Diamond Heist Hold & Win

The year is drawing to a close, and what a year it’s been for online casino entertainment. The best part about it all is that the year still isn’t done for casino games, and we’ve got another in the long list of top online slot games UK players can’t get enough of to review today. Diamond Heist: Hold & Win is a new release from iSoftBet and brings a whole host of bonus features to iGamers looking for some casino thrills. Free spins, which usually serves as a headline feature, is joined by the Hold & Win Respins, while there are also multipliers and randomly triggered reel modifiers.

Diamond Heist: Hold & Win carries a theme that puts you into the world of robbers. Don't worry though, they're heavily animated, and the whole look and feel has a very comical design. The reels carry a traditional set up in that there’s 5 reels and 20 paylines, while the reels spin coming to a rest to reveal 3, 4 or 5 of a kind winning combinations. The casino software studio that developed Diamond Heist: Hold & Win is iSoftBet. This a company that has given us entertaining online slot machines such as Neptune’s Fortune Megaways plus Aztec Gold: Extra Gold Megaways. They decided not to include the Megaways mechanic here, but to the left of the reels, you’ll see jackpot amounts labelled Mini, Major and Mega that can be triggered.

This title isn’t overly volatile, although the studio has tagged it as medium leaning towards high. In general, the numbers that you see in Diamond Heist: Hold & Win aren’t nearly as high as other slots. As previously mentioned, there are only 20 paylines, while the most you'll be able to win off any stake placed is 4,684x your bet. The wagering window isn’t very wide either, with the minimum bet being 20p and the maximum bet £20. Most iGamers don’t wager more than £20 on a single bet, so this is unlikely to deter anyone unless you’re a high roller looking for outrageous maximum bet limits.

Expect to see your fair share of symbols in Diamond Heist: Hold & Win. Besides the regular symbols that you’ll see spinning most of the time, four additional 'special' icons will fall at periods in the play. The wild symbol can fall, which acts as any regular symbol to help create 3, 4 and 5 of a kind symbol combinations. The other three unique icons are the Diamond Heist logo, the detonator button and the diamond.

The regular icons are split into the lower value and medium value symbols. The lower paying ones are playing cards 10, J, Q, K and A, while the medium paying symbols are banknotes, an expensive watch, gold bars, diamonds and the diamond heisting bandit.

The base game has random modifiers that can trigger at any time. These are as follows:

• Wilds – 3 – 6 wilds are randomly added to the reels for the next spin
• Mystery – a bunch of mystery symbols land and turn into the same icon
• Multiplier – next win receives a multiplier of 2x, 5x or 10x

The free spins feature requires you to land 3, 4 or 5 scatters in order to trigger it, which will award you with free spins to the total of 8, 10 or 12. Landing 2 or more scatters on a free spins round will add more free spins to the total, and with each passing spin, you'll have a +1 multiplier added to wins.

You can trigger a mode called Heist Mode if landing three detonator icons on the same spin. This will award 20 free Heist spins, and during these spins, you want to get five diamond icons to land. This takes you to a feature called the Diamond Heist Respins, where the game will give you a chance to win one of the jackpots to the left of the reels.

There definitely isn’t a shortage of bonus features in Diamond Heist: Hold & Win, with free spins, re-spins, multipliers, jackpots, reel modifiers and more. You can play slots for free here if you want to see how it all works before wagering for reel cash, but with all the cash winning potential, you might want to cut through the clutter and go straight in for reel cash wins.