Gates of Valhalla Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Gates of Valhalla Review

There is something a bit unusual about the color scheme in Pragmatic Play’s Gates of Valhalla, and it has to do with the very brightly colored symbols set against the dark stone tiles. It gives you almost a fruit slot vibe at first, and it was a bit of an acquired taste for us to be honest. The game itself is simple enough, with a base game that’s all about the tumbling win roaming progressive multiplier wild feature.

We didn’t really see the gate to Valhalla anywhere though, but Thor’s hammer, Mjölnir, sits firmly on the right-hand side of the 5x5 grid. An impressive thunderstorm is unleashed when the bonus round triggers, giving you a dramatically animated backdrop as the feature plays out with a global progessive win multiplier. This is how you’re most likely to crack the 10,000x win cap, and it comes with a pretty decent 1 in 5,524,862 probability.

Gates of Valhalla Slot - Reels Screen

Gates of Valhalla Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 10 and 75 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and you win anywhere as long as 3+ matching symbols land adjacent vertically or horizontally. The Golden Lion Wild steps in for all pay symbols to help complete winning combinations. The Tumble feature removes all winning symbols from the grid, which allows for new and/or existing symbols to drop down to fill the gaps.

This process repeats as long as you keep winning.

The Golden Lion Wild symbol is not removed by the Tumble feature. Instead, it moves to a random new position when part of a win, and this is called the Roaming Wild feature. The wild multiplier increases by +1 per move in the same tumbling sequence, up to x5 at the most. When the wild multiplier is maxed out and part of a win, it explodes and is removed with the winning symbols. The wild multiplier values are added together if more than one is part of the same win.

The Bonus Round is triggered when you land 3, 4 or 5 scatters in the same tumbling sequence, and this awards 10, 12 or 15 free spins, respectively.

A global win multiplier will boost all wins, and it increases by +1 per tumble. This progressive multiplier does not reset during the feature, and you can retrigger the bonus round indefinitely by landing 3+ scatters.

Non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can take advantage of the Buy Free Spins feature. You will then have to pay 100x your stake, and this guarantees at least 3 scatters on the spin that follows. The bonus round triggers organically once every 351 spins on average. The RTP increases to 96.6 % if you purchase the bonus round.

The 200 Spins Gates of Valhalla Slot Experience

You get to see a longer tumble roaming multiplier wild sequence, which gave us a decent base game win, before we purchase the bonus round at 1:06 into the 4-minute highlights video. See for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

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Review Summary

The roaming progressive multiplier wilds trigger quite often, and they combine very well with the pay anywhere system. While we’ve seen more visually pleasing and atmospheric installments in the Norse mythology genre, Gates of Valhalla is still well worth a try. The base game is kept interesting by the occasional lengthy tumble plus roaming wild sequences, and it can lead to decent payouts as well.

The above is entertaining enough that you don’t really miss the bonus round too much, which is good since it comes with a somewhat infrequent hit rate of 1 in 351 spins.

The progressive global win multiplier that comes into play will boost the total sum from your tumble sequence, which can lead to payouts up to a decent 10,000x your stake if the norse gods are on your side. Overall, a simple and effective game that’s a tad above average for this genre.

Pros

• Roaming progressive multiplier wilds
• FS w/ global progressive multiplier
• 10,000x potential (probability 1 in ~5.5m)

Cons

• Beware of adjustable RTP ranges
• FS hit rate is 1 in 351 spins

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