Dreams & Dollars Pokie Review
Dreams & Dollars is a new Stake Logic video pokie. In the last few years, numerous new casino software developers have cropped up, and many have tried to establish themselves in the industry.
Stake Logic are desperate to do the same with their Dreams & Dollars pokie, but how does the game hold up?
The 5-reel 40-line pokie is themed on a luxury lifestyle, like so many pokies in the online casino world. Expect plenty of limos, yachts, villas, and a couple who are as rich as Croesus.
Dreams & Dollars has been designed with a Riviera-esque backdrop, is a standard non-progressive jackpot pokie in more ways than one.
How to play
You can forget about altering any of this pokie’s 40 paylines. There are fixed into place, but other aspects of this pokie are adjustable via the pokie’s wagering menu bar. This menu bar can see you able to choose coin values, and that, in turn, will alter your total bet.
At its cheapest, the Dreams & Dollars pokie will set you back $0.40 per spin. That is slightly costlier than the industry standard. However, the maximum wager is just $40 per spin, which is fair and considerably cheaper than many other pokies.
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Features
Wild symbols: Wild symbols can appear on all the reels of this pokie, and they can substitute for all other symbols in the game, except for the bonus icon. Like the other symbols in this pokie, wilds can appear stacked on the reels.
Scatter symbols: There are bonus icons in this game, as we’ve mentioned.
For them to be of any use, players are going to need to fill the first reel with at least 4 such symbols. Doing so will trigger a re-spin feature, which could directly lead to a proper free spins bonus round. When you land such a combo, the first reel will be held whilst all other reels will re-spin.
Should players land more bonuses, the free re-spins will keep on coming. Once all reels contain bonus icons, a free spins feature is triggered. This is a huge ask and is not easy to do at all.
Free spins bonus: Should you manage you trigger the free spins bonus, then you will be gifted a total of 15 free games. A second set of reels (with a beach background) will cater to those spins.
A Lock and Spin bonus will be initiated in this bonus round, and when the best-paying symbols appear on the reels (including wilds) appear on the first reel, they will be held whilst the other reels re-spin. Players can keep bagging re-spins as long as winning symbols crop up. Once no more do, the free spins continue until they are all spent.
Maximum pay-outs
The top prize in this non-progressive jackpot is fixed at 1,000 coins in all. That is not half-bad given the low wagers of the game carries. It won’t be easy to bag that win, though, since you will need to flood all the reels with the same stacked jackpot paying icon.
Summary
Dreams & Dollars isn’t too shabby as far as debut pokies go, and it should cement Stake Logic’s place amongst the best newbie developers out there. However, we do express a bit of concern about the free spins bonus round. It is notoriously difficult to trigger, and that is something of a worry.
In the future, we’d like to see Stake Logic drop this tricky feature, in favour of a simpler, if less rewarded free spins bonus. That is, after all, what most players want.
