Top Dawg$

Theme and Design

The artwork alone on Top Dawg$ is worth loading up the game for. It looks like it is set in a residential area of LA like Compton. A long street with houses either side provides the backdrop to a transparent reel set, with palm trees and fluffy clouds overhead. The tell-tale signs of gang presence can be seen in the sneakers hanging over telephone lines. To complete the scene a hip hop instrumental, complete with record scratching and squelchy bass can be heard in the background. Sit back and savour it before you hit that spin button.

RTP and Variance

Top Dawg$ has an RTP of 96.1%, about average for an online slot game. In this case it rises up to 96.71% in the bonus round. This is also volatile slot, familiar territory for Relax Gaming. You should be ready for an uneven distribution of wins and set your stake to a sensible level to avoid burning out too quick.

Maximum Win

The max win from a single bet is 25,000x, which is good. If you like high max win games then check out our list of Relax’s highest paying slots that includes Hellcatraz (51,840x) and Money Train 3 (100,000x).

Symbols and Paytable

Top Dawg$ is a simple 5-reel slot with 3 rows on each reel and 15 paylines to trigger wins on. You need to land 3 or more identical symbols across a line from left to right, starting at the left-most reel, to score a win.

There are 8 symbols to do this with. The low payers are the cards, Jack through to Ace, valued at from 0.5x for 3 Jacks up to 2x for 5 Aces. The premiums are the four hip-hop dogs. The highest paying symbol appears in the form of King Dawg and delivers 3x, 6x, or 30x when you match 3, 4, or 5 on a payline.

There is also a Wild, represented by the letter W, that substitutes for any pay symbol to complete a line, AND pays out 3x, 6x or 30x for 3, 4 or 5 on a line.

Features and Gameplay

Top Dawg$ feels a little light on features – there are only two enhancements outside the basic gameplay – but they are strong enough to carry the game. Here is how they work:

Mystery Respins

The Mystery Respins feature is activated when the ‘?’ Mystery Symbol lands on the fifth reel. A re-spin follows in which only more ‘?’s and dead tire icons land. The re-spins continue until no more ‘?’s land. When this happens, so all the ‘?’s convert into an identical symbol and the total win is calculated and paid out.

Free Spins Feature

The Free Spins feature is activated by matching 3, 4, or 5 of the bonus car symbols. This will trigger 8, 10, or 12 free spins. If a wild lands during the feature, it becomes sticky, staying in the same place on the reels for the remainder of the round.

The good news is, wilds also carry multipliers in the free spins round.

And …

When another scatter lands during the round, the multipliers for ALL wilds that are sticky increase by 1x AND another free spin is added to the total up to a maximum of 7x. If one payline contains more than 1 multiplier wild then the multipliers combine. In this way it is possible to produce multipliers of 16,807x!