Diamond Royale: Slot Overview
Developer Red Tiger has been known in the past to create games that look amazing but come up disappointingly short in terms of winning potential. Diamond Royale, by contrast, does the complete opposite. Initially, Diamond Royale came across as an achingly bland-looking slot, yet it has features and gameplay which can produce eye-opening payouts. It does this by utilising wild symbols to feed a global multiplier, available in all phases of play, yet which is persistent during triggered rounds of free spins.
Plain is the keyword when it comes to Diamond Royale's sensory assessment. A simple green background sits behind a 5-reel, 3-row game grid covered in a set of regular, classic symbols. The background does shift to a red-based one during free spins, and that's about it from an audio-visual standpoint, really. Graphically, Diamond Royale is hard to indistinguishable from a stack of others like it out there in the market.
Statistically, Diamond Royale delivers medium/high volatile gaming, and produces a theoretical return to player value of 95.75%. Stakes range from 10 p/c on the lower side, rising up to $/€10 per spin on the upper, while any device is suitable for playing the game on.
To win, you will need to land at least three matching symbols from the left-hand side in adjacent reels. Combinations form up on fixed paylines, of which there are 10 provided to do so. Like the rest of the graphics in Diamond Royale, its symbols are fairly unimaginative as well. On the bottom of the paytable are 10-A card royals, where a line of five is worth a payout of up to 8 times the stake. Premium symbols consist of four-leaf clovers, stars, bells, and triple 7s. Should a winning combination of five premium symbols hit, the payout value is 10 to 20 times your stake.
Diamond Royale: Slot Features
Diamond Royale packs some big win numbers and to maximise returns, it uses features such as a global multiplier, wild multipliers, and free spins.
Global Multiplier & Wild Multipliers
Wild multipliers are wild symbols that possess a multiplier value. When these symbols land in the game, the multiplier value they carry is added to the global multiplier. To keep track of the global value, its current value is displayed at the top right of the reels. Wild multipliers come with values of x2, x3, or x5, or as a Double Wild. Double Wilds only appear in free spins, and when they land, they literally double the value of the global multiplier. Double wilds are applied after any normal wild multiplier value has been added to the global. Wild symbols substitute for any paying symbol. The global multiplier is applied to all wins and resets at the end of a spin which did not produce a win or a wild multiplier. One last point is the global multiplier does not reset when entering, exiting or during free spins and maxes out at x50.
Free Spins
In the base game, landing 3, 4, or 5 free spins symbols awards 9, 12, or 15 free spins, respectively. Free spin symbols do not appear during the bonus round, so it cannot be retriggered.
Diamond Royale: Slot Verdict
You kind of wonder why Red Tiger decided to go so large in a game like Diamond Royale while being so tight in other games they probably spent more time developing. A bunch spring to mind; 1942 Sky Warrior and Hammer Gods are two examples Red Tiger released around the same time as comparisons. These were games which looked great, were fun to play, yet failed to breach 1,000x the bet, thereby leaving a sour taste in the mouth and crippling desirability. Diamond Royale flips all that. It looks about plain as it gets but dangles a big carrot for players keen on classic looking slots.
One thing about Diamond Royale that's not so classic is its wild multiplier/global multiplier feature combo. This part of the game can be rather thrilling. The base game politely holds on to any multiplier you've built in the base game until a non-wild or non-winning spin occurs, allowing players to squeeze a bit more use out of it. However, it's in free spins when you may get lucky and feel the full force. Those double wilds, for example, could be a huge game-changer, quickly pushing the global multiplier towards its x50 ceiling. Go all the way, and Diamond Royale is capable of firing off wins as high as 10,285 times the stake. Okay, not mind-melting in the grand scheme of things, but big for Red Tiger, which brings us back to the question of why they went so large in a game like Diamond Royale.
Then again, players searching for a classic looking game offering solid winning potential won't be complaining about Red Tiger's decision. It might look basic, but Diamond Royale certainly has the sort of features that can blow up under the right conditions.
It might look basic, but Diamond Royale certainly has the sort of features that can blow up under the right conditions.
