New Slot Announcement New 3Dice Slot - 'LYCANTROPICS' - Yes that is what they called it

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In fairness the title is actually quite a clever pun, because lycanthropy, or rather a lycanthrope, is a sort of werewolf - so what 3Dice have done here is said 'What if werewolves, but surfing dudes on the beach, in a tropical location, falling in love with lasses and turning into wolves in the free spins round'. I don't know what they are smoking at 3Dice, but it must be some good shit.

So yes, the idea is the title of the slot is a mash-up of tropics and lycanthropy.

I'll say upfront I don't know if this is a clone or not, 3Dice's last two releases have been clones so I wouldn't put it past them, although this does feel like more of a homegrown effort and a bit more '3Dicey'.

It's a 243-wayer with naff all going on in the base game, in four hours of play best it managed in the base game for me was 69x, there do appear to be a decent number of stacked symbols and wilds going on in the base game so I'm sure it can hit decently, but I didn't see anything of the sort, and tired of it quite quickly, and after an hour just left it running in autoplay whilst I was doing other stuff, or not even in the room - and turning my attention to it when the feature came in.

The wild symbol (a big orange sun) is also the scatter symbol, 3-4-5 scatters award 8-10-20 free spins respectively, and then it's off into the free spins round which takes place at night, the sun turns into a moon, and any win with the chap symbols that includes a wild, turns that chap symbol into wilds for the rest of the round as werewolves. The idea is to get the reels 'fully evolved' so that all four chaps are wilds, and they're all stacked too, to make lots of nice way wins. The ultimate goal would be to get full stacks of all the top paying lass symbol, which would be 2430x stake for a single spin.

Also, every time a chap changes into a werewolf, you get an extra free spin.

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So these are the symbols that can be turned wild in the free spins round.

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And these are the (higher paying!) lass symbols you want them stacking up with to make as many way wins as possible.

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The key thing to note here is that zero pay spins in the free spins round don't use up a free spin, only wins will increment the free spins counter, so the 8 free spins round for example, will routinely last for 15-20 spins.

Honestly, it's quite a nice little hook and I find this bonus round very enjoyable, I've only managed to get the reels fully evolved once so far, (results shown below), and some rounds are stinkers with no evolving happening at all, and a load of piddly wins using up all your free spins, but it seems to have a decent spread of pays and even just getting one or two of the symbols evolved into wilds can land some reasonable pays.

Feature frequency feels sensible, I'd guess it's in the usual sort of 3Dice range, albeit perhaps up at the higher end, maybe 1/160, 1/170, something like that. Most it's wanted so far is 494 spins which rather annoyingly fell 6 spins short of getting me the Patience award this month (£25 NDB on a 1xWR).

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Overall I like this one, certainly a lot more than Dice Fusion which I haven't played with real money since it bounced my arse all over the place (as documented in its own thread), and also Legion which I found myself unmotivated to play once I'd hit the 1000x win, with only the 3500x win left to go for, and I didn't fancy my chances of that.

Do be aware though that a feature drought on this game could get quite painful on the balance, as the base game is pretty stingy in my experience so your balance will only be going one way if those features aren't landing, and even then, some of the pays can be pretty miserable in the feature too.

Here's my best result so far, basic three scatters trigger but I managed to get the reels fully evolved, so nice to see it can happen from the basic trigger.

Round finished at 425x, I'd had a 300x round a little earlier too, so not bad going at all.

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aha so the "balls" are suns n moons was half asleep when bashing away today and yes the win spin is a neat feature but the actual theme I have no effin clue what they mean ;-) but matters not - maybe this is the return of 3dice exclusive slots made in house without a clone in sight. The last 2 releases are pretty dire.
 
aha so the "balls" are suns n moons was half asleep when bashing away today and yes the win spin is a neat feature but the actual theme I have no effin clue what they mean ;-) but matters not - maybe this is the return of 3dice exclusive slots made in house without a clone in sight. The last 2 releases are pretty dire.

In the main I think they've done a good job with the aesthetics of the slot (it feels very 'Club Sanguine' to me, I suspect the same people did the art for both games).

