Astral Luck Slot Rival

This Astral Luck game from Rival software is one game that I haven't played before, simply because I couldn't access any Rival games before, until very recently. Needless to say, there are still many more Rival games that I haven't played on, but will do eventually, slow but surely. Rival is yet another game provider that likes to clone their games, very much like what Microgaming does, which Play'nGo are also doing nowadays, probably taking the easy way out to produce 'new' games for their customers. Well, I'm one player who can never appreciate such a move. I can accept 1 or 2 cloned games, but more than this, the games become real boring and unexciting. Astral Luck is one such game for me.

The Wild symbol in Astral Luck does not pay anything for itself, does not double any wins with it, making it a dumb symbol, and only appears on reels 1, 3 and 5, but it does expands into a full Wild Reel with any wins. It also substitutes for other symbols except for the Scatter and Bonus symbols. The Scatter symbol is yet another dumb symbol that doesn't pay anything for getting them, but getting 3, 4 or 5 of them triggers 5, 10 or 20 free spins, with all wins tripled. Yep, that's right, only 5 free spins to start with, sheesh! Free Spins games are always retriggerable for Rival games but there's no such indication for Astral Luck. I didn't get any chance of the retrigger, so this bit remains uncertain for me. There is also the Bonus symbol, another dumb one that doesn't pay anything for itself, but getting 3 or more of them triggers the Astral Wheel Bonus Round. 3 spins on the Wheel are awarded to win cash prizes. As for the other symbols in the game, each zodiac symbol pays from 7500x down to 50x the line bet for getting 5 of each kind. Pity that the Wild, Scatter and Bonus symbols don't pay anything, making this paytable a low one.

Rival has been characterized by creating slot machines with similar characteristics, one might even say it almost always uses the same template and only adjust details such as colors, images and music in each of their new games. In the development of this game called "Astral Luck" Rival does not seem to have changed their strategy in the design, however they have implemented small changes and innovations, of which the most noticeable to the naked eye is the use of animations 3D on symbols, which gives a little more life to the game.

Astral Luck has the traditional 5-reel format and has 50 paylines. Bet levels can be chosen by selecting from 1 to 10 coins and coin values are available for each $ 0.01, $ 0.05, $ 0.10 and $ 0.25. The 12 zodiac signs are used as symbols during the base game as well: 8 as standard symbols, 1 as wild symbol, 1 as scatter for free spins, 1 as scatter for jackpot, and 1 as scatter for the bonus feature.

- The wild symbol works as substitute for standard symbols and expands itself to form new winning lines.
- Free Spins: They are triggered with 3, 4 or 5 scatters to grant 5, 10, and 20 spins respectively. All winnings during these spins have 3x multiplier.
- Jackpot: The prize for this feature is specified in the pay table, and the maximum multiplier is 7500x the bet on a line of 5 of this kind.
- Bonus round: is triggered with 3 or more scatters, and once triggered the transition is made to a wheel of fortune with double ring, each ring contains the 12 zodiacal signs and both rotate independently. Stopping, each ring grants a certain prize depending on the sign of the Zodiac that is successful, so that the player receives two awards for each spin. In total, the player receives 3 turns. Trigger this feature is not so difficult and granted awards are quite generous, and because of all these, this feature deserves the title of "the crown jewel," even when compared with prizes delivered by other slots during their respective bonus rounds.

I believe “Astral Luck” has been a simple but lovely game. For me it was crucial to have raised my stakes slowly to finally get a decent profit. A generous game that cannot be underestimated and it definitely deserves a try.