Vikings Go Wild Pokie Machine
There's treasures to be plundered in the Vikings Go Wild pokie machine from Yggdrasil Gaming, with Wilds, Scatters and a bonus round which gives players a higher win rate. Sailing in from Nordic shores, Yggdrasil is based in Poland, and licensed in Malta, where local regulations make sure that it's a fair game that's safe to play and it's unlikely to burn down your village and kidnap the wife.
3D Vikings And Valuable Treasures
It's laid out in a simple style, with a backdrop of dragon heads on the front of their longships and gently rolling waves behind. Reels are pretty basic, but the symbols of various Viking characters and coins are in a 3D effect that looks nice, if not very flashy.
There are five reels and the paylines are fixed at 25 lines, so players just need to adjust coin values per line to suit their budget, which means a wager per spin of 0.25 up to 50.00. Lots of customisation options like sound effects, spin speed, autoplay and stop levels can be set at any time and once happy with how it's all set up, it's time to begin.
As soon as the reels start spinning, players will see the first of many features that will all help to bring in more winning games. The most basic feature is the fact that symbols can appear stacked on top of each other, making it quite common to get a whole reel filled with the same one, improving the chances of getting a payout. The Vikings all reward players with wins from 20 - 30 coins should three land on a line, up to 175 - 250 if a full line of five appears, with the gold, silver, bronze and copper coins being lower value symbols, but getting them stacked certainly helps boost the win rate.
Vikings Go Wild
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Bonus Symbols For Extra Plunder
Some bonus symbols will add cash to players' bankrolls, with pretty standard Wild and Scatters and a Treasure Chest bonus symbol which lands only on the fifth reel, handing out random wins or free spins when it does so. The Wild substitutes for all except the Free Spins symbol to help create winning combinations, although it has no value if its' own, so getting a line of Wilds won't bring in a win without it completing a line of something else.
The Free Spins symbol does exactly what it says on the tin, starting off a second round when at least three land at once, in any positions. Three of them trigger 8 free games, four equals 16 spins and if five turn up at once, 24 free spins will then play out, with all control buttons disabled and the same coin value that was in play when they were triggered remaining in place throughout. So far, so normal, and you could be forgiven for wondering if there's going to be anything special about this game, but don't panic! It all gets interesting from here on in.
Some pleasing features make the free spins round a valuable one to enter, with a sea monster wrapping itself around the longships in the background being a sign of things to come, and a Sticky Wilds feature, where any Wild symbols that appear during them will stay in place for the rest of the games. The effect of this is to collect more and more Wilds the longer the spins go on, so by the end of them players could be getting win after win.
Each Viking that lands on the reels during the free spins will battle a sea monster in a short animated fight, and if they manage to win the fight, that position turns into further Wilds. Once the free games have finished, the wins accumulated are added up, and players go back to the main game.
What Do We Think Of It?
Vikings Go Wild isn't the most stunning looking game, with all the characters looking a bit depressed, which I suppose you would be if you had to make a living terrorising everyone and kept being attacked by sea monsters, but while the standard gameplay may be quite straightforward, the bonus symbols trigger frequent extra wins and the excellent free spins games.