Original Release: Bally, 2009
A dark and volatile slot with unique and nice art
Hand of the Devil (Bally, 2009)
Review by: C. M0use
Hand of the Devil attracts immediately with a very cool look, but underneath the hood is a pretty volatile game that centers on hitting its bonus feature to get any money out of it.
Get ready for a lot of dead spins and fractional or 1x wins, your money WILL ebb away consistently until you hit the main bonus feature. There’s a secondary bonus that seems to pop up totally at random, in which you try to pick the right card out of four for an instant jackpot win), but it’s also highly unreliable and likely to leave you with nothing.
So the main bonus feature is a set of free spins that have sticky wilds that eventually form a hand of cards. If you get five-of-a-kind stickys, that guarantees you a win with every remaining free spin. The bonus feature is fairly generous to make up for all your crappy spins getting there, at minimum it’ll likely return 100x your wager and could range up significantly farther than that if you’re lucky.
I feel like this is another one of those games kind of aimed specifically at addicts as it doesn’t offer any kind of really big win possibility from line wins, it’s virtually guaranteeing you have to stick around for a while and lose some money getting to the bonus spins (but they do reliably at least get you a chunk of your money back when you get there). If you prefer something with a little more “peak and valley” than “grinder” gameplay, it’s an interesting one just for its unique look if nothing else.
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