Provider:
Merkur
Neptune never lands on reel 1 or reel 5 in Tridentia, so the expanding wild can widen a line but never start one. Merkur hangs the rest on the Temple: three anywhere on the grid pay 12 free games, and every Neptune that drops during them moves the symbols along the upgrade order printed above the…
This mythological seeming slot is played on a 5-reel, 10-fixed-payline reel set, and it arrives with a package of features including an expanding wild and a free games feature. Wins run from the leftmost reel across adjacent reels, with the scattered Temple the one exception. Tridentia is played from 0.10 to 20.00 a spin. Each line pays only its highest combination, and wins on separate lines are added together. Any win of 0.05 or more can be sent to the gamble, by card colour or by ladder step, though it is not offered while autostart is running.
It's difficult to say precisely what I'm looking at here, but there's unquestionably an ancient feel to this slot. I imagine the action occurring in some sort of submerged temple at the floor of the Mediterranean or wherever your fancy takes you. Scatter wins go on top of whatever the lines have paid. The main theme, though, that has this game show sort of vibe going on, appears a bit out of place.
Neptune is the wild and stands in for all symbols bar the Temple symbol, and he only appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 and expands vertically when he does. Because he is confined to the three middle reels, a line that uses him still has to start with a paying symbol on reel 1. The Temple is the scatter and pays in any position. One captured frame shows Neptune expanded over the whole of reel 2, with line 1 paying 10.00 on A symbols against a 20.00 stake.
Core to the game is the Free Game Feature, and the aim is to land as many Temple symbols as possible. The Temple counts wherever it falls, so the three needed can arrive scattered across the grid. Land 3 or more of them and they award 12 free games. The count stays at 12 whether three, four or five Temples land.
Each Neptune that lands upgrades the symbols in order during the free games. That order is displayed along the top of the game screen. Eye of Horus and Lucky Pharaoh Wild are the same ten-line Merkur cabinet, one from 2016 and one from 2024.
Minty’s Final Note: Sixty-four spins at 20.00 wagered 1,280.00 and returned 298.00, with not one Temple trigger among them, so the twelve free games and the symbol upgrade inside them went unseen.
Tridentia is a slot that is all about the Free Game Feature. That is also why the main game can turn a bit dull, as essentially all potential is assigned to the free games. The longest gap without a win ran 12 spins and ended on spin 19. My 64 spins at 20.00 a go, however, never once generated a Temple trigger, and the balance dropped from 1,000.00 to 18.00 for a session return of 23.3%. That is 1,280.00 wagered against 298.00 returned. Only 15 spins paid anything at all, 11 of those beneath the stake. The balance never went above the 1,000.00 it started with. The best of them, spin 60, yielded 80.00 or 4 times the stake. Spin 28 came second at 68.00, and the balance stood at 98.00 once spin 60 had paid.
Tridentia can come across as slightly complex in writing, although it is not, and in fact it is a rather straightforward slot.