House of Dragons Slot

If it's an Oriental game, then you won't miss finding dragons with pretty Oriental maidens, but in this House Of Dragons game from Microgaming, you'll only find dragons and old men, not a single pretty maiden to be seen around. Perhaps they are all at home, cooking! Hehehe. Don't know if it's an oldie or only a few years old, but I've never come across it until recently, and hence it's only my first ever play on the game, but that's all I need to do to get a fairly reasonable picture of the entire game.

The Dragon is the Wild symbol, paying an excellent 10,000x the line bet for getting all 5 of them, if you can get them that is. It doubles all wins with it, substitutes for other symbols except for the Scatter, the Bonus and the other Wild symbols, but doesn't become stacked or expanded. Fair enough, at least it isn't a dumb Wild symbol. The Old Man is the other Wild symbol in the game, paying half the Dragon's amount, at 5000x the line bet for 5 of them, and similarly substitutes for other symbols as for the main Wild symbol. Why need 2 Wild symbols? Beats me. Perhaps to replace the non-stacking or non-expanding of the main Wild symbol. Just a guess.

The Fan is the Scatter symbol, paying from 2x up to 32x the total bet for getting 3, 4 or 5 of them. Upon appearing on the reels, the fans may open up to reveal a multiplier for the won amount, up to 32x total, or 800 credits maximum. There are no Free Spins game to be won from these Scatters and that is a big shame. The Archer is the Bonus symbol, paying 1600x the line bet for 5 of them, and getting 3 or more on adjacent reels, starting from reel 1, triggers the Archery game. You can either collect what has been won by getting the Bonus symbols, or gamble it for bigger wins by playing the Archery game. You can win up to 4x multiplier on each try, but the game ends when the arrow hits the '0' or no-win target on the board. No win means losing all that you have won, so you get nothing. Sheesh. Not to my liking this. The other symbols in the game pay from 300x to 50x the line bet for getting 5 of each kind. The paytable may look to be a good one, what with the good values of the Wild, Scatter and Bonus symbols, but all the other symbols have very low values, making the overall paytable an average one most of the time.

Firstly, I don't like any game that has no Free Spins game. Secondly, that Bonus Archery game can be very cruel indeed if your Archer hits the no-win target instead of the multiplier. The Archer's aim cannot be manually controlled, so whatever the outcome of the shoot is predetermined, like it or not. I managed to get 3 of the Bonus games, but lost all 3 of them, all because the arrow finally hit the no-win spot after a few rounds of hitting the multipliers. So, if you manage to get hits 2 or 3 times, then better collect quickly, or lose all of the accumulated winnings! Give me the usual Bonus game please, I don't like this one!

House of Dragons is a slot that offers good payouts during the base game. Most of the time I was getting something like 20 x bet. This is a 5 reel and 20 pay lines slot and it is powered by Microgaming software. The theme here is the Chinese Culture. Some of the symbols include a Chinese coin, a fan, a red lantern and more. This game has 2 bonus rounds but I did not manage to trigger the second one, the fan feature. If you get 3 or more fan scatter symbols then the fan symbol hides a prize which is revealed after the fan turns over.

The bonus round is very similar to King Arthur video slot game bonus. As a matter of fact the whole game is very similar to King Arthur slot. In the bonus round you can collect your winnings, which in my case were 8 euros, or select a target and your winnings will be multiplied by the amount where the arrows land. The first circle has 2 targets, one of them is x4 and x 0 of course, the second one is x 2 and x0, the third one is x3, x0.5 and x 0 and the last one is x2, x1 and x 0. I chose the last one because the circle with x 0 was the smallest and the arrow hit the circle with x 2. I had 16 euros but I did not want to collect my winnings but to gamble again. This time I chose the 3 circle and the arrow hit x 0.5 and again I had 8 euros. I had to hit the last circle one more time and I ended up the bonus with zero winnings. But it is like that when you gamble, right? All in all this is a very fun game to play. The graphics are really nice, the sound effects too. This game kind of keeps you busy all the time.

