Diamond Heist Hold & Win Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Diamond Heist Hold & Win Review

There are plenty of options out there from before in the heist slot genre, and iSoftBet’s Diamond Heist Hold & Win is not gonna revolutionize anything. Still, it’s a pretty entertaining and feature rich effort, sporting 3 random modifiers in the base game. The cartoon-style visuals and animations are nicely done, and we also like the very fitting Pink Panther-style soundtrack.

The diamond bonus/cash symbols don’t block your regular wins in the base game, like is usually the case in these kinds of games. They only come into play in the free Heist Spins feature, which many times will lead to the Hold & Win Respins. It plays out in a safe deposit box vault, and you can win 3 jackpots and unlock 3 rows. In addition, you have a bonus round with progressive multiplier to look forward to, and we had a pretty good time testing this game.

Diamond Heist Hold & Win Features

The wild symbol steps in for all regular pay symbols to complete winning combos, and it holds no value of its own. The premiums pay between 3 and 25 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the base game comes with 3 random modifiers as follows:

• Wilds added - awards 3 to 6 wilds randomly spread across the reels.
• Mystery - lands 5 to 10 mystery symbols, and these turn into a random matching symbol.
• Multiplier Win - boosts the next win with a random win multiplier of x2, x5 or x10.

The Bonus Round is triggered when you land 3, 4 or 5 scatters anywhere in view, and this gives you 8, 10 or 12 free spins, respectively.

You trigger the Heist Mode when you land 3 detonator (red button) symbols anywhere in view. You then get 20 free Heist Spins, and the aim is to land at least 5 diamond symbols to trigger the Diamond Heist Respins feature.

The triggering Diamond symbols become sticky on the safe deposit box grid, and you get 3 respins. All new diamond symbols that land become frozen in place too, and this resets the respins tally to 3 again. You can also land Mini, Major and Mega jackpot symbols worth 100, 250 and 500 x your stake, respectively.

Special Green Key symbols unlock extra rows. There are 3 extra rows that can be unlocked this way, and the Green Keys reset the respins tally as well.

The 200 Spins Diamond Heist Hold & Win Experience

We trigger the Heist Spins feature around the 1-minute mark, and towards the end of the feature we manage to land the 5 necessary diamonds to trigger the Hold & Win Respins feature. You get to see the regular bonus round right after that, and simply hit the play button below to check it all out for yourself.

Review Summary

We were immediately reminded of Pragmatic Play’s Empty the Bank when we first tried this game, but iSoftBet’s Diamond Heist Hold & Win is not quite as extraordinary. We like how the triggering diamond symbols are reserved for the Heist Spins feature, as cash symbols usually occupy prime ‘reel estate’ in most similar installments. The fact that the Heist Spins are free is not exactly wrong either, and most of the time they lead to the Hold & Win Respins feature.

The top-tier 500x jackpot is not exactly massive, but it helps that you can land more than one instance of it. The bonus round can lead to decent payouts as well, due to the multiplier that keeps increasing per spin. The 4,684x potential is okay for a medium/high volatility installment like this, and overall this is a somewhat entertaining effort that sticks out from the run-of-the-mill releases we see all the time.

Pros

• 3 random base game modifiers
• 20 free Heist Spins can trigger Hold&Win
• Hold&Win with unlockable rows
• FS w/ multiplier that increases per spin
• Win up to 4,684x your stake

Cons

• Top jackpot is worth only 500x

If you enjoy Diamond Heist Hold & Win you should also try:

Empty the Bank - is a somewhat similar heist slot from Pragmatic Play, and you can turn on the Ante bet to increase your bonus round chances. The hold-and-win style Respins round comes with 8 special symbols, unlockable rows and a main vault that pays 10,000x your stake.

Vault Cracker - is a cartoonish heist slot from Red Tiger, and it plays out on 5x3 reels with 10 paylines.

Bust The Bank - is a classic cartoon-style heist slot from Microgaming’s golden days, and it comes with 3 base game bonus features. The bonus round plays out with reel 1 and 5 as fixed wild reels, and you can win up to 450x your stake.

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