Oil Mania Slot Review
In NextGen’s Oil Mania slot machine, you will get the chance to drill for oil riches! build your empire and become an oil tycoon! But before you get your gear together and set out on your adventure, it is best to learn what you should expect in Oil Mania!
Oil Mania Gameplay
NextGen’s Oil Mania is a 5-reel and 25-payline fun slot game which is simple to play. Before you start playing you need to set your bet. You can do so by selecting the number of paylines you wish to activate and setting the coin value you are most comfortable with. Bets range from 0.25 to 50.00. This game has an RTP of 95.66% and its volatility is medium, which means that you will not find it easy to land the biggest wins. You will need to get in a pretty large number of spins if you’re aiming for the big rewards – especially the 2,500x mega prize.
Oil Mania Slot Strategy
The best strategy to use is to keep all 25 paylines active, but keep your coin value low. This way, your overall bet will be manageable enough so that you will be able to get in a lot more spins. Oil Mania, like all other slot machines, is a game of chance, which means that you could land the big wins immediately – or not at all! It all depends on your luck! However, spinning more times does increase your chances of landing those big wins. Once you are satisfied with your bet level, you can click on Spin to begin your quest for oil and riches.
Landing winning combinations is what gets your rewards in this game. You need to land 3 to 5 symbols of the same kind on a payline to win a prize. How much you win depends on how much you wager and the value and the number of symbols you land.
So, the higher the value and the more the symbols, the greater will be your wins! The low-value symbols (9 to A) will win you maximum of 200x your bet. The higher-value symbols (the Oil Price Chart, the Money Box, the fancy Car and the Oil Driller) can win you as much as 2,500x your bet.
The high-value symbols will give you a payout even when you land just 2 of them on the paylines.
Additional Game Features
The additional game features will help you get the bigger wins. So, let’s find out what they are:
Bonus Symbol – The Oil Tycoon is the bonus symbol, and he appears only on the second, third and fourth reels of the gamescape. Even if only one Tycoon appears on the reels, you will win 3 Wild-up Re-Spins.
Wild-Up Re-Spins Feature – It is the Bonus symbol that triggers the Wild-Up Re-Spins feature. A Wild – which is the massive Oil Explosion – appears at the bottom of the reel where the Oil Tycoon landed (and triggered this bonus feature). After every Re-Spin, that Wild will expand until it covers the entire reels. This significantly increases your chances of landing winning combinations. And if you are lucky enough to land more Bonus symbols during the Re-Spins, you can re-trigger the feature and get 3 more Re-Spins!
Gamble Mini Game – There is also a Gamble mini-game feature in Oil Mania. Every time you land a winning combination on the reels, you are given the option of gambling your win. If you accept, you are taken to another game screen where you need to guess the colour of the playing card that will appear. If you guess right, you can double your money. You can even play again – up to five times. And if you keep guessing right, you can actually multiply your wins by 4x! Be warned, though! If you guess wrong, you lose all your rewards!
Game Design
Compared to other video slots produced by NextGen, Oil Mania’s reelscape is rather small. In the background, you can see oil fields set against the blue sky. The reelscape looks like a big oil rig, and you can see small little rigs decorating the top where the game logo is. The reels themselves are in a plain cream, and this makes the symbols stand out rather well. Each of the high-value symbols are well-drawn, adding even more appeal to this slot machine! If you look carefully at the symbols, you will realise that this game is actually set in the past – at a time when oil drilling was just starting. The Golden Car and the Oil Tycoon’s suit tell you clearly that you have been taken back in time to the turn of the century!
During the base game, the music is soulful and bluesy. However, when you trigger the bonus feature, the music changes completely! You can hear banjos strumming wildly – like a Texas ho-down! It really picks up the pace of the game.
Summary
Oil Mania by NextGen is a fun slot that is definitely worth a try. While it is a little disappointing that there aren’t more additional game features, the fact that the Bonus feature gets triggered quite easily more than makes up for that lack. And getting a chance to win 2,500x your bet is a pretty big attraction, especially when you consider the small bet sizes you make in this game. And the best part is that this game has been designed in such a way that you can play it on your PC or even your tablet or mobile device!
