Dog Heist Shift ‘N’ Win Slot Review

03/09/2023 | Categories: Booming Games Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

As you may know, we are one of Booming Games‘ media partners and have been for some time now. Consequently, we peek in, from time to time, to see what this company is doing. Last time we checked, we saw Booming expanded its Netherlands presence via a deal with Bingol, and chose to relocate to Mriehel in Malta. They also entered the Colombian market in May but have recently made headlines with the release of their game Dog Heist Shift ‘N’ Win. Mortiz Blume, the brand’s director of product, claimed it is sure to supply big-win potential and tail-wagging entertainment at all times upon this spinner’s launch. It received an exclusive debut on August 1st but got its wide release some nine days later, and is doing fairly well in the first month after its unleashing for a Booming product, even cracking the top fifty standings in the Netherlands.

Theme & Design

The theme of Dog Heist Shift ‘N’ Win revolves around anthropomorphized canine creatures that perform various robberies. There is no doubt that dogs are a popular slot motif, with around four hundred spinners featuring them. Out of this batch, Pragmatic Play’s The Dog House Megaways is, without question, the most famed game. That said, robbery-themed virtual one-armed bandits also have found their niche, with somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred and seventy titles exploiting this criminal activity as the subject matter driving their reel-spinning action. From this category, we would separate Games Global’s Bust the Bank, Top Cat from BluePrint, and Vault Cracker by Red Tiger.

Dog Heist Shift ‘N’ Win’s presentation is among the best Booming Games that have been put onto gaming screens. The painterly visuals of this slot are of Pragmatic Play quality, with the reels spinning in front of a city store at dusk. The character symbols are charming, and the music used is a laid-back tune that quietly plays in the background, allowing the sound effects to take center stage in the audio department. These primarily activate on winning, potential bonus mode spins, and voice-over clips trigger in the rounds, where more dynamic animations pop up when you accumulate sizeable rewards.

All in all, this spinner has an easygoing vibe. It may feel a bit static if you are on a long no-win streak, and we did not mind. What we also did not like about it is that the auto-play function has a fixed fifty-spin setting. You will find it in the pull-out menu accessible through the plus button, next to the bottom screen green spin one. There, the max bet option, music, and mute ones live. Below this mini-panel is the balance info, and above it is another button section, where you can find the bet adjuster, the info page, and the setting icon. The bottom left corner of the screen holds an alternative wager modifier, and above it is the Bonus Buy function, left of the game grid.

Dog Heist Shift 'N' Win

Specs & Gameplay

Let us talk about the specs of Dog Heist. Booming Games has set the RTP here at a below-then-average 95.78%. The variance is medium-high, the hit frequency is 24.57, and the max win stands at x1,400. Is that good? For a medium-high spinner, it is not horrible, considering the betting range of this slot moves from $0.1 to $100. Note that the reel-spinning entertainment here gets delivered on a 5×3 layout with ten paylines, with your wins getting added together if you have multiple ones in view.

Now, what does shift and win mean? That is the mechanism presented in the bonus mode, which will be explained in the subheading below. Here, we will tell you that you need to hit at least three matching symbols on a defined line to claim a prize, and the reward tokens of this game divide into royal minors supplying wins of x2 for five identical ones, and character majors, yielding wins of either x10 or x20 for five-of-a-kind combos. The wild in Dog Heist Shift ‘N’ Win is a gold doggy treat, landing on all the reels except for the first one and replacing only the described pay symbols.

Bonus Features

There are two extra features in Dog Heist. The first is the one that has made its way into this game’s name. That is the Shift ‘N’ Win one, which triggers when you hit three police dog scatters on the first, third, and fifth reels. On that occasion, the branded round comes into play, and inside it, the scatters on the first and third columns morph into random van multipliers, with the one on the fifth chasing after them. The essence of this mode is that on every spin, van value tokens can land, carrying different sized multipliers from x1 to x1,000, and on each reel rotation in this round, these symbols and the scatter move one position left on the grid. When a value van moves off the game layout, its multiplier gets added to a total. And when the scatter exits the grid, the round ends paying off using the accumulated multiplier. If another scatter falls on the fifth reel in this mode, it retriggers, extending.

The brown van value tokens can also appear in the base game, carrying multipliers up to x20. A green van acts as a collector symbol, and there is a yellow x2 one. These two only show up during the base gameplay spins.

Dog Heist Shift 'N' Win