Yggdrasil The Tree of Life

Yggdrasil The Tree of life is a 243 ways slot coming from Microgaming. The game has a Nordic mythology theme and I really like slots like that. The graphic and animations are descent and so is the background music. If the slot is in a good mood you can have a lot of fun playing it. I also like the design of the game and I think the designers really did a good job here.

The minimum bet to play this game is only 25 cent which is great considering it’s a 243 ways slot. The symbols look great and the slot has a descent paytable. The highest paying symbol the white eagle awards a win of 1500 coins followed by the serpent with 1000 coins. The game has a wild and scatter symbol. The wild substitutes for all other symbols except the scatter but doesn’t have a multiplier attached. The scatter has a great 500 x total bet payout for 5 of them on the reels.

If you manage to hit at least 3 scatters you trigger the bonus feature in the game. Here you are taken to the tree of life and you make picks between various objects. You start from the roots and advance through the trunk up to the branches. The bonus ends in the branches when you get the collect sign.

I played this game a number of times and I like it. Base play wins are medium and in terms of variance the bonus features comes quite often. You can sometimes get it 3 times in a matter of 100 spins which is way too often than in most other 243 ways slots. The bonus can be very generous. Sometimes I get wins of 50-60 x bet sometimes wins over 100 x bet. It really depends on your luck. Still I would like to see a free spins bonus here because without it I just feel like it’s missing.

"Yggdrasil The Tree of Life" is evidently the most emblematic game of all those belonging to the company "Yggdrasil Gaming" since it has the same name and I assume it represents also its philosophy and origin. Yggdrasil is a name taken from Norse mythology, which corresponded to a huge ash tree whose branches and roots hold together the nine worlds of the universe, whose roots emanating spring of knowledge and honey from its trunk, and shelters an eagle that between its eyes has a hawk, a squirrel, a dragon and four deer. As interesting as the name are slots developed by this company, and among them Frutoids, Reef Run and Magic Mushrooms are part of my favorites, and now after playing it for the first time, Yggdrasil The Tree of Life passes not only to be part of this list but even I think it could get to lead it.

There are several interesting characteristics in this slot, the first one is that it pays lines formed from left to right by adjacent symbols regardless of their location on each reel, very similar to the 243 ways to win feature from Microgaming; it also has a wild symbol represented with the image of the god Heimd all that works as substitute for all symbols except for the scatter, and finally, it has a bonus round really amazing called "Yggdrasil Feature" which is triggered by the occurrence of 3 or more Yggdrasil scatters on any position on the reels; after this figure is activated, we make transition to a field where we find the tree of life through which we ascend in three phases starting at the roots, following up the trunk to end up on the branches; in each area the player must choose between 10 runes one by one to find the prize inside until finding the word “next “ that will lead him to the next phase, in the area of the branches instead of the word next,it appears the word "collect" which will be responsible for finishing the bonus round; considering the frequency with which we can have access to this feature, I'd say awards granted by them are fabulous; I remember that while playing, there was a time when I managed to activate the Yggdrasil feature on 4 occasions during a period of approximately 50 turns, and to my pleasant surprise, the latter of such 4 rounds was triggered just in the spin immediately following the completion of the third round, that was great and although my earnings on that last occasion were minors, they were useful to increase my balance even more.

If you've already played other Yggdrasil slots and you liked you cannot miss this one, and if you've never done, "Yggdrasil The Tree of Life" is the perfect slot to start.