Retro Reels Slot

Retro Reels is, as the name might suggest, a game which takes after those vintage fruit slots of old. You know, the ones that you might find in a bona-fide casino or at seaside amusement parks. This online game by Microgaming even has a uniquely designed control board to emulate the traditional game cabinet experience. All the retro game symbols that are synonymous with traditional slot machines are present and correct. There are even some authentic arcade game sound effects. What's more, there are extra features up for grabs such as free spins and an intriguing “Respin” option. Are you intrigued? Then, continue reading our full review below to learn everything about this unique reeled machine. ...

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game ReviewThe games game can be found at Microgaming casinos. Microgaming as a standard do not publish the slots house edge information of their games. However they lease their slots games out to casinos using other software, some of which do publish this information. Betway list the house edge of Retro Reels as 3.98%. This figure should be treated as a guidleine only when playing at any other venues as this game may be configurable.Time to go retro!This game is a 5 reel game with 20 paylines and you can bet up to 20 coins on each payline.There are two bonus features when playing Retro Reels. The first is active on every spin. At the end of each spin you can choose to place an extra bet to re-spin and individual reel. The cost to re-spin each reel is determined by the likelihood that the re-spin will generate a win, so obviously the more likely a re-spin of a reel is to create a big payout, the more it costs to re-spin.The second bonus feature is activated when you receive 2 or more of the ‘5 Complimentary Spins’ scatter symbol. When this happens you will be awarded 5 complimentary spins for each of the 5 Complimentary Spins symbols you received.→ Read MoreConclusionBeing able to respin individual reels is an entertaining extra, but Microgaming offer other slots games – like Hot Ink – with the same feature, more exciting other features and a ...

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Here we have wilds on all reels, and 5 wilds pay here good, x 300 total bet, scatters unfortunately paid not so good, only 50 x total bet for 5 of it. This game has feature in base game, it is possible to respin any reel after you make spin, you can respin absolutely any reel, and so many times, as you want, but it cost some money, and to be honest i really did not any reason to use this feature, and i really did not like it. here is possible to trigger free spins, from 10 to 20, depends on how much scatters you get(from 3 to 5 scatters i mean here). Free spins wins are doubled. Payouts are good here, but i played this game only one time at 32red casino ,and i trigger free spins feature around 4 times with my deposit, and all features pay me less than 50 x total bet, and on base game i also never have more than 50 x total bet. Game is boring for me, and to be honest even this useless respin feature did not help here. I am sorry microgaming, but all this series of games is too boring for me, i will not play any such slot again, i try only once, but this is enough for me and no reason to download and open this game for me.

Medium variance game, it has some potential to pay big, but i did not like it, i really can't see reasons to even download this one.

But first things need to come first.

Retro Reels Extreme Heat slot is a classic slot with 5 reels, 30 paylines (30 cents minimum bet), which is found in the Microgaming casinos. Being classic and of course as its name says its symbols are “Seven”s in flames, burning “Bar”s, Cherries, Lemons and Bells. Not much but enough to have 500 x wins when 5 Sevens of the same kind align, or 250 x for 5 Bars of the same type.

As I said, because of the previous experience playing a similar slot in less than 50 spins I managed to win here over 10 Euro extra (30 cents bet/spin). In general in my game I spin all the reels until a winning combination of 4 symbols (4 bars for example) happens. Then it is enough to respin the 5th reel to have the wins coming one after another. If I want more, I wait until I have one or two "Free Spins" symbols on screen.Then I respin the cheapest reel for 3rd “Free Spins” symbol to come. It is amazing how quickly I get this 3rd “Free Spins” symbol. This way in less than 10 spins + respins I enter at least once in the Free Spins round. In the 10 Free Spins I won almost each time between 4 and 10 Euro and thus almost always I was into win with something.

After 100 spins I got bored from piling money and started to play “normal”. Even in this game mode the slot is generous. When 4 different “Seven”sor “Bar”s bring you 20 cents (for 30 cents bet) there is not much to lose. The slot is almost perfect. The background music entertains the player and fits very well with how alert this slot is played. This is a game better than the average, where I will return for sure.

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Retro Reels name is very appropriate not only because of its flaming 7s / bars but also for its RTP! It pays out lots when it is hot I prefer to play this with 5 lines or less as I normally play it when my back is against the wall. The unique aspect of The Retro Reels series is because you can re-spin individual reels at a price based on bet size/ possible win to make winning line combinations! This is rather awesome if you are just looking to have fun and not serious about making money but I find the game wins better if you don't re-spin them! Yes that's right do not re-spin and you will see many re-triggers and even possibly a 4 or 5 scatter (have had a 4 scatter a few times recently).

