Donny Dough Free Play in Demo Mode by Hacksaw Gaming

Donny Dough review

Theme and Storyline

Donny Dough takes its theme from 80’s style game shows like The Price is Right. The show is hosted by Donny Dough, a cartoon character with dollar signs for eyes. This setting is combined with a main character drawn in the style of even older school animation like Tugboat Mickey and Felix the Cat.

Players will enjoy the unusual visual style and setting. This is especially true if they are fans of similar modern recreations of Max Fleischer’s art style in things like the Cuphead video game and TV series.

This blend of these art styles creates a unique theme that works surprisingly well.

Graphics, Sounds and Animations

The graphics are Donny Dough’s real selling point as a slot. This game uses cool animations to create a compelling main character. Mr. Dough stands beside the reels cheering the player on, while his likeness appears on the reels as the most valuable winning symbol.

The music is a big band tune that fits the world of a gameshow, though the spin and win sounds are a little more in the vein of other traditional slot machines.

Overall the Max Fleischer-esque style and animation work really well with the scan-line filters making this slot into something really worth checking out—at least at the audio-visual level.

Gameplay

Donny Dough has four rows of symbols on five reels, with a set of 14 winlines for the player to hit symbol combinations on.

The gameplay in the base game is very simple, with some variety supplied by the two possible bonus features that can be triggered or bought into directly.

However, it has one notable innovation—the Donny Dough symbols we already mentioned. Instead of having a set value, each of these symbols has a randomized multiplier attached.

When the player lands a winning sequence with the Donny Dough symbols, the win amount is determined by the multiplier amounts of all the multipliers on all the Donny Dough symbols in the winning combo.

The maximum win on any given round is capped at 10,000x of the player’s bet.

Wilds, Bonuses and Free Spins

Donny Dough does not have a Wild symbol. However, it does have two bonus games.

The first is the Sticky Dough bonus. Triggered by landing three FS symbols anywhere on the reels, this bonus is a simple free spin bonus with 10 free spins. Players can win more free spins during the bonus, by landing more combos of FS symbols.

The second bonus is the Strike Gold bonus. This is activated when you land four FS symbols on one spin. The player gets 10 free spins with a counter activated. The counter ticks up whenever the player has a winning spin with a Donny Dough symbol.

Additionally, when the Hat symbol lands, the player gets a number of respins equal to the number on the counter. A Hat symbol will always land on the last spin of the Strike Gold Bonus.

Bet Sizes, RTP and Variance

The return to player of Donny Dough is 96.23%, slightly higher than our yardstick for an average of roughly 96%.

The range of bets on the site we tested ran from a minimum bet per spin of $/£/€0.10 up to a maximum of $/£/€100.00 per spin.

Donny Dough’s volatility is medium, meaning that on average wins will roll in at a moderate rate with a moderate size. Unfortunately, this makes Donny Dough a poor choice for any player hoping to use our preferred slot machine strategies. This is because our slot strategies target the highest possible volatility.

Conclusion

Donny Dough is a nice-looking slot with some lovely design work and a really cool animation style.

However, the average RTP (96.23%) and medium volatility don’t get us particularly animated about this slot machine.

On the whole, we can not recommend this slot.