Draglings Slot

I was keen to try out some more Yggdrasil games after being hugely impressed with the ones I have already played and what better place to try out some new slots in fun mode than here at AskGamblers? As soon as I saw the thumbnail posted here at AskGamblers I guessed that this would be at the very least a similar game to "Magic Mushrooms" but it turns out to be a full clone. It's the first Yggdrasil game I have come across that isn't an entirely fresh and unique machine, but that's okay because Magic Mushrooms is a fantastic slot.

The graphics are extremely detailed as I've come to expect from this provider and beautifully colourful. Mushrooms have been replaced by dragons in this game but there are still the same three types on the reels acting as different kinds of wilds - blue is your every day common or garden wild whereas purple will expand to fill the entire reel but only appear on reels two and four, and finally the red dragon appears only on the centre reel but is able to add additional "spreading wilds" to the reels as a reward for his rare appearances!

As with so many high variance games Draglings is all about the bonus round, and it's as exciting as ever when the scatters begin to drop into view playing this game! A nice touch is that even just two scatters rewards you with a couple of free spins which helps to temper a little of the disappointment of missing your third scatter. At the other end of the spectrum a massive 75 spins can be yours for all five scatters but I've yet to even see four as yet.

Creating clones of existing games is a trick that Microgaming like to do all the time and I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing, potentially bringing a game to a wider audience as some people choose which slot to play based entirely on the games theme. That said I do hope this isn't a sign of things to come - Yggdrasil are one of the most innovative game creators to spring up in a long time and I'd hate to see that creative genius disappearing in favour of an endless stream of clones.

Draglings is very nice looking video slot machine from Yggdrasil Gaming software provider. It has 5 reels with 40 pay lines. I played it a month ago, but I did not really enjoy while I was playing it. The graphics animations are amazing, great here, but the pay outs are very poor.

The game offer many wild symbols. Expanding wild which expand to cover the entire reel, spreading wild which randomly turn 1 to 4 symbols into wild and normal wild symbols. Those wilds appearing during base game and also into free spins feature.

Free spin mode is the only feature here and it start when you get at least three scatter symbols on the reels. Free spins are full of wilds and two or more freespin scatter symbols award you with extra free spins. During my gameplay session I had twice free games, but I never retriggered free spins with some more additional free games. I do not like pay outs here, most of my free games were empty spins. Once I won a little less than 2€ from minimum bet, and second time nothing at all.

Also during base game I did not won anything bigger than x2 –x5 bet. I do not like this game at all, I had bad luck on it without any decent winnings. I expected more from free games. The payouts are bad here, I expected bigger winnings when wilds appears. Once I had more than 3 wild symbols on the reels, but the pay out was less than x5 bet. Most of the time I got winnings which were small than my bet and this is why I do not like it.

What I saw here as good thing is graphics and animations. But the payouts were really bad for me and I am sure I will not play it again. I will rate it with 5 stars.

If I have to choose my favourite mythical, fantasy creature it definitely would be dragons and I always love to play any kind of video slots where this fire-breathing beast is involved. Draglings is one such kind of production from Yggdrasil and fortunately what I have seen so far from this developer is also manifested in this great game and graphically and visually this is a high quality, very well-done slot. I really admire the crystal clear symbols and little animations and even though the used symbols may be seem for some players a little bit one-schemed as most of them illustrate dragon’s eggs but the different kind of colours, shapes and contours make them very nice looking and for me attractive pictograms and the dragons characters also show top-notch pictorial works. Perhaps the slot doesn’t possess great atmosphere creating ability but it’s not a problem and the interface of the game is still very beautiful and impressive.

The very first thing you notice after opening up the game for playing is the unusual appearance of the reels as the game doesn’t follow the well-known regular 3x5 format instead it works with placing its symbols within honeycomb shaped environment so recognizing the paylines and winnings is not always easy. Especially if we consider though the slot is supposed to be a 20-payline slot but because it allows the winning combinations to be completed not just the traditional left-to-right mode but starting from the other direction too so actually we must play with and pay for 40-paylines per spin. Despite of this fact (what it means, there’s increased chance for getting more simultaneous wins at the same spin and because we place bets on 20+20 paylines, a 5 of a kind win automatically counted as 2 5 of a kind win, one starting from left and the other one from right) so the best line win has got quite good rewarding ability as it is 700 times of line bet and all other winning combinations are also decent in moneywise standpoint.

To boost our winnings the slot offers several ways for example using 3 different Wilds. The Blue, Red and Purple baby Dragons are all Wild and the Blue one works as traditional substituting symbol while Red has the ability to turn other symbols (1-4) on the table into Wilds (and it’s great the transformed symbol can be any kind of Wild) and the Purple Dragon becomes Expanding Wild. Needless to say, the more Wilds we see on the table the more we can win and fortunately the Wilds are really busy at this game and especially if Spreading Wild arrives on the table. The Fire Ball symbol is the Scatter and triggers 10 free spins if 3 of them become visible anywhere on the reels (but five Fire Balls would trigger incredible 75 free games) and even if no win multiplier is involved there but the promise of the increased number of Wilds is really true as it is very noticeably that more Dragons appear during free spins.

