Rio Fever

In this game of tropical splendor, summery glitz and the lust for life, Pariplay stuns with some innovative features, awesome visuals and expanding Wilds granting enormous wins. Rio Fever is a 4x5 grid game with 40 paylines and lots and lots of colorful goodies. So let's take a bite of this tasty Latin treat.

Theme

Ah, Brazil. The sheer exotica of both South America and our planet in general, and nothing quite speaks volumes about the opulence of sights and sounds there like the Rio de Janeiro carnival. Rio Fever is like a huge mash-up of virtually all the elements that make Rio the enchanting place that it is, smashed into one monster of a slot game. Visually speaking, it's a festival for your eyes: with the nighttime Rio overview with city lights and starry skies, watched by the famous statue of Christ the Redeemer. The abundance of colors continues on the reels, adorned with a wonderfully designed reel's edges in the colors of Brazil: yellow and green. The festive carnival theme runs deep in reels, with symbols such as party masks, open coconut with an umbrella, drums, and more musical instruments that help Rio carnival be what is is. Game's central symbols are the four ravishing carnival dancer girls as expanding symbols that can take up the entire reel – these bodylicious beauties are adorned in skimpy red, blue, yellow and green costumes and they are the games highest paying symbols. The Wild symbol that substitutes for all except the Scatter which triggers the bonus feature is also present. The music is sufficiently Rio-like, although not exactly rumba or bossa nova, but it does the job of complementing the cheery feel of the game.

Betting Options and Functions

A very simplistic player dashboard is down below the reels and it has a menu button that slides in some options like fullscreen, sound on/off, a game help screen with complete overview of all features and a pop up screen that lists all the symbols' values, payline diagrams and bonus games. The wagers themselves are adjusted to the right, bu clicking the + or – sign and setting your bet from $0.40 to $20 max. The total remaining balance and current win amount are seen near the central part of the dashboard.

Features

Wild Ginga – This is one of the two extra spins variants in this game (the other is Samba Parade). The player gets 3 extra spins and on each of these spins, the carnival girls will fill up to five reels with Wild symbols and they will remain active until the free game ends, and they get reset.

Samba Parade – You get seven extra spins in this game and in this, a sticky wild symbol will be added to one of the reels at random and it will stay there as long as the game lasts.

Bonus Wheel – If you manage to land at least three bonus symbols during the main gameplay, you will trigger the Wheel of Fortune, and you will get one spin on this wheel. The screen changes to two of the carnival trumpets presenting you with possible outcomes, like multipliers up to x80, seven free games on Samba Parade or three games on Wild Ginga.

Random Wilds – Occasionally and totally random, Wilds will start appearing on reels in droves, before the spin stops. The amount of Wilds that appear at random can be anything between 1 and 20.

Our Take

Rio Fever delivers fun, color, sights, sounds, innovative take on extra spins and potentially big wins. Pariplay keeps being very productive with their output and this game doesn't fall short of expectations.