Royal Jewels Slots
In age where many slot machines still rely on the staple ace-to-nine symbols to fill their reels, it’s somewhat refreshing to see a title with its own unique theme and selection of appropriate icons – and Zeus Gaming’s Royal Jewels has all that and more spread across its 5 reels.
With money, crowns and precious stones all adorning the video slot’s 15 spaces, Royal Jewel’s is a game dripping with class and sophistication. Featuring 10 adjustable paylines and a maximum regular jackpot of 5,000x your stake per line, it could also take you from rags to riches in an instant.
Simple enough to have its rules condensed to just one screen of information, there’s no doubt that Royal Jewels is a game designed with instant play in mind. Unfortunately for fans of more innovative video slots, that means there are no special bonus rounds – however, free spins can still be won.
By Royal Appointment
Essentially, Royal Jewels is a classic slot machine that adheres to the bricks and mortar principles that have made Zeus Gaming such a successful company over the years. Players can adjust the number of active paylines and the amount they wager each spin, but that’s pretty much all it takes.
With a maximum of 10 paylines available and bet-per-line stakes ranging from one to 50 coins, players can wager anywhere between 10 and 500 coins per spin and will land a minimum of 10x their bet per line for matching three of the game’s lowest value symbols.
Royal Jewels also uses “adjacent pays”, meaning that unlike other slots where your winning combinations need to move across the reels from left-to-right, any three symbols in a row anywhere on the gameboard is counted as a winner so long as it falls on a payline that was active that spin.
No wilds are present in Royal Jewels – which admittedly counterbalances the upside of the adjacent pays feature somewhat – but players can at least bag themselves 10 free spins for matching three Euro scatter symbols anywhere on the gameboard, which certainly helps lessen the slot’s volatility.
Diamonds Are Forever
As you’d fully expect from the name, Royal Jewels features no shortage of sparkle on its reels, with a colourful collection of precious stones making up the vast majority of its symbols. Emeralds, amethysts, diamonds and ruby hearts all feature as the basic icons, before payouts take a little jump in the form of bundles of cash and stacks of gold bars.
The game’s jackpot symbol, meanwhile, is a golden crown which awards 50, 500 or 5,000x your stake per line depending on how many icons you match. Rounding out Royal Jewel’s selection of symbols is a somewhat out-of-place Euro sign, which is a scatter symbol that triggers 10 free spins.
While there’s not really much in the way of animations when you trigger a winning payline, all matching symbols do at least sparkle a bit to show you where your money is coming from and the slot also features some pretty snazzy winning ditties – especially when you hit the higher payouts.
Money For Nothing
Although Royal Jewels doesn’t have any tricks up its sleeve when it comes to innovative bonus features, players can at least benefit from 10 free spins whenever they find three or more Euro symbols anywhere on the gameboard. Not only will doing this automatically cause the reels to start turning of their own accord, but you’ll also receive a payout of between 20 and 500x your line bet.
This feature can also be retriggered during free spins – meaning you can chain together an almost limitless sequence without risking another cent – but unlike in some other Zeus Gaming titles, players do not receive any additional bonuses like multipliers or two-way paylines during free spins.
As with most games in the Zeus Gaming catalogue, players will also have the option to gamble their winnings in a simple red or black picking game whenever they trigger a winning payline. Choosing correctly will double their prize and can be repeated, but a wrong answer will forfeit any winnings.
All That Glitters...
Royal Jewels is a fairly functional slot that certainly benefits from having its own unique look and feel, but once you scratch beneath the surface, there’s not an awful lot to it. The absence of wilds makes it difficult to complete winning paylines, and while adjacent pays do boost your odds slightly, you’ll find that you’ll often go on long streaks without winning anything that significant.