The highest win possible is 20,000 x line bet inside of the free spins and 10,000 outwith them this is gained by getting 5 dollar wild symbols (which also substitutes for everything except scatter), Next up is the sevens ranging from three 7s to one 7 these all pay 500 x line bet for 5(really generous)!, Bars are next best thing ranging from 1-3 on the symbols pays 250 x line bet for 5, Lastly the easiest symbols to gain 5 of are lemons, cherries and bells which pay between 75 x - 150 x line bet, mixed 7s or bars pay 50 x for 5. Believe me if it is running cold you will never be more relieved to see 5 of these!

Lastly I will talk about the free spins round this can re-trigger infinitely! Get 3 free spin scatters for 10 free spins, 4 for 15 free spins and 5 for 20 free spins and 50 x the full bet placed and with all of these routes to free spins your wins are doubled during the free spins. As I said above this game and retro reels originals free spins can go crazy! I have had as many as 30 free spins on Extreme Heat and 55 free spins on Retro Reels original! The only reason some may argue Original is best is the fact 2 scatters give you the free spins this is a valid point but I just find my less lines strategy works better on Extreme Heat and scatters are hard to get anyway so what difference does it even make?

In summary Retro Reels:Extreme Heat is a game I will certainly be playing regularly and it got me out of the red earlier on today a few times it seems to play out well anywhere!!

Here is my Pros of Retro Reels:Extreme Heat

Amazing payout and brilliant paytable
Re-spin the reels if you want to I personally rarely will
Fairly easy to trigger free spins compared to games like BDBA, Thunderstruck,Tomb Raider.
All wins in free spins doubled and can be infinite!
Dollar sign substitutes for everything except scatter.
Looks nice very well designed.
Player receives bet back if 2 scatters appear(always a nice addition).
The fact that my mind has been changed just ran bad first time I tried it from what I remember.

I give Retro Reels:Extreme Heat a well deserved 8 out of 10 a fun game to play and when it goes hot it will burn your retinas!

“Retro Reels Extreme Heat” is classified in many casinos on Top games section, and that is because despite it looks genuinely old thanks to its classic symbols, such as cherry, lemon, numbers 7 and bells, it is a thoroughly modern game, with excellent sound effects and an interesting table of payments, which also includes special features such as wild symbols and rounds of 10 (15, 20) free spins, and one great improvement in this version "Extreme Heat" is the inclusion of the option of re-spinning that can be individually bought by pressing button at the bottom of each column enabled after each spin.

For me, this opportunity to buy re-spins in individual columns is the magic of this game, and it must be because experiences with similar slots, both 3 x 5 and 4 x 5 reels, have been totally rewarding for me to create a taste for slots with such feature. Having never played this game from Microgaming, I decided to try it in fun mode and started with 1,000 credits, and at this point I think it would have been great to have done it with real credits.

Initially, I wanted to use re-spin feature to trigger a free spins round, and to achieve this I chose to wait until two scatters appear and then pay on re-spins on the cheapest reel to get my third scatter. During my playtime, I tried and succeeded on three occasions, and the results were, financially speaking, twice slightly negative and one acceptably positive rounds. With these, my final balance was almost equal to my initial balance, so I decided betterto try getting a longer possible wild symbols line, and to achieve this I set alert myself awaiting any opportunity to start, and I was looking for my first wild symbols, preferably (or perhaps necessarily) located on payline number 1 and preferably on reels number 1, 2, or 3, since it is important to get small profits to help finance the purchase of re-spins , that increase in value as more substantial profits are enhanced. The opportunity came quickly when there was a wild symbol on reel 3 payline 1 (great!) then re-started with the re-spins on reel 1 to get my second wild and I did so on, always trying to maintain close high paid symbols that will help me finance the value of re-spins, in this way, I used to keep triple bars or triple sevens near then I usually changed to another column to try finding another wild symbol. The truth is my balance was never below $ 960 before getting my fifth wild symbol on payline 1 that in my case was for the reel 5. I could say it was hard work to achieve the highest award offered by this game (10,000 X) but the truth is I usually got enough average earnings to pay the next spins; in addition, to make it took me less than one hour. I attached some screenshot to this comment as evidence. Earnings were $ 223 obtained by betting 2 coins to $ 0.01 each one x 30 lines and my ending balance was $ 1.197. Now I would like to try it again but now in real, not for fun, but I wish I could do it with a minimum opening balance of $ 1,000, just to be relaxed.

