Emperor of the Sea Slot – Free Demo

Gold Ingots, a Sea Dragon and 68 lines at 2.04

Next to take a spin is Games Global with Emperor of the Sea, and alongside stacked wilds is a bonus game filled with Rolling Reels and Growing Wilds. So, does it work? To find out, I played 330 spins.

Emperor of the Sea launches on any device. Wagers from 0.38 to 44 per spin can be placed on it. My session ran at 2.04 per spin from a starting balance of 2,106.74. It's a game that demands patience to travel to the nice parts. Only 107 of my 330 spins paid anything, and 61 of those paid less than the stake. Activating free spins takes persistence to struggle through a flood of dead spins. The feature came four times in my session, with a gap of 177 spins between the second and third triggers. Its medium volatility means the game does burst at moments, and general potential isn't poor at all, and neither is RTP on 96.28%, a number above normal. I finished on a balance of 2,673.12, a session return of 184.1% on 673.20 wagered.

At the beginning of every spin 5 reels show 4 symbols on each, and the wager level determines whether 38, 68 or 88 paylines run. At a 2.04 stake, 68 of them are active. The highest wagers run all 88. Scatter wins pay anywhere on the reels and do not need a payline.

A winning combination is created when identical symbols land from the leftmost reel onwards. The Wild forms line wins of its own, with five Wilds paying 5.97x the wager on 88 lines. Wild, Sea Dragon, Pot of Gold and Turtle are paying from 2 of a kind. The other symbols need at least 3 of a kind to pay. At the bottom end of the range, I discover 9-A royals, trailed by a ship, koi carps, a turtle, a pot of gold, and a sea dragon, and the picture symbols are valued from 2.27 to 5.68x the wager for five of a kind on 88 lines. The 9 to A royals pay between 1x and 1.7x the wager for five of a kind. Bear in mind that Rolling Reels and Growing Wilds do perk the wins up in free spins, and also pushing up the win rate is a logo wild substituting for all other symbols, except the Gold Ingot scatter. The Wild lands stacked in the base game as well as in free spins.

One more Wild on the stack each free spin

As well as stacked wilds, players get free spins, which are triggered by the Gold Ingot scatter, and if 3 or more scatters land anywhere, 8 free spins are awarded. Three Gold Ingots pay 2x the wager and five pay 100x on 88 lines.

During free spins, each consecutive spin adds one wild to the wild stack, up to 15, and if free spins are retriggered, another 8 free spins are added. The retrigger came once in my session, on spin 110, when the round ran to 16 free spins and paid 95.88. Winning symbols disappear. That removal is the Rolling Reels feature, which only runs in free spins. New symbols fall in, repeating while wins continue forming. Games Global also uses Rolling Reels in Rugby Star and Jungle Jim and the Lost Sphinx.

The Minty Summary: The session closed at 184.1%, and most of that came from a single base-game hit of 240x the stake on spin 142: it paid 489.60 on its own, against 316.20 from all four free spins rounds put together.

Spin 142 paid more than the bonus

Grind it can. That is due to a lot of dead spins, dotted with the occasional bigger win. My longest run without a win was 11 spins, and the biggest hit was 489.60, or 240.0x the stake, on spin 142.

The max win has been capped at 1,875x the wager, and again, weak symbol values hold it back. My best free spins round, on spin 287, paid 126.48, which is 62.0x the stake. Stacks of wilds can readily add up to not much at all. Across four rounds, free spins paid 316.20, or 26% of everything I won.