Loading up this game, I instantly smell stale cigarette smoke and crushed dreams, desperation and blown child support money. This IS your authentic casino slot pulling experience. If you want to stay at home, save some money and play the one arm bandit without the worry of losing anything...this is the game for you. Tons of machines, its like stumbling through the penny slots at 3am after a fifth of jagermeister without the worry of looking at your bank account the next day and wondering what you did. This was a must buy for me and should be for anyone thats an old lady at heart.

*Bets maximum, wins multi-thousand credit payout*

A casino where I win? I must be in heaven!

*Repeatedly wins multi-thousand credit payouts, can never go bankrupt because "The bank awards you $50.00 credit" every time you drop to zero*

A casino where I always win? I must be in hell!

You ALWAYS WIN, where is this casino located in real life? xD

I's impossible to lose, so no challenge at all, which ruins the complete experience.

I've owned most of the other IGT slot games, and most of the ones in this game are unfamiliar to me, but I haven't been in a casino for a while, so that might be why. From what I understand a new dev has the rights to IGT, and this is their first one, its not bad, but the green overlay/menu stuff is pretty bad/ugly. They added in-game achievements, which is nice, but what about making them steam achievements?

The main problem I had is the cash out button seems broken. I looked all around my computer and no cash shot out anywhere, plz fix devs!

Who is IGT? IGT has been the leading company specializing in design, development, manufacturing, distribution, and sales of computerized gaming equipment, software, and network systems worldwide. You can read more about the company here[www.igt.com].

IGT Slots Paradise Garden is named for the Paradise Garden slot machine present in the package. The package consists of a total of 15 IGT slot machines.

Functionally, the machines deliver a game of slots one would expect, especially those that have played these actual IGT slot machines. For most of the machines I did a youtube comparison and the machines look to be very accurate.

IGT Slots Paradise Garden has two modes from which you can choose. These modes are Career and Free Play. For each mode you create 4 profiles. For each profile you get a club card. The career club card is broken down into Career Points, Bank Roll and Time Played. The Free Play club card is broken down into Reward Points and Bank Roll.

The starting Bank Roll for Career is $1,000.00 and at first you are limited to penny denominations at each of the machines. Only when the game determines that your career bank roll has grown sufficiently will the denomination be increased. Denomination enumerations are 1 cent, 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cents, 50 cents, $1, $5 and $10. Playing career, it might be a while before you can bet and win big bucks, but then again, for that quick fix there is Free Play until you can elevate your career bank roll high enough to be able to activate the higher denominations. The starting bank roll for Free Play is $10,000 and you can quickly increase your bank roll playing denominations of $10.

The denomination is essentially the value of one credit. Credits you bet and win are displayed when you spin the reels. When you first sit down at the machine you will be awarded a maximum of 10,000 credits for that session if your bank roll is large enough. If you have a bank roll of $5000.00 and select a denomination of $10 the machine will display 500 credits. A selected denomination of a $1 will result in 5000 credits available for the session and so on. Credits are reset as you scroll through denominations.

Each machine as in real life has a Game Menu button and though I cannot vouch for it's authenticity the Game Menu button has a "Rules and Pays" option that will illustrate how to play the machine. Oddly, each machine has a functionally duplicate button, sometimes renamed to Game Options that serves the exact same purpose.

From a functional view the IGT Slots Paradise Garden package delivers but like all video games there is the concept of immersion. In other words does IGT Slots Paradise Garden immerse you enough that you can believe that you are at the casino. Unfortunately this is where the package falls short.

There are two casino themes that are available but each looks to be rendered as low resolution FMV and this detracts from the immersiveness. The reels and icons on the reels are crisp enough to support the maximum 1080P resolution selectable from the game's options menu but the rest of the machine including many of the buttons are rendered in low resolution which also detracts from the immersion.

Immersive game-play is not just defined by video and by graphics but also by sound and music and while the reels are spinning the sounds and music are near authentic, based on my viewing of the machines on youtube. However, once the reels stop spinning and the payout animations finish the game goes silent. No casino ambience, no idle ambience, no visual or auditory feedback from the machines. Further the package does not convey the illusion of video slots. The reels do not look like they are spinning on a monitor.

Functionally IGT Slots Paradise Garden delivers authentic games of slots and on this alone the package can be recommended but I wish the developer had gone that "extra mile" and delivered a more immersive package.

The only worse idea I've ever seen for a game than slot machines is a college basketball management sim. A game based on a homeless guy touching himself would be more fun.

Why there is only 15 slots?? This is really boring game after few minutes of playing...

It's an OK game. I always wanted a slot machine game on steam and this is the first and only one so far. There's a lot of different machines but they are all pretty similar. There doesn't seem to be any of those features you might expect like press buttons to hold reels, gamble double or nothing buttons etc. and while there are some sounds the game badly needs the sound of falling coins and a nice set of 3d coins tumbling out: all you get is a kind of generic beeping noise as it counts up the amount you won.

Definitely not worth the full price. I'm making it as not recommended for the sheer audacity of the pricing and the lack of coin graphics and sounds. If one of those changed I'd recommend it. I got it for 4600 gems in the winter 2014 auction event which is about 1/6th the price of it on steam when not in a sale.

Another kind of dodgy thing is that the publishers have been giving out free keys to people to help them beta test or something, and at least 2 of the positive reviews here are people who got free keys, so you might want to bear that in mind.

The game is a very nice addition to those who enjoy casino slot machines. It has a few details that need ironing out but they appear to be fully behind their game and striving to improve and possibly add more to it or put other games on Steam store. The community manager is very active on the forums.


Here is a link to my First Impression of the game. A work in progress.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/320970/discussions/0/613936673523286838/

this is not like vegas slots, i wish there were a hard normal and legendary difficulty. i want to feel like im a loser the moment i walk it to this casino, or when i leave.. there is just way to much winning and im not a winner at the casino, however the slots are very well put together i feel lied to by forces of evil and i will not condone this witchery