Bet365 Game Review: Great Blue Slot

Ocean-based slots are very popular and enjoy a healthy following on all the top casino sites with their relaxing ambiance, colourful livery and gentle soundtracks. So with that very much in mind why not head out into the azure oceans yonder and see what you can find lurking at the bottom of the ocean in the exciting Deep Blue slot from Playtech.  Let a myriad of colourful sea creatures be your companions as you try to spin your way to a Davy Jones Locker that could contain a jackpot prize of 10,000 coins.

One of the neat features of the Deep Blue slot is a Gamble feature which is activated after every win and allows punters to select whether the next card shown will be red or black. Pick correctly and any win you have achieved will be doubled instantly. You can keep picking cards until you reach the double up limit of £2,500 per win, or you can opt to collect your winnings at any point by hitting the purple Collect button. Remember though, guess incorrectly and you lose your winnings.

One of the most exciting features about the Deep Blue slot is that it is one of the few slots that caters for the higher roller players with some sizeable amounts able to be wagered on a single spin. However, the amount you wager can also be scaled down to suit the smaller stakes player too making it a slot that really is open to all players. Can you take on the fearsome challenge of nature at its rawest and emerge with a profit?

Key Information

The setting of the slot is of course, underwater and this is nicely created by having a hazy, deep blue void as the backdrop and bubbles fizzling both in the background and also on the lower value symbols on the reels. In Deep Blue, the lower value symbols are the playing card lows (from 10 through to Ace) whereas the higher value symbols are an assortment of sea creatures that include a turtle, a beautiful yellow fish, a seahorse, a starfish and a shark.

The slot features the usual 5×3 reel layout and there are a total of 25 selectable paylines in play in the game (though it is prudent to play all the paylines available if you can) and you can wager from as little as £0.01 per payline up to £100 per payline, which gives you a massive range of bets. This is great and means that Deep Blue is one of the few slots that can appeal to the serious high roller, while also at the same time allowing micro-stakes players to enjoy the game.

What is clearly evident from playing the slot is that this is most definitely a medium to higher variance game and as such, players need deep pockets to ensure that they can spin for long enough to give them more of a chance to win some of the bigger value combinations on the slots and to trigger those all-important bonus features.

In the base game, the top high symbol award is 750 coins, however, if you complete a winning payline using one of the Killer Whale Wild symbols, then you can immediately double the value of that win. This means that the Wild symbol in the base game is particularly valuable as it can lead to many of the bigger wins, especially if you can hit multiple winning paylines using the same Wild symbol, or you land more than one Wild on a spin.

Furthermore, land five of the Killer Whale Wilds on a payline and you will win the biggest cash prize in the game of 10,000 coins, four will land you 2,500 coins, which is still a bigger jackpot than what you’ll get from landing five of the shark high value symbols.

The other key feature that can lead to some of the bigger wins in the Great Blue slot is the Clam Scatter symbol. This symbol performs two tasks, land between 2 and 5 across the reels and you will receive a cash prize of between 2x and 500x your total wager, however if you land three or more across the reels, then you then access the free spins round. The Killer Whale Wild is also stacked on the reels and this is very helpful when it completely fills a reel.

In Free Spins you are initially awarded eight free spins with a 1x multiplier, however before you start your spins, you get to pick from five Clam Shells on screen. These shells will award you additional free spins and/or a multiplier of up to 15x your win. With up to 33 free spins available too, this can be a very lucrative way to achieve some of the bigger wins on the Deep Blue slot, although it can be very tricky and requires patience at times to unlock this bonus feature.

Any winnings on the Great Blue slot can subsequently gambled using the Gamble feature. 

How to win on the Great Blue slot

Given that you can play the Great Blue slot at a level that is most suited to your bankroll, it is most important to ensure that you budget well enough to play all 25 paylines on each of your spins to give yourself the maximum chance of landing a bigger win. It is more profitable, so the statistics say, to play additional paylines per spin than it is to play fewer paylines on a spin and up the value of the wager on each payline.

Of course, sensible budgeting is also key but you’ll also need a bit of luck and patience to hit the various features in the game. While the Wild symbol isn’t too rare to land on the wheels (and can see you land some very big value wins in the base game), you may need a degree of patience in order to trigger the free spins bonus round. However, it is worthwhile persevering as this is where the biggest wins in the game are most likely to occur.

However, it is worth noting that the jackpot win of 10,000 coins can be triggered on any spin in the base game too, so Deep Blue is a slot game that has players attention regardless of whether they’ve triggered a feature, or are playing the base game.