Disco Dawgs

Disco Dawgs: Slot Overview

The disco scene might have peaked during the 1970s, but it's been kept alive in various places, and one of them, for whatever reason, is in online slots. Adding another game to the funk pile is Disco Dawgs from developer Light & Wonder (formerly SG Digital). As the name suggests, Disco Dawgs is a dance floor slot populated with cute canines rather than people, which is probably a smart move as it probably helps reduce any potential cringe factor. On the gameplay side of things, free spins are the central focus, joined by Pomeranian Wilds, Pug Wilds, Dax Wilds – some of them with multipliers that multiply each other.

If the empty club in the background is anything to go by, it appears Disco Dawgs is taking place at the end of the disco era. The multi-coloured dance floor is conspicuously empty, as are the tables lining the perimeter. Putting on a positive spin, maybe it's simply too early in the night, and the party is yet to kick off. Not that crowds matter if someone's really feeling the funk, right? In the middle of the screen sits a 5x3 arranged game grid which provides 20 fixed paylines to land winning combinations on. The view's agreeable, a little empty in the back, but a bunch of adorable mutts on the grid make the game more personable.

Players can experience Disco Dawgs' retro-ness on any device, where bets of 20 p/c to $/€14 per spin are available. It's a highly volatile game, with a duo of RTP settings – one is a 96% version, the other a lower, 94% one. Winning combinations are formed by matching 3 to 5 identical symbols and, with the help of several features, produce surprisingly high winning potential of up to 17,413 times the stake.

Landing on the reels are nine regular pay symbols, several wild types, and a bonus symbol. Starting with the pay symbols, on the lower side are chunky looking 10-A card ranks, paying out 1-2x the bet for a five of a kind hit, rising to 4-5x the bet for landing five high pay record players, collars, bowls, or Disco Dawg logos.

Disco Dawgs: Slot Features

The main party, the VIP room, or whatever you want to call it, is Disco Dawgs' free spins bonus round which can be triggered naturally or bought where available. Augmenting the bonus round is a selection of Wild Dawgs.

Wild Dawgs

First up is the Pug wild which appears in the base game on reels 2-5. Pugs replace any pay symbol and remain on the reels for five spins when they hit. In between spins, the Pug wild moves to a different position. Another wild in the base game is the Pomeranian wild. As well as substituting pay symbols, these wilds come with x2 or x3 multipliers, increasing any win they are part of. The final wild is the Dax wild which only appears on reels 2, 3, or 4 in free spins to substitute pay symbols. Dax wilds have multipliers of x3 if 8 or 12 free spins are triggered or x4 when 15 free spins are triggered. When more than one is used to help complete a win, the values are multiplied together before being applied to any payouts.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 disco bonus symbols awards players with 8, 12, or 15 free spins. In the feature, whenever a Dax wild lands on the reels, it remains on the grid, moving to a new position on the middle three reels between each free spin. Up to 9 Dax wilds are permitted. Lastly, disco bonus symbols are removed from the reels in the bonus round so free spins cannot be retriggered.

Buy Pass

Instead of organic bonus round triggers, eligible players can buy free spins for 200x the bet. Doing so lands 3, 4, or 5 disco bonus symbols to launch the feature.

Disco Dawgs: Slot Verdict

It's no wonder developers use cute animals in slots to help endear them to players, because how long can you really hold a grudge against cartoon canines for? Even when they're bopping in a nightclub dressed in disco garb. Jokes aside, there is a sense that Disco Dawgs is a little too close to The Dog House for comfort, and the games do have several things in common. They're both populated with 'dawgs', that's the obvious one, but the features share basic core tenets, too.

There is more variety in Disco Dawgs, though, provided by the three types of Dawg wilds. Good things include the semi-sticky state of Pug wilds (for five spins) and the multiplicative abilities of the Pomeranian wilds – both available in the base game. These sorts of features might not be cutting edge, but they've proven to be effective in the past and can be in Disco Dawgs as well. Free spins certainly hold promise with the chance of wild multipliers creating combined values of up to x64. All this gear means Disco Dawgs manages to beat out both The Dog House and The Dog House Megaways when it comes to maximum payout capabilities, tipping the scales at 17,413x the bet. Solid, but pipped by Relax Gaming's Top Dawg$ if you are looking for a canine filled slot with sticky multipliers and a bit more bite.

Disco Dawgs might not become a smash hit, and it does have a somewhat dated feel to it, but there are plenty of positive things about it to be fair. The doggie characters are easy to like, there's wild symbol variety, and the persistent roaming wild multipliers in free spins have the potential to go ballistic as they have in past games. Even if disco isn't on your playlist, it's still possible to enjoy Disco Dawgs all the same.