The name of this slot sounds a little bit dangerous, I am saying this because it is a slot about Chinese civilization and dragons, a theme that I like very much, especially because of the Chinese dragons and their tattoos. I think that it is a pretty old slot and I am saying this because of the poor graphics and the way that the slot is designed. But it doesn’t matter, for me was a new slot because it was first time when I played this slot and I was curious to see what kind of features has. It is a Microgaming slot, 20 paylines and a minimum bet of 0.20 euro but because of this, I decided to change the bet and to play with 0.40 euro bet. When I managed to catch 3 bonus symbols, I thought that I triggered the bonus game and I was waiting to see what kind of bonus is. But nothing happened and I was wondering why I didn’t get the bonus, so I checked the payout table and I realized that it has to be 3 bonus symbols on an active payline.

A bad thing about this slot is that it has no free spins but instead of this it has scatter symbol, 3 or more scatters will open and will reveal a win that is multiplied with different amounts. I managed to catch 3 scatters that gave me 11 euro win, quite decent.

Now, because it has only a bonus game, wild symbol and scatter symbol, no free spins, I will give an 8.

About the graphics aren’t many things to say, are decent but not great, I will give only a 7.

Maybe the payout rate is a bad thing, it doesn’t pay like the other Microgaming games does!

I tried this terrible game only once in my life, and seriously, I probably can nominate it to the 'worst online slot' I ever played. Game presented by Quickfire, but I am not sure who create this video slot, and this is good, because if I only can know the name of the company who create this slot, oh god I start blame them of course.

First of all it is game look, game looks terrible, all this not interesting symbols, and bad graph, it is just bad, I can not add anything else.

Game has stupid archery bonus game, I will not even describe it, because really, if you want - try it yourself. But please, better do this it in fun money, in case you did not want naturally burn with fire some of your money. And one thing that always put me in rage in online slots - there is two types of wilds, both pay different (5.000 coins and 10.000) coins, and one wild has x 2 multiplier. But listen what, each wild did not substitute for each other, what a joke!

I tried this game once, and I good remember how I had 70$ balance and played this slot with 1$ bets. At one point I hit 5 wilds on payline, there was different lines, but of course I thought that it will pay something, and this something would be decent, but no, zero payout. Wow, I was really, really angry about this line, because it is hard to imagine that you get 5 wilds, but your payout is zero. And then I quickly lost 70$. Shame on the creator of this slot.

I rate this slot with two stars, it is really not interesting and terrible online slot. If you just want to lost your money without a chances to win - this slot is perfect for you, for all others - stay away. I rate it with 2 stars, like I said.

"House of Dragons" is another interesting slot machine created by Microgaming, with a theme that recreates the atmosphere of an oriental temple dedicated to martial arts training, in general, both graphics and sound effects are typical of China and preserve a certainly agreeable balance. The slot has 3 x 5 reels and 20 paylines. Standard symbols are a Chinese coin, oriental pendant lamp, and symbols of poker 10, J, Q, K and A. It has two types of wild symbols, the first one is the face of Confucius that functions only as a substitute, the second one is a dragon and works as substitute plus 2 x multiplier. There are two types of scatters, the first one is a fan that is activated when 3 or more scatter symbols appear anywhere on the screen, and provide an instant prize defined in the pay table and can bring a hidden multiplier ranging from 2 x and 32 x. This figure has not seemed very relevant when it comes to profit. The second scatter is a bow, which requires 3 to 5 of these symbols on the same payline to be triggered and once it is done, the given prize is the one specified on paytable and it depends directly on number of scatters and bet value. In addition, game transitions into some gambling stage where 4 different targets are displayed each one with multipliers between 0 x and 4 x and player can choose one by one then an archer tries to hit in the middle in order to win and thus player can multiply or lose all or half of his prize, since buttons are available to collect half or whole prize.

Once I started playing, my impression during the first 10 minutes was that the payouts were slightly lower so as not normally reached to cover even bet value, but during the game I noticed that the frequency of occurrence wild symbol was reasonable enough to offset the small gains, and in my case, I got utilities thanks to bonus obtained with bow symbols, especially one lucky spin where I got five bows online and I could finally doubling winnings on gambling option when archer hit on 2 x target. Maybe I was very lucky, but still, I think this slot could be taken in mind when attempting to clear bonuses due to its medium volatility.