Slots Angels Slot – Free Demo

A biker gang on thirty paylines

Slots Angels is a 2012 launch from developer Betsoft, a studio with a lengthy roster of games already behind it, Greedy Goblins and Genie’s Fortune among them, so this is no novice operation. The session behind this review ran 480 spins at a 0.90 stake.

Well, initial impressions were lukewarm at best, and the team chose a familiar theme to display what they can do, that of a biker gang. A Biker Race Bonus Round, a Darts Click Me and a Party Free Spins Mode all hang off that theme. Slots Angels, as it's been named, doesn’t make remarkable use of the theme either, and the action unfolds on a 5x3, 30-payline grid, paying left to right. Every line pay is multiplied by the bet level. For all its talk of angels, it’s scarcely rousing material. Across those 480 spins, 168 of them paid something back. If you enjoy the approach, splendid. Of those 168, 98 returned less than the 0.90 stake. If not, Slots Angels reads as disappointingly ordinary.

The symbols that count are the Bottles, the Lead Biker, and the Darts. The Lead Biker and the Darts turn up only on reels 1, 2 and 5. Each of them activates a feature of its own. In 480 spins the Bottles delivered twice and the other two never came in at all. In the free spins the entire centre reel turns wild with a 2x multiplier attached.

Bottles, Lead Bikers and dart boards

Landing 3 or more Bottles symbols anywhere in sight, other than on reel 3, triggers the game’s Party Free Spins Mode, and during the round the centre reel is wild and bears a 2x multiplier. The round arrived twice in the logged run, on spin 51 and again on spin 114, 63 spins later. The spins are played at the same bet as the base game. At 0.90 those two rounds paid 2.34 and 44.10 credits. Inside the round there is no retrigger, no bonus round, no click me and no respin. The 44.10 was worth 49 times the stake, with the base game adding 0.27 on the same spin.

Every win in the base game pays and then respins the centre reel, and while wins keep arriving, the payout multiplier rises through 1x, 2x, 3x and 5x. The captured base-game spin shows that ladder sitting on 1x with 2x, 3x and 5x unlit.

The Biker Race Bonus Round is won if 3 Lead Biker symbols land on reels 1, 2 and 5, and players choose a biker in a three-way race. Prizes there depend on who takes the lead through the race and on where the chosen biker finishes. Three Dart symbols on the same reels grant the Darts Click Me instead. Neither round showed up once in the 480 spins played. There you choose one of three boards.

Another feature is the progressive jackpot, and if 5 big bikers land on payline 1 at max bet, on a main spin only, the jackpot is paid. Five of that symbol arriving on a centre reel respin does not qualify, and the meter read 270.00 credits on the captured spin.

Finally, players can wager a spin’s winnings on heads or tails with the Double Up Coin Toss. A correct call doubles the winnings and a wrong one loses them. It isn’t provided after free spins, the bonus round or the click me, though. The offer comes once a spin and all the respins that follow it are finished.

Our Minty Verdict: The Party Free Spins Mode arrived on spin 51 and on spin 114 and paid 46.44 credits between them, and what the other 478 spins produced was not enough to keep a balance that opened at 1,000.00 from finishing on 836.65.

Down to 836.65 after 480 spins

Slots Angels comes across as a bit of a disappointment, with so much expertise to draw on at Betsoft. The 480 spins returned 268.65 credits from 432.00 wagered. It’s assuredly not an uproariously novel experience that carries players to places they’ve never been before - quite the reverse - and from a garden-variety theme to recycled features, it feels like gaming of old. The balance went from 1,000.00 to 836.65 and never got back above the figure it started on. If rivals were watching Betsoft’s output, inquisitive about what the team would come up with, then Slots Angels is unlikely to be too worrying. The longest stretch without a win was 19 spins, ending on spin 144.

On that note, Slots Angels is not entirely devoid of considered design, and having the payout multiplier ascend through the Reel Respin shakes things up to a degree, though the steps are much of a muchness. The ladder only climbs while the centre reel keeps producing a win, and it stops the moment one doesn’t land. Less engaging is the Darts feature. It is an ordinary pick ‘n click feature, so nothing to get thrilled about. The best base-game spins of the session were 21.60 credits on spin 196, 15.30 on spin 248 and 13.50 on spin 217. Perhaps if Betsoft had buried the features deep in an engrossingly different theme, the game might have been more attractive, but as it stands, Slots Angels’s ten-a-penny gameplay and cookie-cutter appearance fail to draw out much enthusiasm. The two free spin rounds together paid 46.44 credits, 17% of everything won.

They’ve triumphed, if Betsoft wished to warily ensure this one ran smoothly rather than concentrate on stunning players with wild innovation, and considering how guarded they’ve played it with Slots Angels, it would be a considerable shock to see them follow up with something uber-revolutionary. The run closed on a 62.2% return of the 432.00 staked. But perhaps shock and awe is the longer-term strategy? I’m certain to learn in due course.