I'm a big fan of having the scatter symbols stick out a mile (which they do on this game), and in the main the reel symbols are very distinct too, although two of the chaps look a bit too similar and that makes it slightly awkward to read the reels sometimes.

Overall I'd say that from a graphical and sound perspective, it's a solid if unspectacular release, the music gets old pretty quickly (despite being quite chilled out), but it's an inoffensive presence overall and I don't mind it, whilst also not being blown away.

Definitely one I'm prepared to plug away at a bit, and try to see what it's capable of.
 
I don't know what they are smoking at 3Dice, but it must be some good shit.

Rest assured only top quality ingredients are used for all our slots.

E.
 
I carried on playing this last night and it hoovered down £100 on 25p spins without too much of a reply, although in fairness it did take it nearly three hours to do it.

It also went over 500 spins without a feature, which netted me the PATIENCE achievement this month at least.

I don't know if the reels on this are 'real reels', but if they are, by all accounts there are big stacks of everything in the base game, so it should be able to hit big outside of the bonus round, but I have yet to see it.

Overall I do like this game though, the feature has a great hook and it's quite exciting getting the reels evolved, (one of my favourite old NetEnt games was Evolution, which had a similar sort of mechanic in the free spins round), but there quite a lot of stinkers in there in terms of feature pays so you have to be prepared to camp that out.

I would imagine the five scatters trigger, which awards 20 win spins, could dish out some serious pays if you can get the reels fully evolved, so that's something to aim for as well.

Anyway, overall I'd give this a thumbs-up and I think I'll be adding it into my 3Dice game rotation.

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Thanks for such a thorough review. Probably not one for me but i'm going to look into the developer and see what else they have. I might be able to pronounce some of their other slots haha
 
I actually like it - didn't get a screen shot, but I got 5 scatters, bonus round paid 200x. Fun, lol!

I really wish 3Dice would look into a Crash style game, or Limbo. Sort of diversify its game offerings. I like the casino and its unique games, as is, just offer some games with a better player RTP% - they still make money, but the game is more fun for wonkier players, than pure slots.
 
Well that was a slightly disappointing wait for a feature, 1131 spins for it to come in, and when it finally did, it was a basic three scatters affair that paid 17x without a single evolution.

Yes I know in Bonanza-land that would be considered almost par for the course, but it's pretty rare to go over 1000 spins on any of 3Dice's videoslots without a feature.

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Well that was a slightly disappointing wait for a feature, 1131 spins for it to come in, and when it finally did, it was a basic three scatters affair that paid 17x without a single evolution.

Yes I know in Bonanza-land that would be considered almost par for the course, but it's pretty rare to go over 1000 spins on any of 3Dice's videoslots without a feature.

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I got that feeling with the short game time I spent on this slot that it would at times be tough to bonus. 1131 beats my own personal record though of just over 1000 spins on tuts a few years back and when I did finally hit the bonus after a decent comp from Enzo - it hit less than 50x - seems this new slot from 3Dice can and will be harsh at times.
 
I got that feeling with the short game time I spent on this slot that it would at times be tough to bonus. 1131 beats my own personal record though of just over 1000 spins on tuts a few years back and when I did finally hit the bonus after a decent comp from Enzo - it hit less than 50x - seems this new slot from 3Dice can and will be harsh at times.

From memory the only other game that's gone over 1000 spins for me without a feature at 3Dice is Arctic Adventure, although I could be mistaken there of course.

I'd be interested to know what the feature frequency is on this, 3Dice have been posting again recently so maybe they'll let us know :) If I had to have a guess I'd say it'd be close to be Arctic, around 1/170 or so, maybe a bit more.
 
Hi Chopley,

I'll check and confirm as soon as I can. As far as I can remember you guessed it correctly ...it should be around 1/170 :) .

Kind regards,
Anna
Thanks Anna, would be curious to know what the exact number is, to see how close my guess is :D

Also, what's the max pay you recorded on the game during testing? That's always an interesting number to know.

