Top Dawg$ Slot Review

Top Dawg$ Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Top Dawg$ slot is played on 5 reels, 3 rows and 15 fixed paylines. Create winning combinations by landing 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols or wilds from left to right across a payline, starting from reel 1.

Stakes here range from 10p to £40 per spin. Use the + and – tabs next to the Total bet box to adjust. There’s an Autoplay function where up to 1,000 autospins can be chosen along with loss, win and single win limits. You also have the choice of a Quick Spin mode.

The Top Dawg$ RTP is 96.1%. Slightly above the 96% slots average, this rises to 96.71% if you buy your way into the free spins. Wins will come by every 4.5 spins as the hit frequency rate is 22.09%.

The action here is extremely volatile. On a scale of 1 to 5, the Top Dawg$ volatility comes in at the maximum of 5. The jackpots on offer here are high here too with a potential maximum win of 25,000 x your total stake from a single spin.

Theme – strong West Coast look and sound

The design in this Top Dawg$ slot game is terrific. With hip-hop theme, a smoggy Los Angeles street scene and skyline forms the backdrop. Visually, it will remind you of Nolimit City’s East Coast vs West Coast. It is very nicely put together though.

The soundtrack impresses too. There’s a laid back, hip-hop-style track playing while you spin which matches the West Coast vibe nicely. It sounds a little like rapping legend Snoop Dogg.

The reels are made up of graffiti-style A to J and 4 higher value hip-hop dogs. The best paying symbol is the King Dawg which pays 3, 6 or 30 x your total stake if you land 3, 4 or 5 on a payline.

Those same payout amounts are on offer from the gold W which is the game’s wild. This can land on all 5 reels and substitute for all the standard symbols when it makes up part of a winning combination. Rounding out the symbols are the Bonus and the ? Mystery Symbols.

Symbol	Payout
J	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1 or 2 x stake
Q	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1 or 2 x stake
K	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1 or 2 x stake
A	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1 or 2 x stake
Blue Dawg	3, 4 or 5 = 1.5, 3 or 15 x stake
Green Dawg	3, 4 or 5 = 2, 4 or 20 x stake
Pink Dawg	3, 4 or 5 = 2.5, 5 or 25 x stake
King Dawg	3, 4 or 5 = 3, 6 or 30 x stake
Bonus	3+ triggers Free Spins feature
Wild	Substitutes for all symbols + pays up to 30x
Mystery	1 on reel 5 triggers Mystery Respins feature

Top Dawg$ Mobile

Top Dawg$ has been optimised for play on all devices including mobiles, desktops and tablets. The design and gameplay work just fine if playing on a device with a smaller screen. You might want decent speakers though.

Top Dawg$ Bonus Features

There are 2 main bonus features on offer in Top Dawg$ and they can both deliver some top action. There are Mystery Symbol Respins and a free spins bonus complete with sticky wilds and expanding multipliers.

Mystery Respins feature

The Mystery Respins feature is triggered by landing the mystery symbol (?) on reel 5. A respin then follows. If a new mystery symbol lands on this respin, it locks in position and another respin is awarded.

This process continues until there’s a respin where no new mystery symbol lands. All the mystery symbols then transform into the same matching symbol. A new payout consideration is then made with the new matching symbols in place.

Free Spins feature

The Free Spins feature is triggered by landing 3, 4 or 5 of the car bonus symbols. This will get you an initial haul of 8, 10 or 12 free spins.

Hope to see plenty of wilds during this feature. Each time a wild lands, it turns sticky. That position will then be wild for any free spins you have left.

Each time a Bonus symbol lands during this feature, 1 extra free spin is added to your current total. Bonus symbols also turn the sticky wilds into sticky multiplier wilds. The value of the multipliers on the sticky wilds increases each time a bonus symbols lands. Each sticky wild can come with a multiplier of up to 7x attached.

Land more than 1 sticky multiplier wild in a winning combination and the value of those multipliers is combined. For example, land a winner that included a 2x multiplier wild on reel 1 and 4x multiplier wild on reel 3 and your win would be boosted by 8x. If you get a 7x multiplier on all 5 reels, the multiplier would be 16,807x (7x7x7x7x7).

Buy feature

In some territories, you will have the opportunity to buy your way into the free spins. Known as the Buy feature, this costs a fixed fee of 90 x your total stake. As a result, the RTP increases to 96.71%. Unfortunately, this option isn’t available at UK online casinos.

Top Dawg$ Review Summary – hip hop doggies deliver

I rather enjoyed the Top Dawg$ slot. The sound and visuals are terrific but it does come up a little short against Nolimit City’s Benji Killed in Vegas slot (which has a hip hop/Vegas theme mashup). Visually, as mentioned, it reminds me East Coast vs West Coast (also by NLC).

However, here’s enough variety on offer from the features to keep things interesting. The Free Spins feature is similar to the High Noon Saloon Free Spins feature in Dead or Alive 2 due to the sticky wilds.

These are the key to big wins, of up to 25,000 x bet, especially if you get anywhere near the 16,807x potential multiplier. That said, the average win in the free spins is 86.54 x your total bet so don’t expect it to rain often.

Tread carefully here though as the volatility is extremely high. Get lucky with those combining wild multipliers during the free spins though and the Top Dawg$ slot game can deliver some top action.

If you’re more of a cat lover, Relax Gaming has released the Fly Cat$ Dream Drop slot. With the same hip-hop theme and bonus features, you can win 5 jackpots including the Mega Jackpot which is worth up to €10 milllion.