The game tends to run into cold streaks but unless other slots where it also happens this game promptly can compensate it with a great free spin session or many identical symbols and Wilds on a regular spin. I consider Draglings a very well paying slot and really like the big wins what this game could provide at times. I believe this slot is a very great product from Yggdrasil and there are not too many things that I could name as weaknesses of the game and that’s why I could advise anyone who doesn’t know this beautiful game yet to come and try because I really believe this slot could offer some great things what everyone can appreciate and enjoy.

Draglings is a video slot from Yggdrasil Gaming that has been released recently. The game can be found at several reputable casinos such as Mr Green and Vera & John. If you ever played the Magic Mushroom video slot from Yggdrasil Gaming, then soon enough you will notice quite some similarities compared to Draglings.

Basically the slot format is exactly the same for these two games. Both have 5-reels and 40-paylines, while reel 1 & 5 contain 3 rows, reel 2 & 4 have 4 rows and reel 5 has 5 rows. There is a difference though when it comes to the minimum bet. Draglings offers the possibility to play with a linebet of only €0.005.

Therefore you can play with all 40 paylines with just a bet of 20 cents per spin. The theme of Draglings focuses on cute dinosaur eggs. The majority of the symbols consist of these small eggs, while there are also some spectacular wild symbols to look forward to.

There are three type of wilds. The blue wild dinosaur is a standard wild, the purple wild is an expanding wild and covers the whole reel when it appears and finally there is also red spreading wild that can turn up to 4 symbols into a wild symbol (standard, expanding or spreading wild).

These symbols appear very often, but what bothers me is the low payouts on this game. It’s pretty hard to win decent money while playing draglings. I played this game on 20 cent bets and I must admit that during base game the wins were very small. I never won more than 6-7 euros in a couple hundred spins.

You’d really need the red eggs and a 5oak to hit it good. The wilds do offer the potential to cover all reels though for a 30,000 coin jackpot. This would be easier to do in free spins mode. If you get 3, 4 or 5 free spins symbol during base game you get awarded respectively 10, 20 or 75 free spins.

During free spins 2 of those symbols add another 2 spins while more symbols can re-trigger the feature to add additional free spins. What I liked about the free spins is that the wild symbols appear even more frequently.

I often had a good combination thanks to the spreading wild turning multiple symbols into expanding wilds. It’s a fun game but the payouts remain the only point of criticism. My best win was around 20 euros (100x bet), but it really takes a lot in order for that to happen.

Less potential than similar slot Magic Mushrooms. The paytable is less generous this time.

Today I will make a premonition: the Yggdrasil slots will soon end the reign of the Microgaming slots. These slots are still few in number and you can find them again only in Microgaming casinos, but the quality of the play here in all respects surpasses everything I have seen and played before in many years of gambling. Do you remember how it was years ago when NetEnt came first to the market with the slot “Elements”? It had superb graphics, so perfect at the time that computers were much slower than the slot requirements. Well this time Yggdrasil brought some slots so well made that you say their story is real. And many of them give also wins so great that you wonder how they do not go bankrupt. Dozens of Euros won from one spin for a relatively small bet.

Now with this slot “Draglings” Yggdrasil brought one of the best slots on the market. If you played “Magic Mushrooms” (in my opinion the best Yggdrasil slot up to now), this story of “Draglings” is even more beautiful. Somewhere in a cave many dragons laid eggs. The eggs have different colors and shapes and almost from all of them are hatching dragons. Everywhere it sounds the “grrrr..” of the small dragons. Some small dragons have already hatched, and when they do not participate to the game play (when they are not Wilds) they sleep on an egg. Other dragons throw flames over other eggs and turn them into other Wilds. Even from time to time one dragon grows faster than the others and expands into an entire reel. The story and the pleasure of playing here are so great that the makers of the slot have allowed themselves this time to reduce the payouts (and thus the total wins). Here there are no more those tens of Euros won from a single spin, and even with luck more than 5 Euro you will not win even when the entire screen fills with all possible dragons (Wilds). However this is an Yggdrasil slot and is not a miserly slot.

Because the story is so beautiful slot (although I have not won here as playing the other Yggdrasil slots) I will give this slot a mark of 9.

Rarely you succeed to align as many eggs as you want and although you expect fabulous wins you generally win just about 50 cents - 1 Euro. In contrast with many other slots the “Stop” button is of big use here. If you stop in time the central reel, you will be able to align many more symbols more frequently than if you leave everything to the chance.

Do you remember how many Big Wins I had playing at the other Yggdrasil slots? (10-20 Big Wins from 300-400 spins). Here in as many spins I had no Big Win.