2430x is the biggest single spin it can do (243 ways of the top paying symbol during free spins), but of course with five scatters coming in at 20 win spins, and with early full evolutions, it could potentially go a lot bigger than that.
 
I can confirm that for Lycantropics the feature frequency is indeed 1/170 - for Arctic is actually a bit less (1/146 ) .
The biggest pay recording during testing is actually about twice that: 5 wilds pay 500 , times 243 at bet factor 25 - that gives 4860 . Hope that answers your all your questions. ☺️
 
Can we get someone to do these reviews without a minimum bet? Maybe bet 50 cents and then review it? Want to see my amazing funky five review on 5 cents a spin?

Anyways.. this is the best new release because the game actually has a good RTP compared to the other new games despite what it says in the game help menu. I have put in around 30000 spins on it so far and had 4 scattters twice. But, I have had a few pretty decent hits. Picture below of my huge win. Almost all wolfs with just 3 unlocked.

I will say they did an amazing job on this game. From what everyone has been saying.. it takes around 500 spins to get the bonus on this game. Compare that to Dicefusion which take around 1500 spins before a bonus game and thats good IMO. I dont mind 500 spins until a bonus comes.

I just think a lot of the games seem to have a lot of bigger winners on minimum bets. Maybe thats just because more people are playing small but it just seems off a bit. I love this new game. I like the sound, imaging, bonus game, and base game potential of big wins.

We aren't just playing for the bonus game on this one. WTG 3dice on a great game.

Just wish they didn't bundle the new game code into the yearly valentines day code. Felt a little cheap of them.
Someone finally got 5 scatters earlier and it only paid them 50x bet on the actual bonus game. But I am sure 5 scatters has HUGE potential. My biggest wins came from unlokcing 2 to 3 wolfs on one spin. The worst is when you lose a spin to 2 girls paying nothing.

Nonetheless its a great game!!

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I can confirm that for Lycantropics the feature frequency is indeed 1/170 - for Arctic is actually a bit less (1/146 ) .
The biggest pay recording during testing is actually about twice that: 5 wilds pay 500 , times 243 at bet factor 25 - that gives 4860 . Hope that answers your all your questions. ☺️

Thanks Anna, 1/170 will put it up near the top of the harder to hit features on your slots then, although I must confess I didn't realise Arctic was only 1/146. Thanks again for the numbers :)

Can we get someone to do these reviews without a minimum bet? Maybe bet 50 cents and then review it? Want to see my amazing funky five review on 5 cents a spin?

Anyways.. this is the best new release because the game actually has a good RTP compared to the other new games despite what it says in the game help menu. I have put in around 30000 spins on it so far and had 4 scattters twice. But, I have had a few pretty decent hits. Picture below of my huge win. Almost all wolfs with just 3 unlocked.

Bet level makes no difference to how the slot plays (or it shouldn't at least). Minimum bet or maximum bet, or anything inbetween, it should just be a call to the RNG and say 'give me some reel positions' or 'give me some results'.

Just scale out my 25p per spin to whatever stake you play on, it's all the same thing in the end when it comes to multiplication of stake. The very simple reason you see more big wins on smaller bets is, as you say yourself, that far more people play on those smaller bets. People ask about DOA2 'How come we never see those massive wins on £3 spins' and the answer to that is how many people play it at all on those spins, and play it for long enough to see out a big win on spins of that size? (Not that many! And then they'd have to a member here at CM as well for us to see the screenies.)

As for the RTP, it's what's stated in the help file, Lycantropics is 95.6% so a little bit more than some recent 3Dice releases which have been slightly disappointingly bang on 95% (although given that so much of the online slots landscape is now 93-94%, not too bad!), 'good' RTP that you get on a game is a very different thing to the game's actual T-RTP, which is what is stated in the help file :)
 
I had this running for three hours last night (25p spins) and was in profit for nearly all of that, but got a bit greedy towards the end and decided to camp out a couple of final features, which tipped me into a loss for the session but not by much (just over £30 down).

I still haven't topped 100x in the base game (IIRC my best so far is about 73x), but I've had a decent spread of reasonable features, and I do like the feature when the evolutions get going.

