Masters of Valhalla Slot Machine – Free Play & Review

Entrance to Valhalla is not for everyone, but you’re sitting at the gates as the graphics of this slot machine are loading, so it looks like it’s within reach. Valhalla’s gates are on the left side of the screen, and at the bottom you see treasure chests filled with gold, and ravens sitting on both sides of the reels.

The graphics look standard in a slot that has a Viking mythology inspired theme, we’ve seen them in similar form many times before. The basic symbols deploy a series of Rune stones, while the top ones give us images of Hel, Thor, Freya, and Odin. The W will obviously be a wild, while Valhalla’s Gate is the bonus symbol.

Developer

The slot should be easy enough to find, since Microgaming carries it, as an exclusive title obtained from their partner, Snowborn Games. A few other examples of games that were a result of their collaboration, are titles like Cat Clans, The Bounty, or The Vault.

How To Play It

You can make Masters of Valhalla as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be, provided that you stay within the betting range of $0.10 to $20.

The setup has 5×4 reels, making room for 1024 ways to win there. Winning is possible when 3 to 5 matching symbols appear on consecutive reels, left to right.

Special Features

A major part of the game’s features will come in the form of wilds. The W logos are getting versions for each of the four Nordic gods, their backgrounds being colored in red, green, blue, and pink. They can create winning combinations together, paying up to 15x the stake on each line if they fully cover it. As substitutes, they work only with regular symbols, not the bonus triggers.

The wilds are collected when they show up, and depending on their color, they have a chance of getting access to respins that correspond to that god. You receive a single respin then, with the sticky wild in place. Up to 19 more wilds can be added during that respin, while the God icons are all replaced with God Wilds of the right type.

Another big feature is the Valhalla Bonus, but to get inside you will need the Gate symbol appearing on the 1^st, 3^rd, and 5^th reels. If you only get the bonus symbols on reels 1 and 3, then the Berserk Booster will collect them. Thanks to it, you can get an extra spin in the Valhalla Bonus, when you do trigger it.

In Valhalla Bonus, you’re getting 3 shields initially, either from wood or gold, along with 3 spins (up to 4 of each if you have the Berserk Booster active at the time). Additional shields landing in view will reset the number of spins. All prizes from the reels will get you paid then (up to 9x from wooden shields, and up to 50x from golden ones), and an extra 500x the stake is offered if you filled all available positions.

Additional features to help you, include a Thor Reel Expansion, Freya’s Multiplier applied to all symbols landing from that point forward, Hugin & Munin to boost multipliers for all symbols of that round, and the Garmr and Hel symbols to collect prizes from other symbols.

Maximum Payouts

With high volatility and a 96% maximum RTP, Masters of Valhalla looks pretty good on paper. A top jackpot of 20,000x the round’s stake looks like a possible reward for the luckiest players. Even the base game should be able to get close to it, since there are 1024 ways to win there.

Summary

Masters of Valhalla looks like it’s another decent release for Microgaming’s portfolio, one that will appeal to experienced players that don’t get scared because of its high volatility.