Pragmatic Play is one of the fastest growing developers of mobile and desktop casino games for the online gaming industry. Founded in 2015 and based in Sliema in Malta the company is becoming a big player on the gaming industry front. They released Diamond Strike in 2017 and is available at bezy.co.uk.
Diamond Strike, as the name suggests, is a classic slot game with a jewel and gem theme. The game is designed around the traditional casino fruit machine but in video form. Diamond Strike offers entertaining graphics all along the traditional fruit machine style and the sound is of a similar feel; players can experience the sound of an original manual fruit machine.
The symbols are all designed on the traditional fruit machine with symbols lemons, plums, cherries and melons along with the golden bell, the free spin symbol and of course diamonds. Land on either three, four or five of these symbols in a combination and the player is awarded five, ten or forty coins. The bell symbol will give the player ten, twenty or one hundred coins depending on how it lands and three, four or five of the lucky number seven symbol will give the player ten, twenty or two hundred coins.
The wild is, of course, the diamond symbol and as with all online slot games this overrides any symbol other than the free spin symbol and the scatter, which in Diamond Strike is a golden seven decorated in diamonds. This can bring the player winnings of up to three hundred coins per pay line. To activate the free spins the scatter symbol needs to land on reel one, three or five at the same time. Players start the game with eight free spins but these have an unlimited re trigger worth during the free spin round and can go on indefinitely and with the additional frequent wild symbols of the diamond the player has several opportunities to win.
There are four jackpots up for grabs, Mini paying out ten times the bet, Minor paying out thirty times the bet, Major paying out one hundred times the bet and last but most certainly not least the Mega which pays out one thousand times the players bet. The player has to get the sparkly golden number seven and this has to appear three times or more anywhere on the reels. At this point the game features a voice of an old fashioned game host shouting ‘Diamond Strike’, the screen will then produce a grid of twelve diamonds and the player then keeps choosing diamonds until they have uncovered three matching diamonds.
Bets can be as little as 15pence or as much as £75 with an RTP of 97%.
Despite the likeness to the traditional fruit machine, one of the obvious differences is that Diamond Strike features five reels whereas a traditional manual fruit machine only ever had three. The game has fifteen pay lines and can be played on either a PC, a tablet or a mobile device.
