The Epic Journey is an adventure-themed 15-reel and 100-payline video slot which runs on the Quickspin software platform. The game features a Bonus scatter symbol and multiple wilds—the Regular Wild, Volcano Wild, Free Spin Mammoth Wild, Free Spin Sea Creature Wild and Free Spin T-Rex Wild which trigger different Bonuses. Players are welcome to try the slot for free on this page or choose any of the featured Quickspin casinos to play the game for real money.
Prior to embarking on an exciting journey alongside several brave explorers, players should set their bet. The coin size ranges from 0.80 to 80 and players can choose it by clicking on ‘Total Bet’. To start the game players need to press the ‘Spin’ button. Pushing ‘Autoplay’ lets players choose the number of predetermined spins.
The Wild Volcano feature is triggered by 2 or 3 Volcano Wild symbols. The Volcano Wilds erupt, causing Wild cards to spread across all 3 reel grids.
The Bonus scatters trigger the Bonus Pick Screen wherein players need to choose a rune stone in order to get one of the following Bonuses: the Safari Free Spin Bonus, Fossil Hunt, Mushroom Forest or Coin Win.
The Free Spin Bonus is activated through the Bonus Pick Screen and awards players 10 Free Spins. Collecting 3 Special Wild cards turn them into multiplier Wilds. The Mammoth Wild appears on reel grid 1 and pays x2, the Sea Creature Wild emerges on reel grid 2 and pays x3 and the T-Rex Wild is on reel grid 3 and pays x5.
During the Mushroom Forest game players choose mushrooms to uncover awards. Some mushrooms will reveal extra picks and a multiplier.
In the Fossil Hunt feature players collect as many Shovel symbols as they can during the 3 granted spins. The Shovels reveal fossil parts and are locked for all remaining turns. When the Bonus feature is over, a value will be awarded based on the final number of fossil parts collected.
1 of the 4 Rune Stones will come with a Coin Win and, as the won sum is displayed, the Bonus is complete.
Game Play
Total Bet: Adjust your coin size.
Spin: Initiate the game at the selected bet.
Autoplay: Spin the reels automatically for a preset number of times.
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 game is a real epic for Quickspin! It offers the lowest paytable ever, it offers Features that pay peanuts, it offers a messed-up play screen, and it literally kills a player's wallet 3 to 4 times faster! All in all, The Epic Journey is an epic rubbish game to me!