Lucky Koi is Microgaming powered video slot with 5 reels and 25 pay-lines. This slot is inspired with Oriental culture and symbols. The animations and graphics are amazing, and there’s a nice soundtrack that goes along with it. The reels are transparent, and are set against the moving watery background. Give this interesting slot a spine for free on this page or visit Microgaming Casinos to play for real money.
Before you hit the reels, you should set your bets. By clicking on "Bet" you can set coins size, the number of coins per line and lines. "Coins Size" button will set coins denomination which ranges from 0.01 to 0.10, and "Coins" is used to set the number of coins per line that you wish to bet, and "Lines" will set the number of lines. "Spin" will set the reels in motion, and "Autoplay" option is used to turn the reels without interruption for a chosen number of times.
The Lucky Koi is the Wild symbol, and it can form its own winning combos. This Wild symbol can substitute all symbols except for the Scatter. The Scatter symbol can form scatter wins, and once you hit 3 or more of them anywhere on the reels you will trigger the bonus choice. You can choose between Free Spins and Koi Bonus feature.
Once you trigger Free Spins you will get between 10 and 30 spins, with up to x5 multiplier on all wins. Another 3 scatters will re-trigger the feature. If you decide to choose Koi Bonus game you will play a picking game and you will have to pick between 3 to 6 koi fish. Each will award you with the bonus amount which will be totaled at the end of the feature. Also, you may win some additional picks.
Game Play
Coins Size: Set the coins size.
Coins: Set the number of coins per line.
Spin: Set the reels in motion.
Lines: Set the number of lines.
Autoplay: Turn the reels without interruption for a chosen number of times.
Whenever I visit a land-based casino here in The Netherlands or abroad there is always one thing that springs to my mind, which is the high presence of Asian gamblers. It's no secret that Asians, especially the Chinese, are very fond of gambling and big software providers like Microgaming pay attention to this detail and basically also release games to cater this big group of loyal gamblers.
Lucky Koi is basically one of those games, which has been releases just before the Chinese New year I believe. I've experienced a couple sessions with this game, and the results definitely weren't anything to write home about. It's hard to judge a slot based on 500-600 spins though. So I'm not going to be a harsh critic here with my review.
Lucky Koi offers 5 reels and 25 paylines, which means the minimum bet for each spin is only 25 cents. I played this game on a bet size of 50 cents per spin. The symbols are made up from typical Chinese fishes, teapots, turtles, frogs etc. Anything you would expect to see during a Chinese new year's celebration.
In addition the game also features scatters and wilds (lucky koi symbol). I'd say this slot is pretty low variance. The best payout in base game is 40x bet size by hitting a 5oak. I didn't get further than only half of that. To trigger free spins you need at least 3, 4 or 5 scatters.
The bonus feature basically gives the player the option to choose. A trend which a lot of recent Microgaming releases seem to offer. You can either choose for free spins up to 30 free spins and a 5x multiplier or a random bonus win with picks. I chose the first option and received exactly 30 free spins and a 5x multiplier.
I just knew I had to win big, but to my disappointment I only ended up winning 80x bet size. I quit my session with break-even results. There is no doubt this game has some potential, but 80x bet size with so many free spins and such a high multiplier is quite disappointing. Nevertheless, I will probably give this game another chance sooner or later.
My final rating for Lucky Koi is an 7.5/10.