Diggin' Deep is 5 reels and 20 pay-lines video slot powered by Rival software provider. The slot is inspired with miners and the trade of mining. You are spinning the reels in order to find treasured metals such as gold. The reels are set deep underground with the miner digging for gold. All symbols featured are theme related. Give this slot a free spin here or visit any of the Rival Casinos to play for real money.
Before you go underground to look for gold, you should set your bet. By clicking on "+/-" you can set the coins size which ranges from 0.01 to 0.25. The number of lines can be set by clicking on "Select Lines", and by clicking on "Select Coins" you can set the number of coins per line. "Bet Max" sets the maximum bet and starts turning the reels automatically. "Auto" will turn the reels automatically without interruption but it is available only when playing for real money, and "Spin" will set the reels in motion.
The Wild symbol in the game is the Miner, and it can replace for all symbols except for the Scatters. The Wild appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5. The symbol will expand and fill the whole reel whenever it is possible for it to complete a winning combo.
Scatter symbol in the game is the Cog Wheel symbol, and if you land 3 or more of them anywhere on the reels you will trigger Free Spins feature. The number of spins depends on the number of symbols you land. You can win 5, 10 and 20 spins. All wins during this round are subjected to x3 multiplier.
Gold Bars symbol is another Scatter, and if you land 3 or more of them anywhere on the reels, you will trigger a mini-game. You will be taken to another screen, and starting from the top you will have to dig your way down. You can move left, right, up or down, and the round will end once you run into a gremlin. All the gold you collect will be summed up and added to your balance.
If you land 3 or more Crate symbols anywhere on the reels you will trigger Pick a Crate feature. Once you trigger it, 3 crates will be wheeled into screen and you will have to pick one to reveal your prize.
Game Play
+/-: Set the coins size.
Select Lines: Set the number of lines.
Select Coins: Set the number of coins to bet per line.
Bet Max: Set the maximum possible bet.
Spin: Start the reels.
Auto: Set the reels in motion without interruption for a chosen number of times.
Okay, so here I come with more reviews on Rival games. This time it is on Diggin' Deep, a game that has been around for a few years, has pleasant graphics and animations, but unfortunately, as I have found out, that was about all the game could ever provide!
For a start, all the Wild, Scatter and Bonus symbols are all non-paying! What the argh! I have always hated games that have this formula in their paytable, and I was instantly disappointed when I looked at the win values of the symbols. Imagine the amount of omitted winning chances by these 3 omissions alone! The Miner, the Wild symbol, doesn't double any wins with it in the base game, but doubles wins during the free spins, and triples wins during the Super Round. It also appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5, and expands into a full Wild Reel with any win. This may sound good, but in actual game play, it doesn't work very well!
The Cogs is the Scatter symbol, awarding 10, 25 or 50 free spins with 3, 4 or 5 Scatter symbols, without any win multiplier, except for wins with the Wild symbol. Again, this doesn't work well at all in the actual free spins play. Getting 3 or more of the Cogs would retrigger the Free Spins game, and getting 3 or more of the special Gold Bars Scatter symbols would award the Super Round Free Spins. These Gold Bars symbols do not appear in the initial Free Spins game, appearing only in a retriggered game, so getting that Super Round Free Spins was actually even much harder to get! This is something that I really don't like at all!
The Crate is the Bonus symbol, awarding a 'Pick a Crate' Bonus feature, whereby you pick 1 of the 3 Crates to win a cash prize, and as I later found out, it usually pays around 15x - 20x the total bet amount. Not that good by any standards, but this Crate Bonus features paid way better than any of the Free Spins games could! At least it pays consistently between 15x and 20x total bet amounts, unlike the Free Spins games, which paid under 5x wins in 15 out of the 21 Free Spins games that I had managed to get, with a big fat zero win in 3 out of that 15 games - a totally disappointing and most unexpected range of payouts!
I just couldn't believe that Diggin' Deep was actually digging deep into my pockets! My credits balance was continuously draining downwards, any wins achieved were never sufficient to cover back whatever it had taken, and the way I see it, it is literally impossible to win on this Diggin' Deep game! The worst game that I have come across from Rival, and a game that must be avoided at all cost!