Love is in the air as Valentine’s Day draws ever closer. But in between the secret admirers, chocolate boxes, teddy bears, roses and balloons is a little-known online slots theme: romance and romantic themed slots games.
I’m sure all our online slots lovers have taken a spin on ancient mysteries, gods of Greece and Rome, fruit, carton animals and popular move and band themed online slots games – but how many of you have given romance a whirl outside of the dating pool?
Online south African Casinos have taken the plunge and explored what Cupid has in his quiver for all our online slots fans this Valentine’s Day.
Lucky Valentine
The perfect online slots game to get us started – Lucky Valentine from Red Tiger Gaming. This 5-reel online slots game features all the extras that any online slots player from South Africa will recognise and love: multipliers, wilds, free spins and a bonus feature for big wins.
The pastel and candy colours may be soothing but the game is full of thrills, especially when that elusive Cupid pops up to fire his love arrow and rain down the love bombs.
Well-designed and worth repeat plays, Lucky Valentine has all the symbols you would expect from a romantic-themed game including champagne on ice, teddy bears, dating apps and milkshakes with two straws but it’s the special symbols you want to watch out for.
Cupid’s Reels, Love Bomb, Mega Wild and Love Multiplier all trigger some pretty sweet bonuses and free spins and the Tower Bonus (the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the City of Love) can reward you with up to 800x your bet.
Corrida Romance Deluxe
This fun and engaging online slots game from Wazdan is all about the romance in the bullfighting arenas in Spain. A beautiful flamenco dancer, her matador lover, a Spanish-guitar-playing minstrel and, of course, the bull itself are the characters in our romantic drama.
Corrida Romance Deluxe is an update (and a welcome upgrade) to the original Corrida Romance and if there is one thing that really sets it apart from the original it’s the awesome flamenco guitar soundtrack. Seriously, play it on auto to experience the full majesty of this guitar art form!
The game itself is a simple 5-reel with great cartoon-style visual that capture the machismo of Spanish bullfighting. It features wilds, scatters and multipliers aplenty and will keep you engaged for far longer than you would expect (I blame it on the music!)
Lil’ Devil
Lil’ devil from Big Time Gaming may not be your traditional romantic online slots game cup of tea but the OSAC team really enjoyed it for its sense of something a little different.
While the two main characters are an angel and a devil – and there are some odd symbols like the crocodile, the lizard in a jar and the scorpion – the essence of the theme is one of the duality of love (dangerous and beautiful) so we think it deserves a place on our list.
Do you choose Be My Angel or do you risk Dynamite Lover?
The Devil Wild appear on reels 2 to 5 and the Angel Wild appear on reels 3 and 4 and unlocks multipliers between 4x and 12x. These Angel Wild multipliers can appear on both reels and give you a potential 144x multiplier!
There is a cabin with a heart that serves as a scatter symbol and if you hit three of them you get to choose either Be My Angel or Dynamite Lover free spins. Be My Angel awards 7 free spins with sticky wilds and multipliers. Dynamite Lover awards 12 free spins with cascading symbols.
It also pumps out the kick ass Lil\ Devil song by The Cult!
There is also a heart meter to either side of the main game area that fills up when you get only two scatters from a base game spin. Fill up this meter and you unleash Heartstopper Enhanced Free Spins!
Simple, good graphics, great tune and quite exciting to play.
True Love
A classic Valentine’s Day theme from Playtech, True Love is a 5-reel online slots game that features all the symbols that make Valentine’s Day so polarising: roses, rings, violins, heart shape chocolate boxes, cupids and white doves.
Not the best or most engaging game on the list but, with wilds, scatters, free plays and multipliers, its pink-dominated style will appeal to all those incurable, soppy romantics out there.
Full Moon Romance
Probably the most fun romantic game on our list, Full Moon Romance from Thunderkick is a guilty pleasure.
The theme is 1950’s drive-in movie theatre. The characters are a John Travolta and Olivia Newton John style couple. The symbols are romantic bunches of roses, the full moon – and an odd bone-shaped puppy love pendant.
The kicker is that when you hit three full moons, our lovey-dovey couple become werewolves!
Great fun, very Grease the movie if it was written by Thriller-era Michael Jackson and engaging as all get out!
Oh, and full of scatters, wilds and a bonus game.
Romance with a shiver down your spine!
