Robin Hood is a 20-payline video slot running on the NetEnt software platform. This game features the famous tale of Robin Hood and its wild card is the Robin Hood Logo, while the Money Bag symbol is the scatter. Players can try the slot on this page for free or play the game for real money in any of the listed NetEnt casinos.
To join the famous outlaw on his adventures, players should first choose their wager. The bet level is regulated with the "Level" selector. The coin size, ranging from 0.01 to 0.5, is adjusted with the "Coin Value" selector. “Spin” initiates the game, “Max Bet” turns the reels at the highest bet, and “Auto Play” spins them for a preset number of times uninterrupted.
Any win triggers the Shifting Reels feature, which allows players to gain extra wins with an increasing multiplier of up to x5. When the x5 multiplier is reached, all following shifts will also have a x5 multiplier.
When there are 4 Money Bags in a treasure chest, 10 Free Spins are won. Money bags will turn into wilds after the reels shift. During the Free Spin round, one of the symbols will be selected to function as the Extra Wild. Should 2 or more Free Spins symbols appear, additional Free Spins will be triggered. 2 Free Spins symbols trigger 5 Free Spins and 3 Free Spin symbols will result in 10 Free Spins.
A 1000-coin jackpot will be won when 5 Robin Hood symbols emerge on an active payline.
Game Play
Level: Choose the bet level.
Coin Value: Change the coin size.
Spin: Play the game at the chosen wager.
Max Bet: Spin the reels at the highest bet.
Autoplay: Play the game multiple times without interruption.
When I first saw this Robin Hood game, the first thing that hit my mind was it's a clone of Jack And The Beanstalk, but upon a closer look, it's actually made up of a combination of features from a few games - the shifting Wild symbols, the collective feature of the Moneybags, the increasing Multiplier and the addition of extra free spins from 2 or more scatters. Well, not surprising really, because all new games are having such mix-and-match features. Only a very few new games can be classified as really innovative with new concepts.
For me personally, I tend to compare this Robin Hood game with my once-top-favourite game from Playtech, Mr Cashback. That game remains the only one of its kind until today, with no other game even dare cloning it, for one reason or another. Even though Robin Hood's game has a collective feature, the award for collecting it are continents apart! Robin Hood awards a Free Spins game, but Mr Cashback awards a cashback of 50x the line bet for each and every payline triggered, which could be just one, or up to 5 paylines simultaneously! This is where I simply loved Mr Cashback's game, until Playtech made a real 'upgrade' mess out of it later on.
Typical of a number of other NetEnt games, this game too has a non-paying Wild and a non-paying Collective symbol. The Wild symbol shifts from one reel to the next right reel with every new spin. A win increases the multiplier to the next level, up to 5x, and keeps on going until it goes off the last reel. Any no-win spin would end the shifting and resets the multiplier back to 1x. The Moneybag is the Collective symbol, collected into the trunk at the base of the play area. Getting 4 of them triggers 10 free spins, with a randomly spinned symbol becoming the Extra Wild symbol. The same shifting and increasing multiplier concept is used for the free spins, but additional 5 or 10 extra free spins can be won by the appearance of 2 or 3 'Free Spins' symbols.
I wasn't impressed by this Robin Hood's game because the paytable was not good - the non-paying Wild symbols made it worse, there are no Scatter symbols to get any additional wins, and the values for all the other symbols simply weren't good enough either. Unlike Jack's game with its Wild Harp Reels, there aren't any in Robin Hood's game, so the winning potentials have been greatly reduced. In one of my sessions, I had to wait for just over 2000 spins before one Free Spins game finally came, and that game paid an unbelievable 84x my bet amount, as compared to the amount it had eaten up! That saw the end of my plays on Robin Hood and his lousy shifting riches!