Orient Express Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Yggdrasil Gaming
The ticket inspector in Paris lands on a symbol, counts toward the win, steps one reel left and keeps the re-spins coming while he is still on the reels. Free spins then send the train on to Venice, Belgrade and Istanbul, each city with its own wild or multiplier. My two rounds, in Paris and…
Play Orient Express demo
Four cities on one ticket
Orient Express is a slot. Its four game modes are cities, Paris, Venice, Belgrade and Istanbul, and each has its own feature in the base game and in free spins. It is Yggdrasil Gaming developed. Easter Island 2 is another Yggdrasil Gaming title.
This 5-reel, 3-row slot starts in Paris. Once a Free Spin round in the current city is complete, the train moves on to the next city on the travel map. It arrives with 20 fixed pay lines, all paying from the left. A line win needs three or more matching symbols in sequence, starting from the leftmost reel.
Passengers, card suits and three local wilds
Orient Express arrives with a lineup of 8 standard symbols. It contains the Heart, Spade, Club and Diamond low-value symbols as well as 4 train travellers, and the blonde lady is of highest value, handing you a return of 50 times the stake for 5 of a kind. Club and Diamond are the lowest pays, at 3.75 times the stake for 5 of a kind. The Orient Express Wild symbol, however, substitutes for everything except the Free Spin symbol. That one pays scattered. The other wilds belong to a single city each, the ticket inspector to Paris, the train to Belgrade and the postcard to Istanbul.
The ticket inspector walks one reel left
The re-spin feature will come into effect should you hit ticket inspector walking wilds while the train is in Paris, and during the feature the walking wilds shift one reel left while the reels re-spin. A ticket inspector lands on top of a regular symbol once the reels stop, counts toward any win on that spin, and keeps the re-spins going for as long as at least one walking wild is still on the reels.
Hitting an extra walking wild will end in yet another re-spin, and during my test I could determine that the re-spins were not especially generous. The win display adds each re-spin's payout to a running total while the balance stays put until the chain is over. My top spin in the main game paid 6.9 times the stake. That was spin 93, a Paris walking wild chain that paid 138.00 at a 20.00 stake. They did not pay more than 6.9 times the stake outside of the bonus. Narcos from NetEnt also has walking wilds.
The bonus round arrives in the shape of free spins, and 3, 4, or 5 Free Spin symbols activate 7, 15, or 30 free spins respectively. If Free Spin symbols land during a Paris re-spin chain, the free spins start only after every re-spin is complete. Now, the free spins are played in the city that activated them. In Paris the walking wilds turn up more often during free spins, in Belgrade 1-3 reels turn wild on every free spin, and in Istanbul 2-12 symbols become wilds after each one. If they were activated in Venice, the Multiplier clock will then apply a 2-5x multiplier to every winning spin. My Venice round came on spin 199 and paid 38.0 times the stake from 7 free spins.
Final Minty Score: Outside free spins nothing in 310 spins beat the 6.9 times the stake that one Paris re-spin chain paid, and the two rounds I reached, Paris for 40 and Venice for 38 times the stake, carried 43% of everything won.
Two stops on the line, 58.8% back
Orient Express, regrettably, lacks respectable win potential, and the payouts in the main game are very low. Over 310 spins at 20.00 I wagered 6,200.00 and won 3,646.00 back, a session return of 58.8%. The bonus round doesn't do much to compensate for it, with my top round paying 40 times the stake.