Roaming Reels

Roaming Reels is a video slot game from Ainsworth. This is a provider that I have found quite recently and in general I love its games. They give the vibe of a land based casino slots. This game in particular I did not enjoy very much. I had some ups and downs while playing it but in the end I lost all my money so I could not continue playing it. At the beginning my session was good. I had some good line hits but after that I had a really long dry spell.

Roaming Reels is a 5 reels and 100 pay lines video slot game. It is fairly easy to trigger the free spins if we take into consideration that sometimes, in some games it is impossible. The only thing that I have noticed was that the music changes during the free spins, and the wild symbol appears on the first, third and the fifth reel instead on the three central reels like in the base game. The wins are not that impressive. The first time I won 9.60 euros only. Most of the times the wins were around 10 x bet. The highest win during the free spins was 52 euros. I had the first reel with stacked lions and the next three reels were stacked paw prints symbols. The thing with this round of free spins most of the spins were losing and I won that amount in only one spin.

Roaming Reels is a very popular game and Ainsworth has done pretty good thing by keeping the winning formula in this online version too. From my experience I can say that this game has a potential to pay really good, not huge but somehow it does not in reality. I think that there are many other games that are better than this one so I will probably avoid the Roaming Reels in the future.

It is unusual to find a slot of 5 x 3 reels provided with 100 paylines, but “Roaming Reels” is the exception to the rule; and this game created by “Ainsworth Game Technology” not only has many lines but it is also equipped with the feature “stacked wilds” which happens only on reels 3, 4 and 5 during the base game.

Because of the possibility of forming many lines simultaneously in a single spin, this supplier has balanced the situation by setting very low rates on the paytable, so to get a decent payout on this game, they must be many stacked wilds involved in our combinations, otherwise, we see that even a single line of 5 of a kind is not enough to move us not a bit.

This game also has a round of free games that can be triggered with 3 or more scatters, and during this round, above-mentioned stacked wilds no longer appear on the last 3 reels but they may appear interspersed on reels 1, 3 and 5, and I think these wilds appearing on reel 1 improve the hit average during this round compared with the base game; however, triggering this round has seemed a little hard to me, and additionally, my total winnings during this feature have been quite modest, just about 25x my total bet.

Set of characteristics of this slot make it a game of high volatility, and in my case, losing streaks have been long enough to squeeze my balance quickly.

Today I have not been lucky in this game, I've had some hits involving stacked lions on last three reels, but to be honest, none of them have been big enough to tip the balance in my favor; from my very first spin my balance was always negative and continued that way until the end.

“Ainsworth Game Technology” is a fairly new company for me; today I wanted to know a little about its work, but unfortunately this video slot has not left a good impression; even so, I may later want to know any of its other slots, it is likely that some of them will fit a little closer to my style of play, but at the moment, I will stay away from this one.