El Patron Slot Review

El Patron Slot Overview

El Patron is a new casino slot from Stakelogic set in a gangster world with pistols, machine guns and drug dealing people. No names are mentioned, but the game’s main character looks very much like the infamous Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar, who ruled the cocaine business in Colombia before he was killed in 1993. He went under several nicknames, one of them the same as the game's name: El Patron. This lethal Latin american adventure has action features with heavy weapons creating expanding wilds, multiplying wilds, and free spins, among other things.

El Patron is a video slot from Stakelogic with 5 reels, 5 rows and a total of 3125 ways to win. The Min.bet is 0.10 and the Max.bet is 50. To no one's surprise, the game is highly volatile, with an RTP of 96.50%. You can take home the max win of 25000X the bet by handling your guns in the best possible way.

There are several tricks to survive in this drug-dealing world. The features are Wild Symbol, Gamble, Action Feature, Free Spins, and Bonus Buy.  

El Patron Slot Information

Neither Pablo Escobar nor any of his associates are called by name in this game. Still, the main character in this video slot resembles the old drug baron so much that we are just going to assume that we’re in Escobar’s hometown, Medellin. We can see parts of a street with an old, deserted car and a portrait of the patron painted on a wall. Two colorful birds sit on a telephone wire, and the reels are framed by barbed wire, dollar bill bundles, and weapons such as shotguns and machine guns. The music also has a Latin touch with guitars and brass, resembling theme songs from gangster movies and series. Beneath the reels is a bonus reel spinning horizontally, and above the reels is another one, also spinning horizontally. The top reel contains action symbols, and the bottom reel has wild symbols. If an action symbol and a wild symbol align, they will activate one of several Action Features. To make a win you will need to land at least three of the same symbols on adjacent reels, starting with the leftmost reel. El Patron casino slot can be played on desktop, notepad, and mobile.

The lower-paying symbols in this explosive world are cigar cutter, cigar, brass knuckle, pistol, and whiskey. Landing 5 of those on a payline will pay between 0.4X-1.50 the bet. Looking at the more valuable symbols we find three different gangsters behind bars, with El Patron as the most valuable of them all. The gangsters pay between 2X and 10X the bet for 5 on a payline. The Wild symbol, depicted by a suitcase full of cash, substitutes for all symbols except the Scatter Symbol. As you already have figured out, the Scatter Symbol, in the shape of a golden bullet, is what you need to activate the free spins. There are also different kinds of wild symbols on the mentioned bonus reels running horizontally under and over the regular reels. You can read more about them in the explanation of the Action Feature.    

El Patron Slot Features

What is the max win in the slot El Patron?

You can win up to 25000X the bet.

What features are available in the slot El Patron?

The features are Wild Symbol, Gamble, Action Feature, Free Spins, and Bonus Buy.

Wild Symbol

There are actually several wild symbols in this game, but only one spins on the regular 5 reels. The other ones can be added to any position by first landing on one of the two horizontal bonus reels. Anyhow, the original Wild symbol is a suitcase full of cash. It substitutes for all symbols except the scatter symbol, and it can appear anywhere except on the first reel to the left.

Gamble

We have seen this feature in different shapes in many video slots over the years. If you’re feeling lucky, you can try gambling your wins to make them bigger. Just press the Gamble Button after a win, and you’ll be taken to a screen where you have to foretell the next card in a card deck. You can either say if it’s going to be black or red, or choose which suit it is going to be (hearts, diamonds, clubs, or spades). If you’re right on the color, your win will be multiplied by 2. If you pick the right suit, your win is being multiplied by 4. If you’re wrong, you’ll lose the win. All wins can be gambled up to 5X or 125.  

Action Feature

The name of this feature says it all; it adds some dangerous excitement to an already deadly game. The top bonus reel contains action symbols meanwhile the bottom bonus reel has wild symbols. The reels aren’t full of symbols, though; most of the positions are, in fact, blank. One of the following things happen when a wild symbol in the bottom aligns with any of the action symbols at the top:

• Expanding Wilds = A wild symbol lands on the reel, expanding to cover its 5 positions.

• Dropping Wilds = The reel is being covered by 5 wilds while the player is being rewarded 5 respins. The wilds drop one position for every free spin. You cannot activate dropping wilds on more than one reel at a time.

• Multiplier Wilds = Wild symbols cover an entire reel once again, this time multiplying any win they are part of with either 2X, 3X, 4X, or 5X. All five wild multipliers have the same multiplying value.

The action feature gets even more lively when the machine gun comes out in the feature explained below.

Free Spins

Gather 3 scatter symbols anywhere on the grid, and 12 free spins are yours. This feature makes some changes to the setup of the slot. The wild symbols appearing on the bottom bonus reel are replaced with a machine gun that starts blasting different wild symbols on the main reels whenever a bottom reel symbol aligns with a symbol on the top bonus reel. The gun randomly hits positions on all reels except the first one, and the shooting stops by someone shouting “caramba”. The symbols on the top reel are not the same as in the main game, but the following:

• Normal Wild = The machine gun shoots out 2-5 wild symbols anywhere on the grid except the first reel.

• Multiplier Wild = Once again, the machine gun blasts off 2-5 wild symbols. They have a multiplier between 2X-5X, and land anywhere except the first reel.

• Sticky Wild = These wilds only appear in the free spins feature, and you should be lucky if you get one at an early stage since they are chained to the reel for all resuming free spins. The machine gun shoots one Sticky Wild anywhere on the grid except on the first reel.

Bonus Buy

You can buy yourself a machine gun blazing free spins session if you cannot wait for the scatter symbols to open it for you. You get to choose between 3 options:

• Normal Bonus Buy = You get 12 free spins for 100X your bet.

• Deluxe Bonus Buy = If you’re willing to spend 300X your bet, you’ll be rewarded 22 free spins.

• Random Bonus Buy = This is a gambling option. Pay 160X the bet and receive anywhere between 12 and 22 free spins.      

El Patron Slot Conclusion

There’s definitely a lot going on in this game. Although Stakelogic hasn’t given the gangster boss a name, it’s inevitable not to think of the drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar while playing. As long as that doesn’t concern you, there’s a big chance that you’re going to love this game. The graphics during the spins look good without being anything extra, but it can become dizzying watching the regular reels and the bonus reels spinning simultaneously. The game treats us with more exciting animations during wins and features, like the machine gun in the free spins. Other types of firearms are also going off on the bigger wins. The Action Feature also comes to life thanks to the bonus reels, giving this gangster game an extra exciting vibe. The changes of the actions in the Free Games also contribute to providing some additional variation.

On a few occasions playing this game, we ended up spinning for quite some time without making barely any wins. Considering it’s a highly volatile game, you might think it’s worth a high amount of the dead spins for the chances of winning big. Even the drug lords would probably agree that the max win of 25000X is worth fighting for. The return to player of 96.50% is remarkably good, putting this game in the top of video slots with the best RTP. There’s also a great bet range from a minimum bet of 0.10 to a maximum bet of 50.

El Patron is a gangster video slot from Stakelogic with drug dealers and machine guns going berserk while they’re trying to grab the max win of 25000X.