Nirvana Slot Yggdrasil Gaming

Honestly speaking, whenever I see a game from Yggdrasil, I would avoid it! Why? That’s because all my previous plays and experiences on their games have not been good or successful, although a few of their games do look good enough to give big wins – perhaps it’s just that I could get them! Hahaha. This Nirvana game doesn’t look good enough to me, but should be okay to play at the right time and day, or with good luck. Other than that, I would stay clear of it, hehehe.

For a start, the Wild symbol is non-paying and non-doubling, so that sucks! Next, getting 2 or 3 Scatter symbols do not pay as well, unless you get 4 or 5 of them - why Yggdrasil chose to set it up this way is really weird! Nonetheless, 2 Scatters would award 1 Respin, and 3 or more Scatters would award 10 free spins, but without any win multiplier. That’s one more “argh!” from me! And for the third “argh”, the win values of all the symbols in the game are terribly and extremely low!

Any good point at all? Yes, perhaps the only one. The free spins are played with 1 out of 3 special features – the Wild Seeds, with 2 to 4 random Wild symbols, the Mega Reel, with a 3x3 Mega symbol on reels 2, 3 and 4, and the Nudge Reels, with one random nudge for a better win. 1 Retrigger during the free spins would add 1 more feature into play, and getting 2 Retriggers would play with all the 3 features at once, for the best possible wins. Easily said than gotten of course! Each feature has its own merits – Wild Seeds for more wins, Mega Reel for bigger wins, and Nudge Reels for better Retrigger chances. I’ve played with all the 3 features, yet I cannot say for certain which of the 3 I like best - none gave me nice wins anyway!

This looks to be an earlier example of a Yggdrasil game tha the others I have tried, it still looks and plays well but it's just not quite as bright and detailed as most of their other games. I like the fact Yggdrasil often choose to use the playing card suits for their lower value symbols rather than the TJQKA symbols that have become the defacto standard for so many years, they look attractive and it makes you wonder why somebody didn't think of doing this sooner. The user interface is standard Yggdrasil and although the max bet button is a little too close to the regular spin button this is handled well by way of a warning that pops up only on the first max bet spin. I've seen exactly this suggested before in the forums and derided as an unsuitable way of dealing with the problem of accidental max bets, but I really don't consider a single warning when you are about to bet 100 times more than you did last spin to be a problem at all.

I'm not sure the look and feel of this slot works with the name Nirvana quite as well as NetEnt's recent "NVRNA" game, but this one definitely has the edge in terms of payouts and features which is much more important than a name. Honestly I'm blown away at just how player friendly these Yggdrasil games are! For example landing the scatters begins the free spins round - so far, so standard. But after choosing from the three available features which each have different levels of win potential and win frequency you have the opportunity to land a retrigger and add a second bonus to your free spins session. Land two retriggers and you play the remainder of your 30 free spins with all three features activated at once. Amazing!

My favourite bonus is probably the "Wild Seeds" option which adds up to four extra wilds to the reels on every one of your free spins. Combining this with the "Mega Reel" which locks the three centre reels together in the style of Twin Spin gives you the highest possible chance of a big win, but it's also tempting to choose the "Nudge Reels" option first time around because the reel strips used for that bonus have the highest chance of scoring a retrigger. It makes landing the scatters in this game a reel conundrum and the only way to find your favourite choice and order is to play the game a lot, but land two scatters and you get a free single spin preview of one of the features chosen randomly for you.

It's difficult not to love this game and it offers a very respectable RTP of over 96% as well which is up there with most MG and NetEnt games and much better than popular high variance Playtech slots like Great Blue. I sure hope these Yggdrasil games don't get banned for bonus play anytime soon as I feel like I still have a whole lot to see from this developer!

Nirvana is a product of Yggdrasil, not typically big and popular when it comes to the future game, the NXT experience NRVNA! That game has a lot more to talk about! This Nirvana is not cleverly abbreviated so it is the natural form, contains 20 peaceful paylines, colorful suits to set aside the boring letter/number symbols, interesting yet weird looking creatures that pay much better than my average hits!

The scatters are pink lotus flowers that when stopped on a reel they create this ambient mist or wave......it is a cool effect and I would have to concur that this symbol landing is quite pleasing than NRVNA's single orange diamond landing on any reel. If it is two orange diamond reels than NRVNA is no contest.......the suspenseful orange energized bright light rolling away on the next reel thereafter! But hey, do not get me wrong as this Nirvana can give me a taste of the free spins, just two is all it took for 1 random free spin of either the 2 - 4 random wilds, the mega reels taking the personality of Twin spin rolling 3 identical reels on 2nd, 3rd and 4th reels and my first choice being the third.......nudging reels.

