Luxury Rome HD Slot – Free Demo

A coin dial and nothing else to set

It's now time for a thorough look at Luxury Rome HD by iSoftBet, having been available since its January 2016 launch. Each spin costs nine coins and the coin value is the only dial the game offers, so the number of lines in play never changes. This imperial seeming slot is played on a 5-reel, 9-payline reel set that pays left to right only, and it arrives with a package of extras including a wild that pays on its own and two distinct bonus features. Only the highest win on each line is awarded. Luxury Rome HD is playable on all devices. I ran it at a coin value of 0.30, which puts the stake at 2.70 a spin.

Production-wise it's well crafted and agreeable to the eye, and it's not difficult to tell precisely what I'm looking at here. The win counter that runs in the middle of the grid counts in coins while the win field on the HUD counts the same win in cash: 26 in the middle of the reels, 7.80 below them. There's unquestionably an ancient Roman flavour to this slot. A separate credit field carries the balance in coins as well, reading 3323 against a cash balance of 997.00. I imagine the action occurring in some sort of marble chamber on the Palatine within sight of the Colosseum or wherever your fancy takes you, and the sound effects crew have done a sturdy job too, lending thrill to the gameplay. The strip under the reels names the lines that paid, and on that spin it read "You won lines 3, 5, 7, 9!". Although the main theme has this ritual kind of mood going on, it seems a bit out of place.

And there is the RNG working in the background to balance the slot at its stated 96.49% RTP. Of 470 spins, 174 returned something and 118 of those returned less than the 2.70 staked.

Caesar, the eagle and the Colosseum

On the reels there are the customary card ranks and a set of high-value Roman figures. Below Caesar sit Cleopatra, crossed swords, a golden jug and a ring, with a laurel wreath and a pile of coins between those and the card ranks. Out of these Caesar is the most profitable of the standard symbols, granting 1,000 coins for 5 across a complete payline. The laurel wreath, the coins and the card ranks pay from three of a kind; the rest start paying at two. The SPQR eagle is the wild and pays on its own, worth up to 1,000 coins per payline. On the spin I captured, two eagles on reels 1 and 3 carried four winning lines at once. The Colosseum scatter pays up to 1,800 coins from anywhere on the reels.

Winning combinations have to begin from reel 1, this being a left-to-right slot. The scatter is the stated exception to that.

The wheel and the Instant Bonus

Pivotal to the game are the two bonus features, and the aim is to land as many Wheel Bonus or Instant Bonus symbols as feasible, anywhere on the reels. iSoftBet also make Scrolls of RA HD and Gladiators Go Wild.

For example, landing 3 Wheel Bonus symbols will grant a spin of the wheel, which adds up to 4,950 coins. Instead, 3, 4 or 5 Instant Bonus symbols set off a round that grants free spins and multipliers.

Minty’s Final Note: Five Instant Bonus rounds paid 407.70 credits between them, 27% of everything the session won, and on spin 405 the feature paid 116.10 while the base game on the same spin paid 0.54. The other 465 spins were nine fixed lines and a coin dial.

Five triggers in 470 spins

Luxury Rome HD is all about the Instant Bonus. It came in on spins 47, 116, 257, 363 and 405. That is also why the main game can feel a bit dull, as a good portion of the potential is assigned to the feature. Spin 405 shows the split cleanly: the base game paid 0.54 and the feature paid 116.10. Over 470 spins the Instant Bonus arrived five times, paying between 18x and 45x the stake and 407.70 credits in total, or 27% of everything won. The gaps between triggers ran 69, 141, 106 and 42 spins. The session finished at 118% return with a top single spin of 136x. The balance peaked at 1,319.95 on spin 424 and never went below 857.71.

Although it is not, in writing Luxury Rome HD can come across as slightly complex. The longest run without a win was 12 spins, ending on spin 441. In fact, it is a rather straightforward slot.