Hockey Fever Penny Roller

Hockey Fever Penny Roller: Slot Overview

Players, 'Are you ready to experience the adrenaline-pumping excitement of the coolest slot game in town?' If so, then the marketing team at Games Global would have you believe that firing up the studio's slot Hockey Fever Penny Roller is just the thing. However, and there is a big however, this is a classic example of over-optimistic marketing hype. Some might even go so far as to call it BS. For Hockey Fever Penny Roller is a clone of Football Penny Roller, which was decidedly not 'adrenaline-pumping', nor was it the 'coolest slot game in town.' Pretty much the exact opposite.

Maybe not for gamblers who like their slots to be virtually devoid of features and fun. There isn't a lot of visual variation, either. Since there are no bonus rounds flipping the flow, Hockey Fever Penny Roller plasters a diminutive 3-reel gaming panel to the centre-left of the screen as if it's smashing through a sheet of ice, and a list of pay symbols and their values on the right. That's it. Hopefully, you like the low-budget graphics.

The gaming grid has just one single payline, so users are able to pick stakes of 1 c up to $/€100 per spin. This is the range when 1 coin is selected, but it is possible to change this to 2 or even 3 coins, making the maximum bet possible $/€300 per game round. In keeping with the less is more ethos, prepare for a lot of dead spins as well, as Hockey Fever Penny Roller posts a painfully low hit rate of 8.53% on the default 95.94% RTP model, though it remains about the same on the lower return configurations, as well. The volatility stays steady at a medium level.

Only regular paying symbols land in Hockey Fever Penny Roller, meaning no wilds, scatters, bonus symbols, or anything like that show up at any time. There are 8 regular pays, which are skates, helmets/masks, rinks, two players facing off, refs, goalies, a white-shirted player, and a red-shirted player. Hitting 3 skate symbols pays 20x the bet, while 3 of the red-shirted players are worth 1,000x the bet, or 1,111x the bet if staking 3 coins per spin. In addition, hitting 1 red shirt symbol in any position pays 10x the bet, or hitting 2 of them in any position awards 15x.

Hockey Fever Penny Roller: Slot Features

As with its football sibling, Hockey Fever Penny Roller has zilch in terms of features to go over.

Hockey Fever Penny Roller: Slot Verdict

Back in the day, from around 2014 or so, Games Global, or Microgaming as it was known then, dropped fairly popular slots like Football Star, Cricket Star, Rugby Star, and Basketball Star. They all offered pretty much the same gameplay while switching up the specific sport-related skins. It seems that 10 years later, the studio is doing a similar thing, which is building a gaming engine and then slipping various sports skins over the top. What's weird is the Penny Roller slots pale in comparison to those sports slots Microgaming was making a decade ago. Instead of looking to the future, Hockey Fever Penny Roller feels like a massive leap backwards and was every bit as excruciating as its Football cousin was.

Hopefully, this doesn't sound rough, but after playing another Penny Roller slot, the question arose whether Games Global has run out of ideas. Okay, in some ways, the penny slot, ultrabasic, no frills, simple as it gets 'action' of Hockey Fever Penny Roller is like not much else any other studio is doing, at the time of review. From a certain perspective, with these Penny Roller releases, Games Global is daring to be different by going against the trend of making slots boasting ever more volatility, features, and potential. It's like car companies pushing to develop all-electric self-driving cars while Game Global hitches a horse to a wagon. There might be something quaint about this approach, but that doesn't stop Hockey Fever Penny Roller from getting left in the dust by the galaxy of superior performing slots players have access to, just a mere click or two away.