Anyway, this is one of the games developed by Microgaming which will be one of the highest rated from me. Good luck with this game ;)

This is 5 reels and 30 pay lines video slot game. I have to say that I do not prefer the design and I would say that the one of the Retro Reels Diamond Glitz is better. But in the end, who cares about the design of a game, we are all in for the cash.

The last time I played this game I got 10 free spins as soon as I started playing and I won 28.20 euros. I was playing with 0.60 bet and I continued to do so. I did not raise my bet even though the game was paying on a regular basis. This can be sometimes tempting. But I know that most of the times when you raise your bet the game can hit a big win or eat your money. It is more probably that the second one will happen so I did not change anything. Next bonus I won 20.40. I cannot say that I won more than 30 x bet during the free spins, but still it was not bad. I made a deposit of just 20 euros and in a very short time I made a withdrawal of 120 euros.

You can also get more spins during this game too. If you get 3 scatters, which is the free spins bonus symbol you get 10 free spins. For 4 scatters you get 15 free spins and for 5 scatters you get 20 free spins. Ironically, like in every other game I never get more than the smallest amount of free spins.

What else can I say about this game, I just love it.

It's a definite recipe for success in my view, and Microgaming obviously thinks so too as they have created several slots in this "Retro Reels" series using this formula.

The games RTP is amongst the highest you will find on-line at a massive 97.5% - it's surprising you don't see this game prohibited from bonus play considering that Blood Suckers is almost universally barred thanks to its 98% RTP. Most of the wins on the paytable are fairly good, the maximum being 10,000 coins for a line of five wilds but five scatters is set quite low at 50x stake.

It's all the more surprising you can play this with a bonus when you realize this game also offers the ability to re-spin individual reels similar to Hot Ink - another game that is often banned from bonus play. This isn't a clone of that game though, the paytable is stacked very differently and this is a 30 line game whereas Hot Ink had a larger visible play area and 1024 pay ways. Unsurprisingly though the cost of respinning a single reel is calculated based on the probability of that reel awarding you a large win, and if you have two scatters on the screen it will cost you plenty to respin for a shot at the third - you have to decide if that cost is worth it rather than just spinning the reels from scratch once again.

You can win up to 20 free spins when all five scatters land but most of the time you'll have to make do with the standard ten - free spins wins receive a 2x multiplier, and you cannot use the respin feature for the duration of the bonus.

This isn't my favourite Retro Reels game but it's a good contender, and the re-spin feature is something that I think will satisfy the dreams of many slot players. I do think it can be prohibitively expensive to use this feature a lot but just occasionally it can be a lot of fun to give it a try.

Nonetheless, a quick recap of the 3 games, for comparison. Retro Reels, 20-paylines, No Wilds, 2 Scatters to trigger Free Spins game, up to 25 free spins, all wins are doubled. Retro Reels Diamond Glitz, 25-paylines, No Wilds, 3 Scatters to trigger Free Spins game, up to 25 free spins, all wins are doubled. Retro Reels Extreme Heat, 30-paylines, has got Wilds, 3 Scatters to trigger Free Spins game, up to 20 free spins, all wins are doubled. See the slight differences between each game?

As for the paytable, the Wild symbol pay 10,000x the line bet for 5 of them, substitutes for all except for the Scatter symbol, but doesn't do anything else. A typical dumb Wild symbol. The Bonus Scatter pays only 50x the total bet for 5 of them, half of the usual payout amount, why, don't ask me! 3, 4 or 5 Bonus Scatter symbols trigger 10, 15 or 20 free spins with all wins doubled, and more free spins can be retriggered. Again a reduction in value and winning chances. All the other symbols pay the same, from 500x down to 50x (mixed combinations), all per line bet for 5 of each kind. The Wild symbol gets added in, but all other values get reduced. Still a low paytable.

Instead of seeing lots of Diamond symbols, there's now plenty of '7' symbols, in threes, twos and ones. The 'Bar' symbol follows the same, with threes, twos and ones, and the whole play area gets cramped up with so many '7' and 'Bar' symbols at a time! Sheesh! Most players may not mind this at all, but not me. I hate messy situations!

