Riches from the Deep Slot – Free Demo

A 2017 BF Games cabinet with 20 lines

The slot begins with a 5-reel, 3-row configuration with 20 paylines. Barbara Bang's Riches of the Deep is a different game from another studio, despite the near-identical name. Taking part will run you 0.20 to 100 credits per spin, and on paper, the game carries a moderate quantity of muscle. BF Games, which also made Book of Ming, released it on 1 November 2017. RTP at its highest setting rests at 96.15%. The other two settings an operator can pick return 93.12% and 94.76%.

There is one wild, and the Wild can drop during the main game and Free Spins to stand in for any symbol except scatters. Wins made up of Wilds alone are possible. In the main game only one drops per reel. During Free Spins they might stack a reel two or three tall with wilds. A Wild and a Scatter never share a reel on the same spin.

Where the Lady stacks and the Scatters sit

The Lady symbol arrives stacked, and it drops two or three tall on each reel. In the base game it is the only symbol that stacks. This mechanic can show up during the base and bonus games, so if all 5 reels stack up, the entire grid can flood with Lady. Winning combinations start on the leftmost reel and run along a payline to the right, and only the highest win on each line is paid.

You trigger Free Spins if you land 3 scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5. Only one Scatter can land on each of those reels, so three is the most a single spin can show. The round grants 12 free spins. It runs at the wager and lines that activated it, on a separate reel set. My first round paid 32.00 credits, 16.0x the stake. Free Spins arrive with additional stacked wilds, both Wild and Lady stack two or three tall, and a retrigger contributes 12 further free spins to the round. Neither of my two rounds retriggered.

The Minty Breakdown: 350 spins at 2.00 returned 65.1%, and the balance never once got above where it started. The two Free Spins rounds brought in 140.00 of the 455.40 credits won, so the base game did most of the paying, slowly, and the one round worth remembering came on spin 329 at 54.0x the stake.

Spin 295 before anything happened

Riches from the Deep is not loaded with mechanics, so it rapidly begins to make sense, and what I've discovered is that the game is only medium volatile. BF Games publishes a 29% hit rate, and my session paid on 94 of 350 spins, or 27%, a small sample that came in close to it. Activating the bonus naturally can require a while. Of my 94 paying spins, 52 paid less than the 2.00 stake. You cannot rely on the base game to keep you afloat for too long either, and during my stint of 350 spins at a 2.00 stake, the first Free Spins arrived on spin 295. The second round followed 34 spins later, on spin 329. The balance never climbed above the 10,000.00 it began with. Over the 350 spins I wagered 700.00 credits and won 455.40 back, a 65.1% return.

Much of the payout stemmed from the base game, although there is not a heap of stuff going on in it. After a win, the game offers a Gamble option alongside Collect before the amount is credited.

Free Spins were delivering 31% of everything won. The biggest base-game win was 44.00 credits on spin 112, 22.0x the stake.

Fifteen Wilds pay as five Lady

Riches from the Deep is one of those slots where stacked symbols can have a big impact on the result of a spin and a session, and stacked wilds in Free Spins, for instance, can swing things when they occur. With all fifteen positions showing Wild during Free Spins, every line pays as five Lady. My second round returned 54.0x the stake.