Beriched Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Beriched Review

The reels are set in a dimly lit castle chambers of some kind, and it looks like the laboratory of some kind of witch or wizard. Usually, these alchemist types are trying to figure out the recipe of gold, but there is a different kind of recipe cooking in this volatile Red Tiger release. The Recipe in question can still make you some decent dough though, and it’s basically a line-up of random symbols below the reels.

Symbols that match the ‘Recipe’ symbol on the same reel become sticky, and getting locked recipe symbols on all 5 reels turns them all wild for a single spin. This feature is further enhanced in the bonus round, where all Recipe matches turn sticky wild for the duration of the feature. Overall, Beriched follows a pretty common Red Tiger ‘recipe’, with nice visuals, a somewhat novel core feature and their usual quirky math model to boot.

Beriched Slot - Reels Screen

Beriched Slot Features

Wild symbols only appear as part of the Recipe feature we’ll take a closer look at below. There are 5 premium symbols in play in this game, and these are dolls, potions, frogs, spell books and a wizard hat. They pay 2 to 10 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the wild pays 15x your stake for the same.

As the game starts, you get a random line-up of symbols below the reels.

More specifically, each reel is assigned with a random symbol beneath the bottom row, and this set of symbols is called a ‘Recipe’. The Symbol Lock mechanic is triggered when you land at least 1 symbol on a reel that matches the recipe symbol below.

The recipe match symbols become sticky for one spin only, but you can prolong the feature if you land more sticky recipe symbols on the spin that follows. The symbol lock mechanic thus goes on as long as you keep locking new symbols in place. The feature ends if you don’t land at least 1 new locked symbol.

The ‘Recipe’ is considered ‘complete’ if you match up at least 1 symbol per reel with the respective recipe symbol below, and this turns all locked symbols into wilds for the current spin. The recipe pattern is then replaced by a brand new and random recipe pattern, after the current win has been summed up.

You trigger the Bonus Round with 10 free spins when you land 3 scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5, and the ‘Recipe’ pattern is carried over from the base game.

This goes for locked symbols as well, and these turn into sticky wilds on the first free spin. If you complete a recipe on the triggering spin, the wilds are carried over, while a new recipe pattern is generated.

All symbols that match the recipe symbols on their respective reels turn into sticky wilds during the bonus round. The sticky wilds stay locked in place for the duration of the feature, but you cannot land scatters to get extra spins or retrigger the free spins round.

The 200 Spins Beriched Slot Experience

You get to see a lot of the Recipe symbol lock mechanic as we grind along in the base game, and the bonus round is finally triggered at 2:50 into the 4:14-minute highlights video. A total of 5 symbols was carried over and turned into sticky wilds, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The Recipe locked symbols feature might seem clever at first glance, but you’ll soon notice a rather frustrating pattern. Since the sticky symbols are usually not matching, racking them up means - more often than not - that prime ‘reel estate’ becomes occupied in the base game. This blocks regular wins quite effectively, except for those rare occasions when the Recipe is complete, and all the locked symbols turn wild.

The bonus round resolves this dilemma elegantly by always turning locked sticky symbols wild, and this is definitely your best shot at getting close to the mediocre 2,500x potential. We’re unsure if this potential is sufficient to motivate players through the rather frustrating base game experience, although back-to-back sticky wild wins in the bonus round can offer some thrilling moments on a good day.

Pros

• Recipe symbol lock mechanic
• Complete recipe means locked wilds
• FS where all locked recipe symbols turn sticky wild

Cons

• Beware of customizable RTP ranges
• 2,500x max win is mediocre for high volatility

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