Gangster Gamblers

The game's features include expanding icons and a free spins bonus of good quality. The volatility is quite low and you can expect to activate the free rounds relatively frequently. Try it right here in our review.

About Gangster Gamblers slot

Living life as a gangster is hard. While some find the idea of the hard-knock life appealing, for most, the fun gets cut short. Gangster life carries an enormous risk of early death and often leads to severe punishment if one survives long enough. Booming Games pays respect to none of this in its slot Gangster Gamblers.

Upon opening the game, the player is met with very dark, even ominous, graphics. Everything is in various shades of black, gray, and red. The red, of course, is to give us the unmistakable image of blood that is so typical of gangster showdowns. For instance, our spin button has been designed to look like a large blood stain. The graphics of the game are nicely designed, and we wish there were more colors represented in the art style. And if red has to remain one of those colors, we wish it were perhaps a different shade!

Along with the sinister atmosphere, Booming Games has included some very foreboding background music. This is technically brilliant, and there's a good chance it will stick in your head.

Stakes and winnings

Booming Games hardly equips its slots with the kind of wagering features you might expect to find in modern online slots. Gangster Gamblers, unfortunately, is a prime example of this basic approach. In this slot, you have five reels with three rows of icons and up to 15 paylines (you can actually choose the number of paylines; not that it matters very much). All in all, what you have here is a fairly standard setup. A little special is that you can actually choose the number of paylines. It is uncommon.

You change your wager by inputting the amount to bet per line and the number of lines on which to bet. The least you can use for a coin value is $0.10, while the most you can use is $20. This allows you to play for anywhere from $1.50 to $300 per spin.

The schedule for winning is an interesting tale to observe. The symbols that award low wins are very low-win symbols, while the ones that pay much better do so with combinations of a larger sort. When they clink, it really sounds like cash in a register. The max you can win on a spin is 600 times your bet. The RTP for Gangster Gamblers is 95.37%. If you're accustomed to playing slots from, say, Play'N GO or NetEnt, this return will feel low.

Game features

Unfortunately, Gangster Gamblers doesn't have many special features to offer. That's a bit unfortunate, especially since the game's theme affords the opportunity for the creation of some really fun bonus games, for instance. Other mobster-themed games, like Betsoft's Slotfather II, have a bevy of special features that are thematically tied to the game's content.

Wilds

The enigmatic Geisha is the game's wild. She is also the icon that pays off the best. With complete wild lines, you win a lot with her. But she seldom shows up in more than one or two positions. The only symbol she can't replace is the scatter symbol – which, as usual, makes an appearance in video slots.

Scatters and free spins

Booming Games incorporated a very classic scatter feature into its Gangster Gamblers. You get free spins when three or more scatters appear. Also, there is a cash prize, the exact amount of which depends on just how many of these bad boys showed up.

When you get three or more scatters, you activate 10 free spins. Their commencement features a random selection of one of the paying symbols (not including the wild symbol). For the purposes of these spins, the selected icon is treated like an expanding symbol and functions as a winning icon—meaning it 'wins' when it appears in at least three places on three or more reels. In terms of function, this is very similar to what happens in the Book of Dead from Play'n Go. Namely, it does not matter which reels the selected symbol appears on; what matters is that the appearance happens in quantity sufficient to register a win. There is no 'first reel, complete combination' requirement in play here.

If you manage to land three or more extra scatter symbols during the bonus round, you'll receive 10 more free spins to play. Unlike the previously mentioned free spins, these additional ones use the same selected symbol as what was in play before you hit the extra scatters. However, any cash winnings you receive from those scatter symbols will be paid out as they normally would, even in the free spins bonus.

Symbols

Overall, ten characters appear on the five reels. Eight of these are standard paying characters, while two are special characters. The best payer is the wild, which is The Shape of a geisha holding up a fan that says "wild". The other special character is the scatter, which is the upper body of a gangster having a big bang! It pays a decent amount when it shows up, but what makes it truly valuable is that it is the trigger for free spins when three or more are present.

Two icons stand out in the high win symbols section. One shows a man on his knees. The other shows a cop who is out to catch the bad guys. Low win symbols include a finger, a napkin (the game is about the Yakuza!), a gangster car parked in front of a sushi restaurant, a guy eating a plate of sushi, and three numbers: 9, 8, and 3.

The illustrations of the symbols are rather rudimentary. However, if they are part of a win, more colorful, impactful animations will play. They include: * Kneeling Man Shot * Eater of the Sushi Plate Falling Down Dead * Dramatic Anime-Style Cut * Sigil for BAD We must warn sensitive players about these animations!

Summary

Gangster Gamblers is a slot that is fairly simple in terms of its overall design, betting features, and bonus features. It may sound basic, with just wilds, scatters, and free spins, but this perception is slightly outweighed by the expanding icons that can occur during the free spins round.

Booming Games has solidly depicted the dark life of a "gangster gambler" in thematic terms. If there's something attracting you, of course, depends on what themes you like in your slots. The slot's impact, on the other hand, is something you might not be able to ignore, even if you don't like its theme. Game developers don't skimp on the impact of this slot, and we're pretty certain it's not for everyone.