Love Bugs is 5 reels and 20 pay-lines video slot powered by Microgaming software provider. This slot is inspired with the approaching Valentine’s Day and celebration in the name of love. Every romance related cliché is featured in this slot as a symbol. Evrything is lovey-dovey including the background sound effects. Give this slot a spin for free on this page or visit Microgaming Casinos to play for real money.
Before you start celebrating love, you should set your bets. When you click on "+/- Bet" you can set coins size which ranges from 0.01 to 5, and "+/- Lines" is used to set the number of lines you wish to bet, and "Spin" will set the reels in motion. "Autoplay" option is used to turn the reels without interruption for a chosen number of times. "Max" on side from bet and lines will set the maximum bet allowed. "Gamble" will trigger the gambling feature after the win.
Lady Bug and Love Bug are the Wild symbols and they can substitute for all symbols except for the scatter. If you land Lady Bug on reel 1 and Love Bug on reel 5 at the same time you will trigger the Love Bugs feature.
Once you trigger the Love Bugs feature the bugs will try to catch Prizes that fall from 4 bridges as they float along a Venice Canal. If they catch a Diamond Ring, all prizes during the feature will be doubled. If the catch a Necklace you will get 10 Free Spins. This feature cannot be retriggered.
Scatter symbol in the game is the Heart and it can make scatter wins if you land more than 2 symbols anywhere on the reels.
If you make a win you can trigger the Gamble feature. Here you will get the chance to double or quadruple the winnings. You can try to guess the color of the card that will be drawn next or the suit of the card. Correct color guess will double your winnings whereas the correct suit guess will quadruple them. Wrong guess will cost you your win and will take you back to the base game.
Gameplay
+/- Bet: Set the coins size.
+/- Lines: Set the number of lines you wish to bet.
Spin: Set the reels in motion.
Max: Set the maximum bet allowed.
Gamble: Trigger the gambling feature.
Autoplay: Turn the reels without interruption for a chosen number of times.
Love is universal. Every living thing falls in love, in one way or another, but the way humans fall in love is the most compassionate way of them all. It's like heaven on earth! Bugs can fall in love too, and things can look just as beautiful in a fantasy world of animation, like in this game Love bugs. Imagine 2 bugs in love and enjoying a romantic quiet ride in a gondola. Hmm, reminds me of my night gondola ride with my loved one, with the Italian gondolier serenading us all the way! What a beautiful night in Venice that was, but that's a different story, hehehe.
This is a 20 paylines game listed under Microgaming but wasn't done by them. I know just by the looks of the game. The overall pinky tones creates a romantic atmosphere, although the graphics aren't that good and could be better. Oh well, it's an old game, so it doesn't matter. The Lady Bug and the Love Bug are the Wild symbols in this game, appearing only on reels 1 and 5 respectively. The Wild symbols substitute for other symbols except for the Scatter symbol, but doesn't pay anything for themselves, argh, and doesn't become stacked or expanded either. The Heart is the Scatter symbol, what else, and pays the usual 100x total bet for getting 5 of them. However, these are merely scatter symbols that don't trigger any free spins for getting them. Getting the Lady Bug on reel 1 and Love Bug on reel 5 simultaneously awards a feature game, whereby both bugs ride a gondola and pick 1 item out of 3 from 4 bridges, each item either awarding a cash prize, 10 free spins or a 2x multiplier Diamond Ring. Well, I would have thought that getting that Diamond Ring would get the bugs married off instead of just doubling the wins, but never mind, hahaha. This feature game may pay either only cash prizes, or a combination of all 3 items.
There are no multipliers at all in the game, except if you get that Diamond Ring for the free spins, but the game pays both ways, left-to-right and right-to-left. This is the only 20-paylines game that I know of that pays both ways. Usually it's only found in 9 or 10 paylines games. As for the other symbols, the House pays 5000x, the Diamond Ring pays 1000x, and the rest pay from 500x to 100x, all per line bet for getting 5 of each kind. Pity the Wild symbols don't pay anything for themselves, and no multipliers in the base game, otherwise this could have been a better paytable than a low one.
Not having any multipliers is bad enough, but the Wild symbol are not doing much to create better wins in this game. They should be doubling all wins with them. Depending on that one Diamond Ring to double wins during the free spins, if you do get them at all, is simply not good enough. Moreover, the maximum possible win in this game is only 500x the total bet, so that isn't much good either. I managed to get 2 Free Spins game in one of my sessions, but the payouts were only 32x and 19x my bet amount. On my other plays, I could only get the cash prizes, and even these were far from satisfying. Ah well, when bugs are in love, who cares about money, right? Wrong! Hahaha.