Voila! Slots
Head to Paris and take a stroll along the Champs-Elysees in this exciting new French-inspired slot machine from Microgaming. Themed on French culture this game features lots of recognisable motifs, such as cafe terraces, croissants, romantic couples, red wine and snails!
There are 243 ways to win in this game, along with wild symbols, multipliers, and free spins so players can thoroughly enjoy their dip in the River Seine.
Starting the French Adventure
Instead of playing with paylines, there are 243 ways to win in Voila! This means you can enjoy a huge number of winning chances on every spin. To change your bet you can alter your coin value from €0.01 to €0.20 to give a maximum overall bet of €120 per spin. This means most players will be able to enjoy playing the game. There is no autospin option for hands-free gaming, however, there is a ‘quick spin’ option which gives you the chance to speed up your gameplay with faster spins.
Voila! is a fun slot machine and the French theme is immediately apparent due to the traditional symbols. Some of the icons here include the Eiffel Tower, a French couple leaving a restaurant called ‘Chez Pierre’, a group of friends sitting outside a café, lobster, snails, croissant, cheese and red wine, orange chicken, a woman wearing a typical navy and white striped French top with a man in a blue jumper, a man being attacked by pigeons, a kissing couple, and a woman getting into a yellow car.
The background to the game features town houses and green grass, while there are some sound effects and a French-sounding jingle on every winning spin.
Low Regular Payouts in Paris
The highest paying symbol in the game is the wild Eiffel Tower icon which awards 1,500x your bet for 5 symbols on the reels. Apart from the wild symbol, the regular payouts from the matching symbols are not very high in this game.
The second-highest paying symbol in Voila! is the woman in the navy and white striped top and man in blue jumper symbol, which awards 250x your bet for 5 matching symbols, the kissing couple award 200x your bet for 5 symbols and the woman getting into the yellow car pays up to 175x your bet for 5 symbols.
The next-best symbols are the couple leaving the restaurant who award 150x your bet for 5 symbols, the man and the pigeons which awards 125x your bet, and the friends at the café which awards 10x your bet. The food symbols award the lowest payouts with the orange chicken paying up to 80x your bet, the lobster paying up to 60x your bet, the snails paying up to 50x your bet, the red wine and cheese awarding 40x your bet and the croissants awarding up to 30x your bet for 5 matching symbols together on a payline.
Wild Multipliers from the Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower is the wild symbol, which means it stands in for all the other symbols in the game, except the scatter, to create more potential winning combinations. Spinning 3 Eiffel Tower awards 150x your bet, while 4 Eiffel Towers pays 400x your bet, and spinning 5 Eiffel Towers pays the maximum of 1500x your bet.
Whenever the Eiffel Tower forms part of your payout you can also receive a random multiplier award to boost your winnings, which could be 2x, 3x or 4x.
Win up to 60,000 coins in Free Spins
Spinning at least 3 bonus symbols triggers the Free Spins round. Here you can enjoy 20 free spins with all wins doubled! This round can be re-triggered from within the round so there are lots of chances to keep triggering free spins for plenty of extra wins in Paris.
Gamble on the Turn of a Card
After every win you have the chance to double or quadruple your winnings by playing a simple card game. To play, hit ‘gamble’ and then choose a card colour or suit. The correct card colour doubles your win while the correct card suit quadruples it! Be careful though because if you choose wrongly, you forfeit your cash from that spin.
Un Petit French Adventure
Voila! has an interesting theme with fun symbols and images with a typically French flavour. The stereotypical images might give a chuckle to players but the lack of music is a disappointment considering some French-inspired accordion sounds would have added to the atmosphere. There are some good wins to be enjoyed from the Eiffel Tower wild symbol and the free spins are re-triggerable for extra potential freebies.
There is no bonus game, so this is another area that is lacking. Overall this is a nice idea from Microgaming but needs more features to raise it from a petit to a grande adventure.
