Indian Dreaming Pokies
With evocative images taken from Native American culture, Indian Dreaming is a pokie that’s going to attract the many people who enjoy this theme as well as many others who may not be so interested in it, but nevertheless like to trigger lots of free spins, pick up multiplier prizes and get the chance to turn modest prizes into huge rewards with a gamble game.
This is a classic pokie that has some up to date features, such as a format that sees winning combinations whenever matching symbols run across the reels in an unbroken line from the left side, with their actual positions on the reels unimportant.
This gives 243 different ways to line them up, leading to a low volatility game where players will generally see lots of winning spins, although comparatively smaller payouts for each. It’s a style that most people prefer, as they won’t have to sit there endlessly spinning reels before winning something.
Dreaming of Indians
Pokies with this theme are pretty common, but this is a nice example that comes with a detailed background picture of towering mountains against a starry sky. A clever touch is the way that the reels are made to look as if they are lying on an Indian blanket, but it’s what happens in the actual game that’s important, so let’s move on to see how it all works.
The first thing to note is that players don’t activate lines, (because there aren’t any) and instead activate reels, so unless they are playing with 25 coins, or multiples of that number, they won’t be able to win the bigger payouts that come from rows of symbols running through to reels 4 and 5.
There’s the traditional 5 reels, with symbols laid out over 3 rows, while Aristocrat have made the playing card icons the most commonly occurring ones, so players can expect to see 9, 10, J, Q, K and A landing all the time.
Further up the paytable they will find pictures of a tomahawk, totem pole, buffalo and Indian chief, with this guy paying out a maximum of 2500x the coin amount when he stops across all reels.
Indian Dreaming
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Bonus Features
A tepee is the wild symbol for Indian Dreaming and when this iconic image stops on the reels it can act as any other, apart from the scatter symbol if it’s subsequently possible to create a winning combination, or turn a line of 3 into a line of 4.
It’s not possible to get the wild across the game on its own however, as it will only be on the second and fourth reels, but it will multiply the amount won by 3x or 5x respectively, depending on which reel it’s seen on.
The scatter is an Indian Dreamcatcher, which fits in with the title and is the trigger for the main bonus feature of the game. If 3, 4 or 5 scatters land at once, in any positions on the reels, players will be awarded 10, 15 or even 20 free spins, but before they commence, they get to pick a multiplier that will be randomly applied to any winnings. They can pick from a range of between 3x and 15x, and of course, the smaller the multiplier, the more frequently it is likely to be applied and vice versa.
Anyone who likes to take a further risk can choose to gamble each win. They just need to click on red or black next to a rapidly flashing playing card at the right time to double the win, with the option to repeat the gamble if they are successful, but of course a wrong pick loses the triggering bet. It’s possible to gamble just half of the win however, and as these rounds are notoriously difficult to get very far with, maybe it’s best to just play with a portion of the prize, or smaller payouts that won’t be missed if and when a wrong pick is made.
The Verdict
Indian Dreaming is a very conventional pokie in some ways and quite unusual in others. It follows a very popular theme that’s shared with numerous other games and has the common playing card symbols making up the lower winning combinations, so while it looks fine, there’s nothing innovative about its appearance.
The unusual aspects are mostly related to the way players bet on reels, not paylines, but overall the effect is the same, it’s just that they will win less by using anything below 25 coins on each spin.
Like all games from Aristocrat, this is a trusted and reliable pokie which has a good return to player ratio, so anyone who likes the way it looks should have no reservations about playing it.