Upon a $1 triggering bet with my $75 balance, this feature allows a pick of the 3 choices, so my pick would be the nudging reels. I choose this feature a lot because the odds of re-triggering are on my side much more than the others! This however is not the beauty of this slot. The gorgeous sweet lips of this lady will sweep me off my feet when re-triggers happen two more times!! Each time a re-trigger appears inside the 10 free spins, I get to choose "another" ability to take with me in the current feature.....so if I have nudging reels, I can take the 2 - 4 random wilds with me so that it "nudges and "adds wilds" in each spin. If I land the second trigger (for a total of 3 triggers), mega reels would be my final pick......it is my last resort for 3 identical reels.

To see 3 pink lotus scatters in those mega reels are very rare that I have seen them only once in my 7 times playing this video slot! The line hits are pretty good, two 4 of a kind red phoenix/bird symbols paid $10 on a $1 bet, this can go a long way! Think of the potential on hitting free spins!! The music, to describe it, is not as emotionally involved as NRVNA but it is like discovering a perfectly beautiful garden with butterflies, fireflies doing there dance at night, a peacock and all these many animals setting this worthy find created by the gods!

Nirvana is a game from Yggdrassil software and it was released last month. Prior to trying this game, I wasn't very familiar with this software, but I had spare money in a casino that has this game, I was intrigued by the name it has and wanted to see what it has to offer. Since then, it has become my favorite slot from the software and one of my most played slots recently.

I would like to say that this game has kind of a fairytale theme, there are mythical creatures like dragons, which are also the highest paying symbols, and there are also fairies. Design is very unique and well thought through. Game has 5 reels and 20 paylines and as a bonus it has free spins round.

When I first tried this game, I didn't check the paytable, so when I received a free spin, after 2 scatters, I was surprised. And in this feature one of the fairies come up and do their thing, one turns the center reel symbols matched, another does nudge thing for a possibly better win and third turns random symbols wild. My favorite is the center reel fairy, because it has given me the best winnings so far. Also, when you get 3 scatters or more, you'll be playing 10 free spins with one of this fairy from your choice.

I always take the center reel fairy, and a great thing is that a few times I've retriggered the spins, and then you get another fairy feature and spins start from 10 again. I really love that for 4 scatters you get 50x bet win, and from my experience it isn't too hard to receive such features. And it is possible to get good winnings on base game, not only on free spins.

I think this is a great game and I recommend it to everyone. The theme is beautiful and I don't get bored or dizzy even after playing this game for many hours. Payouts are also decent, on base game I've reached around 100x bet, while on free spins I've managed to get around 200x bet winnings. Features are exciting and with good winning potential. And what's also important- I always am excited when I play this game and I haven't lost much with it either, I have used it for wagering and it has been a very good fit.

"Nirvana" is the name chosen by "Yggdrasil Gaming" for its new slot launched during this month of November, a name that I think fits perfectly with the spiritual essence that from the beginning Yggdrasil wanted to convey through both the name of the company and through the name and content of some of their games, and I personally think that this mentality gives an interesting mystical touch to the company itself. As for Nirvana I must say that is one of those slots attractively designed and loaded with symbolism, and like the vast majority of the slots created by this provider, it is a pretty nice game to play not only due to its pleasant images but also to its quiet and relaxing sound effects, and of course also due to the interesting payouts from the hits made during the base game and the great potential offered by the special features, which are basically a round of free spins with three different features that can be chosen at will by the player between Wild Seeds, Mega Reel and Nudge Reels, which maximize opportunities for getting winning by spreading wild symbols, synchronizing the three middle reels with the same symbol or adjusting the position of symbols to align them in the most optimal way possible during the free spins; the round of free spins can be accessed by obtaining 2 or more scatters identified with the lotus flower, 2 scatters will grant one spin and 3 or more will grant 10 free spins plus a prize in coins, but it is more interesting when you manage to re-trigger this free round because you can achieve a combination of features and results are always excellent; in my case, I was able to re-trigger the free spins round which I began with "Wild Seeds" feature that spreads between 2 and 4 wild symbols on the reels in different random positions for each spin and when I got 10 additional spins I chose "Mega Reel" option, so my best gains occurred when a wild symbol was positioned on the reel 1 to be combined with all the 9 identical symbols synchronized just on 3 central reels which sometimes formed combinations of 5 of a kind, usually if you also got some wild on reel 5; at the end of the round my total earnings can certainly be considered a Big Win.

Overall I think that "Nirvana" is a great slot, relaxing yet action-packed, and although the prices stipulated on the pay table do not seem to be huge, I think they're pretty fair rates that fit perfectly with the rest of conditions and situations provided by the game, I certainly think it deserves an opportunity to be tried.