Tales of Dr. Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle was created by English children’s book author Hugh Lofting and the first book was published in 1920. The character started off as a nice distraction in letters Lofting wrote to his children from the trenches during World War I.

Most of you will know that Doctor John Dolittle is a doctor that rather heals animals instead of people and who has the unique ability to actually talk to his animal patients in their respective languages. The adventures of Dr. Dolittle spread 15 books between 1920 and 1952 and have entertained children all over the world ever since.

The slot tries to bring the uplifting feeling and the involved characters to the reels and manages to do so in magnificent fashion. You’ll find yourself connecting with John and his charges at once and will be transported back into the actual stories in no time.

As mentioned before, Tales of Dr. Dolittle is played on the fairly standard 5×3 reels with 25 paylines. The background shows the doctor’s practice on a hill and his airship that he uses for his travels (as if he were trying to go around the world in 80 days…but that’s another story).

On the reels themselves, you’ll find the symbols divided into two different categories, as per usual. Low-paying and high-paying symbols. The low-paying symbols are the five card values 10 to A and the high-paying symbols are represented by the doctor himself as well as his parrot Polynesia, his pig Gub-Gub and his horse Toggle.

All of this draws you into the story even more and you’ll be fully immersed by the time you trigger one of the bonus features, that we’ll explain below.

You can spin the reels in Tales of Dr. Dolittle for as little as $0.25, but you can also crank it up to eleven and bet $100 each spin. The maximum win is quite modest at $25,000, but since the slot has a low variance, it isn’t exactly the go-to game for high rollers anyway.

The RTP clocks in at 96.70% and that makes for a very fair slot as well, seeing that the average RTP is only around 96%.

Overall, this is a slot that caters to players that just want to enjoy the game. It pays out quite frequently, albeit not very highly and it looks nice and has some exciting features that can garner higher wins.