The Epic Journey Slot Quickspin

The Epic Journey? What or which is the epic journey, you may be asking yourself, if you don't know the answer that is. Well, during my schooling days, one of my favourite not-to-be-missed TV shows was 'Journey to the center of the Earth'. It was a cartoon show on TV, but I have read the book itself - a very thrilling, mind-boggling and a mind-wandering experience, starting at one end of the globe, into the center of the Earth, and finally emerging on the other side of the globe! True or not, well, I cannot say for certain. Some people believe that our Earth is hollow in its core, making that journey possible, but scientists are saying it has a hot molten core, which would have make skeletons out of the adventurers, hahaha.

This game from Quickspin may not be mind-boggling as the book, but to me, it has the same messed-up characteristic. How? Just look at that play screen - it has one big play area, plus two more play areas on top of each other, looking like a messed-up kitchen paper towel, with one big messy blotch and two more smaller messy blotches to the side! Argh! Yggdrasil has its printed toilet roll game, NetEnt has it printed kitchen roll game, and now Quickspin has its own messed-up kitchen roll game! Which game provider would next create a new variant, I wonder? Hahaha.

What I simply cannot accept with this game is that the minimum starting bet per spin is a whopping 0.80! What? Quickspin thinks that every player is rich? Or they simply want to get rich quick?! Whatever the reason/s, it makes this game a real sucker! I have only played it once, simply because I had to, otherwise, I wouldn't even think of touching this game, let alone spinning at 0.80 bets per spin! My typical 10 EUR deposit would be gone within just 12 spins! I'm no fool to fool around like that, hahaha.

Can anyone win big on this game? I dare say "no", not unless playing with big bets, as high roller players would do, and they are probably the only ones would could get great fun playing this game. As for me, getting just 12 or 13 spins out of my deposit would simply get my one-middle-finger salute! Hahaha.

Anyway, for curious readers, let me briefly go through the game, as I would usually do. The paytable is extremely low, with just 6.25x the total bet for winning 5 Wilds! The other symbols pay from 1.25x down to 0.25x the total bet for any 5 of them. What the argh! That's probably the lowest ever paytable I have seen anywhere! Not only that, the Volcano Wild symbol only appears on reel 3 on the 3 separate play screens, so that's another "argh!" Getting 2 or more Volcano Wild symbols on reel 3 triggers the Volcano Wild Feature, whereby random Wild symbols would be erupted onto the 3 play screens. Getting 3 Bonus symbols award the Bonus Pick feature - pick one of the 4 Runestones to reveal either Safari Free Spins, Fossil Hunt, Mushroom Forest or Coin win.

Safari Free Spins offer 10 free spins, with 3 Extra Wild symbols with Multipliers, upon collecting 3 of each symbol. Fossil Hunt offers 3 free spins, to reveal all the hidden fossils. Mushroom Forest offers a simple 'pick-and-win' feature to win Coins, Extra Pick or a Multiplier. The Coin Win is the most ridiculous feature of the 4 - it pays a flat 2x bet amount, nothing more, nothing less!

The Epic Journey is powered by Quickspin and has 100 paylines spilt across 3 reel grid sets which consist of 5 reels and 4 rows on each set. This adventure themed slot are offering an excellent selection of features including free spins, multipliers, exploding volcano wilds and pick me rounds for a minimum bet of just $0.80.

The volcano wild which appears on the middle reel in each set. If you find a minimum of 2 or 3 on a single spin. The volcanoes will erupt and spit out lava on to the reels, turning any symbol they fall on into wilds. You’ll win whatever the payout is after the wilds have substituted.

3 drills bonus scattered symbols should land on the middle reels which will trigger the pick me feature. You will be presented with 4 stones and each stone has a bonus feature hidden. 1 of the stones will award a coin win, which rewards a cash amount instantly and the bonus is over.

The mushroom forest is a pick me feature. You get 3 picks with the possibility of getting more extra picks. Behind the mushrooms there are cash prizes and multipliers with an extra pick. The maximum multiplier is up to x4 your total win.

Fossil hunt feature – You will be taken to a screen where dinosaur fossil is hidden. You will spin the reels and find shovels. Each shovel will reveal a part of fossil and a cash prize is awarded. This part will stay locked on the reels and depending how many parts you reveal during the 3 free spins a cash value is awarded after the 3 free spins.

Finally you have the safari free spins which awards 10 free spins. The reel grid each has a special animal wild symbol. You need to collect 3 of them in order to activate them together with their specific multiplier. They substitute for all except the volcano wild.

I played this game a couple of times but luck was never on my side. I always won the coin win or mushroom forest. I haven’t gotten the safari free spins yet, but hope to achieve a big win on this game one day.

The Epic Journey is Quickspin software game with 100 paylines. The minimum bet is 0.8€ which I don't like very much. I would prefer to see 0.4€ as minimum bet. I think this is set to high for only 100 paylines.

The game offer many features which is trigger by 3 bonus symbols. You must pick a stone to reveal your feature. There are safari free spins, fossil hunt, mushroom forest and coin win. I played this game at one of my session and I received fossil hunt, coins and mushroom forest. The only one that I wanted, free spins, I never received.

I think the best feature here is free spins where you can win the most. 10 free games with a lot of wild symbols. Into fossil hunt I won 20€ from 0.8€ bet which I don't think is good. Coins wins are the worst and I also don't like mushroom forest feature. There you must pick the right mushroom and reveal prizes. You get 3 picks, some mushrooms reveal extra picks and a multiplier.

There is also one more mode which appears during base game and also into free spins. Volcano wild feature. 2 or 3 volcano wild symbols trigger this mode and volcano erupts and spread wild symbols to all three reels. I had this many times, but I expected bigger wins. If I consider that the bet is 0.8€ I expect higher wins not only x10 or even less than that which I received back.

Otherwise I think this game with all those features could offer much better paytable. I don't like it, because for me 0.8€ bet per spin is not so low and if session is bad you can lost the money very quickly. I don't think I will play this game more; I don't like it so much. Minimum bet should be set lower.