Mythic Maiden Pokies
Those of a nervous disposition should probably give the Mythic Maiden video pokie a wide berth because it’s filled with creepy images of torture devices, giant spiders, shrunken heads and other things guaranteed to give them nightmares. Named after the iron maiden, which was a popular way to dispatch criminals or those suspected of wrong-doings back in the old days, it’s a 5 reel game where players want these grisly symbols to land on adjacent reels from the left side across any of the 30 paylines to get a prize paid out.
It’s been released by Net Ent and this popular Swedish online casino games developer like to fill their pokies with bonus features, which in this case include wild substitutions with multipliers and a free spins round where the iron maiden reveals extra spins or further multipliers from within its blood-soaked innards.
The reels are surrounded by an ornate framework and symbols spin down against a backdrop of a dusty room, filled with strange items, while to the right we see the maiden, whose padlock rattles with each spin. The amount staked on those spins can be from as little as 0.01 if punters are happy to activate just a single line and wait a while to get winning combinations, or 0.30 to get all the paylines in play. Free Mythic Maiden video pokies can be used for practice purposes and the high limit wager is 180.00 per spin.
Playing Mythic Maiden
While playing card symbols 10, J, Q, K and A all appear in this game, they have all been designed to look like dripping candles to add to the atmosphere of dread. The 10 is worth 7, 30 or 70x the line bet when it lands on 3, 4 or 5 reels, while the top value A pays out 15, 40 or 125x for the same combinations.
The fear continues with the unique picture symbols, starting with a red chest that contains who knows what horrors and is worth 25, 50 or 150x the line bet. Next up is the spider, then a green book in a mummified hand, and a monkey skull is the next most valuable. The top wins in normal gameplay are won by the shrunken head symbol which is valued at 5x when it lands on just reels 1 and 2 across a payline, while 3, 4 or 5 of them are worth wins of 70, 300 or 2000x.
The wild symbol is an animated view of the moon through a window which flashes into a picture of a skull, and when this spooky image lands in the right places it will be able to act as any other, with the exception of the scatter symbol, completing winning combinations if possible, or stretching winlines further across to the right side for higher payouts. Any time the wild completes a combination, the win will be tripled from the basic value.
Mythic Maiden
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Free Spins Round
Blue and red points of light swirling around each other don’t appear to have much to do with the theme unless anyone can tell me otherwise, but they make for a scatter symbol that triggers free spins, with the number of bonus games awarded dependant on the number of scatters that land at once.
Just 3 of them are needed to get 10 extra games, while 4 of them will start 15 spins and if any 5 scatters appear in any places at once, 30 free spins will play out. The iron maiden is there to help players win some nice coin payouts during this round, as it opens up and can reveal a multiplier of up to 10x that will be applied to any win, or a number of extra spins that will be added on to the current round.
If any 3 or more scatters land at once, the bonus games will be retriggered and the new ones added to the end of any left still to play out.
The Verdict
With the possible exception of Net Ent’s Dracula pokies, this is one of the most gruesome games we have seen, although it’s light on the actual bloodshed and it’s just the choice of symbols that’s a bit grim. Horror fans will love it though, and the high-quality gameplay could be enough to attract even those gamblers who just like pokies that are a little different to the normal types.
The bonus rounds are where most games from Net Ent really stand out and this one has the iron maiden multipliers and extra spins to enjoy, although only 1 or 2 spins will be added on at a time and the 10x multiplier is a maximum that’s not going to occur that often.