Temple Quest Slot

Temple Quest has 5 reels and 40 active paylines. I tried this game some months ago, after I saw the icon for it and I decided to open it. I like this kind of themed video game. But when I opened it, I saw Microgaming loading screen. So I do not really know if it is Microgaming powered slot or from Big Time Gaming software provider.

The game has some bigger symbols than others. For me it is pretty similar to Spinata Grande with this kind of symbols, but I think I had better luck at Spinata Grande. Temple Quest has free spins feature. It is trigger when you get any mega scatter free spin icon on the reels. Here you can win up to 16 free spins at any time, also you can re-triggered them. During free spins the first reel is populated with regular symbols and the 2, 3, 4 and 5 reels are populated with 4x4 mega symbols.

I like this feature, because on almost every reel there are 4x4 symbols. But still this does not mean big win, you need a lot of luck to get x100 bet from it. I never had any results near x100 bet from feature.

There are also treasure temple and chest of fortune bonus game. I never triggered them, but I think it is click me bonus game.

Otherwise I think this could be a good game to play it sometimes. But every time when I played it, I had only small winnings during main game. I expected bigger winnings during main game, because of all bigger symbols. I did not have big luck on it; all my wins were under x100 bet so I do not know if I will play it more in future. Maybe sometimes, if my balance will be at higher amount. Otherwise I am sure I will not play it with my small deposits as first game on of my session. I will rate it with 6 out of 10 possible stars.

Once I played another great game also developed by "Big Time Gaming" named Faeries Fortune, its characteristics were similar, good special features and it was the first time I was playing a slot that using mega icons, which by the way I liked them so much; this time the turn was for "Temple Quest," a slot of 5 x 4 reels quite similar to the aforementioned slot that differs from it basically by the topic chosen for its design, which is the ancient Aztec civilization, which is quite to my taste.

As I said, one of the highlights of this slot is its characteristic “mega icons”, which may have dimensions of 2 x 2, 3 x 3 and 4 x 4, and can match other symbols to form lines in a similar manner as make stacked symbols in other slots, winnings that this feature may represent are quite interesting but it is also necessary to say that the number of times these appear matched with others for any significant win is not as high as one might imagine at first. One of the most exciting roles that these mega icons play is during rounds of free spins, where the reels 2 to 5 are used to let flow only 4 x 4 icons, so you just need to get one or two matching symbols in order to get a big win. This round of free spins is triggered by the emergence of a green mega icon with the words "Free Spins" and the number of games given are equal to the number of visible symbols once the reels have stopped; all special features are activated in the same way, so that there is a mega icon for the "Treasure Temple" feature and another for "Chest of Fortune", the first one grants instant prizes awarded after using the number of keys you've got to open the temple doors and then playing a kind of stone wheel of fortune; Chest of Fortune also provides an instant prize but using a Pick me feature. All the mentioned features have their own charm, but by the size of the gains that can be achieved on them, I would choose the free spins as my favorite, sometimes even more free spins are added to your initial round if FS icons appear.

On the other hand, normal payouts for the base game are usually not very high, I guess this is to balance the flow of awards between base game and features winnings, therefore we must always be patient and trust that we will lucky enough to get some good profit in any of the next spins. Good slot, very fun.

When I first saw this slot I said myself, Wow I never met such a game! I expected to have some wins that I have not had before ever. Yet after a few hundreds of spins played I had a different opinion. The “Temple Quest” slot is stunningly at first. Because it is played on a 5x4 grid and because here there are symbols in the game that occupy a 4x4 from all available grid sometimes you think you can win a lot. Yet as I said, after you play more here, you start to change your opinion. Firstly there are only 40 lines (too few for a 5x4 slot) and a bet of 40 cents (too big for so few lines). If there were 1024 ways to win everything was really excellent. As it is, you have a chance to for a payout somewhat bigger just once every 5-10 spins. It is true sometimes you win really a lot, but this “a lot” is worth about 5 Euro, which is not impressive at all.

However the slot still has some merits, and the atmosphere and its theme of the beautiful Aztec temples are some of them. The slot symbols are very attractive, especially the 4x4 ones. One of the big wins, given by such a giant symbol is shown above (in a screen shot). Though, like I said after some good hundreds of spins you are still at lose (with nearly 10 Euros).

The slot has 3 features, a Free Spins round, a “Temple Treasure” Bonus and one “Chest of Fortune” Pick Me Up. Unlike all other slots here all these features are triggered when on the reels there is a corresponding mega symbol, occupying at least 3 positions on the reels. What is a little disappointing is that if only 3 positions are occupied on reels the number of free games awarded is small (only 3, i.e. 3 Free Spins, 3 Chest or 3 bonus games) which leads to lower wins. At this point I want to make an observation: in Treasure Temple is says that from every bonus game awarded you can earn between 80x and 400x line bet, in my case in four consecutive bonus games I won every time 80x, which raised a big question mark for me.

However the slot is nice and the total losses are not too big (about 10 Euro for 300 spins played at minimum bet, in my case) which makes me to recommend it also to other players. Who knows, with a bit more luck this slot may seem really good ...

There are too few paylines, the bet is too high, the good wins are very rare and the features are triggered as rarely.