Mysterious Slot

A slot from Pragmatic Play and it has ghost theme with a 4 reel, 4 row and a crazy 4096 paylines of ghostly action with just a tiny 0.10 per spin. The max win cap is pretty big too at 9648x bet which is way above the standard 5000x that I see on many other Pragmatic Play slots.

The slot has free spins bonus features, two of them to choose from at start of a feature, you can go with the locking multiplier spins or the resurrecting roaming wilds spins, both of them are good and can pay big. The great thing is that if you trigger the feature with more scatters the you get more free spins to start with, 3 gives you 8, 4 gives you 12. In addition to the free spins bonus feature there are also random features in the base game. The Lord, The Lady, The Baron, each one has unique abilities and randomly it switches from one to the other but sometimes it gets stuck on one for a long time. I would have preferred if the player could select which type of feature they wanted in the base game instead of it being random. During this recent session I wasn’t getting any free spins features but just some base wins here and there.

The graphics have a very ghostly look to them. It’s a full moon night with lightning and and a fog is in the air. The symbols on the reels look good, they appear to be door knockers of various kind, and there’s also the card suits.

The music is fine and suitable for the slot too, the sound effects of reels spinning and stopping is not annoying in any way. You can spin stop the reels as much as you like without going crazy about the sounds.

I played the 94.5% RTP version which is 2% under the max RTP and what can I say other than I would like to try out the 96.5% RTP version of the game so I could compare how that would play as I would like to get some free spins features in other sessions.

There is no option to buy a bonus to skip the base game grind and on top of that there is also no option to do ante bets to improve a chance of triggering a feature bonus, if it had those then the game would be a big improvement.

Mysterious is another great new release from Pragmatic Play. This slot was released in March sometimes this year and features random wilds that performs differently, on a 4x4 reel base game slot. Free spins expand the reels to a 6-reel, 4 row slot, making it even more ways to win. You can get up to 12 free spins and have 2 free spins features to choose from.

The Mysterious slot game has a dark and haunted feel to it. You are taken to a street at night-time where you’ll see a creepy castle up in the hills. As you spin the reels, symbols include low value clovers, diamonds, hearts and spades. Then you have 4 animal faces as the bull, lion, owl and ram, all with a sinister look. The mysterious logo symbol is most rewarding and pays up to x25 your stake for 6 of a kind which is only achievable in free spins.

Mysterious come with 3 random features and they act as wilds on the reels:
The Lord feature – The Lord symbol is wild and replaces all symbols excluding scatter. When the wild forms a winning combination a multiplier of 2x or 3 applies.
The Lady feature – The Lady symbol is wild, and the lady wild can expand to reveal a mystery stacked symbol that will lead to new winning combinations.
The Baron feature - The Baron symbol is wild infect nearby symbols vertically by transforming them into wild for bigger wins.

Mysterious comes with 2 free spins features. You can access this feature by landing 3 or 4 scatters which will award 8 or 12 spins respectively.
Locking Multiplier– Clock symbols that land on the reels as these will give you a random win multiplier of 3x, 6x, 9x or 12x. 2 clock symbols landing will add 2 more free spins to your tally with the multiplier locked.
Resurrecting Roaming Wilds – Any wild symbols that land will fade away after each free spin. They will then roam the reels and can appear at the end of any free spin randomly if more new wilds land on the reels.

This game has decent potential in both free spins features. I always choose Resurrecting wilds feature as that seems like bigger potential but more risk. Biggest win achieved is x500, but I hardly play the slot these days as its very hard to trigger bonus honestly. Also, you can get decent base game hits easily with the random wild features.

Mysterious is one of the newest games from Pragmatic Play and when it was first released, I wasn't too excited about the game. I mean, the last few game releases from Pragmatic Play have been interesting and I've been keeping an eye out for them, but the first few times I tried Mysterious slot, I thought it was one of the worst games I've played. The base game didn't give any winnings and the game overall seemed very volatile. However, after that, I've had a few more sessions with the game that have changed my opinion. Specifically, one time I had received only 10 free spins on the game but I managed to trigger the free spins bonus round and ended up with a 450x bet win, so that made me curious to spend more quality time with the game.

The game itself is inspired by mystery theme and the game design looks really nice. The minimum bets are 0.10cents and from my experience, I wouldn't risk playing it with higher bets as I said beforehand, the game is very volatile and I've seen a lot of dead-spins in a row. The base game is quite unique itself as there are 3 different base game wild features and my favorite is "infecting wilds"- when there's a wild symbol, it will add another wild on the reels. In my last session I had 3 wild symbols which all doubled, and it ended up with a 100x bet base game win, which is great.

When it comes to this game, although base game can pay decently, my favorite part is the free spins bonus round which you get by triggering 3 or more scatter symbols. You get to pick one of the 2 bonus features- I have tried the locking multiplier spins a few times but never won more than 20x bet, so from then I started to only choose "resurrecting wilds"- in other words, whenever in free spins you get wilds, they will possibly resurrect in the next spins if a new wild lands. I've had a few pretty nice wins because of it, as there are more reels active in free spins and it's possible to get good 5oak combinations. But hence the volatility, I've also had multiple 15x bet wins from it too.

Overall this is a game I would recommend to try. The gameplay is exciting and the design is beautiful, the game has a lot of potential for big wins, especially in free spins, but I would suggest to be careful with bet sizes as this game can be a money-eater very quickly.