King of the Streets

King of the Streets: Slot Overview

To ascend through the ranks of the streets from lowly grunt to becoming its king might entail stepping on a few toes to get there. The star of Slotmill's online slot King of the Streets, Don Corlion looks like the kind of chap who has no qualms stepping on or even shredding toes to realise his ambitions. And no, that wasn't a typo. Don Corlion, public enemy number one, is indeed a lion who fronts a slot based on Coins and Cannons (2024) while packing one or two gripping alterations.

It won't take long to meet the Don as he stands next to the gaming grid, chain-smoking, occasionally pulling out a piece, and generally looking hard as nails. As for the streets, they're a sort of 1920s New York, of sirens, and anything goes. If you're lucky and trigger or buy the bonus round, you'll gain entrance to the Don's club, The Lion's Den, where the serious business of smoking, gambling and looking tough takes place. Slotmill has put together a pretty sweet gangster vibe that's a long way from the swashbuckling of its predecessor, even if its gameplay shares similarities.

Symbols drop into a 6x6 area, creating a winning cluster when at least 5 matching symbols are connected in horizontal or vertical directions. Gamblers are able to wager 20 c to $/€50, or buy the features, activate the Xtra-Bet, or engage the lightning-quick Burst Mode. When the Xtra-Bet is on, the stake rises by 50%, making it 2.8 times more likely to trigger free spins. With a maximum RTP of 96.04%, King of the Streets is a highly volatile slot.

The pay symbol hierarchy lays out diamonds, clubs, hearts, spades, guns, cigars, glasses, knuckle dusters, and Don Corlion. Clusters of 5 OAK award 0.2x to 1x the bet, rising to 14+ clusters, which pay 6x to 50x the bet. The police badge is wild, substituting all symbols except scatters. When a wild substitutes for Coins, it has no value itself.

King of the Streets: Slot Features

To rise up the ranks of the streets, King of the Streets is equipped with Avalanches, Coin Clusters, Multiplier Safes, free spins, super free spins, and feature buys.

Avalanche

All symbols part of a win, plus all non-winning symbols of the same type as the winning symbols, are pulled off the grid, triggering a symbol drop to fill in the blanks. In addition, a wild spawns in one of the empty spaces before other symbols drop in. This process repeats as long as new wins form.

Coin Clusters

Coin symbols possess a multiplier of 1x-40x the bet. When Coin symbols form a cluster of 5 or more, the value of the Coins in the cluster is added together and awarded. After the payout, the cluster explodes, and a new Coin with the total multiplier value of the winning Coin Cluster is placed in one of the empty spaces before symbols drop.

Multiplier Safe

Multiplier Safe symbols have a random value of x2 to x500. When there are wins, and a Multiplier Safe is present, it remains on the reels until no more wins occur. Then, all Multiplier Safe values are added together, and their total multiplier is applied to the total win of the round.

Free Spins

Hitting 3 scatters awards 10 free spins. During the free spins bonus, whenever a Multiplier Safe lands, and the spin produces a win, the Multiplier Safe value is added to a total multiplier, which multiplies the spin's winning amount. For the duration of the feature, the total multiplier does not reset. Landing a +1 Spin symbol during the round awards an extra free spin.

Super Free Spins

Landing 2 scatters and a super free spins scatter award 10 super free spins. During this feature, remaining Coin symbols accumulate at the bottom of the reels, making them available for new winning combinations till the end of the round. As for the rest, the rules of free spins also apply to super free spins.

Fast Track

Fast Track is where players can buy free spins or super free spins for 100x or 500x the bet, respectively. It is also possible to buy a game round with a triggering Multiplier Safe for 40x.

King of the Streets: Slot Verdict

If you ever found yourself pretending to be a pirate while clustering Coins but wished Coins and Cannons could have been a bit more crimey, then your wishes have been granted. Slotmill has taken the bones of Coins and Cannons, then replaced the seven seas and salty winds with a built-up urban space before sprinkling on a crime-minded lion to make King of the Streets. On top of the foundations, Slotmill has added or taken away things, smaller as well as larger, which significantly alter the way the game plays out. However, Coins and Cannons is a litmus test - so if the previous game thrilled ya, then so should this.

The relatively minor changes include a slightly decreased RTP but a slight increase in the likelihood of triggering free spins produced by the Xtra-Bet. Of more importance is an axing of the highest value pay symbol, which isn't so great, to a vastly expanded maximum value on the Multiplier Safe. Where Cannon symbol tapped out at x100 in the previous release, the Multiplier Safe pushes past to x500. Multipliers can have an enormous influence on the way a bonus round turns out for the critical reason that they now contribute to King of the Streets' new total multiplier, which is persistent and multiplies Coin wins as well as cluster wins. This Gates of Olympus-like extra drastically sets the two slots' bonus rounds apart, so much so that it might be hard for players to return to Coins and Cannons after sampling this. However, the way Coins do not accumulate during regular free spins in King of the Streets could be a deciding factor.

Furthermore, some may also be rueing the decision to keep winning potential exactly the same as it was before at 15,000x the bet. One might assume, with the masses of extra firepower supplied by the bigger multiplier values and the total multiplier, that King of the Streets would be able to blast past its predecessor's figure. Guess we'll never know. Still, this doesn't prevent King of the Streets from being an exciting successor that takes an already solid slot and chucks a bunch of cool stuff on top.