An unusual looking, but rewarding game, Cazino Zeppelin has very little to do with airships and everything to do with images in the Steampunk style. If you haven't heard the term Steampunk before, it's used to describe Victorian era science fiction, of the type made popular by Jules Vernes' 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, or the (frankly awful) Wild, Wild West film.
The Cazino Zeppelin pokie game features the high quality graphics and gameplay that have become synonymous with the Yggdrasil Gaming developer. With 5 reels and 20 paylines, it's got a fairly standard layout, but some intriguing features like sticky wilds and a wild transfer make it stand out.
All bets are automatically spread among the 20 lines, with the minimum wager being 0.20, and anyone wanting to stake more just has to adjust the coin size, which at maximum bet equals 10.00 a spin.
Although it's largely obscured by the symbols, there's a nice background image of a floating casino/airship contraption that gives the name to this pokie machine, and the appearance is further enhanced by the way in which symbols on the reels seem to float above the background, which isn’t a new feature, as a number of other pokies have it, but it looks good.
Smartly dressed, and slightly mad looking Victorian types, holding Poker chips, or playing cards, or throwing dice etc. make up the picture symbols, and where many games have high card 9 through to A as the lesser icons, in this game some equally well presented club, spade, hearts and diamonds symbols.
The character with a pipe and handful of banknotes rewards players with the biggest prize, with 40 coins for getting three across a line, rising to 2000 coins should a full line of five land in the right places. Other characters pay from 500 to 1000 coins when they fall across all reels, while the card suit symbols are worth from 100 to 170 for five on a payline. These card symbols are made to look like precious jewels, so even though the wins are not worth a fortune, it still looks very nice.
So on to the features that Yggradsil hope will attract players to Cazino Zeppelin. By the way, I know they can’t spell ‘Casino’ correctly, but give them a break; it’s how it is spelt in a number of countries, and this pokie is aimed at players from around the world.
The Wild symbol, who is a strange-looking woman in a jester outfit, (think Harley Quinn from the Batman comics, but blue), is the one that players looking for extra features will welcome. First of all, she works in the standard way, substituting for others if it will complete a winning combination, and secondly, if any Wilds are on the reels when the free spins round is triggered, they will stay in place throughout the games in a feature known as Transferring Wilds.
Those free spins start when three or more of the imaginatively named ‘Free Spins’ symbols appear at any one time. Three of them equal 10 free games, four of them results in 15 spins, and if five turn up after a spin, 20 will then begin, while a flat 40 coin prize will also be paid out for three or more.
Our good friend the Wild symbol helps to make the free spins an exceptionally rich round, as any that turn up during them will stick around until they are finished, and if at least one Wild is present on each of the five reels, an extra five spins will be handed out. On top of all this, three or more Free Spins symbols will re-trigger the round and add further games to the end of the current ones.
Cazino Zeppelin has some quality graphics and an interesting style, with some nice wins possible in the base game, but the real fun and bigger rewards are to be had when the Wild turns up and during the free spins round.