Vikings Go Wild Slot Yggdrasil Gaming

Vikings Go Wild is nice looking video slot from Yggdrasil Gaming software. It has 5 reels and 25 paylines. I mostly played it because into free spins are sticky wilds symbols.

I like this game because it offer some bigger symbols than at other games and the first look at this game is great. Also graphics are good. Into Vikings go wild is free spins feature which is trigger when three or more scatter symbols appear. There you can get 8, 16 or 24 free spins. During this feature each viking that lands has a chance to turn into a sticky wild. All wilds will stay on screen until the end of feature.

While I was playing I received free spins feature only once. I got three scatters, so I won 8 free games. During this feature I was looking how many wilds will became sticky, but I was surprised because I had only two wilds at the beginning. At this two were on 4 and 5 reels. In the end 2 more came up on the reels, but the winnings were not big. I expected more bigger winnings and more wild symbols. I think you need to start free spins feature with higher number of spins, so you can get a lot of wilds. 24 free spins looks great, but receiving all five scatters almost impossible.

There are also treasure chest symbol which can land on the last reel in base game and free spins. In base game you can get 8-12 free spins or up to 1000 coins. During free spins you can get additional 2-4 free games, up to 1000 coins or wild reel feature.

I received this treasure chest a lot of times during base game. All the time there were only coins. I don't think it is often to trigger free games from this chest, most of the time gives only a few pennies back. Base game could be much more interesting with payouts, I had a lot of small winnings. And free spins could be at some multiplier too.

Finally Yggdrasil decided to make its first slot based on appealing Viking civilization which is called "Vikings Go Wild" and I say finally because the same company name represents the tree of life extracted from the Viking mythology, by indeed, they had already created a slot with the tree name but there are not flashy warriors on it like they are on this one, which are focused on this slot from a slightly jovial perspective, that is, the characters have a cool look instead of being aggressive and fighters. The overall design of this slot is quite good and professional, just the type of work we are accustomed to see from Yggdrasil.

The layout is 5 x 4 reels, it has 25 paylines, which incidentally is the slot of 4 rows with fewer number of lines I've seen so far; rates on the paytable seem smallish, but bear in mind that this slot uses only 8 standard symbols, 4 high and 4 low, somehow balancing the expectation of getting some profits; there is also a wild symbol and it appears constantly on all reels to fulfill its function as supplement of standard symbols; there are also two special symbols in charge of triggering the special features of this game, which is a round of free spins and some instant bonuses, and something different and new for this slot is that both symbols have the ability to activate the free games.

The main way to trigger the free spins round is to get 3 or more scatters with the image of dragon boat at any position on any of the five reels; 3, 4 or 5 scatters award 8, 16 or 24 spins; there is an extra feature associated with this round of free spins and it is about that all symbols containing the image of Vikings have the chance to become wild symbols and then stay stuck in place until the end of the free round, these transformations are achieved if the Viking gets cut and escape from the tentacles of the kraken, since it is assumed that free spins occur while our charactersare on the high seas in their dragon boat, as illustrated by the background image that appears only during this round.

The other way to get free spins is through the treasure chest that circulates only on reel 5, which can provide between 8-12 free spins during the base game and 2-4 during the free round, the chest also contains instant bonuses and the final selection of the award is made randomly.

As noted, I think that the best opportunities for getting big wins in this slot may happen if they occur during the base game high symbols stacked at least on first 4 or 5 reels or during the round of free spins with wild symbols frozen on strategic places with the opportunity to generate big wins in consecutive spins, as it happened to me once, and I think the low payouts combined with these occasional events are responsible for the high variance of this slot. Fun and profitable game just if you are lucky enough, of course.