@3Dice
3Dice have made a couple changes to this game, although one of them is (I think?) temporary for the Halloween period.
As you can see, it's linked into the promotional sitewide progressive which as I understand it is funded from outside the slot's actual RTP. (i.e. There's no progressive contribution taken from the slot's RTP, and is funded by 3Dice themselves as an 'extra'.)
I'd definitely like clarity on where the RTP is coming from for the sitewide progressive though.
The other change is a little bit more interesting, in that they've rejigged the reels to increase the maximum payout by over 300%, to give the game a top prize of over 3000x stake. (In fairness this information is conveyed via a popup that you have to click through the first time you load the game on any device after the change was made.)
However, at the same time they've also slightly REDUCED the game's RTP.
Here's a capture from the video I made when the slot was released.
And here's the RTP now.
Now obviously there's only one way to increase the top prize without changing the RTP, and that's to increase the volatility, although the game's 'chilli rating' remains at two chillies.
To increase the volatility whilst also reducing the RTP (albeit only very slightly) doesn't exactly delight me, as I felt the volatility of Gemini (ahem..... Twin Spin.....) was already at about the outer edges of what I enjoy in a slot.
I'd like to know how much the pay profile of the slot has changed overall (it could be tiny, and that 3000x stake win could be a billion to one shot), and also why the change couldn't have been made without negatively affecting the RTP. It's possible that the new reel configuration to allow for the 3000x win simply introduced the RTP reduction as a side effect.
I've chucked a decent number of spins through it in demo play and it feels the same, but I'm always slightly wary of a slot being changed that I'm very familiar with, although I appreciate that 3Dice have at least been open and upfront with the changes.
(They've changed Berrini's Fortune too, I'll cover that separately.)