Diamond Fiesta

Just picture yourself in an old Mexican town, just in time for a local fiesta with plenty of great food and around-the-clock entertainment. There are colourful little flags all around the main square of the town, and the mariachi music is playing loud and clear… 

… you are definitely having a great time! Diamond Fiesta by Real Time Gaming (RTG) does manage to create such an atmosphere, even though it is just a video slot. It’s an action-packed title with great graphics, nice music, exciting features and superb animations. 

Theme

This game does take you in the main square of a Mexican town, you feel that the reels are placed right in the middle of it. There is a catchy latino tune that will accompany your spins, while the symbols are bright, colourful and full of life, even though there’s also a skeleton among them. That’s probably because the fiesta in question is the Day of the Dead, a famous Mexican holiday. 

The symbols are as Mexican as they get, from chili peppers to tequila bottles and even a skull and a skeleton of a mariachi, complete with guitar and hat. That’s the “Senor Skeleton”, a special symbol in the celebrations.

Betting Options and Functions

The game has 5 reels and 3 rows, nothing unusual about that, but they can expand up to a generous 8 x 4 setup. There are up to 50 betting lines available, and the most you can win is 800 times your stake. 

The return to player (RTP) is just North of 96 percent, while the volatility is low. That means you will see winning spins occurring quite often but the wins will be rather small. The symbols on the reels are skeleton wilds (scatters), diamonds, playing cards from 9 to Ace, a nice-looking senorita, a skeleton guitar player, chili peppers, and a bottle of tequila. 

Features

Whenever the special symbols land they can trigger some awesome-looking animations and also exciting events for the player: 

• Wilds

The skull wilds substitute adjacent symbols and create winning combinations, but they also serve as the scatter symbol in this game. The wild symbol can land on any of the five reels, except the first. 

• Free Spins

If you get three skull scatters in one spin that will trigger the free spins feature. You get six free spins but all of them are improved with extra wild scatters and bonus diamonds. For every diamond that lands in one of those free spins you will receive another re-spin. Moreover, the diamonds act as sticky wilds, they will remain on screen until the end of the free spins, when they will be transformed into cash. 

Once the diamonds appear in all four corners of the reels, a 6th reel pops up, and so on until you get to 8 reels and 4 rows. If you get another three skulls then another six free spins will be awarded, so in theory you could get an infinite number of free spins. 

Conclusion

Diamond Fiesta is a fun new title from Real Time Gaming, it has nice graphics and soundtrack and a theme that is quite appealing. The features add to the exciting atmosphere, when those free spins hit you really feel like something special is going on. It’s true that the potential winnings are a bit on the low side, but this is a low-volatility title so you should be able to enjoy more wins in short periods of time.