The 80s era is glorified like no other recent decade, with its notorious haircuts and color combinations still holding a nostalgic appeal. Yggdrasil is capitalizing on this with their slot game, Reel Desire, a homage to the 80s disco and several popular slot games. The game offers a 20,480x potential win, an average RTP of 96%, and medium to high volatility.
You can place bets between 25p and £75 per spin, and the game boasts exciting features such as two bonus round options and the opportunity for massive wild wins in the base game. The wild symbol, which can replace any regular pay symbols to form winning combinations, is a cassette tape labeled with «wild» and can appear on all five reels.
A Gold Disc Double Wild can appear on reels 2, 3, and 4, and comes with a 2x multiplier. Any new Double Wild on the middle reels triggers a respin with the wild frozen in place, and multipliers can multiply with each other for significant payouts.
The Reel Desire feature, reminiscent of Microgaming’s Immortal Romance’s Wild Desire feature, may trigger at random times in the base game. This feature can turn 1 to 5 reels completely wild, leading to sizable base game payouts.
A bonus round is triggered by landing at least three ghetto blaster scatter symbols, rewarding you with 10 free spins. Four or five scatter symbols earn an initial scatter win of 50x or 500x your stake respectively. You then have the choice between two different free spin rounds.
Although the base game didn’t offer much action in our test session, the bonus round offered some notable wild wins. Reel Desire’s potential for a single spin 20,480x win and the possibility of a full screen of wilds through the Wild Desire feature makes this game exciting.
The game also draws inspiration from BTG’s Danger High Voltage, with similarities in the 80s disco theme and bonus features. However, Reel Desire offers a more mainstream theme and a higher potential win. The game does have its challenges, such as triggering the bonus round, but offers substantial rewards with its progressive multiplier option.
