Dog Town Deal

Dog Town Deal Review

Dog Town Deal transports you to a smoky basement casino in a gritty New Orleans setting, where dog characters try their luck. The presentation is well done, creating an underground casino with a retro 1920s feel. The jazzy soundtrack is bouncy and enjoyable, and the audiovisuals are impressive.

A unique twist involves card scatters that reveal Blackjack hands, awarding base game prizes up to 15x your stake. The bonus round features a more realistic Blackjack system, where hands climb a prize ladder up to 1,000x your stake. The overall max win is 1,293x your stake, and Dog Town Deal is an enjoyable low to medium volatile release.

Dog Town Deal Slot Features

The 4 canine character symbols pay between 15 and 60 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, while the casino chip symbols pay 5x your stake for the same. Wilds substitute for symbols to help complete wins, and they also pay 120x your stake should you land 5 wilds on the same payline.

The Deal feature triggers from exactly 2 face-down card scatters, and the cards flip to reveal their front side. The cards are evaluated like a Blackjack hand, giving you a total hand value of 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21. This is how you climb the prize ladder, awarding prizes of 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, or 15x your stake, respectively.

You trigger the Dog Town Bonus Round when you land 3, 4, or 5 face-down card scatters, giving you 7, 10, or 15 free spins, respectively. Landing 3, 4, or 5 of a kind wins in the bonus round gives you 1, 2, or 3 Blackjack hand cards, respectively, and they are kept until your Blackjack hand is formed.

The prize ladder is now enhanced, and it comes with prizes of 10x, 15x, 20x, 30x, 40x, 50x, 75x, 100x, and 1,000x your stake. Your Blackjack hand will move you up this prize ladder in different ways, unless it goes bust (it goes above 21 in value). Any hand of 16+ moves you +1 step up the ladder, while a 5 Card Charlie moves you +2 steps up.

If you get a Blackjack hand, you’re moved +3 steps up the prize ladder. If you run out of free spins while you still have 1 card, the bonus round continues until you get enough cards to make a hand. This is known as the Dog Town Deal, and you win whatever prize you have achieved on the ladder as the feature ends.

Finally, non-UK players, and anyone living in an eligible jurisdiction, may take advantage of the Bonus Buy option. This will cost you 50x your stake, and you are then guaranteed to trigger the Dog Town Free Spins round with at least 3 triggering scatters.

The 200 Spins Dog Town Deal Slot Experience

You get to see a few smaller wins here and there in the base game, before we purchase the bonus round at 0:34 into the 3-minute highlights video. We got the minimum of 3 triggering scatters, which gave us 7 free spins, and you can see for yourself how far up the prize ladder we managed to climb by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

With many modern slots being massive and volatile, it’s refreshing to play something with a more relaxed math model once in a while. Dog Town Deal has a charming casino theme, and an enjoyable retro New Orleans underworld atmosphere with a jazzy soundtrack. The prizes aren’t massive, especially not in the base game, but it’s still fun to see what Blackjack hands you get.

Merging the card game with online slots is clever, and we hope to see more of that in the future. A more volatile release based around a similar concept would perhaps be a good idea, but for now you get the Dog Town Deal as it is. The prizes increase up to 1,000x in the bonus round, and the overall 1,293x win cap comes with a 1 in 98,712,446 spins hit rate. The max win varies slightly with the RTP ranges, and we will probably return for plenty more hands in Dog Town Casino.