Reel Crown Hold and Win: Slot Review and Free Play Demo

Reel Crown Hold and Win Review

They must be drowning in Hold & Win installments over at the iSoftBet headquarters, cause they sure seem to want to get rid of as many as possible as soon as possible. Jokes aside, Reel Crown Hold and Win is a classic-style installment in their ongoing series, and it comes with a retro presentation that may appeal to those with a nostalgic streak for the classic fruit machine.

The reels are filled with fruit symbols, and the 5x3 grid is set against a green casino-style backdrop. You get to choose between 3 different base game modifiers at random times, and one of them even comes with a win guarantee. The main attraction is the Hold & Win feature, of course, and it comes with 4 different upgrades and a solid 6,040x potential. This is not your run of the mill installment in that regard, although similar things have been seen before.

Reel Crown Hold and Win Slot - Reels Screen

Reel Crown Hold and Win Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 6 and 16 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the Wild symbol steps in for pay symbols to help complete wins. The Wild also pays 20x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and it can appear anywhere to help you out.

The Reel Modifier feature can trigger at any given time, and you can then choose 1 out of 3 Mini Slot Reels. They come with the following modifier prizes:

• Win Spin - adds mystery symbols to the reels, and they turn into the same matching randomly chosen symbol for a guaranteed win.
• Bonus Add - adds extra scatters to the grid, and this will boost your Respins chances (but there is no guarantee).
• Wild Reels - gives you 2 to 5 stacked wilds randomly placed on the grid.

You need to land 5+ crown scatters in view to trigger the Respins Bonus, and this gives you 3 respins for starters. The triggering symbols become sticky as cash symbols on an otherwise cleared grid, and only blanks, cash scatters, and special symbols will land during the feature. Each spin with at least one non-blank symbol resets the respins tally each time.

The special symbols are known as Booster Gems, and you need to collect 3 per meter to unlock a booster modifier:

• Blue Gem - unlocks 1 extra row, and this can be done 3 times.
• Green Gem - boosts the value of all present cash scatters.
• Red Gem - awards +1 extra spin, so that the respins tally resets to the boosted number of spins each time.
• Purple Gem - increases the win multiplier, first to x2, and then to x5, and finally x10.

The multiplier you have achieved via the purple gem booster is applied to your total win from the Respins round. All cash prizes are summed up when you run out of respins, and then the multiplier is applied to boost the total win. The feature comes with a hit rate of 1 in 200 spins on average.

The 200 Spins Reel Crown Hold and Win Slot Experience

You get to see a bit of the base game, before we trigger the Respins Bonus exactly at the 1-minute mark. We managed to unlock several extra reels, as well as max out the extra respins tally so it resets to 6. The feature plays out for the remainder of the 6:17-minute highlights video, and you can check it all out for yourself by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

It’s no secret that iSoftbet is churning out Hold and Win releases like there’s no tomorrow, but at least Reel Crown Hold and Win sticks out a bit because of all the different modifiers. The base game is kept somewhat interesting by the random modifiers you get, although the retro fruit slot presentation is hardly the most exciting visuals we’ve seen. It might please a certain old school crowd though, and players looking for a nostalgic kick.

The main attraction is the Hold & Win round, which is fairly obvious already as you read the game’s title, and we like how you can upgrade each booster multiple times. Getting up to 6 respins lives, for example, is not something you see too often, and the multiplier can be a lucrative upgrade as well. The 6,040x potential is pretty solid, and this is far from the worst installment we’ve seen in the never-ending Hold and Win range from iSoftBet.