Merlin and the Ice Queen Morgana Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Merlin and the Ice Queen Morgana Review

We still had Rich Wilde and the Wandering City fresh in mind as we tested Merlin and the Ice Queen Morgana. Both of these back-to-back Play’n Go ‘book slot’ installments come with multiplier action, but the 20,000x potential has been doubled compared to the Rich Wilde adventure. The big twist in this release is the fully stacked Morgana Wilds that award win multipliers both in the base game and during the bonus round.

Naturally, the symbol values suffer a bit because of this, but far from as much as in the Rich Wilde release, which also comes with more win ways than the standard 10 betlines you get here. You can look forward to an impressive intro when this game loads, and the bonus round is also introduced with some spectacular Merlin animations. The stacked Morgana Wilds step in for the chosen expanding symbol, as well as regular symbols, and she appears more frequently in the bonus round.

Merlin and the Ice Queen Morgana Slot - Reels Screen

Merlin and the Ice Queen Morgana Features

Landing 5 matching premiums on a payline awards between 10 and 250 x your stake, which is lower than the usual 500x you get for the top-tier symbol. The Morgana Wilds can land anywhere, and the symbol can also land stacked. When stacked, you get a random Morgana Multiplier of x2, x3, x5 or x8, and this will boost any win on the triggering spin (including scatter payouts).

You need 3 Merlin Staff scatters in view to trigger the Bonus Round, and this awards 10 free spins.

A pay symbol is chosen randomly up front to become the special Expanding Symbol during the feature. If enough instances of the chosen symbol lands on different reels, it will expand to award full reel payouts no matter if the symbols land on adjacent reels or not. The Morgana Wild appears fully expanded to step in also for the chosen expanding symbol, boosting the payout with her random multiplier.

The 200 Spins Merlin and the Ice Queen Morgana Experience

You get to see a smaller base game win, before we trigger the Bonus Round at 0:35 into the 2:22-minute highlights video. We got ‘Q’ as the special expanding symbol, and a fully stacked Morgana Wild gave us a boosted full screen win towards the end of the feature. Check it all out for yourself by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

It’s always refreshing when you get to play a ‘book slot’ that doesn’t drag you into yet another dusty Egyptian tomb.

Play’n Go has adopted an almost scientific approach to the ‘Book of’ genre their infamous Book of Dead helped catapult into stardom. They keep churning out high quality productions like this, always twisting and tweaking different things to see how players react.

Merlin and the Ice Queen Morgana is a visually superb installment, and the Morgana Wild Multiplier awards decent top-up wins that makes the base game seem like less of a grind than is usually the case. Morgana shines even brighter in the bonus round though, and the random multiplier makes the special expanding symbol wins more unpredictable when she’s involved. The 20,000x potential is way above the usual 5,000x, but your max win chances are a very slim 1 in 1 billion spins.

Pros

• Stacked Morgana Wild multiplier up to x8
• FS w/ Morgana Wilds that step in for chosen symbol
• Win up to 20,000x your stake

Cons

• Beware of adjustable RTP ranges
• Max win probability is 1 in 1 billion spins

If you love Merlin and the Ice Queen Morgana you should also try:

Rich Wilde and the Wandering City - is another Play’n Go installment in the ‘book of’ genre, and it comes with an unusual 243 win ways. The 3 middle reels award randomly triggered x2 multipliers, and boosting the chosen expanding symbol in the bonus round can lead to 10,000x payouts.

Book of Toro - combines the charming elements from ELK’s highly successful Toro range with the ‘book of’ mechanic concept. You can look forward to mummy respins and toro walking wild respins, as well as the classic toro goes berzerk feature. You can retrigger for up to 3 chosen symbols in the bonus round, and the 10,000x potential is also solid.

Rise of Merlin - is a similarly themed release in the ‘book slot’ genre, and this Play’n Go installment is simpler than the game at hand. The big bonus round twist is that you get a new randomly chosen expanding symbol per retrigger, and up to all 9 symbols can thus become expanding.

This can lead to payouts up to 5,000x your stake from a single free spin.

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