Dream Drop Diamonds

Dream Drop Diamonds: Slot Overview

Software provider Relax Gaming has added a few potential visual enticements to go along with attempting to win progressive jackpots in an online slot titled Dream Drop Diamonds, which is an addition to the studio's rapidly expanding range of progressive jackpot slots wired into the Dream Drop network. The range is made up of a mix of new games and reworked older games, while Dream Drop Diamonds is a wholly original experience. As well as providing the chance to win jackpot prizes, Dream Drop Diamonds comes with Diamond Collection prizes worth up to 10,000x, and free spins where the collection system is persistent.

Dream Drop Diamonds plonks players into a world where wealth, relaxation, and indulgence aren't a dream but a way of life. The game is set poolside at a villa or exclusive resort somewhere like the Caribbean, Mediterranean, South Pacific, or maybe another even more secluded spot. It's somewhere where the sun shines, the sea's light blue, and no doubt the air blows warm. Matching the inviting scene to a tee is an agreeably mixed EDM track, making it easy to close your eyes, lean back, and pretend you're chilling at a dream home in Saint-Tropez.

Then… it's back to reality, which in Dream Drop Diamonds means picking a stake of 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin, and the bigger the bet, the greater the chance of triggering a jackpot is. A highly volatile game, RTP weighs in at 93.98%, keeping in mind that 12% of the total bet is contributed to the jackpots. The money-centric gaming takes place on a 5x5-sized matrix which provides 3,125 ways to win.

Regular ways wins occur when at least three identical symbols land on consecutive reels, starting from the first reel onwards. The low pays are card suits, clubs, diamonds, spades, and hearts, paying out 0.3x the bet for five of a kind. Next along are the premiums, made up of jet skis, cars, planes, and boats, which fire off payouts of 0.6x to 1.5x the bet when landing five of a kind. Wild symbols do not appear in the base game, but they can do in free spins, where they are able to substitute for any regular pay symbols.

Dream Drop Diamonds: Slot Features

The Dream Drop Jackpots are no doubt the numero uno attraction around here, but amongst the other features, we find cascades, Diamond Collections, and free spins.

Cascading Wins

All symbols involved in a winning way explode off the reels, and the gaps they create are filled by symbols falling down from above. If a new win is created after the symbols drop, the cascade mechanic activates again.

Diamond Collection

Next to the reels is a ladder punctuated with prize values. When Diamond symbols hit, they are collected on the prize ladder, and in the base game, the gap they leave behind is filled by symbols falling down to fill them. The more Diamonds collected, the greater the prize may be. At least 5 Diamonds are needed to win 5x the bet, while at least 30 are needed to collect the top prize of 1,000x the bet – in free spins, the prize values can increase. During the base game, the collection ladder is cleared between spins.

Free Spins

From the main game, 9 free spins are awarded when 3 scatter symbols are in view, plus 1 free spin for each extra scatter symbol on the board. While free spins are active, landing a Diamond symbol awards an additional free spin and increases the Diamond Collection prize value multiplier by +1, up to a maximum of x10. Now when Diamonds are collected, they leave a wild symbol behind in their position. When the x10 has been achieved, Diamonds only award free spins from then on. Also, any Diamonds on the collection ladder from the triggering spin are carried over to the bonus round, and the ladder progression is not reset between free spins.

Dream Drop Bonus

Jackpot Spins can randomly trigger when the spin button has been pressed. It takes place before the regular spin on a 5-reel, 5-row grid that lands only DD symbols or valueless blocks. Players get one spin, and if DD symbols hit on all five reels, they move to the Dream Drop Bonus. The Dream Drop Bonus is also played on a 5x5 slot, with the five jackpots each assigned their own row from low to high. DD symbols and blocks drop into the grid until no new DD symbol hits. Blocks are destroyed between spins, allowing DD symbols to fall to the lowest reel. When spins end, the highest value prize row that is filled with DD symbols is awarded. This could be the Rapid, Midi, Maxi, Major, or Mega Jackpot, with starting values of €1, €5, €100, €25,000, or €500,000, respectively. In time, the Mega Jackpot is planned to be capped at €10,000,000.

Dream Drop Diamonds: Slot Verdict

Dream Drop Diamonds succeeds in adding a bit of glitz and glam to the Dream Drop range. It also gives players a fresh new environment in which to try their luck on Relax Gaming's progressive jackpot network. The studio has nailed the wealth angle as well, as Dream Drop Diamonds radiates the high life with its exclusive background setting and selection of high-pay, high-value icons - what screams 'I have a higher net worth than you', than flaunting a golden private jet? Okay, maybe a golden super yacht, which Dream Drop Diamonds also has, by the way. If ever motivation was needed to aim for a progressive jackpot, this may well provide it.

Not that many jackpot players probably need extra motivation, but here it is regardless. Dream Drop Diamonds' non-jackpot features are pretty slickly designed as well. Getting far along the Diamond Collection ladder wasn't easy, though, either in the base game or in free spins. It was fairly common, though, to land a few scatter symbols during free spins, thereby increasing the ladder prize values. It means there are possibilities for collecting decent wins from the ladder, provided you can crank the collection process. When pushed to full capacity – 10xing the ladder and collecting at least 30 diamonds, the top prize can be worth 10,000x the bet.

Not easy, but then again, neither is winning a Mega Jackpot and attempting to do so is why most people are likely to line up for a turn on Dream Drop Diamonds. In that regard, Dream Drop Diamonds is a solid choice for jackpot chasers who are in the mood for having a crack at its sizable prizes against a backdrop of an elegant, or at least expensive, lifestyle.