I'll have another punt at it tonight and see how it goes, I'd really like to get five scatters with full evolutions, but I appreciate that's a bit more of a long term goal.... :D
 
I've only played it once seems ok, but the dead spells are really noticeable.
Had 2 bonus the first 3 scatter had 2 evolutions and paid around 70x@0.25

Upped to 0.50, 4 scatters dropped in so 10 spins but no evolutions paid this :rolleyes: and then I bust out in quick time.


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Even with fully evolved reels you've got to manage your expectations somewhat, you can see here I go into full evolution with 6 win spins remaining, the 5 you can see here but the 11 changed to 12 with the final evolution.

The round at this point was 83x.

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Round finished at 106x, and that was 6 spins with fully evolved reels.

If I had to have a guess I'd say this game uses different reel sets once the reels start evolving, which is a completely legitimate way to control RTP but a change from the likes of Arctic Adventure and earlier 3Dice games that just lob a big multiplier onto the reels you already know.

I just remember NetEnt's 'Evolution' where a fully evolved set of reels almost guaranteed a decent pay if you had a few spins in that state, but not the case here.

Watching it rinse through your win spins with piddly 2OAKs on the lasses or 3OAK on the shite symbols can start to get a bit tiresome.

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Five scatters trigger - yay!

Round paid 133x - boo. (Also, 44x of that was the trigger, the win spins round itself paid a mere 89x - from the mega five scatters round!)

Not much to say really, it burned through many of the win spins with tiddly wins. By the time I had two evolutions it'd gone through half of the win spins, I got to three evolutions with just a couple of win spins remaining, and it sputtered out from there.

Quite the anti-climax really, and the five scatters themselves only pay 20x.

Also, this still hasn't hit over 100x in the base game for me.

Meh. Back to Enchanted Spins, or Gemini.

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Thanks Anna, 1/170 will put it up near the top of the harder to hit features on your slots then, although I must confess I didn't realise Arctic was only 1/146. Thanks again for the numbers :)



Bet level makes no difference to how the slot plays (or it shouldn't at least). Minimum bet or maximum bet, or anything inbetween, it should just be a call to the RNG and say 'give me some reel positions' or 'give me some results'.

Just scale out my 25p per spin to whatever stake you play on, it's all the same thing in the end when it comes to multiplication of stake. The very simple reason you see more big wins on smaller bets is, as you say yourself, that far more people play on those smaller bets. People ask about DOA2 'How come we never see those massive wins on £3 spins' and the answer to that is how many people play it at all on those spins, and play it for long enough to see out a big win on spins of that size? (Not that many! And then they'd have to a member here at CM as well for us to see the screenies.)

As for the RTP, it's what's stated in the help file, Lycantropics is 95.6% so a little bit more than some recent 3Dice releases which have been slightly disappointingly bang on 95% (although given that so much of the online slots landscape is now 93-94%, not too bad!), 'good' RTP that you get on a game is a very different thing to the game's actual T-RTP, which is what is stated in the help file :)
Unfortunately it certainly does make a difference!. This is evidenced by the fact people use to go for whale playing funky five at 5 cents a spin and would hit the bonus game nonstop as well as the wilds.. the minute you up your bet to around 1.00 it completely pays differently. I am 100% certain about this. It is the same on Club Sanguine.. 20 cent bets award the bonus round more frequently than 1.00 bets. So, whatever the case may be it is not true that small bets pay the same as larger bets. The RTP is 100% different. I have spoke to about 10 people that play religiously on 3dice and they all notice the differences as well.

I think this is one of the reasons they changed how the shark and whale achivements are awarded. It was too easy for people to get them with the lower bets.

I also played the new infusion game going 1.00 a bet and ended up around 1800 spins with no bonus game. I lowered my bet to 80 cents and had bonuses nonstop over and over again and some huge wins. So I dunno.. but they do pay differently.

go test it for yourself ;) compare 2000 spin at 5 cents a spin on funky five and then do 2000 at 1.00.. tell me there is no difference :)
 

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