Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe Slot Review

Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe Slot Review and Game Overview

When I load Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe I feel I am stepping back to 2009, when Novomatic was ruling brick-and-mortar casinos with simple, high-volatility slots. This sequel keeps the classic underwater theme, with dolphins, lobsters and rays on a blue backdrop. It runs on a 5x3 layout with 10 paylines, giving that familiar old school structure that many players, myself included, first learned to spin on.

Greentube’s design here feels very calm and almost static, with no background animation and only zingy electronic sounds with every spin. You can pick between one and ten paylines, so the cost per spin scales with how many lines you keep active. That flexible setup suits both cautious play and more aggressive sessions if, like me, you enjoy pushing the variance when the balance allows it.

How to Play Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe Slot

Before spinning Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe I always sort my stake. First I decide how many of the ten paylines I want active; the game even lets you drop to a single line if you like. Then I use the plus and minus buttons to set the bet per line. With all lines on, stakes range roughly from 0.10 a spin up to 100, which covers low and high rollers.

Once the stake is locked in, play is very straightforward. Hit Start and the reels spin, paying from left to right when two or more premium icons or three or more low symbols land on an active line. Dolphin, lobster and manta ray sit at the top, with fish, seahorse and card values filling the rest. There is a simple autoplay toggle, but no modern options to set spin counts or loss limits.

Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe Symbols and Paytable

In Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe the dolphin is both the star and the wild symbol. It substitutes for everything except the pearl scatter and doubles any line win it completes. Five wild dolphins on a payline pay 900 times the line stake in the base game. The lobster and manta ray follow as solid premium symbols, while the pearl in the oyster shell is the scatter that pays anywhere on the reels.

The medium symbols are the seahorse, single fish and school of fish. Full lines of these can return between around 25 and 40 times your bet on that line. Below them sit the 9, 10, J, Q, K and A icons. These top out at roughly 10 to 12.5 times the line stake for a five-of-a-kind hit, so most of the serious money comes from the picture symbols and features.

Scatter pearls have their own payout table as well. Two or more scatters in view pay a prize, scaling up to 500 times your total stake if you land five at once. Because scatters do not need to sit on a payline, big hits can arrive in unexpected clumps across the screen, especially if they fall together with wild dolphins on the lines during the free spins feature.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x900
	4	x250
	3	x25
	2	x1
	Scatter
	5	x500
	4	x20
	3	x5
	2	x2
	5	x75
	4	x12.5
	3	x2.5
	2	x0.2
	5	x75
	4	x12.5
	3	x2.5
	2	x0.2
	5	x40
	4	x10
	3	x2
	5	x25
	4	x7.5
	3	x1.5
	5	x25
	4	x7.5
	3	x1.5
	5	x12.5
	4	x5
	3	x1
	5	x12.5
	4	x5
	3	x1
	5	x10
	4	x2.5
	3	x0.5
	5	x10
	4	x2.5
	3	x0.5
	5	x10
	4	x2.5
	3	x0.5
	5	x10
	4	x2.5
	3	x0.5
	2	x0.2

Bonus Features in Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe

In Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe the main feature is all about free spins. Hit three or more pearl scatters anywhere and you get 15 free games with a 3x multiplier on every win. The round can retrigger as often as the scatters drop, bringing another batch of 15 spins each time. During this bonus, wins that involve a wild dolphin are multiplied by six, which is where the big payouts usually hide.

After any standard win you can also use the gamble feature. I often try this when the prize is small, picking red or black on the face-down card for a straight fifty-fifty shot at doubling the amount. One wrong call wipes the lot, so I avoid using it after a big hit. With high variance maths, the free spins and big symbol combinations do not land often, but they can pay very well.

Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe RTP, Volatility and Max Win

Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe carries a 95.13% RTP, which sits below many modern titles, and the volatility is clearly high. On paper the maximum win is 9,000 times your stake for a screen full of wild dolphins in the feature, effectively 2,700 times in base-game terms with the 3x multiplier. In practice I find the slot very streaky, with long dry spells broken by occasional, quite dramatic, bursts of free spins and line hits.

Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe Slot Verdict

When I sit down with Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe now, it feels like visiting an old arcade cabinet. I have had runs where twenty spins passed with barely a hit, then a small cluster of three or four wins in a row, most paying less than my stake. The flat graphics, static background and sharp electronic sounds make long sessions tiring, especially if the free spins round refuses to appear.

I still see the appeal for fans of classic Novomatic style games and players who enjoy simple, high-volatility action without side features or complex mechanics. For many modern slot fans though, Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe will feel dated and unforgiving. I treat it as a nostalgia piece and always test it in free play before risking proper money, so I can gauge how the game is behaving on that particular session.

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