Epic Joker Slot – Free Demo

The plainest possible Relax Gaming cabinet

Relax Gaming is certainly one of the most intriguing game suppliers at the moment, and what renders them intriguing is that alongside the large feature-packed launches everyone discusses, they keep returning to the plainest possible game. Epic Joker is one of those returns, and it carries two features and nothing else. Admittedly I didn't anticipate much from them. The whole apparatus is a wild that can arrive stacked, a re-spin that holds those stacks in place, and a short free spin round. That was before I began observing what they could achieve with three reels and nothing else. Neither feature runs off a scatter symbol; both are triggered by what the reels themselves land.

What Relax Gaming noticed is that not every punter desires the maximum. The trigger conditions here are the plainest kind — a full stack of the wild, or a single symbol filling the grid. Many other suppliers have neglected to notice that. They merely returned inside their comfort zone to craft a slot with far less machinery than anything they had lately attempted. A round is therefore one spin, a possible re-spin, and a possible five free spins, and then it is over. And it succeeded. In my own run the free spins came round twice within eleven spins of each other, on spin 183 and spin 194.

Epic Joker moved from being just another fruit machine that no one truly minded about to becoming one of the classics folk genuinely retain in their rotation. Fire Joker from Play'n GO and Jumbo Joker from Betsoft occupy the same three-reel joker cabinet. And at the moment it is one of the scarce three-reelers that has the capacity to sit beside the contemporary launches at all.

Five lines across a three by three block

Epic Joker is a 3-reel, 3-row slot with 5 fixed paylines, and it's not as volatile as the studio's large games. A paying combination is three matching symbols on one of those lines. The feature frequency is far loftier (due to it's lower volatility), but it does hold some decent potential, with a max win of 500x the bet. That ceiling is tied to one named outcome, three stacked Jokers on the grid at once.

Epic Joker keeps a tidy classic cabinet, with the symbols sitting in a straight three by three block. That same block is what Super Mode reads, since the trigger asks for one symbol in all nine of its positions. There are many slot games with joker themes. This one, however, keeps the furniture down to the bare minimum, and the three rows and five lines are the entirety of the layout. The only thing that carries from one spin into the next is a held Joker stack during a re-spin.

Epic Joker arrives with the customary low-value fruits, cherries, plums and peaches, while the top symbols are depicted by Bar, the lucky seven and a star. The star sits at the head of that upper group, with the cherries at the foot of the lower one. The best paying symbol is the Joker.

There is one wild, the Joker. It substitutes for the other symbols to complete a line. It lands either as a lone symbol or as a complete stack filling a reel. Only the stacked form starts a feature.

Super Mode asks for all nine positions

Super Mode is triggered if the same symbol occupies all nine positions, and it grants 5 free spins. The two I saw landed on spin 183 and spin 194. A retrigger on a different symbol is rumoured. I couldn't verify it. Neither of my two rounds added a spin to the five.

What a held Joker stack does

The Joker Re-Spin is triggered when one or two complete Joker stacks land, and the stacks are locked in place while the leftover reel or reels re-spin. Whether a further stack arriving on the re-spin buys another one is not stated anywhere in the game's material.

Final Minty Score: The single biggest thing this cabinet did in 320 spins was hold a Joker stack for one re-spin and pay 456.00, 57 times the stake, which is a ninth of a ceiling that wants three stacks at once.

Where 320 spins left me

It's a low to medium volatility slot. Ninety of my 320 spins returned something, and 52 of those returned less than the stake. It is nowhere near the studio's large games in terms of potential. The ceiling belongs to a single combination rather than to a feature that builds toward it across spins.

During my 320 spin session at 8.00 credits a spin, I never managed to climb back into profit. The longest stretch without a win was 13 spins, ending on spin 65. I ended at 3,956.00 from an opening 5,000.00, a return of 59.2%, and the best single spin was a Joker stack locked for a re-spin, worth 456.00 or 57 times the stake. That one came on spin 149 and left the balance at 4,620.80. Super Mode arrived twice and paid 224.00 and 52.80, together merely 18% of everything I won.