Dance Party slot review (Pragmatic Play)

Pragmatic Play is mainly known for two things: the high productivity and the many high variance slots

Also, in 2020 they push onward and upward, releasing one new slot after another.

Dance Party is a retro disco slot with a towering variance: you can (in theory) earn more than 36,000 x the total bet on it. In reality, such extreme wins will not occur very often, but winning big on the Dance Party is possible.

With its progressive multipliers, the bonus mechanism is very similar to another Pragmatic Play slot, Extra Juicy.

The Dance Party slot gameplay and features

Dancy Party is a win all ways slot: winning combinations drop crisscross on the reels, from left to right. The playing field consists of 5 reels with 3 rows of symbols, creating 243 ways to win.

The minimum bet is 20 cents, and you can bet a maximum of $€ 32 per spin.

The variance is huge: you win a small prize in the base game from time to time, but to really make a move, you have to win the bonus game.

Dance Party’s payout percentage is on par: 96.51% is what an average online slot pays out. There will be Pragmatic Play slots with a higher and lower RTP.

Symbols and payout

A retro-style video slot comes with retro (style) symbols. Pragmatic Play has given most symbols a real neon look, which captures the disco vibe well. The tunes are a bit ‘middle of the road’, as expected, Pragmatic Play is not known for their choice and application of music, and they did not surprise us in that department.

The diamonds are the scatters, and you need them to win that lucrative free spins bonus.

The golden records are wild and replace all other symbols except the diamonds.

If you spin five premium symbols (deejay, single bar, double bar, red sevens), you can add between 4 x and 7.5 x the total bet to your account.

Each 5-of-a-kind with a card symbol (J, Q, K or A) earns you between 2 x and 2.5 x the total bet.

Free spins bonus

As soon as you spin 5, 6 or 7 scattered diamonds, you win 15 free spins.

The free spins can be retriggered up to 3 times, for a maximum of 60 free spins.

And then there are the multipliers. With each free spins, the multiplier is increased by +1, +2 or +3.

The steps the multiplier makes depend on the number of scatters that activated the bonus round:

• 5 scatters: you start with an x1 multiplier, and it increases +1 per spin.
• 6 Scatters: you start at an x2 multiplier, and it increases +2 per spin.
• 7 Scatters: you start at x3 multiplier, and it increases +3 per spin.

The maximum multiplier is x 30. The faster you reach it, the higher the rewards. So activating the bonus with more scatters genuinely makes a real difference, especially if you can retrigger.

There’s also a (small) bonus guarantee: if you earn less than 10 x your bet in the bonus round, Dance Party will top-up to 10 x that amount.

As a real slot player, we never know if you should be excited with such a bonus guarantee. All it does is rub your nose in it once again: you just had a piss-poor bonus round.

Our verdict on the Dance Party slot?

Dance Party is one of those Pragmatic Play slots that was made for a select audience. If you are yearning for the revival of the 60s and 70s disco, this slot will only satisfy you visually. The tunes are too generic.

The base game is dull and seldom results in an exciting prize.

But during the free spins bonus, Dance Party can come to life when those big multipliers start growing, and payouts come soaring through the roof.

3.6 out of 5 stars

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