4 Diamond Blues Megaways

4 Diamond Blues Megaways: Slot Overview

South African based developer Buck Stakes Entertainment releases a sophomore slot, titled 4 Diamond Blues Megaways. After their debut, 8 Golden Skulls of Holly Roger Megaways, it looks like the team is using the same tactic as competitor 4ThePlayer by sticking a number at the start of their game titles to rank on alphabetically filtered lists. Or maybe it's a coincidence seeing as 4-diamond symbols are what you need to trigger free spins. As well as this feature, the only other extras in 4 Diamond Blues Megaways are Rolling Reels, and a feature buy. Will using the bare minimum of Megaways features be enough for 4 Diamond Blues Megaways to stand out in the market?

Buck Stake has gone for a semi-one armed bandit approach to their design of 4 Diamond Blues Megaways. Within a physical looking device is a game panel made up of 6 main reels, holding 2-7 symbols each, sitting beneath a horizontally scrolling 4-position reel. There's a land-based casino feel going on some may enjoy but it is pretty basic, and clicking on the lever doesn't spin the reels, yet it does sprinkle fairy dust over them, which is something. What saves 4 Diamond Blues Megaways is its rocking bluesy soundtrack, jamming away in the base and bonus games. Also, when the reels aren't spinning, you can hear general crowd ambience with a band warming up. It creates quite a neat live atmosphere, providing the bulk of 4 Diamond Blues Megaways' mood.

Any device is suitable for playing 4 Diamond Blues Megaways on, where stakes from 10 p/c to $/€20 per spin may be selected. Upbeat music might put across the idea that 4 Diamond Blues Megaways is your best friend, but the math model is actually highly volatile, though the hit rate is quite high as well, at 37.24%. As often is the case nowadays, the RTP varies depending on the market, maxing at 96.4% before dropping to 94.04% and beyond.

You won't find much originality in 4 Diamond Blues Megaways, and this goes for its symbols, being all slots classics. Card suits, clubs, diamonds, spades, and hearts make up the low pay part of the paytable before moving on to horseshoes, bells, four-leaf clovers, cherries, Bars, and 7s as the premium symbols. The 7s are most valuable at 60x the bet for six of a kind, while the remaining premiums are worth 1.5 to 7.5x the stake for six. All need at least three to land from the leftmost reel, except the 7s, which payout when two or more line-up. One final symbol for this section is the casino chip wild. It lands on the top horizontal reel only to substitute any regular pay symbol to complete a win and does not have a value of its own.

4 Diamond Blues Megaways: Slot Features

4 Diamond Blues offers a very basic Megaways setup where features consist of Rolling Reels, free spins with a progressive multiplier, and a feature buy option for players permitted to access them.

Rolling Reels is Microgaming and partners' name for their reaction or tumble feature. When players hit spin, the number of symbols appearing on the reels varies, producing up to 117,649 ways to win. When winning combinations land, Rolling Reels remove the successful symbols from the game grid, allowing the remaining symbols to tumble down into the empty spaces. Consecutive wins are therefore possible on any spin, as Rolling Reels only ends when no new wins appear.

If on the initial spin, or during a sequence of Rolling Reels, 4 diamond symbols land, then 12 free spins are awarded. If more than 4 scatters land, then each additional diamond awards +5 extra free spins. During the bonus round, landing 3 or 4 scatters awards +5 or +10 extra free spins, respectively.

In free spins, a win multiplier feature comes into play. The multiplier starts at x1 and escalates by +1 with each successive win. The win multiplier does not reset between free spins and has no limit on how high it builds.

Finally, if available, players can buy free spins at a cost of 100x the bet. Doing so guarantees at least 12 free spins will be won.

4 Diamond Blues Megaways: Slot Verdict

To get anything out of 4 Diamond Blues Megaways, there's only one way to appreciate it. That is, if you're looking for absolute basic Megaways gaming with an engaging live atmosphere, you'll probably be able to extract a fair amount of entertainment value out of it. Stakelogic has been the de facto boss in this niche via games like Super Wild Megaways, and Red Tiger has had a crack with their game Mystery Reels Megaways. There's clearly a market for this sort of thing, and 4 Diamond Blues Megaways is a decent entry in this regard.

If you're not fussed on pretending you're at a physical casino, then there isn't really any reason to fire up 4 Diamond Blues Megaways then. Its conspicuous lack of creativity in terms of features is striking; there's literally nothing here you won't have seen scores of times before. In an unusual act of transparency, the game says players can expect to win 92x the base stake from free spins. An okay amount, though if you are planning to buy free spins, it kind of equates to an RTP of 92%. If you see it like that, buying the feature doesn't seem so great. However, 4 Diamond Blues Megaways can step it up when it wants to, technically. The game's maker claims wins of up to 29,000 times the bet are possible, so there's plenty to play for.

All up, if you're looking for simple Megaways gaming in a faux live setting with a soundtrack that's pretty fiya, 4 Diamond Blues Megaways could be worth a spin or two. If your shopping list of slot requirements deviates from this even slightly, then there won't be much to see here.