Truth

Truth: Slot Overview

Fellow tinfoil hat wearers, come gather around, software provider Shady Lady is lifting the curtain on the wizard, peering through the looking glass, opening the black box on life to find out what's going on, really going on, not the watered-down cover-up stuff they feed us through mass media. There are no blue pills where we are going as the studio explores what mainstream sheep might call conspiracy theories, but what those in the know call the Truth. Yep, that's Truth in capital letters for the non-believers, the ones who happily tape their third eye shut rather than accept what's real. Okay, we're jesting, and Shady Lady probably is as well, or is it? Perhaps the studio knows something we don't, and like the Pied Piper of slots, they're leading us to some sort of revelation…

If Agent Fox Mulder had his home office transformed into an online slot, it might very well look something like Truth's base game. The gaming area is surrounded by copious symbols of conspiracy, truth, nuttiness, however you'd like to call it - aliens, the All-Seeing Eye, Tupac, it's all here, folks, and you know what, maybe this stuff is all BS, but what if it's not? What if there really are infinite turtles all the way down, and we, the peon masses, have barely scratched the surface, trying to piece together reality with the falsified crumbs our shadowy overlords are feeding us.

Truth's play zone is a 5x5, 15 payline grid set into a big boxy monitor. Players may bet $/€0.10 to $/€50, and as usual in a Shady Lady piece, a bevvy of ante bets and features buys are mere clicks away. Highly volatile, when regular betting, the RTP value is 96.1%.

Fiery pyramids, woolly feet, jet fuel, and folders are the low pay symbols, awarding 1x-3x the bet for 5 OAK. Five character symbols are the high pays, and they are worth 7.5x-50x the bet for a 5-of-a-kind winning line. Wilds may be present on all reels, substituting all regular paying symbols. Hitting a line of 5 wilds pays 50x.

Truth: Slot Features

Truth's bag of tricks contains Conspiracy Features, a bonus round, a super bonus round, and buy options from the shop.

Conspiracy Features

On any base game spin, one of four Conspiracy Features may randomly trigger:

• Birds Aren't Real - A flock of bird drones fly over the reels, placing wild symbols where a random number of them malfunction, crash, and break down.
• 5G Transmission = Brainwashing - A random number of 5G Wilds are placed on the grid, each carrying a multiplier of x2 to x5. On each turn, one 5G Wild may randomly activate. When it does, it either clones itself to a random position that does not already have a 5G Wild or transmits its multiplier to another 5G Wild. If no 5G Wild activates, the feature ends.
• The Reptilians Are Everywhere - A random character symbol is selected, and the game attempts to transform all instances of it into the highest paying Reptilians. If the transformation succeeds, a new symbol type is selected, and the process repeats, ending when all eligible symbol types have been converted, or a conversion attempt fails.
• It's All a Simulation - A random symbol type is picked, and the Truth Realm appears across the middle row. After regular wins are evaluated, all instances of the chosen symbol nudge to the Truth Realm. Each nudge increases the Realm Multiplier by +1. When nudges finish, the Realm Win is evaluated. Symbols in the Truth Realm pay without needing to be adjacent.

Bonus

Landing 3 scatters triggers 6 free spins. Before the round begins, a random symbol type is chosen as the Realm symbol, and the Truth Realm appears on the middle row. It acts as mentioned above - nudging the chosen symbol to it after regular wins, increasing the multiplier by +1 with each nudge. The multiplier is persistent throughout the whole bonus. If a Realm symbol lands on the Truth Realm line, it is locked there for all future Realm wins. A special booster symbol can land in free spins, awarding one of these modifiers: extra spins, a Realm Multiplier increase, double the current Realm Multiplier, a locked symbol on the Realm Line, or double the multiplier increments.

Super Bonus

Landing 4 scatters triggers 8 super bonus free spins. It functions like the regular bonus, but only character symbols can be selected as the Realm symbols, and nudge increments start at +2 instead of +1.

Boosters, Bonus Buys, Highlight Reels, and Loot Boxes

A selection of ante bets and buys accompanies Truth. The Bonus Boost at 1.5x boosts the chance of triggering the bonus by 238%, the Big Bonus Boost at 5x improves it by 1,192%, while the other booster guarantees a Conspiracy Feature on each spin for 10x the bet. Five bonus buys are available as well, costing 67x to 1,596x the bet. The Highlight reels play the top three spins from a set batch of 100, 300, or 500 spins for 75x to 273x, while Loot Boxes provide a chance of Enhanced Bonuses costing 186x-571x the stake.

Truth: Slot Verdict

None other than President Theodore Roosevelt said, 'Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.' With this in mind, Truth is a slot that has fully embraced about every conspiracy it can find, and whether it's satire, social commentary, or a complete joke (or deadly serious), there's no denying Shady Lady has made another entertaining slot with a big personality. Whether the subject matter is something we should all take seriously IRL, or give in to gut laughing at the tinfoil hat brigade, the execution is undeniably clever, and Truth stands out like a sore thumb in the sea of slots.

After previous titles like Brainwashed, Swoll, and Suck, actually after pretty much every slot in its entire portfolio to date, the expectation is that the latest Shady Lady release is going to take players on a trip. Truth does not disappoint in that regard, even when putting the theme aside for a moment. The base game benefits from a handful of Conspiracy Features, which are bizarrely entertaining as they are bizarrely diverse. Bonus and super bonus games have a 'book of' element to them, but the Lady has ensured Truth's version is a one-of-a-kind edition. Free spins felt very volatile, though others may have a different experience, of course. Linking big wins on the Truth Realm might be elusive, but when they do come together, they've got the ability to produce surprising hits, and the super bonus is arguably the most conducive place for that to occur due to the upgraded rules.

Hidden under the foil lies a win cap of 20,000x the stake, or does it…? Yeah, it does, and once again, Shady Lady shows it is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to wacky, offbeat, strangely compelling online slot design. So, whether you are the sort of gambler who enjoys trying something unique, or are someone who thinks the moon landings were filmed in a basement and feels like having a punt, Truth is ready to potentially unveil its secrets to those who can handle the truth. Or think they can.