Slots review Triple Edge Studios Diamond Empire

Diamond Empire Online Slot Review

Diamond Empire is the next slot set to arrive from Microgaming partners Triple Edge Studios following Playboy Gold, a release that didn’t really deliver and never had much chance of matching its well-known predecessor Playboy. This time around, though, things look a touch more promising.

Diamond Empire comes with an Art Nouveau-inspired look, a calm, soothing soundtrack, and an overall elegant vibe. It’s a straightforward slot with 3 reels, 3 rows and 15 paylines, plus a betsize that range from €0,15 up to €15 per spin. That fairly modest max bet may well be tied to the game’s massive upside. More on that in a moment.

Symbols

You’ll find 5 standard symbols: single bars, double bars, triple bars, Cherries, and Sevens. The best of these is the Sevens, which pays 5,33 times the stake for a full line. On their own, these symbols aren’t particularly exciting—this is where the diamonds come in.

The 2x diamond symbol acts as both a multiplier and a wild, substituting for all symbols except the Scatter. If you land 2 regular symbols along with a diamond symbol, the win will be multiplied by 2x. If you land 1 regular symbol with 2 diamond symbols it will be multiplied by 4. A full line of diamonds isn’t multiplied, but here’s the interesting part…

If our math is right (and we’re confident it is), a full line of diamonds pays about 666,33 times the stake, meaning that a full screen (15 paylines) of diamonds would return 10,000 times the stake!

Diamond Empire image 1 — Nearly a full screen of diamonds in the base game. Note the $3.75 bet.

Features

Hit three Scatter symbols and you’ll enter the bonus game, where you receive 1 spin on the bonus wheel. The wheel includes several multiplier prizes, with the top award being the 888x multiplier. Whatever you land on the wheel is then multiplied by your bet size.

Conclusion

Simple slots like this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea—especially for players who prefer lots going on—and yes, without that juicy 10,000x potential, this one could feel like a cure for insomnia.

The base game can start to feel repetitive over time, and while the bonus game isn’t particularly hard to trigger (and it even seems like much of the value is tied to the wheel), it’s over in an instant. And like many bonus wheels, it can leave players thinking it’s fixed—always stopping just one spot away from the big prize.

On the subject of things feeling fixed, a glance at the reels shows plenty of diamond symbols flying past, yet somehow they rarely seem to settle on the paylines…argh…

This is a highly volatile slot, so be ready for lots of dead spins while you wait for that huge win to finally land!