Imperial Riches is 5 reels and 15 paylines video slot powered by Net Entertainment software. This Orient-themed game will take you to on one of the most beautiful gardens you’ve ever seen. Sound the gong in this verdant garden here for fun or at any NetEnt Casino for real.
How to Play Imperial Riches Slot
You will have to set your bets before you enter the tranquility phase that exudes from this garden.
- Coin denominations can be set by clicking Coin Value +/- button, and in combination with Level +/- it will constitute the total bet.
- Max Bet will set the maximum bet available.
- Spin will set the reels in motion after the bets have been set.
- Autoplay will turn the reels automatically for a chosen number of times without interruption.
Slot Features
Gong is the Wild symbol which can appears only on reels 2 through 4, and it can act as a substitute for any other symbol in the game except for the Scatter.
Free Falls
The red lantern is the Scatter and if you land at least 3 of them anywhere on the reels, you will trigger the Free Falls feature, and will be awarded with 10, 15 or 20 spin, depending on the number of triggering symbols. During Free Falls, the Avalanche is active, which opens the possibility of new wins on each spin. This feature will let you collect jewels that can trigger the Lucky Pond feature.
Lucky Pond
You will get to see a pond with 2 fish – Gold and Blue. Gold Fish is thee Coin Fish, and the Blue Fish is the Bonus Fish. The jewels collected during the Free Falls will get dropped into the water, and can be gobbled by either fish. Jewels eaten by Coin Fish will award coin win which are multiplied by the bet level, and if Bonus Fish eats 3 of the fallen jewels, you will gain access to Jackpot round.
Jackpot
The game has5 different jackpots: Rapid, Mini, Midi, Major, and Mega. There are 3 progressive local jackpots that vary in size, and 2 fixed jackpots, and each corresponds to a different fish. The jackpot is awarded when the same fish in Jackpot round eats 3 jewels.
Summary
Imperial Riches is an immersive and relaxing slot with 96.88% RTP with great design and a lot of interesting and awarding features. We think that you will have fun spinning these reels despite the theme which is pretty common.
Here’s one game that plays like Gonzo’s Quest but doesn’t pay like Gonzo’s Quest! How do I mean? Well, this Imperial Riches game plays with the same cascading winning symbols as in Gonzo, has decent win values (100x total bet downwards, both Wild and Scatter symbols are non-paying), plays with only 15 paylines instead of 20, but has 5 Jackpot Prizes to be won (Gonzo’s Quest has none). Straight away, I knew that getting any decent win on this Imperial game would be damn tedious, typical of all Jackpot games.
Also unlike Gonzo’s Quest, this game is oriental-themed, so the symbols in play are of the usual oriental kind – lantern, ingot, coin, bamboo and fish. Getting 3 non-paying Lantern Scatters awards 10 Free Falls, but without any Win Multiplier (argh!). Each 3/4/5-symbols winning combination are collected as 3/4/5 Jewels, which would then be played in a separate following feature, whereby these Jewels would drop down and be eaten by Fishes. Any Jackpot Fish that manages to eat 3 same Jewels would award its corresponding Jackpot Prize, starting from 100 Euros upwards (the top 3 prizes are progressive pools).
Having said that, some may like or love jackpot games, but I found this Imperial Riches game to be damn slow and blardy boring! There isn’t any way to quicken the spins, or to stop the spinning, so you just have to bear the agony of the slow spinning/stopping reels. I am a very patient man, but I simply couldn’t stand the agony! Hahaha.
Okay, to be fair to this game, I have only played one session on it so far, but chances of me playing it again sometime later would be absolutely none! Yep, nothing could draw me to play Imperial Riches one more time. It’s not only slow and boring, I also found the general payouts to be sickening to me, even those from the Free Falls feature games! This game reminds me of another horrible NetEnt game – Temple Of Nudges.