Slot of the Week: Doctor Love

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, our Slot of the Week, Doctor Love, will get your heart racing and your bankroll boosted with thermometer-busting wins!

Doctor Love is in the house and ready to cure what ails you in this first of two slot-based adventures that pokes fun at the “handsome doctor, sexy nurse” stereotype. With a ’70s twist, this slot promises simplicity and a decent dose of rewards through its free games feature.

In Short:

• Doctor Love is a 20-payline online slot by NextGen.
• It is available to play at seven New Jersey online casinos including Golden Nugget, SugarHouse, Unibet Casino and Pala Casino.
• The main feature of this slot is free games with tripled wins.
• The maximum payout of a single line in Doctor Love is $20,000.

The Basics

Doctor Love is a 5-reel, 20-payline slot that was launched by NextGen way back in the latter part of 2011. Don’t let its age fool you though: this slot is sure to tickle your funny bone with its comical design, while the dashing doctor and the busty nurse offer a little bit of eye candy for everyone.

Though it’s not jam-packed with features like many other slots these days, Doctor Love’s simplicity together with its unique character makes it a very playable game, to the point where it’s still a fan favorite to this day.

First Impressions

The game designers didn’t go to too much trouble when creating this slot as you’ll notice when you open it: there’s not really any kind of rich background, just a pinky-purpley blancmange of colors. The slightly ’70s feel font Doctor Love logo sits atop the reel set, which itself sports a vibrant light to dark pink frame, accentuating the slot’s comical character. Various colorful squares at both sides of the reels indicate the paylines, with winning ones highlighted for ease of reference.

Sticking with the simplistic design, the sound effects aren’t exactly top of the range either, which is hardly surprising as the slot is now more than 10 years old. Each spin of the reels triggers a glockenspiel trill, with wins announced by a brief celebratory upwards outburst and a flutter of hearts. Keep an eye on the handsome Doctor Love as he’ll break into amusing animation when he’s involved in a winning line!

Symbols

Many will be pleased to hear that there are no filler card value symbols in this slot, with all of the game’s symbols related to the comical doctor theme in some way. These symbols can be divided into high-paying and lower-paying symbols. The high-paying symbols are (apart from the Doctor) the attractive nurse, the poor sick guy, the blue teddy bear, and the ambulance.

On the lower end of the pay scale are the flowers, nurse’s watch, clipboard, crutches, stethoscope, and heart pills symbols.

The main man himself, Doctor Love is wild, in both dress-sense and game value, as he stands in for all other symbols except the scatter to boost your chances of winnings. You also stand to receive an extra payout with the appearance of just one Doctor Love symbol and the guy serves as the highest paying symbol in the game by far. The Owen Wilson look alike also runs a hand through his hair when he’s involved in a winning line.

The final symbol, the love meter, is perhaps the most important as it is the key to unlocking this slot’s single feature. Unlike other slots, Doctor Love also offers payouts for matches of this symbol.

Doctor Love Features

There is only one special feature in the Doctor Love slot and that’s the free games feature. Let’s take a look at how it works.

Free Games

The free games feature is triggered by landing three or more love meter symbols anywhere on the reels at once. The number of symbols appearing on the reels determines how many free games you get:

• 3 symbols = 10 free games
• 4 symbols = 15 free games
• 5 symbols = 20 free games

The slot comes to life when the feature is triggered, with the background turning a bright yellow and upbeat ’70s jazz serving as your musical soundtrack.

The best part of the free games feature is that all wins are tripled! You can also retrigger the feature by landing three or more love meter symbols again.

Doctor Love Payouts

The payouts you can expect from the Doctor Love slot will depend on how much you bet, how many symbols you’ve managed to line up along one of the game’s 20 paylines, and the payout values of those symbols.

Here’s a breakdown of the Doctor Love symbol payouts:

Symbol	x1	x2	x3	x4	x5
Doctor Love (wild)	2x line bet	10x line bet	200x line bet	1,000x line bet	5,000x line bet
Nurse	–	5x line bet	60x line bet	500x line bet	1,500x line bet
Sick guy	–	4x line bet	50x line bet	250x line bet	750x line bet
Teddy bear/ambulance	–	–	20x line bet	100x line bet	400x line bet
Flowers/nurse’s watch	–	–	15x line bet	75x line bet	200x line bet
Clipboard/crutches	–	–	10x line bet	50x line bet	150x line bet
Stethoscope/pills	–	–	5x line bet	20x line bet	100x line bet
Love meter (scatter)	–	2x total bet	4x total bet	15x total bet	100x total bet

Note that all symbols except the scatter pay out a multiple of your line bet, whereas the scatter symbol pays out a multiple of your total bet. You’ll also notice that some symbols pay for as few as one (wild) or two matches, giving you a better chance of ending each spin with something.

As you can see, the most you can get from a single line in this game is 5,000x your line bet. With the maximum bet per line in Doctor Love sitting at $4, that’s a single line payout of up to $20,000 waiting for you!

Remember, though, that scatters don’t need to be matched along paylines to trigger a payout. With the maximum total bet set at $80, finding five of these symbols anywhere on the reels at this level will reward you with a payout of $8,000!

Plus, you’ve got all the tripled wins from the free games feature to take into account too, all without any extra cost to you!

Doctor Love RTP and Volatility

So how do the payouts of Doctor Love compare to those of other slots? To make this comparison, we’ll use the industry standard measurements of Return To Player (RTP) and Volatility.

The RTP of a game is defined as the percentage of played funds that is paid out to players in the long run. In other words, it’s the opposite of the house edge, which is the cut the casino keeps. Doctor Love has an RTP of 95%, which is just 1% lower than the industry average. That means it’s a fairly attractive game to play in terms of payouts over time.

The volatility (or variance) of a game is the balance between small, frequent wins and larger, less frequent wins and where on that scale the payouts lie. Low volatility slots tend to pay out little and often, whereas high volatility slots pay out much more sporadically. Doctor Love is classed as a low to medium volatility slot, which means you can expect lots of small, frequent wins with a few larger payouts thrown in every now and then. The result is a reasonably exciting slot that’s perfect for beginners or those looking for a decent gaming session that’s not over before you know it!

Diagnosis: Fun ’70s Wins!

Doctor Love is a simplistic yet entertaining slot that provides enough win-boosting potential to keep you playing without overcomplicating gameplay with masses of features.

This slot takes a stereotypical “handsome doctor” theme and plays with it a bit, introducing some ’70s flare in the clothing and music, and putting it all together in a humorous comic book style design.

There’s nothing amusing about the payouts though, with some significant and very real cash waiting to be won here!

You’ll find Doctor Love at several of the top New Jersey online casinos including Golden Nugget, SugarHouse, Unibet Casino and Pala Casino.

Ready to see the doctor? Simply check out our detailed reviews of the online casinos linked above and join the one that suits you best. Claim the site’s welcome bonus if you fancy it, then let Doctor Love prescribe a healthy dose of wins!