Mystique Grove Slot

Mystique Grove is one more games listed under Microgaming but isn't really created by them. There seems to be a few other game providers that are teaming up with Microgaming, or perhaps it's just the game platform that allows such integration. Anyway, it doesn't really matter. This game plays with 243 ways to win, but is indicated as 'All Pays', the minimum starting bet is only 0.25, not the usual 0.30, and all the icons are presented within individual circles or bubbles, further indicating that this isn't one of Microgaming games.

The Bird's Nest is the Wild symbol in the game, with the egg hatching out whenever a winning combination is encountered. Cute! Hehehe. However, this Wild symbol is a totally dumb symbol, because it doesn't pay anything for itself, it doesn't double wins with it, it doesn't become stacked or expanded, and only does substitution for other symbols except for the Scatter symbol. The word 'Mystique' is the Scatter symbol, paying 1250x the line bet for getting 5 of them, and getting 3 or more of these Scatters trigger the Mystique Grove Bonus game. Nope, it isn't a Free Spins game, because free spins are totally non-existent in this Mystique Grove game, argh!

What you do get in the Bonus game is a screen of 15 flowers, and you keep on picking one flower at a time to win cash prizes, until a 'Collect' icon is encountered, which ends the game. A pretty dull game if you ask me, and it doesn't pay much either. I would still prefer to take my winning chances with free spins! As for the other symbols, the Green Fairy pays 1000x, the Red Fairy pays 750x, the Witch pays 750x too, the Owl pays 500x, and the rest pay from 250x to 100x, all per line bet for getting 5 of each kind. A low paytable, quite typical of 243 ways to win games.

Mystique Grove may not be a Microgaming game, but it treated me just like one! Meaning, it took lots and lots of almost-non-paying spins before I could get that first blardy Bonus game, which finally paid me a lousy 32x my bet amount. After many more spins later, the second Bonus game came, but paid me an even lower win of just 24x. What the argh! Yep, I lost my deposit, thankfully it wasn't a big amount, not long after starting playing this game for the very first time, and I only got dissatisfaction in return. One play on this Mystique Grove is all it's going to get from me!

Mystique and serene music is the first thing that crosses my mind when I think of the Mystique Groove video slot. This is 5 reels and 243 ways to win video slot run by the Microgaming software provider. The scatter in this game is the Mystique Grove Logo and the Wild Mushroom is the wild.

After 50 spins I triggered the bonus. It is called Mystique Groove and during the bonus round there are 15 flowers from which you have to choose to win prizes, until you pick the flower that says collect. I have won 17.80 euros and I think that I picked the one that says collect after my fifth flower. The next time I triggered the bonus I have opened all the flowers and I got 60.80 euros. Some of the flowers were worth 1000 coins and the lowest value was 40 coins.

There are no payouts during the base game. I played this slot with a minimum bet of 0.25 per spin because my budget was really tight at that point so there were no big wins. There are usually 5 of a kind symbols, but most of the times with weak symbols and the most that I have got was 6 x bet. But I also got 5 of a kind in a combination with 2 wilds and then I was getting something like 20 x bet. The good thing with this game is that the bonus round is triggered very often during the session so the game kind of compensates for all the money that it takes from you. The only thing that this slot is missing is the free spins round, but even without that I cannot say that this is a boring game. The background and the symbols are very colorful and well crafted so you are kept busy somehow. It is an interesting game but you need to be persistent and wait for the bonus round.

This is a Microgaming slot that impressed me first because of the graphics and second because of the features that it has. Only 4-5 times I played this slot and that’s because I just found out about it when I was searching for new slots to play on AskGamblers. I like because it has a minimum bet of 0.25 euro, it has 25 paylines and even if it has only bonus game and no free spins, it is quite good regarding the payout rate. Usually, I am playing with a 20 euro balance and no bonus because I don’t like to complete wagering requirements at this slot. While I was playing, I managed to catch the bonus game called Mystique Groove, you have to choose flowers to collect prizes but if you manage to collect one where is written “collect”, the feature will end. From this bonus I won 24 euro, a decent amount because the bet was only 0.25 euro and my account balance was almost reach zero.

Now, it is a little bit strange to play a slot that doesn’t have free spins, but you will get used to play because it is an interesting slot in my opinion and deserve to be played even if isn’t capable of big wins.

I will give a 9 for the graphics, even if the symbols are not well designed, I think that the cards symbols don’t have their place in this slot, but this is just my opinion, I will give an 8 because I like the theme and also the sounds.

Regarding the features, the free spins are missing, most of the players won’t play a slot that doesn’t have free spins, but it is almost the same thing because you will win money on both features.

Only a bad thing about this slot, the reels are spinning way too much in my opinion and even if you hit the stop button, will keep spinning!

“Mistique Grove” is a slot where you have to be persistent. Although it is a relatively new slot from Microgaming casinos and although it has all the 243 ways, a win here is very, very rare. Having a magic tree in the background, the slot symbols that float on the screen represent different Fairies from the forest. The music (or better said, the magical sound) accompanies each spin and with all the avarice of the slot, the game is enjoyable.

With a minimum bet of only 25 cents, unfortunately 90% of the spins are losers. The game plays as follows: after 10-20 spins when you are not winning anything, you get 3 "Jacks" or 4 “Nines” that pay about 5-30 cents. All this would be disastrous, but after about 50-70 spins, you finally manage to have 5 “Fairies” of a kind that bring 5-10 Euro or you are lucky enough to enter the bonus round. In this round the symbols of the slot transform into different flowers to be picked up to “Collect”. This Bonus Game is very generous, and you will always finish with some extra 10-15 Euros. And because the bet is only 25 cents, these 10-15 Euros you just won (from 5 Fairies or from the Bonus) are enough to pay for the next 40-60 spins. At least in my case, I got relatively easily the Bonus Game and despite all losses from normal spins, I gathered some extra money. After the first 100 spins, playing 2 times the Bonus Game and having 2 large wins of 5 and 8 Euros, I had in an extra of over 20 Euros! At the end of about 250 spins played, I stopped with about 17 Euro extra.

As I said here you must be persistent, the wins (even the small ones) are very rare. However the story of the slot and the graphics are the most beautiful and thus the spins themselves are not boring, even after a long playing time. But for gamblers who need the thrill, I must say the slot is disappointing. For this reason, in my opinion the game is only slightly better than an average Microgaming slot. Pity.