Developer: Konami (Android / iOS / Amazon / Facebook)
This is an extension of myVEGAS that is by the same developers (Playstudios). You can tie your myVEGAS and myKONAMI Slots accounts together to pool your available chips and rewards credits. You can play on any web browser via Facebook or Amazon, or app via the official Android and iOS stores.
So how is this different from myVEGAS? It’s exclusively slot machines made by Konami. Most (if not all) of these are actually available on casino floors, but that means that the overall pay tables are generally going to be less generous than the myVEGAS-only slots that you’d never see in reality. Some of these games actually were on myVEGAS for a few months before they farmed them out to this separate app.
Though they are virtually identical, the web browser and Android/iOS versions of this seem to offer their own daily reward points. The web browser one requires you to make bets to get points, while the app version simply grants them for time-in-app with the screen active. The web browser one does allow you to purchase the myKONAMI-specific free play rewards that don’t require an accompanying paid hotel stay (more on that at the end of the review below).
MyKonami Slots (Android, PlayStudios, 2016)
Where to Buy: Freemium, download from the Android/iOS app stores or Amazon
How to Emulate: Android Emulation Guide
Review by: C. M0use
MyKonami showcases a bunch of Konami’s slot roster, but not all of it. It mostly focuses on the games that it offers at both real world and online casinos in the EU and US markets; so you’re not getting like the cool elaborate licensed stuff or Japan-only slots and pachinko based on their video games and such. It seems the Silent Hill one was temporarily available on it as a promotion when it came out a few years ago, but I don’t see it there now.
Aside from exclusively focusing on Konami games, MyKonami differs from the rest of the PlayStudios/myVegas world in at least a couple other ways. It has a larger install size than those other apps, but then it looks like it downloads each game to your device permanently (at least until you remove the app) the first time you play it, so I imagine it could turn into a real storage chonker. It does have EXP levels and requires you to gradually unlock most of its games as well, but you also have to unlock stuff like larger bet sizes and the ability to auto-spin and turbo-spin. It also does allow you to watch 30 second videos to earn 2 million chips per pop, though if you’re just after loyalty points you could get them more quickly and directly by watching videos in Tetris instead.
It sports a lot less bonus stuff than POP Slots or MyVegas as well, and definitely no kind of social element at all. Apropo for Konami’s grinder games I guess, which usually sit in some dark nook of the casino where people want to just play small bets for a long time while getting drinks from the cocktail waitress.
At level 15 you do unlock “daily challenges,” but you have to do three of these to get a reward and at least one of the three is always pretty annoying (ie having to get a ton of free spins on a game). There are also periodic challenges based in certain games, but they have a minimum bet of like 500,000 per spin … you get just 10 million chips to start out with, maybe a couple million in free chips per day and then as many videos as you want to sit through, so it’s very tough to build the kind of bankroll you’d need for those challenges without buying chips. Tournaments can also be unlocked eventually, but it’s the opposite problem … they only seem to offer a paltry 5 million chips as a reward for the top prize.
I don’t see much utility to MyKonami other than if you want to grind all the possible PlayStudios games for daily loyalty points (since nearly all have a 4k daily cap now), or maybe if you just want to scope out some particular Konami games before you play them for real money somewhere. It does have one unique aspect when it comes to REDEEMING rewards, however … this is the only app that offers free play (at the assorted Vegas MGM casinos) without a required hotel stay. Any of the Vegas properties can pop up (look under the “Casino” section), it seems to only be in denominations of $25 (for 75k or 100k loyalty points), you can only do three of these (at three different properties) in a month, you can’t buy them if you’re already in the state of Nevada, and the availability is pretty random, but I’ve now successfully redeemed these twice and they do work as advertised.
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