

• Triggering the bonus round can take a while

If you appreciate Reel Desire you should also try:

Danger High Voltage - is based on the somewhat obscure disco hit by the same name. You will benefit from Wild Fire reels with 6x multipliers, and you have 2 different bonus rounds to choose from. One features High Voltage wilds with up to 66x multipliers, and the other comes with sticky wilds.

Electric Avenue - comes with random stacked multiplier wild reels, and the multiplier equals the reel number from 2x to 5x. There are 2 bonus rounds options here also, one with sticky wilds and another with multiplier wild reels up to 55x. The similarities with the Danger High Voltage are obvious, but the potential is far lower here.

Attack on Retro - comes with Hyperspins that allow you to respin each reel for a calculated price. You will also benefit from up to 15 random wilds in the base game, and the bonus round comes with 3 options.

The number of spins varies relevant to your chosen multiplier, and you will also benefit from sticky wild reels and payouts up to 5,000x your stake.

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