Floating Dragon - Year of the Snake Slot – Free Demo

Reel Kingdom sets the dragon loose again

Pragmatic Play is a game supplier. The session behind this review ran 500 spins at a stake of 10 credits. It has been creating mostly high potential slots, and one that seldom steps out of the comfort zone, as the studio's Reel Kingdom branch demonstrated with Floating Dragon Megaways and demonstrates again here. Those 500 spins wagered 5,000 credits and returned 11,763. The slots tend to be a bit repetitive in terms of design and payouts. The balance moved from 100,000 to 106,763 across the run. That is why, at least judging by looks, I'm eager to see what has changed with the launch of Floating Dragon - Year of the Snake.

Ten fixed lines under a red sky

Floating Dragon - Year of the Snake is a money symbol type slot. The paying symbols run snake, gold ingots, lantern, red envelope and coin, then A, K, Q, J and 10. It's played on a 5 reel grid arrangement, meaning 10 fixed paylines, and it's playable on all devices between 0.10 and 375.00. The snake also pays for two of a kind, where the rest of the symbols need three of them. It produces a winning spin when matching symbols land left to right from the leftmost reel. Only the highest win counts on each payline, and wins on separate lines are added together. You've encountered this type of mechanics before, most notably in Big Bass Bonanza. Of the 500 spins logged here, 104 paid something back, and 54 of those paid less than the 10 credit stake. In this slot, though, there is an element of the round modifier included as well with the perks drawn before the bonus starts.

The coin holds the value, the Lady takes it

Floating Dragon - Year of the Snake features the coin money symbol. The value ladder runs 2x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 200x, 500x, 1666x, 2500x and 5000x the total bet. It holds a random value of 2x to 5,000x the total bet and pays out during the free spins, and there's a wild symbol offered in the slot as well - the Lady. The dragon head scatter lands on all five reels. She lands on all reels during the free spins and substitutes for everything but the dragon head scatter.

Four wilds to the next collection level

Every time a wild lands in the bonus, it collects every cash value on display, and when four wilds have been collected, the round retriggers with 10 additional free spins. Retriggered spins are played once the current batch has run out, and the raised multiplier applies to them. The collection multiplier rises to 2x, then 3x, then 10x. Every wild that hits during the round stays collected until the round ends. After the fourth tier there are no retriggers, meaning it all has to occur before the multiplier tops out.

Three dragon heads and the modifier draw

When 3, 4 or 5 dragon head scatters have landed, the Free Spins bonus is triggered. Four bonus rounds turned up in the 500 spins logged, on spins 121, 160, 166 and 206. Upon that, 10, 15 or 20 free spins are granted, and between 0 and 5 modifiers are drawn before the round begins - More Coins, More Ladies, More Dynamites/Snakes/Firecrackers, Level Up and Extra Free Spins. Each of those four ran as a 10 spin round with no retrigger, paying 134.0x, 20.0x, 60.0x and 22.0x the stake. The bonus can also be purchased for 100x the total bet. The four rounds paid 2,360 credits between them, a fifth of everything the session won. The Ante Bet at 15x lifts the natural trigger odds while disabling the buy, and on two scatters, a random feature may bring the near-miss aids, a scatter-shifting respin or a snake tugging a reel up to expose a third scatter.

Minty’s Closing Thought: One spin out of 500 carried this run - spin 438 and its 788.0x - while the four bonus rounds together managed 2,360 credits, so the coin values did rather less of the work here than the reels did.

A loud slot at 5 of 5 volatility

Floating Dragon - Year of the Snake is a loud, busy slot that most certainly has hit potential. The biggest single hit in this run came on spin 438, worth 7,880 credits, or 788.0x the stake. Because of the 5,000x potential and the 5 of 5 volatility, though, it's less likely to suit the casual players. A round that reaches 5,000x ends there and then, with the win awarded and any remaining free spins forfeited. It feels a bit more exciting than the typical slot coming from Pragmatic Play. The longest run without a win was 18 spins, ending on spin 341, and the balance bottomed out at 99,209. It is not anywhere close to being inventive enough to get slot geeks like me go mad, though.