Devilish Fortunes: Slot Overview

Is it the ultimate example of bad short-term thinking to trade your soul to the dark side for a taste of worldly success? Anyone ready to sign on the dotted line might score years of glory, wealth, fame, admiration, hookups, or whatever the bargain promised—but what’s the real price? Against eternity, a human lifetime barely registers. Not even a blink. Honestly, compared to eternity, a billion years is nothing, a trillion years, any measurable span at all, is just a tiny instant. Eternity is an awfully long time to endure fire, brimstone, and trident jabs in return for a handful of fleeting years of instant gratification.

Luckily, you don’t need to barter any souls to play Devilish Fortunes, an online slot from Game Global partner Triple Edge Studios, and a reskin of Fire and Roses Joker. It does feature a devilish figure, though, rocking a purple waistcoat and hair made of flames. He may be from the underworld, but he’s clearly got style nailed down for his realm. Overall, Devilish Fortunes has a sharp, snappy feel. The reels spin smoothly, the animations look polished, and everything runs with a slick, well-tuned rhythm.

As mentioned, there’s no soul-trading involved, but if you want a shot at the game’s potential fortunes, you’ll need to choose a wager of 20 c to $/€50 per spin. The devilry plays out on a 5-reel grid arranged in a 3-4-5-4-3 pattern, with rising jackpot values shown above each reel. Classified as highly volatile, Devilish Fortunes delivers a 96.01% RTP, although two lower RTP settings are also offered.

Sticking to the theme, Devilish Fortunes uses clubs, spades, diamonds, and hearts as the low-paying symbols, followed by dice, chips, cards, and a red diamond for the higher pays. With 720 ways to win, winning combinations pay left to right from the rightmost side of the grid and right to left from the rightmost side of the grid. Landing 5 matching low pays returns 0.8 to 1.2 times the bet, while 5 matching high pays award 2 to 8 times the bet. The devil character acts as the wild, showing up on reels 2, 3, and 4, and substituting for all standard pay symbols.

Devilish Fortunes: Slot Features

Additional symbols on the reels include jackpot trigger symbols, which are required to set off the Jackpot Wheel, along with free spins scatter symbols.

Jackpot Wheel

Available in the base game only; when jackpot trigger symbols land, they are collected to increase the jackpot on their reel by 0.5x the bet. Jackpots are bet-dependent and reset after being won. Collecting at least 1 jackpot trigger symbol provides a chance to spin the jackpot wheel. If triggered, the Jackpot Wheel spins and awards 1 of 5 guaranteed jackpots:

• The Mini begins at 5x and can rise to 75x.
• The Minor begins at 10x and can rise to 100x.
• The Major begins at 50x and can rise to 250x.
• The Mega begins at 200x and can rise to 1,000x.
• The Ultra begins at 1,000x and can rise to 5,000x.

Free Spins

Scatter symbols can land on every reel, spelling L, U, C, K, Y. Hitting one scatter on each reel activates 6 free spins. On top of that, each triggering scatter grants either +1 extra free spin or increases the free spins win multiplier by +1. Free spins may be retriggered by landing a scatter on all reels again. When this occurs, players receive 1x the bet plus the number of free spins at the start of the feature.

The free spins multiplier appears on a meter beside the reels. This multiplier applies to free spins way wins and retrigger payouts. Its value increases by 0.5x when scatter symbols land on exactly four reels in the base game. The highest the meter can reach in the base game is x10, and once free spins begin, x15. After free spins end, the multiplier returns to x1.

Devilish Fortunes: Slot Verdict

Devilish Fortunes’ glossy visuals and its specific theme made it feel like a more appealing option than Fire and Roses Joker and Fire and Roses Jolly Joker – the Christmas clone. That’s not to say it suddenly became an amazing game, but it did come across as a pleasant surprise in motion after the lukewarm response to the two earlier releases. It can also feel a bit hectic, as though there’s more happening than simply waiting for the two headline features—the Jackpot Wheel and free spins (with multiplier). That impression is partly driven by the constant collecting of jackpot trigger symbols and the multiplier creeping up when scatters land on four reels. The two-way pay setup certainly helps as well.

After the early good vibes cooled slightly, Devilish Fortunes found a solidly enjoyable rhythm. There’s something nice about how Games Global studios share and recycle concepts, and Devilish Fortunes also brought to mind Tippy’s Golden Pot, which was reviewed shortly before this one. The link is the climbing jackpot collection mechanic, where each prize has a starting value and a maximum ceiling. Tippy’s went bigger for the competitive crowd, topping out at 10,000x, whereas Devilish Fortunes peaks at 5,000x. The free spins and rising multiplier pairing returns too, and being able to use those 4-scatter near-misses to build the multiplier meter in the base game—ready for when the feature finally triggers—is a definite plus.

All told, while it doesn’t reinvent anything, Devilish Fortunes ends up as a perfectly decent slot. The double collection mechanics, the pay-both-ways approach, the jackpot component, and the multiplier-driven free spins round are wrapped in a theme that’s more intriguing than before, making Devilish Fortunes’ presentation a more engaging vehicle for what it offers under the hood.