Indiana’s Quest Slot
While any similarity between slot game Indiana’s Quest, by Evoplay Entertainment and a certain film series is completely co-incidental, fans of adventure movies may get a certain sense of déjà vu when they see an explorer in a fedora hat carrying a whip and standing among Aztec ruins.
But whatever the similarities maybe, this is an exciting online casino slot machine that looks great and comes with a number of bonuses to add a little adventure to the lives of players who spin these reels. Free spins, wild wins, random events and a Symbol Drop system with multipliers should be more than enough to help you get plenty of reliable winning combinations. Laid out in a 5-reel, 20-payline format, it’s an example of the high-quality games now coming from Maltese company Evoplay Entertainment, who seem to make each new release even better than the last.
Beautiful 3D graphics and animations surround the main game, with our hero standing to one side of the reels, tipping his hat when winlines are formed, while a rainy jungle acts as a backdrop to the action. Leaves sway in the breeze, there’s a carved stone temple taking up much of the screen and a big scary spider completes the picture.
Heading Off For A Jungle Adventure
All 20 lines are automatically in play, giving gamblers a low limit of 0.20 to get the action started, although there’s also an option to test out free Indiana’s Quest video slots before placing any real money wagers if preferred.
The standard symbols are all different types of Aztec, or maybe Inca, head carvings and to win a prize, 3, 4 or 5 connected reels on a payline will need to have the same symbol type stop across it, running from the left side. The lowest value carving pays out 3x, 10x or 50x the line bet depending on how many reels it stops across, while the top paying of the 7 symbols is valued at 50x, 250x or 2500x for the same combinations.
But this game is not just about landing standard wins, as it really comes into its own when the numerous bonus features are triggered. The first feature likely to be encountered on this quest is the Symbols Drop, which occurs with every winning spin and sees any symbols that made up the win disappearing, which leaves empty spaces for those above to fall in to. If this leads to any more winning lines being formed, the value of those prizes is multiplied by 2, and the Symbols Drop happens again. If that creates another winner, the payout is subject to a 3x multiplier and any subsequent ones are multiplied by 4x.
Wild And Scatter Symbol Features
Indiana’s hat, perched on a skull, is a wild symbol, acting as all except the scatter to complete winning lines when it can fill a break in the sequence across the reels. It isn’t worth anything on its own though, but this is still a useful way to get more prizes paid out.
That scatter is a big gold coin, and whenever 3 or more land in any places at once, spinners are rewarded with 10 free games. During these, the Symbol Drop multipliers will be 3x for the initial win, then 6x, 9x and 15x, making this a round with the potential for some huge payouts.
Random Features
Just to ensure that the adventure never lets up, Evoplay Entertainment have thrown in some random special events that are all accompanied by some great animations, although none of them are definitely going to lead to new winlines being created. Indiana can throw dynamite at the reels, destroying between 5 and 8 symbols, which will be replaced by a new set, or players could be lucky enough to have a gorilla rampage across the reels, turning 1 or 2 reels fully wild.
More wildlife-related mayhem is caused by a rhino, which runs past the reels, turning them around and revealing a whole new set of symbols, or if 2 scatter symbols appear, punters could see Indiana shooting others and turning them into a valuable 3rd scatter to trigger the free spins.
During any free spin, a Magic Haze can float into view, turning horizontal lines of 3 symbols into matching icons, for another chance at getting a winning combo.
Worth A Crack Of The Whip?
This is a great slot machine, where the only real issue we have is that there’s no mobile-optimised version, but this is more than compensated for by the design, good returns to players, and those multiple bonus features.
Symbol Drops with multipliers are a great idea, but to have these joined by random features and a richer free spins round makes the Indiana’s Quest video slot a game we are happy to recommend.
