Adventure Palace Pokies
Adventure Palace is an Indian wildlife themed pokie from the famous Microgaming stable, that can now be found at many of the best online casinos. It's a fairly standard 5 reel and 9 payline game that brings to mind the olden days in India, where tigers were hunted from elephants by princes and the Maharaja that ruled the land.
There's no need to go killing the local creatures in this game, but players could make a killing with some of the big wins that come from a high paying wild symbol, win multipliers during a free spins round, and a Gamble game that can double or quadruple each payout.
Following a recent update, the graphics have been sharpened up a little, and the animations smoothed out, but it’s still a fairly basic looking game, so while the images are very nicely rendered, there’s no attempt at photo-realistic symbols, which may be a turn-off for some, but personally, as long as the features pay me lots of cash, I’m not bothered.
Bets go from as little as 0.01 a line, up to 10.00, with all lines permanently activated.
Symbols are the high card 9 through A designed to look like temple ruins, plus some Storks, a Snake, Peacock, Monkey and Tiger, all of which pay out should 3 or more of a type land on a line, from left to right. The Palace itself is a scatter symbol, so there’s no need for it to appear in any particular position to bring a prize to the player, while 3, 4 or 5 of them equal a scatter win as well as triggering a free spins round. Unusually, there’s a set 15 free games, no matter how many of the scatters appear, which seems a bit mean, as many pokies treat players to extra spins should more scatters turn up at once.
Adventure Palace
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One bonus that you get however, is that all free spin wins are tripled in value, and they can be re-triggered should 3 or more scatters appear during them. The most rewarding symbol to get is the Elephant, which appropriately the wild symbol, and who works in the usual way by substituting for others to complete winning lines, while doubling the amount of any prize created this way.
The Elephant also has a win value of his own, with just 2 of them being enough for a 0.10 payout, and a whole line of 5 will result in a very nice 100.00 at minimum bet, while betting the maximum will bring in the biggest possible win of 300.000 for 5 on a line.
Whatever is won, players can try to double or quadruple the value by clicking the ‘Gamble’ button, which opens up a second screen that shows a playing card, face down. To double the prize, players need to correctly guess if it will be turned up to be revealed as Red or Black, or they can try to quadruple it by getting the correct suit. Should the guess be right, they can either collect the new amount, or play again to boost it even further.
While Gamble rounds are quite popular, and can add an extra something to a game, it’s pretty risky to play for more than one round, and anyone hitting the maximum win amount is very lucky indeed.
Is It Worth Hunting Down?
O.K., it’s not the most visually exciting pokie that you are ever likely to see, but it all works very well, and has some high paying features which seem to get triggered quite frequently. Microgaming are a trusted developer of casino games, who have been around for quite a while and power many of the biggest sites in the world, so they know what they are doing, and what players are looking for. Adventure Palace is a straightforward game to play, with the only tricky decision being whether or not to try for a double or quadruple win in the gamble round.