Preach TV

Preach TV: Slot Overview

Broadly speaking, many people want to get into heaven when their time on earth is over, in part to bask in the Almighty's divine bliss, in part to avoid an eternity of being tortured in a blisteringly hot domain full of not-so-nice entities. When the road to enlightenment isn't clear, however, ain't it fortunate that we have individuals ready to guide the faithful - for a fee, sorry, donation. Fire up developer Shady Lady's online slot Preach TV, and gamblers enter a world of a sketchy televangelist, who preys on the religious yearnings of others to line their own pockets and enjoy the fleeting riches of the physical realm at their followers' expense.

Preach TV has a great intro, depicting a religious advert offering peace, love, and harmony for a modest monthly fee. As if St Peter's up there at the pearly gates selling tickets for entry. The weird thing is, it's easy to imagine some people expecting a better slice of the afterlife than the regular plebeian masses, cos you know, they're rich, they deserve it. This is the sort of money-centric thinking that Preach TV critiques as it shines a spotlight on shady individuals who exploit the desire for redemption for the low, low cost of just $99.99. The game splits its time between a TV studio and a live audience as it sets about spinning a sermon on greed and profit-driven 'salvation'.

Played on a 5x4 action area, Preach TV comes equipped with 1,024 ways to evaluate winning combinations of matching symbols. It's highly volatile and has an RTP of 96.2% as the highest of the three return variants. It comes with a Store stuffed with feature buys, and accepts base bets of $/€0.10 to $/€50.

Pay symbols are tapes, bottles, books, and watch low pays, plus four-character high pay symbols in various states of rapture. Hitting 5 matching character symbols pays 1.5x-2x, while the other four symbols pay 0.5x for a 5 OAK hit. Wild symbols are not part of this game.

Preach TV: Slot Features

Preach TV's extras include three TV Features, Shady Nudges, a bonus round, a super bonus round and various feature buy options.

TV Features

On any spin, the three TVs above the grid may activate. When this happens, each TV can award one of these modifiers:

• Spread the Word - One low pay symbol is randomly selected, and all instances of that type are transformed into the same high pay symbol. If more than one Spread the Word triggers on the same spin, all transformations use the same high pay symbol.
• Donate Donate Donate - Each high pay symbol awards a random coin win worth 1x to 100x. The more valuable the pay symbol, the more valuable the possible donation.
• Preacher - A stack of Preacher symbols Shady Nudges down from the top row. Each Shady Nudge triggers a Donate Donate Donate feature. The stack always nudges to the bottom row at least and can continue for up to 200 Shady Nudges. If a stack covers a high pay symbol during Shady Nudges, all donations that symbol would make are instantly collected.

Bonus

Landing 3 scatters triggers the bonus game, awarding 6 free spins. During the bonus, the TV feature hit rate increases, and if the Preacher triggers, the chance of long nudges is also higher. Should 4 scatters land, they trigger the super bonus game, which plays like a regular bonus but with increased odds of awarding 'strong' TV features.

The Store

The Bonus Boost and Big Bonus Boost increase the bet to 1.5x and 5x, respectively, to increase the chance of triggering features, while the TV Boost costs 70x to trigger a TV Feature on every spin. Bonus buys range from 102x for a regular trigger up to 1,595x for a Gold Bonus. The Highlight Reels let players buy the top 3 results from 100, 300, or 500 spins for 80x, 198x, or 293x the stake, respectively, and lastly, Loot Boxes range in price from 186x to 571x the stake.

Preach TV: Slot Verdict

One of the great things about Shady Lady is that the studio doesn't just make funny slots; it also makes them with cutting social commentary. Games like Preach TV, Brainwashed, Black Friday, and so on, peel back the scab on aspects of society to reveal just how odd human beings can behave. No judgment, anyone can get stuck in group thinking, caught in a herd, or lose their way through life. Slots like this show how Shady Lady acknowledges the intelligence of gamblers, rather than assume everyone who hits spin on a slot is a mindless degenerate dazzled by fruit, bright lights, and the hope of one day winning unattainable sums of money. These are thinking persons' slots that stoke the grey matter as much as they tickle the adrenal gland.

From a gameplay perspective, the trio of TV Features injects unpredictability into every spin, while Shady Nudges and the Preacher mechanic can escalate into explosive sequences. In fact, the Preacher was the main event during the test sessions when it would chain together a lengthy run of Shady Nudges. The potential for extended nudges, up to 200, is where a lot of the excitement lies, paired as it is with coin wins from Donate Donate Donate. Preach TV is pretty volatile, so perseverance may be required to sit through the dry spells, though at full tilt, it is possible to hit 20,000x the bet. The bonus rounds, while not completely transforming the base game, were noticeably more thrilling on account of TV feature frequency being bumped up.

Shady Lady slots are often a sharp blend of feature-packed gameplay and satirical jabs at modern life, of which Preach TV is a prime example. The idea of monetised salvation and donation-driven redemption gives the game a distinct personality without coming across all preachy, and the gameplay is punchy enough to maybe not convert the non-believers, but fans of Shady Lady's work should be all over this.