Dark King: Forbidden Riches Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
NetEnt
Every Wild that lands multiplies the line wins by the count of Wilds on screen, up to x5, and over 320 spins at a 1.00 stake that was enough to finish 191.20 credits ahead without a single Free Spins trigger. The one hit that mattered paid 387 times the stake, a long way short of the 1,600x cap.
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Twenty lines under a blue orb
NetEnt brings me back to the fundamentals with Dark King: Forbidden Riches. I played 320 spins at a stake of 1.00, starting from a balance of 1,000.00.
There's nothing remarkable about the layout. Wins pay from the leftmost reel to the right, and the rules put the hit frequency at 38%. It ships with 5 reels, 3 rows and fixed 20 paylines, and players can wager between 0.20 and 400 credits per spin, making it fit for all kind of players. My session ended on a balance of 1,191.20, with 320.00 wagered and 511.20 won for a return of 159.8%.
What the Dark King and his Wilds pay
On the reels you will notice symbols such as the Dark King, Horned Knight, Whip Wielder, Lantern Bearer, Skeletal Warrior and royals A to 10, and the Dark King is the highest paying regular symbol. It hands you 25 times the stake for 5 of a kind. Four Dark Kings pay 7.5 times the stake, and five Horned Knights pay 20 times. There's a blue orb wild included in the game as well, and if you hit 5 of them on a line you'll win 25 times your stake. Whenever Wilds land anywhere on the reels, all line wins are multiplied by the number of Wilds in view, up to a maximum of x5.
The red gem and a cross of five
In the base game, watch out for the red gem Scatter symbol. The Scatter pays no line wins of its own. 3, 4 or 5 of them anywhere will award you 10, 12 or 15 free spins, and during the bonus you'll be awarded an extra free spin if you land a wild on a Sticky Wild Hotspot. The hotspot is a fixed cross of five positions on reels 2, 3 and 4. That's up to 5 further spins to bring your count to 20. My 320 spins did not trigger Free Spins.
In the free spin mode you will profit from two things. Not only does the Wild Multiplier remain in play, but wilds landing on the Sticky Wild Hotspots now also remain sticky for the remainder of the round. In my base game session the multiplier showed up on spin 265, which paid 4.00 on line wins under x2.
Final Minty Score: My biggest hit was 387.00 on spin 114, which is 387 times the 1.00 stake. It does, in reality, have a max win potential of 1,600 times the stake.
Eighty-four paying spins out of 320
Dark King: Forbidden Riches is a simple slot that doesn't entail massive wins. Yet it should not be dismissed. Of my 320 spins, 84 paid something (26%), and 51 of those returned less than the stake. The longest dry run in my session lasted 16 spins and ended on spin 113, and the balance bottomed out at 917.30 and peaked at 1,303.30.