There are more than 400 Dragon-themed slots out there from before, but this hasn’t stopped Betsoft from adding another one to the ever-growing pile. The animated visual presentation is quite dramatic in Take The Kingdom, with the red dragon playing an active part in all stages of the game. He’s mostly dormantly curled around the 5×5 grid though, but he comes alive every 7th spin.
That’s when the special overlay Fireball Symbols are turned wild by the dragon’s firebreath, and this gives you an enhanced spin to look forward to on a highly regular basis. With an overall low symbol value, you cannot hope for more than 280x your stake from a single spin, and up to3,640xis possible in total from the bonus round. While nothing new is on offer here, you get a decent enoughSpin Cyclefantasy release.
The low-value royal symbols all pay 0.24x your stake for 5-oak wins, while the 4 medium-value weapon symbols that pay 0.48x your stake for the same. The top-tier premiums — a Knight in full armor, a Princess and the King — pays between 0.8 and 2.8 x your stake, respectively, and the Wild symbol pays the same as the King if you land 5 on a payline.
The base game runs incycles of 7 spins, and you can see theFireball Countdown Timerdown in the left-hand side corner. EachDragon symbolthat lands turns into asticky Fireball Countdown symbol, and these allturn wildwhen the countdown reaches zero. The sticky countdown fireball symbols do not block regular wins though, as they are overlay symbols until activated into wilds by the dragon’s fire on the 7th spin.
The Bonus Round is triggered when you land 3 treasure chest scatters on reels 2, 3 and 4, and this awards12 free spins. You willrandomly get 6, 9 or 12 wildsassigned for the bonus round, and these will shift positions per free spin. There is no way to retrigger the bonus round or get extra spins, and non-UK players can purchase the3 different versions of the featureas follows:
You get to see the wild release feature in action a few times before we purchase the top-tier bonus round. This happens at 1:50 into the 4:43-minute highlights video, and the feature plays out for the remainder of the video. We landed decent payouts on pretty much every free spin, and you can check it all out by hitting the play button below.
At least Betsoft has given us a welcome break from all the Xmas slot reviews with this late-year medieval fantasy release, but Take The Kingdom contains nothing we haven’t seen many times before. The visuals are quite engaging though, with the massive, animated dragon curled around a grid that keeps bulging towards you per spin. The dragon plays an active part too, as he blasts the sticky fireball symbols so they transform into wilds on every 7th spin.
The 7 spins wild release cycle gives you something to look forward to on a very regular basis, and it’s enough to make the base game far less of a grind than it otherwise would have been. The bonus round is largely determined by how many moving wilds you get, something that’s clearly reflected in the bonus buy prices. Overall, this is a fairly decent mid-level fantasy installment with an okay3,640x potential.
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Arthur Pendragon- is an IGT installment with a somewhat related medieval theme, and it comes with a 10 spins wild release cycle. You’ll choose a number of spins combined with a number of random wilds when the bonus round triggers, and the options get progressively better the more triggering scatters you land.
Dragon’s Fire- is a popular fantasy slot from Red Tiger, and it comes with 5×4 reels and 40 paylines. The dragon’s egg multiplier can increase up to x50 via consecutive wins, and it can be boosted by +10 at random times. The multiplier doesn’t reset in the bonus round, which can lead to 10,000x payouts at the most.
Dragon’s Breath- is a Rabcat fantasy release with a similarly mean-looking dragon curled around the 5×5 cluster pays engine grid. You get double/triple flame modifiers awarding cloned reels bonus spins in the base game, and the dragon awards up to 11 wilds per free spin in the bonus round.
