Koi Princess Slot – Free Demo

Shrine gates, koi carp, a cartoon princess

A Random Feature can arrive on any base-game spin here, and a two-symbol Bonus near miss can pull a third symbol in from outside the visible reel set. Koi Princess has players travelling off east to the pools and paper lanterns of an anime Japan. This is a realm of shrine gates and koi carp. It is utterly dominated by its cartoon princess. Her symbol is the highest-paying regular symbol on the reels, with only the Wild above it. The princess herself is clearly the star of the show. She and the Wild are also the only two symbols that pay from two on a line. She is supported by a whole suite of features.

There are no points for guessing what the background locale is, being an anime slot, and it's a timeless garden scene at the close or break of day with abundant blossom, calm water, and radiant skies.

Level 2, Coin Value 0.05, and what a spin costs

Play occurs in a game grid composed of 5 reels, 3 rows, and 20 fixed bet lines, and symbols pay from left to right, where only the largest win on each line counts. The captured frame catches a base-game line win of 25.00 with the balance at 978.50, twelve and a half times the spin. A spin costs 20 coins times the bet level. Level and Coin Value set that between them, and the session ran at Level 2 with a Coin Value of 0.05. It doubles to 40 coins with the Bonus Bet switched on. That buys a higher chance of a Random Feature or a Bonus Feature, a different set of values on the Bonus Wheel, and larger sure coin wins in Sure Win Free Spins. The RTP is 96.00%, climbing to 96.23% with the Bonus Bet enabled.

The stretch between Random Features

The base game can grow a little dull at times. I went 12 spins without a win at one point, the run ending on spin 319. But a Random Feature can land on any spin, which breaks some of the tedium. Fairytale Legends: Hansel & Gretel and Fairytale Legends: Mirror Mirror are later NetEnt games built the same way, with features firing at random in the base game.

How the four Bonus Features are drawn

The real potential of Koi Princess can be located within its Bonus Features. Two of the four hand over free spins, one pays coins outright, and one opens a wheel. The key to unlocking the best the game can provide is the bonus symbol. Which of the four you get is drawn at random once the trigger lands. It needs to land on reels 1, 3 and 5, and a two-symbol near miss on a winning spin can also be nudged into a trigger. The nudge only comes once the spin has concluded with two Bonus symbols showing and a bet line win paid. The Bonus Activation Random Feature merely drops the three symbols in.

Then there are the Random Features, along with the four Bonus Features, and each one lasts a single spin. 5-Hit assures a five-symbol win. Both the symbol and the bet line it lands on are picked at random. Random Wilds scatters 4 to 9 overlay Wilds, and Wild Reels converts 2 to 5 entire reels Wild. Those covered reels carry overlay Wilds and nothing else. Of the Bonus Features themselves, Sure Win Free Spins hands out 10 free spins where every spin pays at least the largest win so far in the round. The exception is the first of the ten, where the sure win is the amount wagered. Wild Reels Free Spins grants 10 free spins with 1 to 5 reels blanketed in overlay Wilds and re-drawn each time, and Coin Win pays an immediate coin prize. No further free spins can be won inside Wild Reels Free Spins, so that round does not retrigger. The Bonus Wheel is a three-tiered, dice-driven wheel bearing multipliers, Double Up, Collect, Arrow, either free spins mode, and a Jackpot Coin Win. Each tier is divided into 12 locations, and the x5 multiplier sits on the wheel only when the Bonus Bet is switched off.

What 410 spins returned

My own run went 410 spins at 2.00. It began on 1,000.00 and finished on 596.40. 820.00 wagered yielded 416.40, a 50.8% session return. The low point along the way was 577.80. The balance never once rose back above the 1,000.00 it started with.

The route to big wins is clearly the Bonus Features and the free spins they can hand over. The Bonus Bet stayed deactivated for the whole run. My single trigger on spin 135 produced 32.00 from 10 free spins with no retrigger. It moved the balance from 809.60 to 839.60, and accounted for 8% of everything the session won. It was still the best spin of the session. Spin 229 came next at 28.00, then spin 405 at 26.00 and spin 321 at 24.00.

Small wins, plenty of them

Koi Princess is one of those slots that pays frequently but seldom much. The five biggest wins of the run all landed between 9.4 and 16.0 times the stake. 127 of my 410 spins paid something, and 74 of those paid back less than the stake.

Minty’s Closing Thought: The one Bonus Feature this run drew paid 32.00 on a 2.00 stake, 16.0 times the spin and 8% of everything the 410 spins won, while the other four of the five best spins landed between 9.4 and 14.0 times — so the feature round came out at the ceiling the reels were already reaching rather than at a different order of win.