Game wise, it plays about the same way as the Diamond Glitz version, but the presence of the Wild '$' symbol does make a slight difference in the payout patterns. The mixed combination wins are probably the easiest to get on the reels, 5 of which paying only 50x the line bet amount, which isn't much at all, but it keeps the game going for longer periods of time. This bit I quite like, as compared to the other two games that doesn't have any Wild symbols at all. In the end, winning or losing is a matter of individual luck. No two player can get the same results all the time. Not even most of the time. But as for me, my luck with Microgaming games remain unchanged! No luck at all on 99% of Microgaming games! Maybe I'm 'allergic' to cloned games, who knows! Hahaha.

It took me a while to start depositing at Micro gaming casinos when I first started gambling, and I struggled to really get a feel for the software..until I played this!

It is a 25 line slot with a minimum bet per line of 0.01p, which happens to be the exact amount I bet on here. There is a re-spin feature on every wheel so after every spin you can choose whether or not you want to spin one or two or all of the reels again...but at a cost!! So if you have two free spins symbols on the screen, its guaranteed that the cost to re-spin one wheel, (which obviously increases your chance now of getting that all important third symbol), is going to cost you a fair bit. It may even be as much as 4 or 5 times your bet and that's just for one of the reels. I've never really bothered much with this feature to be honest, to me its just another way to waste your money! I'm not saying I've never used it because I have, but only if the cost to spin is low, sometimes it has paid off for me but the majority of times I've ended up spending a few quid on technically 1 spin.

So your free spin symbol is the '5 free spins' symbol..obviously and you need three to activate them, The good thing about Diamond Glitz is; it isn't afraid to give away its free spins. I'm very lucky on it actually and they always roll in for me and more occasions than one and more often or not you will them repeated 2 even three times. I've never actually got 4 or 5 free spins symbols which does increase the amount you get but with three symbols giving you a healthy 15 free spins at a x2 multiplier, i am more than happy with this.The main feature though, apart from all I have mentioned, for me personally, is the ability to press the STOP button mid way through your spin. I don't usually like to use this on slots so much because you can through a lot of money in a very small space of time, but I've always benefited from it on this little gem and I would say 70% of my free spins I get are through doing this!

I don't play this slot as much now as I used to, and there are so many bigger and better slots out, and with the old school feel and look of this slot it could easily be forgotten, but it will always come with a very high recommendation from me!

However, you can decide yourself how many paylines you use, from 1 to 25 which is the case at most paylines based slots.

I always choose to play all the paylines, so I chose to settle for 0.50 bets. The game offers a top prize of 440,000 coins, how to achieve this is beyond me though. First of all there is the base game where you can also re-spin a specific reel to help you win a prize. Keep in mind that re-spins cost money though. I found myself quite unfortunate using them.

They cost me more much money then what the benefits brought me. Symbols from this slot are made from several bar symbols, sevens, bells, cherries, diamonds and the dollar sign (best paying symbol). My wins during base game have been quite marginal with only 25x bet size as my best score.

And I have played probably more than 1000 spins on this game. You can also win free spins on RRDG, but you need at least 3, 4 or 5 free spins symbols to appear to win respectively 15, 20 or 25 free spins with a 2x multiplier.

I once experienced the free spins winning 10 euros based on a 50 cents bet. I'd rather stick to the original Retro Reels, since there you only need two scatters to trigger free spins and it's cheaper as well since less paylines are being used.

Final rating for Retro Reels Diamond Glitz is 5.5/10.

re there are no Wilds and it is therefore more difficult to line up say, 5 symbols of the same type. I first tried to ignore the possibility of the individual re-spin and played about 100 normal spins at a minimum bet of 25 cents (for 25 paylines). The result was a loss big enough, about 10-15 euros per 100 spins although I entered once in the Free spins round, where the wins were about 5 Euro. So on the overall I was still losing out pretty well.

I have tried then to have on 2 reels the „Free Spin Bonus“ and then to get 3 „Bonuses“ from individual re-spins and get into the Free Spins round. The result was that I was still in loss one more time. This was because here the win from Free spins is about 4-6 Euro, and you certainly need more than 5 individual re-spins (worth each about 1 Euro) to enter the Free spins round.

I tried then another approach. I fixed on 4 reels the „3 diamonds“ symbol ( having the higher payout) and made a re-spin of the 5th reel until I have 5 „3 diamonds“ symbols on the reels . Again I was in loss.

The only way I managed to play some good Euros without much loss was the following: I aligned up on the the last 4 reels, 4 Bars of the same type. Then I re-spun reel one. Since the slot pays at 5 mixed „Bars“ if you manage to have any Bar on reel 1 in any position you will get a payout that is greater than or comparable to the amount required by the re-spin. However playing this way you will never enter the Free spins round, although you will manage to avoid the big losses.

