Get your party gear on and head of to the carnival, with the Heart of Rio slot from Pragmatic Play. The 2021 release is medium variance slot with a potential top prize worth x10,500 your wager.Features include free spins, wilds, scatters, 5 reel modifiers and an RTP of 96.5%.
Slot details
Heart of Rio is a 5 reel, 3 row video slot which can be played across all devices from 25 up to a maximum of £125 per spin.The design is bright and colourful and the samba music is enough to get your feet tapping. The game take place on the streets of Rio de Janeiro with drums, toucan, parrots, feathers and fireworks in the background.Symbols are golden Jack –Ace royals, masks, cocktails, and 2 carnival queens, one with green feathers and one with purple feathers. The latter is worth x32 your wager for 5 on a payline.The wild symbols is the carnival queen with red feathers and can substitute all others barring the drum scatters and the bonus symbols.
Gameplay
The disco ball is the bonus symbol which has a cash value attached and only lands on the 1st-4th reels. If you land at least one of the bonus symbols at the same time as a collect symbol, you will receive one of the following modifiers:The collect symbol pays out the value of all bonus symbols on the screen.The multiplier collect will multiply the values of all the bonus symbols.The extra credit collect increases the value of the bonus symbols.The respin collect will lock all bonus symbols and the other positions respin.The expanding collect will see the bonus symbols expand to fill the reels before paying out.The bonus round comes into play by landing 3 scatters on reels 2-4 which awards you with 8 free spins. All bonus symbols that land during this feature are collected in a prize pot, and on the final spin you return to the reels with a mega bonus symbol which has the total value of symbols collected. The 5th reel spins again and you can pocket the total value if you land a collect symbol. The feature can be re-triggered with no limits.
Verdict
Heart of Rio has a good variety of features, but the bigger payouts only happen in the bonus round. Even then you need to land the collect symbol to achieve the top prize which can be a bit frustrating.
