Diamond Tales: The Ugly Duckling: Slot Review and Free Play Demo

Diamond Tales: The Ugly Duckling Review

Chances are that you don’t have Greentube down as the most innovative studio out there, but your opinion might very well change after you go through this review. You see, we’ll take a look at Diamond Tales: The Ugly Duckling – and what we can reveal straight away is that it’s an entertaining slot in all regards. We’ll go through all the important details, of course, and we’ll start by saying that the game’s playing field has 5 reels, 4 rows and 40 paylines.

The slot’s theme is naturally all about the famous Ugly Duckling story, and the production values are simply incredible. There’s a picture book right next to the playing field at all times, and the game well and truly looks like a fairy tale. It’s just a marvelous package overall, and we have to give the designers a big thumbs up for their efforts!

Diamond Tales: The Ugly Duckling Slot – Reels Screen

The mathematical model of Diamond Tales: The Ugly Duckling has a high volatility level, and its top win is 50,000x your bet, which is huge. You can enjoy the action for stakes between £0.40 and £40 per spin, but the slot’s theoretical RTP is on the lower side of the spectrum, clocking in at just 95.04%.

Diamond Tales: The Ugly Duckling Slot Features

There are 9 pay symbols in Diamond Tales: The Ugly Duckling, and they are split into 4 low pays, 2 mid pays and 3 high pays. For low pays, there are card ranks from Jacks to Aces, and these pay only up to 0.5x your bet for a full combo. Then, there are dog symbols and chicken symbols, while the high pays show cats, turkeys, and the titular ducklings. Ducklings are worth the most, and you’ll get 12.5x your bet for a full set.

For special symbols, there are Diamond Heart symbols, Book symbols and Snap Drop symbols, with each of these symbols contributing something to the slot’s gameplay.

Landing Diamond Heart symbols adds those symbols to the special line above the playing field, and doing so progresses the Heart Collection Counter that is there to allow you to go through the slot’s Chapters. There are five in total, called Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, and the Swan feature. Each comes with different visuals, and the final Swan feature Chapter even changes the looks of the game’s top-paying symbols!

On top of that, Chapters add Gold Diamond Hearts to the Diamond Tales feature, with the Swan feature Chapter allowing you to land up to 5 extra Gold Diamond Hearts in that feature. Once you activate the Swan feature, it will stay active for 7 days, so you can come back and still have it work in your favor.

As for the Diamond Tales feature, you can trigger it by landing 3 Book symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5. The feature itself is basically a Hold and Win feature with 3 respins, and your goal is to land Diamond Hearts and Gold Diamond Hearts to get bet multipliers and big payouts!

If you land a Snap Drop symbol with collected Diamond Hearts, you’ll get the Snap Drop feature with one respin that can have only Diamond Hearts with multipliers. After that respin, the multipliers in view will be summed up and they will multiply your total bet for a nice win!

Last but not least, you can use the Buy Bonus option and pay 100x your bet. It will net you a Diamond Tales feature trigger at random, and using it comes with essentially the same RTP as the base game.

Diamond Tales: The Ugly Duckling Slot – Hold and Win Feature

Review Summary

It’s not very often that we get to see something as innovative as Diamond Tales: The Ugly Duckling, and we have to give Greentube top marks for coming up with something so engaging. The Chapters are fun to go through, and it’s such a great experience that you won’t want to leave anytime soon. It’s a bit of a shame, then, that it comes with a subpar theoretical RTP that unnecessarily pulls the entire package down.