Basketball King Hold and Win

Basketball King Hold and Win Review

The sound of a player taking a jump shot. The ball going through the hoop. We wish such details were in Basketball King Hold and Win, but it's more of an ordinary sports slot than something special. Their Hold & Win series is growing, but it doesn’t seem like there's enough time or willingness to do something unique with most games.

The cartoon style symbols are set against a basket court backdrop, and the top symbol is a basketball player in the middle of a slam dunk. You’ll benefit from a 3x3 Giant Wild randomly, and it depicts a slam dunk. There is the Hold & Win round with a 1,000x full-grid prize, as well as a bonus round with stacked wild multiplier reveal symbols.

Basketball King Hold and Win Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 4 and 12.5 x your stake for 5 of a kind, and the Wild symbol steps in for any pay symbol. You can trigger the Basketball King Wild Spin feature at any time, and a 3x3 sized giant wild will land either fully or partially in view anywhere on the grid.

The Hold & Win Respins Feature triggers from 5+ Cash Fireball symbols, and you start with 3 respins. The triggering Cash Fireballs come with cash prizes, and they are sticky on the grid from the start. Only blanks or new cash symbols may appear, and each new cash fireball symbol resets the respin tally to 3. Filling all 15 positions with cash symbols lands you the MVP Award prize worth 1,000x your stake.

The Bonus Round triggers from 3+ bonus symbols, and this gives you 10 free spins. You also win 2x, 10x, or 100x your stake up front, from 3, 4, or 5 triggering bonus scatters. You can land fully stacked Multiplier Coin symbols on reels 2 and 4 in the bonus round, and these are Wild symbols that reveal a multiplier of x1, x2, x3, x5, or x10.

The multiplier boosts all line wins that pass through these wilds, and the multipliers multiply with each other for a maximum boost of x100. You win +5 extra spins if you land 3+ bonus scatters. The bonus round comes with an organic hit rate of 1 in 202 spins.

Review Summary

We can think of things that could make a basketball game like this visually engaging, such as slam dunks and 3-pointers. It comes across as another average installment in their Hold & Win range. The visuals are decent, but only basketball fans will find this game worthwhile.

The cartoon style graphics come across as a half-hearted attempt to be hip, and there is only one basketball player. The court in the backdrop is empty, but the random giant wild feature is fun. It can lead to decent payouts, but cracking the 4,523x potential is likely done in the stacked multiplier wilds bonus round. The Hold & Win feature doesn’t take center stage this time, and it could’ve been dropped to add more to the main attraction.