Taboo

The Taboo online slot, available at Endorphina casinos, uses a BDSM theme. While BDSM is generally not fully understood by many people, it was made popular in pop culture by the 50 Shades of Grey books and movies, which most practitioners consider a horrible representation of what it's really about. Regardless, this game focuses on the more visually appealing elements with lots of seductive symbols with tremendously strong graphics and a good selection of bonus features. While this game clearly has an adult theme, they haven't relied on it entirely, and instead, they've offered a good gameplay experience as well.

Format and Layout

The format for this game has five reels with three rows. There are 25 paylines as well, and you can pick from coins that go from $0.01 to $1 apiece. However, betting can also be adjusted to run from one coin per line to 10 coins per line. The smallest bet you have available is $0.25 per turn, which is plenty small enough for most players. You can also bet as much as $250 per spin, which covers all of the larger bet sizes that high rollers would want to use. Just like the theme this game is based on, there is a wager size that will work for anyone.

Scatter Symbol Payouts

There is a symbol of a woman's feet in high heels with red bottoms and a riding crop. This is the scatter symbol, and it appears on all five of the game's reels. Five of a kind pays out a solid 1,250x win, and you can also pick up 250x with four anywhere on the game's reels. Three of a kind can also get you 50x. Something really important to note about this scatter is that the wild symbol substitutes for it, so it's easier to get scatter pays than you'd initially think.

Wild Symbols

The wild symbol has two red pillows with black trim on top of each other. They show up on the middle three reels only, but they substitute for everything but the bonus symbol. They also give you more ways to win since they always expand to cover the whole reel whenever they show up. They can really help with multi-line wins because they expand, but they don't give you their own payouts.

Bonus Symbols and Features

There's a symbol that looks like a metallic, three-part yin-yang symbol with a black interior and holes drilled through with a red background, and that is the BDSM emblem. It's the bonus symbol in this game, and if you get three on the reels at the same time, you'll be taken to a bonus feature.

The first stage of the feature takes you to a wheel with chances to get instant wins worth up to 25 times your total win. If you land on the bonus spots on the wheel, you're taken to the Red Room Bonus. You'll want to pick between the different items on the screen with chances to get up to five extra payouts for your number of picks.

Symbols and Payouts

Five of a kind of the woman in black leather wearing a collar pays 10,000x, which is the top jackpot in the game. You can also earn 1,000x for five of the hands in cuffs. The cuffs themselves pay 750x for five, and five of the large, black paddle on a red pillow earns a 500x prize. Lining up five of the flogger with a silver, metal handle gets you 100x. There are also 100x prizes for five of the B, D, S or M letters, which we have to admit is a good way of handling the lower level payouts in this game, and it's a clear play on the card rank symbol usage in many other titles.

Overview

Not everyone is going to be a fan of the Taboo slot by Endorphina because of its theme, but you can't deny that they've went out of their way to give it a respectable treatment when they could have just been lazy and made it raunchy instead. Aside from that, the graphics are done extremely well, and the gameplay is strong also with expanding wilds, a value-packed pay table and a multi-stage bonus round that fits in perfectly with the overall theme. If you're a fan of this type of thing, and we imagine a lot of people are with how well the 50 Shades of Grey books sold, then you should check it out.