Foxin’ Wins: Football Fever Slot review

Football Fever is the latest slot machine to be released in the Foxin’ Wins series, from NextGen Gaming.

A football (soccer) themed slot machine, the release of Foxin’ Wins: Football Fever coincides with the upcoming World Cup 2018, the football championship that will take place in Russia. The guys from NextGen added yet another game to their increasingly popular series, keeping the same system overall and designing some of the graphics to fit the new theme. The main characters remain the same loveable foxes turned aristocrats, with the father shown as a referee, the mother driving a car and waving a flag, while the fox pups are playing football in the mansion’s courtyard. Various other elements have been implemented in other symbols, like a trophy cup next to the Ace, or a football next to the Queen logo. Beyond the five reels, there is the standard big stadium, filled with people, which we see in every soccer slot.

You get to play with 25 pay lines, on 5 reels. The game’s features will revolve around scatters, wilds, free games with multipliers, random bonuses (Fox Funds or Leprechaun Shakedown) and the SuperBet option which is in all the games of the series. As for the big prize, the one that gets the player’s attention, it’s set at $100,000 for a single combo.

The betting system is more complex than in other slots. You have 25 lines to use at the lowest bet level, with 25 coins selected. You spend between $0.25 and $625 at that level. If you activate the Super Bet, then you add an extra 10 coins for level 1, or 25 coins for level 2. With the maximum bet, of 50 coins, you wager $0.50 to $1,250.

The Super Bet is used to add more Fox Pup wilds. Initially, only the 3rd reel gets them, but they’re added to reels 2 and 4 as well if Super Bet 1 is used, or to all reels if you activate Super Bet 2.

Wilds are there as well, paying 2,000x in the base game and being substitutes when they can’t form a combo.

The ideal time to get a win out of this slot is in its free spins, which you trigger with 3+ Pots of Gold. 10 free spins are given, with 2x multipliers applied to wins.

Finally, you also get several random features, which can improve your game further. They’re called Leprechaun Shakedown and Fox Funds.

Foxin’ Wins: Football Fever is as fun as the rest of the series, and soccer fans will appreciate it. The RTP is lower than I’d like, being at 95.61% for the rounds with SuperBet 2 active.