Play With the Devil

Play With the Devil: Slot Overview

To paraphrase the words of Lucius Malfoy, someone would have to be very brave or very foolish to want to play with the devil since he's said to be the ruler of hell and its demons and all that. When factoring in all of the fearful duties his role supposedly entails, someone would have to be built differently to want to tangle with the chap. That is unless we're talking about slots. In the gambling world, devilish characters are often portrayed as loveable cartoon rogues, a little bit cheeky rather than diabolically evil. So it is in Play With the Devil, an online slot from Red Tiger starring the horned ruler.

The studio has taken a fun, cartoonish angle for Play With the Devil, filling the game screen with neat animations and a lot of treasure. A part humanoid, part goat devil surveys his domain from a perch next to the reels, while the background, presumably hell, looks desolate, but it's not exactly a Dantean depiction of fear, lust, and torture. Hey, this is a slot; we're here to have fun after all, and Play With the Devil does have a fun vibe despite the devilish subject matter.

Held up by a pair of protruding horns is Play With the Devil's 5-reel, 20 payline reelset, awarding wins left to right from the leftmost side. Play With the Devil is a medium-high volatile slot, bearing a modest max win and a maximum RTP value of 95.71%. Wagers of 10 c to $/€20 per spin may be placed, plus a feature buy available where gamblers get two different options to choose from.

Clicking 'Pays' is where the paytable symbol inspection can begin. Here we find 10 to A card ranks as Play With the Devil's low pays as well as treasure, scrolls, a book, a blue/gold treasure item, and a pile of jewels as the highs. Hitting winning lines of 5 matching low pay symbols awards 0.8 to 1.2 times the bet, while a 5 high pay symbol line awards 2 to 20 times the bet.

Play With the Devil: Slot Features

In this part of the review, Play With the Devil may start to feel more familiar, where the features include the Devil Wild, Devil Coins, Bonus Prizes, free spins, and feature buys.

Devil Wild

The Devil Wild symbol substitutes for all paying symbols and may trigger free spins. The Devil Wild symbol can only ever land in the grid's middle position (the one marked by a frame). If one of these symbols hits at the same time as Bonus Prizes and/or Devil Coins on the same spin, it awards their combined prize. In the main game, if the Devil Wild does not initially land, the middle position may randomly respin to land one.

Devil Coins

Each Devil Coin lands with a bet multiplier value of 0.5x, 1x, or 2x. These prizes are only awarded when the Devil Wild lands at the same to unlock them.

Bonus Prizes

There are 4 types of Bonus Prizes in Play With the Devil, each one displaying a bet multiplier prize. They are the Mini Bonus, Minor Bonus, Major Bonus, and Mega Bonus, worth 5x, 10x, 75x, or 1,000x the bet, respectively. When one or more Bonus Prizes land at the same time as a Devil Wild, the prizes are added up and awarded.

Free Spins

Whenever the Devil Wild lands, he throws fireballs at one or both of the chests above the reels. This provides a chance for one or both of the chests to activate to trigger free spins. If one chest activates, 6 free spins are awarded; if both activate, 12 free spins are awarded. During free spins, the Devil Wild symbol locks in place in the middle position and throws fireballs at the chests on each spin for the chance to win +6 free spins if 1 chest activates or +12 free spins if both chests activate.

Feature Buy

From the feature buy, players can guarantee to land the Devil Wild and at least one Devil Coin for 6x the bet or a free spins trigger for 66x the bet. The RTP for the feature buy is 95.7%.

Play With the Devil: Slot Verdict

It seems as though the hellishly styled slots category is heating up, pun intended. A bunch of examples which sprang to mind were Play'n GO's Charlie Chance In Hell To Pay, Devour the Weak from Yggdrasil Gaming, and Pragmatic Play's Hellvis Wild, not to mention the numerous Underworld-based mythology slots. Red Tiger has leapt in on the action, and it would appear the studio drew inspiration from the Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom release Demon Pots (and/or its land-based equivalent). Whilst not an exact copy, the features are very close, from the centre-bound Devil Wild symbol, the way he throws fireballs at containers above the reels, and his coin collection abilities.

Play With the Devil spices it up by using Bonus Prizes, though 3 of the 4 prizes are pretty low thrills, maxing out at 75x. The Mega wouldn't be the worst outcome, but Play With the Devil isn't an impressive game in the numbers department, with weak coin values and a relatively low max win figure of 2,523.3x the bet. If you were wondering, that's less than half of Demon Pots. As well as axing potential, Play With the Devil is a simpler game in general than Demon Pots, though, to be fair, the streamlining of the rules might be a plus point for certain players.

Add everything together, and you've got a typical Red Tiger slot, which holds its own in terms of audiovisuals yet is less wow regarding gameplay and numbers. For a playful, devilish game that's not too heavy, not too demanding, Play With the Devil might be all right, but it lacks the sort of weight or depth to challenge the growing infernal slot category for domination.