Eskimo Riches

Eskimo Riches Slot Review

Five fur-hooded fishermen sit along an ice shelf at dawn, each hunched over a woven basket, while the reels hang half-submerged in a turquoise polar sea. Below the waterline, the ice drops away into a dim blue seabed lined with dark rock spires. It’s a handsome split-level frame, and SpinOn fills it with glossy cartoon 3D in cold blues and candy pastels.

The argument here is that a frozen setting can run hot. This is a 5×3 slot with 243 ways to win, a 94% RTP, Super High volatility and a ceiling of 10,000x your bet, with avalanches, compounding reel multipliers and a bomb feature stacked on top of each other. That’s a lot of machinery for one quiet ice floe, in the mould of Aurora Storm and Fantasy Falls.

Base Game & Features

Wins need three or more identical symbols on consecutive reels from left to right. More identical symbols on the same reel multiply the win. Stakes run from 0.2 to 50 per spin.

The hit frequency sits at 23.86%, so roughly one spin in four connects. That’s a healthy connect rate for a game of this volatility, and the avalanche system means a single win can stretch well beyond its first payout.

How to Win

With 243 ways across a 5×3 grid, there are no paylines to trace. Any symbol landing on three consecutive reels from the left counts, and duplicates on the same reel push the payout up. A four-reel win with two symbols on one reel is counted as a multiple of the base three-reel combination.

The Wild substitutes for all regular symbols. It also adds one to the multiplier of the reel it lands on, which feeds directly into the multiplier system below.

The Avalanche Feature

Every winning spin sets off a cascade. All winning symbols are removed and an extra Wild is added, then new symbols drop into the empty spaces for another chance to win. Wins keep chaining this way for as long as new combinations form.

The extra Wild matters more than it sounds. Because each Wild bumps its reel’s multiplier, a long cascade builds its own fuel: every step removes symbols, drops new ones, and can drop another Wild onto a fresh reel. The sequence only ends when the newly dropped symbols fail to connect.

Reel Multipliers

Wilds increase the multiplier of the reel they appear on, and those multipliers persist for the entire avalanche. Landing a winning combination across a reel that carries a multiplier multiplies that win.

Multipliers have no cap. A long chain of cascades can compound across all five reels, so a late win in a big sequence is multiplied by every reel it crosses that picked up a Wild along the way. When the sequence ends, everything resets to zero for the next spin.

Symbol Values

Pays are shown as multiples of the default stake for five, four and three of a kind, and the drop from the top of the high set to the bottom of the low set is steep.

• Top high symbol: 3.6x / 1.8x / 0.8x
• High symbol: 3.2x / 1.6x / 0.7x
• High symbol: 2.8x / 1.4x / 0.6x
• High symbol: 2.4x / 1.2x / 0.5x
• High symbol: 2x / 1x / 0.4x
• High symbol: 1.6x / 0.8x / 0.3x
• Low symbol: 0.8x / 0.4x / 0.2x
• Low symbol: 0.8x / 0.4x / 0.2x
• Low symbol: 0.6x / 0.3x / 0.15x
• Low symbol: 0.6x / 0.3x / 0.15x
• Low symbol: 0.4x / 0.2x / 0.1x
• Low symbol: 0.4x / 0.2x / 0.1x

On their own those are modest figures, and no single five-of-a-kind comes close to the ceiling. The real money in this game comes from multipliers stacking on top of those base pays inside a long chain, which is why the reel system does the heavy lifting in the maths.

Eskimo Riches Free Spins & Bombs

Free Spins

The Scatter is an Eskimo diver icon, and it only lands on the middle three reels. Land three of them and you enter eight free spins. Two changes make the round worth reaching: all wins pay both ways, left to right and right to left, and the reel multipliers do not reset between spins.

That second change matters. In the base game a multiplier lives only as long as its avalanche; here it holds for the whole session, so every Wild that lands keeps adding weight to its reel while the spins tick by. Eight spins isn’t a lot of runway, but the compounding can move fast once two or three reels carry a multiplier.

Wins Both Ways also widens the field. A combination that starts from the right edge pays exactly as it would from the left, so reels one and five stop being dead weight when a chain doesn’t reach them from the left.

The Bomb

On a non-winning spin in free spins, a Bomb can appear anywhere on the reels and explode, clearing non-winning symbols and starting a fresh avalanche. It comes in three power levels: the lowest clears only the bomb itself, the medium one destroys the bomb and every symbol around it, and the highest clears all symbols within a two-symbol radius.

In a round built on non-resetting multipliers, that’s a direct injection of fuel. A dead spin stops being dead: symbols go, new ones drop, and any resulting cascade lands on reels whose multipliers are still standing from earlier spins.

Bonus Buy

For players who’d rather skip the wait, the free spins round can be bought outright from the base game. The cost is one flat price, charged as a multiple of your current stake:

• Free Spins: 95x your bet, granting three Free Spins symbols and the eight-spin round

At the default stake that’s a substantial outlay for eight spins, and with no extra spins added to the bought round, what you’re paying for is immediate access to the non-resetting multipliers rather than anything enhanced.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

Playing Eskimo Riches is an exercise in patience, sitting on that sunlit ice shelf waiting for three divers to surface at once. The base game cascades and connects often enough, but the multipliers reset the instant a chain ends, so the spinning between bonuses is scenery with small change attached. The one reason to choose it is the free spins round, where every multiplier you build is yours to keep for all eight spins.

That round is the strength, and it’s a real one: multipliers that never reset, wins both ways and a Bomb that turns dead spins into fresh cascades make it genuinely buildy in a way most avalanche slots aren’t. The weakness is everything around it. Eight spins is a short round for this much volatility, and 95x to buy your way in buys nothing extra beyond the door.

It suits players who like a game that saves itself for the bonus, and who’ll take a long cold wait for a round that can snowball. Anyone after steady returns from the base game won’t find them under this ice. Those who wait out the freeze get the round that makes the whole game worth sitting through.

Eskimo Riches FAQs

• How do you trigger free spins in Eskimo Riches?

  Land three Scatter symbols, the Eskimo diver icon, on the middle three reels. That awards eight free spins with wins paying both ways and reel multipliers that hold for the whole round.
• What does the Bomb do in Eskimo Riches?

  In free spins, a Bomb can appear on a non-winning spin and explode to clear symbols and start a new avalanche. It comes in three power levels, from clearing just itself up to clearing every symbol within a two-symbol radius.
• Can you buy the bonus on Eskimo Riches?

  Yes. The free spins round costs 95x your bet and grants three Free Spins symbols, putting you straight into the eight-spin round.
• Do reel multipliers reset in Eskimo Riches?

  In the base game they reset when an avalanche sequence ends. In free spins they don’t reset between spins, so every Wild that lands adds to its reel’s multiplier for the rest of the round.
• What is the RTP of Eskimo Riches?

  The RTP is 94%.
• Is Eskimo Riches high volatility?

  Yes, it’s rated Super High volatility, with a hit frequency of 23.86%, so wins land on roughly one spin in four but payouts vary widely in size.
• What is the maximum win on Eskimo Riches?

  The maximum win is 10,000x your bet.
• What are the minimum and maximum bets on Eskimo Riches?

  Bets start at 0.2 per spin and go up to 50.
• Who makes Eskimo Riches?

  Eskimo Riches is made by SpinOn.