Heart of Rio Slots
Are you ready for a Brazilian bonanza? Say hello to Heart of Rio, a video online slot game with a party/dance theme that brings wins of 10,500 times your bet along with money symbols that can reap rich rewards for punters along with exciting free spins that form the main attraction. Well renowned igaming developers Pragmatic Play released this slot game in June 2021 which pays homage to the renowned Rio Carnival one of the world´s most memorable and epic celebrations of dance which features bongo drums, skimpy Mardi Gras outfits, memorable floats, salsa bands and a lot of shaking maracas. The first carnival in Rio de Janeiro happened way back in 1723 and it is still going strong today attracting fun loving party goers from around the globe to take to the streets of this vibrant city to dance and have a good time.
Pragmatic Play have been in the online gaming universe for over twenty years and bring slots with rich themes, interesting and dynamic gaming mechanics and colourful graphics and artwork. Some of their most popular games are true classics like the Big Bass series, Sugar Rush, Gates of Olympus and Cash Bonanza to name just a few in a diverse gaming portfolio.
Players are presented with a colourful and traditional gaming grid of 5 reels and 3 rows with 25 active paylines (ways to win). Gameplay is straightfoward and simple with intuitive buttons showing the paytable and rules of play. The background to Heart of Rio slot shows exotic salsa dancers in technicolour 3D, cocktails, fireworks and decorated masks. The artwork and graphics are vibrant and colourful enough to bring this four day carnival to life. The music and accompanying audio brings in the festive atmosphere nicely and there are additional sound effects of clinking coins when players score a win. An autoplay option exists for players so they can automate the number of spins they wish to game with which can help with maintaining a gaming budget or simply if players wish to game hands free.
To begin playing punters will need to place their bets and the range is more than ample starting from a minimum wager of 0.25$ and moving up to 125.00$ for the maximum wager. This range nicely accommodates every kind of player from the novice and casual punter to the high rollers. The Heart of Rio RTP (Return to Player) sits at a solid 96.50% and plays as medium volatility. This means that players can expect a guaranteed stream of decent sized wins alongside the opportunity to grab a bigger cash prize and here the maximum win potential is 10,500x players bet which comes mostly from the money symbols in the Expanding Collect and Re-spin Collect part of the game in addition to the free spins feature.
Players will need to land a minimum of three matching and identical symbols from left to right on an active payline starting from the leftmost reel and ten paying symbols include exotic dancers, royal playing card symbols, pina colada cocktails and decorated masks. The dancer in red is the wild symbol and as usual for wilds this substitutes for all the other symbols to help make potent winning combinations except for the Scatter/Bonus Money symbol and the Collect symbols. This wild symbol only lands on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the bonus symbol which is shown as a pair of bongo drums is responsible for triggering the main bonus game. This bonus symbol appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 and pays players 3x their wagers and three of them also trigger eight free spins in the Money Collect Bonus feature.
Players can expect payouts for the dancer in purple of 32x their wager for 5 across a payline. The dancer in the green outfit pays out 7x players wagers for 5, the pink feathered mask brings payouts of 6x players wagers for 5, the pina colada cocktail pays out 5x players wagers for five and the royal playing cards Ace through to Jack are the lowest paying symbols bringing players 4x their wager for 5 across an active payline.
During the bonus game and the free spins round at Heart of Rio feature the purple money symbols and these can land on reels 1, 2 3 and 4 and each of these symbols has a unique and random cash value. When these symbols appear and one of five different coloured collect symbols (shown as disco balls) land on reel 5 players are paid the full value of all the money symbols on the reels with the Yellow Collect symbols. The Blue Extra Collect has its own value and this is added to the value of each money symbol on the reels. The Pink Multiplier Collect carries a random multiplier and which is applied to the value of all the money symbols. The Red Expanding Collect turns all money symbols into expanding symbols. These expanding symbols expand to fill the reels with money symbols and these are added together before players receive the value of each one. Finally, the Green Respin Collect symbol locks all the money symbol in place and then re-spins all the other positions on the reels and only then are the values added up and paid.
As mentioned earlier, three bonus symbols are responsible for triggering the Free Spins Feature and awarding 8 free spins. The money symbols and all the collect features are active during this feature. Players can collect the values of each money symbol that lands and at the end of the free spins reel 5 is spun again and should players land a collect symbol then they are paid out the full value of all those money symbols.
Heart of Rio slot game is fully mobile optimised. Players can enjoy seamless and instant play either from a desktop or from a compatible mobile device such as Android, iOS smartphones and tablets and Samsung.