Original Release: SciPlay, 2015, Android/iOS
A mobile app collection of just-for-fun versions of a whole bunch of real casino slots, including some that are hard to find in real life now, from a small grouping of major publishers such as Bally and Shuffle Master
Quick Hit Slots (Android, SciPlay, 2015)
Where to Buy: Free to play (download from official app stores)
How to Emulate: Android Emulation Guide
Review by: C. M0use
While subsidiary SciPlay is the publisher, Quick Hit Slots is sort of an unofficial collection of parent company Light & Wonder’s slots found on casino floors. Over the years the company has acquired some big names including Bally, Williams/WMS, NYX and Shuffle Master, so it’s a pretty huge lineup of titles to draw from.
SciPlay makes some of these popular series available in smaller apps with more focused collections (like the various Monopoly or 88 Fortunes games), but if you want all of ’em crammed into one big app, or you just want Bally’s Quick Hit games, this is the place to go. There are at least a hundred titles unlocked to start, and as you level up you’ll gradually unlock at least a hundred more.
The main reason I downloaded this one is due to dabbling with Quick Hit Platinum during a recent casino trip and finding it quite generous, so I wanted to see how the other Quick Hit games compared. Testing out Platinum very shortly after playing a lot of it on a live casino floor, I found this version actually lacked some of the bells and whistles and seemed to be nerfed a bit; bonus games hit less often, and line wins seemed nerfed (ex: two Quick Hit scatter symbols gets you a little something in the live game, nothing here). Seemingly a rare example of the free app game being less generous than the live real-money game … maybe because you’re awash in renewing free chips, and this game is among the first ones available to you?
Whatever the case, the Quick Hit app proceeds like the standard social casino with the various gimmicks for free chips each day and gradually gaining EXP from your spins to level up. There are absolutely no real prizes to be had though, not even raffles or drawings. The upshot is it doesn’t plague you with ads nudging you to buy chips, you just get one when you first launch the app.
It’s also pretty remarkable on the performance end, especially on older devices. Playing primarily on a tablet that’s a few years old now, pretty much every Android casino app I’ve tried other than Pop Slots is plagued with enough freezing and issues that it eventually gets unplayable (and even Pop Slots has its random crashes once in a while). Absolutely no issues with Quick Hit though. Seems like a really nice piece of programming.
The one big point of criticism I have is the UI. While everything is zippy, it basically has no organization whatsoever. You just have to scroll horizontally through the whole random list of slots, being careful not to errantly tap on one that you don’t want to install. No list or sorting options, no way to “favorite” the ones you usually play that I could find. On the installation front, the game takes up about 200 MB to start but note that the only pre-installed titles are the Quick Hits and a handful of other Bally games. You’ll have to manually install each game you want to play, which can quickly bloat things up. I’d expect the game to stretch into at least several gigabytes of storage if you want to install absolutely everything as the slots seem to run about 20 MB each.
While you can’t win any real prizes, Quick Hit does offer a convenient central way to try out a whole bunch of slots you’ll find in live casinos to get a feel for them before you put real money in. You can even try out recent stuff like the Rich Little Piggies / Hens games, to see why they aren’t actually all that great of a play :(.
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