The Dog House Multihold Slot by Pragmatic Play 🎰 Free Demo and Review

The Dog House Multihold Review

It’s time for another visit to the perfect suburban neighborhood, and the David Lynch in us is dying to know what kind of sinister secrets are hiding underneath the idyllic facade. None of that bubbles to the surface in The Dog House Multihold though, but you get a fun reunion with the cutest doggies in the world of online slots. This release is a mood lifter, just like the original, and the base game is more or less identical in all ways.

The game plays out on the same wooden dog house on the front lawn, and you can look forward to multiplier wilds up to x3 on reels 2, 3, and 4 in the base game. These are added together to provide larger payouts, and they become sticky in the bonus round. The Multihold part of the title refers to the fact that you can unlock up to 3 extra grids in the feature, and sticky wilds are cloned to each grid you activate. It will be interesting to see how this one will fare, but we had a good time testing it at least.

The Dog House Multihold Slot - Reels Screen

The Dog House Multihold Slot Features

The premium symbols, with 4 cute dogs as the top-tier symbols, pay between 3.75 and 25 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins. You can land Wild symbols on the 3 middle reels only, and they come with multiplier values of x2 or x3 attached. Wilds step in for pay symbols to help complete and/or improve wins, and the multiplier values are added together before being applied if more than one wild is part of the same line win.

You need 3 paw scatters on reels 1, 3, and 5 in the base game to trigger the Bonus Round, and this also awards 2x your stake up front. You get 7 free spins, and the bonus round comes with 3 extra 5x3 grids that can be unlocked. You start with only 1 active grid, and you need to collect 3 paw scatters to unlock the next grid. Up to 4 grids can be active at the same time, and paw scatters appear only on the last grid you unlocked.

All wild symbols that appear on any active grid become locked in place for the duration of the free spins feature, and wilds come with multipliers in the bonus round as well. Wilds become sticky on the last unlocked grid only though, but they are cloned to become sticky in the same positions from the get-go when you unlock a new grid. You also get between 1 and 3 extra spins per grid you unlock, and this happens 2 times if you unlock 2 grids on the same free spin.

Finally, non-UK players, and anyone living in an eligible jurisdiction, can take advantage of the Bonus Buy option. You can thus purchase the bonus round directly for 100x the stake, and the top-tier RTP for the bonus buy option is 96.08 % (which is a tad higher than the regular top-tier RTP, just to be clear). The bonus round has an organic hit rate of 1 in 175.54 spins.

The 200 Spins The Dog House Multihold Slot Experience

You get a decent taste of the base game, before we trigger the bonus round at 0:45 into the 3:10-minute highlights video. We got 7 free spins from the 3 triggering scatters, and we can reveal that you will get to see some larger payouts one more than one reel set during the feature. You can check it all out for yourself by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The original Dog House is still going strong almost 4 years after it was first released, and The Dog House Multihold is pretty similar when it comes to the charming canine visuals. There is something about the perfect suburban lawns and the blue sky above that gives this game an aura of happiness, and of course, the cute doggies only amplify that notion. The base game is similar to what you got in the original, so it boils down to what you think of the bonus round.

The multi grid concept hasn’t really taken off generally speaking, but you do bump into it once in a while. Pragmatic Play has done some interesting things with it in this release though, and your bonus round gets progressively more lucrative the more grids you activate. That being said, it’s not always easy to activate even one extra grid with only 7 starting free spins, and the feature isn’t all that fun unless things go your way. The 9,000x potential is a few notches higher than what you get in the first game though, which is a decent selling point for giving this one a spin.