Deep Sea Dosh Pokies
Deep Sea Dosh is a 3 reel pokie that looks a little different from most similar games, as it’s got a bonus round that plays out on the main screen rather than on a separate one, which squashes the reels themselves into a small area. Surrounding everything is a somewhat confusing mix of images, feature details, the control buttons and game logo, making this game look a little untidy, but once you can get over this, it’s actually not a bad pokie at all.
It’s also a reliable and trusted one, and comes from the huge Microgaming range that’s arguably the most popular in the world.
Themed around King Neptune and all his fishy friends, Deep Sea Dosh plays out against a coral reef background and has cartoon images of mermaids and sharks to help set the scene.
Watery Wonders
With just 3 reels and a single payline, Deep Sea Dosh would seem to be a very straightforward game to play, but a number of bonus features add lots of interest to it and help it to float above many other similar titles.
Players will start the game by selecting a bet size via the control buttons below the reels, with a simple range of 0.10 to 10.00 being possible, and there’s no need to pick coin values or anything, so it’s just a matter of deciding a stake and spinning away.
The payout schedule is lined up along one side and reveals how many multiples of the bet amount will be won if the payline is filled with each different type of symbols. Most of the lower-value ones will be familiar to pokie players, starting with the cherries that pay just 1x, and moving up through lemons for a 2x win, oranges that are worth 4x and the bar icon that will pay 8x.
Further up the table and it starts to get filled with symbols unique to the game that add to the atmosphere of the whole thing. A crab will be worth 10x the bet, while a school of happy-looking fish will equal a 20x prize payout when they fill the line.
Oysters are next up, and although they may not be as valuable as the pearls on display, they will still reward players with a win of 40x, while an attractive mermaid carries a value of 80x. Finally, Neptune himself makes a grand appearance and is by far the most valuable symbol here, with a huge prize of 500x swimming the way of any player who lines him up across the line.
Deep Sea Dosh
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Fishy Features
All of the bonus features in Deep Sea Dosh are randomly triggered, so players never know if their very next spin will be a highly rewarding one. Nudges and Holds allow them to either move a reel up of down a few notches to try and make up a winning line, or stop a reel in position and spin the remaining ones, while the Let ‘em Spin feature is simply a guaranteed winning spin.
Shifta is another sure-win, and all that happens is the reels shuffle themselves into a prize winning combination, but the main bonus feature here is the Treasure Chest game which is where all of the items that clutter up so much of the screen come into use.
The 16 chests will open up to reveal multipliers that are anything between 10x and 150x the bet value. Five of them will disappear and one of the remaining multipliers will then be offered to the player, who can either accept it, to end the round, or reject it after which another 5 chests will be removed.
A second multiplier will be offered, which gives the player the choice of either accepting it, or if they reject it the first one that was offered will be automatically paid out.
It’s a fun round that has a guaranteed prize, but would perhaps have been better played out on a second screen, leaving the base game looking a bit neater. But I’m not a game designer, so I’m sure the professionals at Microgaming knew what they were doing.
Deep Sea Delight or Sunken Wreck?
This is overall a pretty good pokie that’s easy to play, and has better bonus features than many others. Underwater themes are always popular and this one is no exception, although perhaps a higher bet limit would make it appeal to a wider audience. A 10.00 maximum is really quite low for an online pokie and will surely exclude even medium-stakes players, while those who like to bet big will probably ignore it altogether.