Empire Fortune Slot Review

Given the title of this slot machine game, you are probably expecting Yggdrasil’s latest effort to be a war themed game. You’d be quite off the mark, though. Empire Fortune is actually a royal jewellry themed game, and a major progressive jackpot slot at that.

The game features three progressives you win, although admittedly Empire Fortune will take you on a ride and half to land them. The new slot machine game has already been launched and it should be available to play at all good casinos offering Yggdrasil software.

It may not attract too large a crowd – due to its rather dull theme – but as long as it pays out the goods most players won’t mind.

Developers

Empire Fortune is one of several Yggdrasil developed games to be released in autumn. It is also quite possibly the dullest of the lot in terms of theme.

The Scandinavian casino software developer usually comes up with an imaginative and inventive themes for the themes; in fact, they are positively praised for it, and a have a great track record. They seem to have taken their foot off the gas a little bit with Empire Fortune.

Yggdrasil does try to make their slots mobile friendly, so Empire Fortune should be available to play on your favourite mobile phone and tablet devices.

How to play

Empire Fortune doesn’t exactly blow players away with its design. The game contains a rather stylish menu bar, and it will allow you to play around with your stakes a little bit, although not too much.

Players can enjoy spinning the reels of this 5-reel, 20-line slot, although they won’t be able to adjust any of those lines. Expect wagers to range from just $0.20 per spin, up to a $100 a pop on this royal jewellry themed slot machine game.

Features

The Hold Feature: Empire Fortune has a nifty little Hold feature in this game. With it, any time the player lands either 2 bonus symbols or 2 free spin icons, those icons will be held on the reels, whilst the other reels respin.

The point of this is to give the player a second chance at triggering either of the bonus rounds. This is actually critically important since that is where the progressive jackpots can be found.
Free Spins: If you want to spin the reels for free, you will need to locate 3 of the game’s jester symbols anywhere on the screen. Doing so can see you pocket 10, 20, or 30 free spins, for 3, 4 or 5 respective scatters. You can also bag multipliers worth 2x, 4x, and 10x for 3, 4 or respective scatters appearing on the reels.

Bonus Rounds: If you want to get your hands on the progressives, you need this feature. Even if you trigger it, though, you are a long way from landing the top prize. Firstly, players need between 3 and 5 bonus icons to appear on the reels to activate the bonus. You will be taken to a three-tier structure.

The number of bonus icons you landed determines whether your bonus takes place on the bottom, middle, or top tier of the feature. If you want the progressives, you will need to be in the middle or top tier.

Players will either win instant cash prizes which can range up to 5,000 coins, a free spins bonus, a Fireworks Feature which offers 3, 6 or 12 rockets than can offer additional bonuses, or a progressive jackpot.

Maximum pay-outs

Remember, you are going to need to pocket 4 or 5 scatter icons in order to get onto the middle or top tiers of this bonus feature, which is shaped like a crown. Once you do, you will be able to move across the tiers.

Players will need to land on the gold bar on the middle tier to pocket the Golden Jackpot progressive prize. Players will need to land on the diamond or jester spots on the top tier to bag Diamond or Empire progressive jackpot cash prizes.

Summary

Let’s not sugar coat this slot too much. Yes, the inclusion of three progressives into this Yggdrasil slot is fantastic. However, the theme is dull and boring, and the effort required to trigger the progressives is gargantuan.

Even if you trigger the bonus, you are still a long way from landing a progressive, meaning that Empire Fortune has some of the most difficult progressive jackpot prizes to land of all. That won’t sit too nicely with everyone.