The Vault Heist - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Featuring some exciting bonuses, including a safe-cracking mini game, free spins and cash-awarding Scatters, this medium-volatility slot offers an RTP of 96% and top prizes up to 1,000! Get your vault-breaking tools at the ready and experience a classic slot with some modern twists.

Introduction

Vault-breaking slots are always hugely popular. Drenched in gold bars and cash, they practically smell of money, which is a good thing, seeing as that’s really the goal when spinning any slot!

Set over five reels, three rows, and 25 paylines, this slot features all sorts of wonderful items you might expect to find behind the walls of a bank, with some impressive top prizes and bonus features up for grabs that we’ll look at in more detail later in this slot review. To win The Vault Heist, simply line up 3+ matching symbols along one of the 25 paylines and take home the prizes. The Wild symbol can substitute for any other symbols, excluding the Scatter and Bonus symbols, to help you win bigger prizes. Unusually, this even includes the FreeSpins symbol, so you can trigger the free spins bonus game with just 2x FreeSpins symbols plus a Wild!

Theme, Graphics & Soundtrack

As you might expect, The Vault Heist is set in a bank vault filled with gold coins. The symbols all match the theme of the slot with bundles of cash, diamonds and more. Even the lower-valued A - 9 playing card symbols have been given a makeover to match the game with embellishments such as crowns and jewels. The special symbols are particularly relevant, with dynamite triggering free spins, ruby Scatters and gold bars for the bonus game.

The soundtrack is also well suited to the game theme, with an atmospheric tune perfect for building suspense playing in the background as you spin.

The Vault Heist RTP & Volatility

The Vault Heist is a medium-volatility slot offering an RTP of 96%.

How to Play The Vault Heist

Whenever we come to play a new slot machine, we always like to spend some time getting our heads around the controls, rules, paylines, etc. before we start spinning. In The Vault Heist, as with most FBM Gaming slots, the controls are all found beneath the reels, excluding the sound on/off button, which is in the top right-hand corner of the screen.

1. We always like to check the game rules, paytables and paylines before doing anything else in a new slot. In The Vault Heist, you can find this information by clicking on the poker chip icon in the middle of the control panel.

2. From here, you’ll be presented with a number of options. Running from left to right, the clock icon will show your game history, the document icon will give you the game rules, the moneybag shows the paytable and paylines, and the rabbit icon turns Turbo Mode (fast spinning) on/off.

3. After checking the game details, it’s time to set your bet. You do this in two parts in The Vault Heist.

4. Firstly, set your ‘Denomination’ from 0.01 up to 0.25 by using the ‘+’ and ‘-‘ buttons on the right of the control panel.

5. Secondly, set your bet ‘Level’ from 1 to 20. Again, use the ‘+’ and ‘-‘ buttons to the left of the control panel.

6. Once you’re happy with your wager, click the large Spin button in the centre of the control panel to start playing.

7. If you prefer to play hands-free, you can also set up to 300 AutoSpins by clicking the small button to the right of the Spin button.

8. You can keep an eye on your balance, latest win and total wager along the very bottom of the screen, beneath the control panel.

Bet Sizes & Paytable

As mentioned above, setting your wager in The Vault Heist requires two parts: the denomination and bet level. In money terms, with the lowest wager set on both sides, you can start wagering from as little as 0.25 per spin up to 125.00 with the highest parameters set.

Winning combinations are made when you match 3+ symbols along a payline, with the possibility of a Wild to increase your chances. The maximum awards are for five of a kind along a payline, with top prizes available for each symbol as follows:

Cash: 1,000

Diamond: 500

A: 300

K: 200

Q / J: 150

10 / 9: 100

The Scatter symbol will also pay out cash prizes for 3+ appearances in any position on a single spin as follows:

3x Scatters: 10x total bet
4x Scatters: 40x total bet
5x Scatters: 100x total bet

Max-win 1,000x

Volatility Medium

Top RTP 96%

Bonus Features

In addition to the Cash Prizes awarded by the Scatter, there are a couple of other bonus features available in The Vault Heist:

Bonus Game

Land 3+ Bonus symbols in sequence to enter the bank and choose from a selection of vaults to break into. Behind each door is a hidden cash prize that you win when you pick the right door.

Free Spins

Land 3+ FreeSpins symbols along an active payline to trigger 10x free spins with Multipliers depending on the number of symbols used to activate the round as follows:

3x FreeSpins: 1x Multiplier
4x FreeSpins: 3x Multiplier
5x FreeSpins: 10x Multiplier

The Wild symbol can substitute for a FreeSpins symbol, which can really add to your chances of triggering this round!

Conclusion

Overall, we felt The Vault Heist was a fun and immersive slot that takes a classic theme and does a good job of making it its own. We loved the various bonus features, and allowing the Wild to substitute for a FreeSpins symbol was an awesome and generous touch!

If you also enjoyed The Vault Heist, you might want to check out some other bank-robbing slots such as Microgaming’s Break Da Bank or The Vault slot.

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