There are many fun ways to celebrate New Year's Eve, including parties, drinking champagne, and attending a major ball drop (e.g. New York City). Rival Gaming is giving you yet one more fun way to celebrate New Year's Eve with Reel Party slots.
This 5-reel, 20-payline game offers a party on the reels as you spin for big prizes and trigger bonuses. Let's continue discussing whether Reel Party is worth celebrating by looking at its atmosphere, features, betting options, and return to player (RTP).
Spin The Night Away as the Ball Drops
Reel Party's background is a rendition of New York's Times Square. We're not fans of the background graphics, because they're really blurry, making it hard to distinguish anything.
The music is a techno beat that doesn't exactly match the theme. Reel Party also features an annoying sound whenever you spin the reels.
Symbols include a New Year's hat, woman in red dress, man in teal shirt, gourmet meal, saxophone, drink, champagne, taxi, New York skyline (jackpot), baby (wild), Father Time (free spins), and champagne bottle (bonus).
The wild symbol substitutes for everything except the skyline, Father Time, and champagne bottle to form payouts. It also offers the highest payout at 5,000 coins.
Reel Party Slots Special Features - Sip Champagne in the Bonus Round
This slot offers two different features, including free spins and a bonus round. Free spins are triggered by three or more Father Time symbols. You'll receive 10 free spins (3 symbols), 20 spins (4 icons), or 100 spins (5 icons) along with a 3x multiplier.
The champagne bonus round is unlocked by getting three or more champagne bottles anywhere on the reels. This bonus takes you to a second screen, where you select three champagne bottles out of a wine cellar in order to reveal your payouts.
It's always nice to play a second-screen bonus. But we wish that this one had more to do with actual New Year's. Picking champagne bottles out of a wine cellar door doesn't completely relate to the holiday.
Betting Options
The betting options allow you to change your coin size from $0.01 to $0.05, paylines from 1-20, and coins per line from 1-10. As the maximum nickel coin size indicates, Reel Party is aimed at low rollers.
Reel Party Slots RTP
The RTP for Reel Party is 93.96%, which is low for an online slot. Most Rival Gaming slots pay 95% or higher, which makes Reel Party somewhat of a disappointment this category.
Don't Spend Too Time Celebrating New Year's with Reel Party
Reel Party slots has a couple of likable qualities, including good symbol graphics and features. The latter includes both free spins and a second-screen bonus round.
However, we're not completely thrilled with Reel Party from an overall perspective. The background is blurry, there are annoying sound effects, the RTP is low, and the bonus round doesn't completely match the theme.
We're not saying that Reel Party is a completely horrendous games and should be avoided. In fact, you may have a little fun playing it during the early part of New Year's Eve. But we certainly don't suggest that you skip any celebrations just to play this game.
