10 Keys of Fate

10 Keys of Fate Slot Review

A fortune-teller’s table, set with a ring, a compass, a scroll and a feather, and every prize on it sealed behind a padlock. That’s the honest picture of 10 Keys of Fate from Felix Gaming, because almost nothing in this game pays properly until a key lands on the first reel. Most of what looks like a win is just locked money waiting for the right symbol.

It runs on a 5×3 grid with 10 fixed paylines. There’s no published RTP and no published maximum win, and the game carries a progressive jackpot, so the top-end maths sit in that pot rather than on a paytable. What it does have is a lock-and-key system where one spin can open everything at once.

Base Game & Features

Wins pay left to right across the 10 lines, and only the highest combination on each line counts. That’s the whole of the payline mechanics. The scatter is the one exception to position, and the keys and locks are the exception to everything else.

Key Wilds

Bronze, Silver and Golden Key symbols land on reel one only, and they substitute for every regular paying symbol except the scatter and the LOCK. Each carries a multiplier:

• Bronze Key: x1
• Silver Key: x2
• Golden Key: x3

When a key forms part of a winning combination on a payline, the win for that combination is multiplied by the key’s value. The multipliers don’t apply to scatter wins.

Because keys sit on reel one, they can only ever complete a combination that starts at the left edge, which every payline does. A key also opens locks in the same spin, so the symbol is doing two jobs at once: standing in for paytable symbols on the line, and acting as the trigger for the feature below.

Keys of Fate Scatter

The KEYS OF FATE symbol is the scatter, it can appear on all five reels, and it pays from any position rather than along a line. It’s a small extra route to a win that doesn’t care where the lines fall.

Scatter wins are the one part of the game the key multipliers leave alone. Where a line win with a key gets boosted, a scatter pay lands at face value whatever else is on the reels.

Symbol Values

The paytable is a short ladder with a big gap between its top rung and everything under it. Five rings pays twice what five scrolls does, and ten times five compasses. The royals sit well below the themed symbols.

• Ring: 4x for three, 40x for four, 100x for five
• Compass: 4x / 16x / 50x
• Scroll: 2x / 8x / 40x
• Feather: 2x / 4x / 20x
• Club: 2x / 4x / 20x
• Heart: 1x / 2x / 10x
• Diamond: 1x / 2x / 10x
• Spade: 1x / 2x / 10x

Those multiples apply to the line bet. A key inside the win multiplies them again, so a golden key on the reel with a five-ring line triples the top prize.

It’s a top-heavy spread. The three card suits and the two mid-tier relics share five of the eight rows, and everything below the scroll needs a key or a full line of five to pay anything worth counting. The gap between the themed symbols and the suits is where most of the base game’s small wins live.

10 Keys of Fate Bonus Features

Lock Feature

The Lock Feature is the reason this slot exists. LOCK symbols land on reels two to five, and they do nothing on their own. A lock without a key awards nothing.

When at least one KEY and one or more LOCK symbols appear in the same spin, every visible lock opens, regardless of where they sit on the paylines. Each opened lock pays a randomly assigned value from a fixed ladder:

• 1x total bet
• 2x total bet
• 3x total bet
• 5x total bet
• 10x total bet
• 20x total bet
• 50x total bet

The values of all opened locks are added together, then the total is multiplied by the highest key multiplier visible on the reels. Key multipliers are never added together or multiplied by one another, so a golden key caps the boost at x3.

Position doesn’t matter to a lock at all. Two locks on unconnected reels both open and both pay, which makes the feature more like a scatter collection than anything the paylines control. The ladder’s shape is steep, too: the top two rungs alone are worth more than the bottom five combined, so a spin’s value rests heavily on which values the opened locks happen to carry.

Lock prizes are added on top of any line and scatter wins in the same spin, so a good spin pays through two different systems at once. The number of locks, the values they carry and the key tier all feed the same total.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

This is a slot you play for one moment: the spin where a key turns up on reel one and a board full of locks suddenly all pays at once. Between those moments it’s quiet, and the progressive jackpot is the standing reason to keep the reels turning when they are.

The lock opening is genuinely good design, because position doesn’t matter at all, so a lucky spin pays through the lines, the scatter and every visible lock together, all boosted by whichever key arrived. What lets it down is everything either side of it: the paytable collapses after the ring, and there’s no free spins round or second feature, so the quiet stretches between keys have nothing to fill them but small line wins.

It’s for players who enjoy one strong build-and-release mechanic and don’t miss the variety, and it isn’t for anyone who wants a bonus round to break up the base game. If your luck tends to arrive in one big turning of the lock rather than a steady trickle, this is the table you’ll want to sit at.

10 Keys of Fate FAQs

• How does the Lock Feature trigger in 10 Keys of Fate?

  The Lock Feature triggers when at least one KEY symbol and one or more LOCK symbols appear in the same spin. Keys land on reel one only, while locks land on reels two to five. When the combination appears, every visible lock opens regardless of its position on the paylines.
• What do the Key symbols do in 10 Keys of Fate?

  There are three key symbols, and each one substitutes for every regular paying symbol except the scatter and LOCK, with a multiplier attached to any win it helps form. Bronze carries x1, silver x2 and golden x3.
• Do key multipliers stack in 10 Keys of Fate?

  No. Key multipliers are never added together or multiplied by one another. When locks open, the total of their values is multiplied by the highest single key multiplier visible on the reels, so the maximum boost is x3 from a Golden Key.
• What are the possible Lock values in 10 Keys of Fate?

  Each lock is randomly assigned one of seven values: 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 20x or 50x the total bet. All opened locks in a spin are added together and multiplied by the highest visible key multiplier.
• Do LOCK symbols pay anything without a KEY in 10 Keys of Fate?

  No. LOCK symbols don’t award a prize unless a KEY symbol is also present in the same spin. A screen full of locks with no key on reel one pays nothing from the feature.
• Where do the Key symbols appear in 10 Keys of Fate?

  Key symbols can only land on reel one. LOCK symbols can only land on reels two to five, which is why the feature needs both ends of the board to connect.
• Does the scatter pay anywhere on the reels in 10 Keys of Fate?

  Yes. The KEYS OF FATE scatter can appear on all five reels and pays from any position, so it doesn’t need to sit on a payline. Scatter wins are also the one prize type the key multipliers don’t boost.
• How many paylines does 10 Keys of Fate have?

  10 Keys of Fate has 10 fixed paylines, shown in the game’s paylines diagram as Line 1 through Line 10. Wins pay left to right, and only the highest combination on each line counts.