As I said, the slot is both good and weak. In most cases you will get in loss, but choosing a good strategy of the possible re-spins you can have some gains in some cases.

It slightly differs from the just mentioned versions though.

Just like Retro Reels and Retro Reels Diamond Glitz, the maximum prize that can be won is 440,000 coins. Retro Reels Extreme Heat also offers the re-spin feature, where you can choose to re-spin a specific reel to win a bigger prize.

However, of course the re-spins costs money because nothing in this world comes for free really. The slot is nicely decorated I must say, since the symbols have a fiery background as if they are set on fire. Symbols include cherries, lemons, bells, bars, sevens and the almighty $ sign which acts like the wild in this game.

Five wilds guarantee a payout of 10,000 coins btw. Another notable difference is that this version has 30 paylines, which is more than the original (20 paylines) and Diamond Glitz (25 paylines). The minimum bet therefore is 0.30 euro. I played this game on 90 cents bets, but was quite annoyed how the re-spins hardly ever seemed to work out.

Perhaps showing the odds of actually hitting the symbol would be nice, or the layout of the reel so players can make a decent decision. Base game wins were limited for me with 40x bet size as my best score for now. Retro Reels Extreme Heat also offers free spins, 10, 15 or 20 with a 2x multiplier if you hit 3, 4 or 5 free spins symbols.

In that aspect the original version is still better since you only need 2 free spins symbols to trigger free spins. I've won more than 100x bet size though when I played the free spins, which means I got pretty lucky since good hits are rare on this game IMO.

My final rating for Retro Reels Extreme Heat is 7/10.

So its a minimum of 30p a spin. I will occasionally play it at a 0.02p denominator but very rarely.

It's hit and miss with this slot. I've played and done really well but other times I can't even get the free spins. One of the first times I played it at a Microgaming Casino I done extremely well which is why I fell in love with it. As with Diamond Glitz you have the re spin feature on every wheel, but I never take advantage of this feature. It's far too expensive and it rinses your money quicker than I can rinse my boyfriends money and that is QUICK!! If you are a bit of a dare devil gambler I expect you will use this feature.

The free spins are by far the best thing about this slot. There isn't a bonus game so I suppose that's a bit obvious really. It's not a massive multiplier during the free spins - just a x2, but every time I get free spins they generally get re-triggered a few times.

On the normal spins, I don't ever remember winning a huge amount off a single spin, maybe £20 being the most at 30p a spin. And generally this is the amount I'll get off a single set of free spins. I've never had five scatters on Extreme Heat but I suspect it would pay quite well if you did. In terms of wagering, I would really recommend playing this slot too much. It's ok in small doses.

Cons

Can run cold when it's being cruel or had a big win.

Respinning can deplete funds fast.

Dollar sign does not substitute in this one.

Sometimes your free spins rounds will be just awful (this can mean a good ones on the horizon though).

When it comes to this game, the wins are not that big. It seems like you can win something during the free spins. During the base game there are no wins at all. The slot offers the re-spin feature too, but it is yet another way to lose your money, because you never get the symbol that you want to. But if you like the old fashioned slots than this might be the game for you, but do not expect to win big.

There are only 2 things that I don't quite like with this Retro Reels game. One, there isn't any Wild symbol. Two, most of the payouts tend to be low or mediocre, hardly ever going above 30x the total bet amount. As a result, it becomes rather hard to win on this game, even by a small amount.

The only thing that I really hated when I played this slot was the sound effects. They were bothering me for a while, and if the game was not showing any potential I would have switched to another slot, but instead I just put the voice on mute. I believe that this slot would be perfect if the background music was more soothing.

Getting 2 Bonus Scatters to trigger the Free Spins game would be a lot easier. Anyhow, when things are harder to get, the payouts should be a little better, and this is quite true for this game. The Free Spins game tend to pay better here, with about 40x the total bet amount on average. The 3 Free Spins games that I had all paid about 40x my bet amount, plus or minus a little bit. The only setback is that the Free Spins games don't come that often, they can be hard to get, and you may run out of credits first before the next one can come.

Can take a ton of your balance chasing the third free spin symbol - Be careful and start with a small bet amount. Usually i'll play on 1 Euro, but most should start much lower as respins cost quite a bit.

Cons

It can run badly at times (hence why I play it safe).
Sometimes frustrating when you think about re-spinning and don't then the win would have come!
Shame that you can't win free spins with only 2 scatters like in original slot.