Reign Of The Mountain King Slot Review
Torchlight climbs the carved columns of a mountain throne hall, a red carpet running towards the dark arch where the Mountain King holds court. Reign Of The Mountain King, from NextGen Gaming, is at its best when you simply look at it: lush painted fantasy, flaming braziers, gothic arches, raw rock showing through the walls. Underneath, it’s one of the leanest boards you’ll meet on five reels – a 5×4 grid with just 10 paylines, running at 96% RTP and high volatility. The studio’s catalogue includes 300 Shields and Medusa 2, with Wonder Hounds alongside them, and this one trims the parts count harder than any of them.
Paylines and the Paytable
Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, starting from the far-left reel, and only the highest winner counts per combination. Wins on different paylines are added together, and each line win is multiplied by the bet per line. The 10 lines are fixed and numbered one to 10 in the game’s payline diagram, so every spin has all of them in play.
That count is a sparse layout by modern standards. Most five-reel games of this size run 20 or 40 lines, or drop lines entirely for ways-to-win. The practical effect is simple: plenty of spins where nothing connects, which sits squarely with the high volatility rating.
Eleven paying symbols fill the board, and the wild is the joint-richest symbol on it alongside the Queen. The tiers fall away quickly below that pair, with the card royals propping up the bottom. All pays below are multiples of the total bet.
- Mountain King wild – 4x for three, 8x for four, 20x for five
- Queen – 4x for three, 8x for four, 20x for five
- Axe – 2x for three, 3x for four, 56x for five
- A / H – 1.5x for three, 2.5x for four, 55x for five
- Red Beast Head – 3x for three, 6x for four, 12x for five
- Purple Shield – 2.5x for three, 4x for four, 8x for five
- Q / J – 1x for three, 2x for four, 4x for five
- 10 / 9 – 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 2x for five
The Axe is the odd row. It pays less than the Queen at the short end, then leaps past everything for a full line, and the A and H pair repeats that shape in a smaller key. Those two spikes are the only place the paytable breaks from a steady downward阶梯 – a steady downward stair from the Queen to the nines. Everything else pays in single-digit multiples for anything less than five on a line.
The paytable also reflects the current bet configuration, so the figures move with the stake rather than sitting fixed. Combined with the per-line multiplication, that makes the total bet the number to keep in mind when reading any win.
The wild substitutes for all symbols, so it completes any line it touches. That’s its whole base-game job; the interesting parts come from the two features built around it.
Mountain King Respins
The headline round is triggered by three wild symbols, one on each of reels 2, 3 and 4. That’s the whole condition, and the middle reels are the only place it can happen, since the wild doesn’t appear elsewhere on the board.
Because the wild substitutes for everything, those three symbols are usually part of winning lines before the round even begins. Three stacked middle reels of substitution across a 5×4 grid can complete a lot of the 10 lines at once, so the triggering spin itself tends to pay.
With so few paylines in play, this round carries most of the game’s winning potential. Reaching it is the central project of every session, and everything else on the board is either waiting or feeding the multiplier feature below.
The Lone Wild Multiplier
The other feature lives in the base game, and it’s a narrow one. When exactly one wild is in view and that wild forms part of at least one four or five-of-a-kind win, it may be given a multiplier. The possible values are:
- x5 – the entry multiplier
- x8 – one step up
- x64 – where the pays get serious
- x512 – the ceiling
Whatever value lands, it applies to every win containing that wild, including three-of-a-kind wins the wild completes. So a wild that earned its multiplier through a four-of-a-kind connection can also boost a smaller line it happens to sit on.
The entry conditions do the gating. Two or more wilds in view and no multiplier is awarded at all. The wild has to be solitary, and it has to be doing heavy lifting on a long connection before the multiplier enters the picture.
The x512 multiplier requires the wild to be alone on the board when it lands, which is what makes the condition interesting rather than merely large.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.9/10
Reign Of The Mountain King is a waiting game dressed as a throne room. Ten lines across a 5×4 grid means most spins produce nothing, and the one reason to sit through that is the long-shot maths: a solitary wild, a long connection, a multiplier that can climb to x512. The hall looks good while you wait. It needs to.
The strength is that solitary-wild condition. Demanding the wild be alone in view before any multiplier appears is clever gating, and it turns a single wild landing into something worth watching rather than a near-miss. The respins round is the quieter half of the game; three middle-reel wilds pay well enough, but it’s the same 10 lines doing the work, with no prize structure of its own behind them.
There’s little around those two ideas, and a paytable that mostly pays small multiples makes the quiet stretches quieter. Anyone after ladders, collectors or rounds within rounds will find this court too sparsely attended. But for a patient player after a stripped-back, high-variance chase with one conditional prize at its centre, the Mountain King keeps his hall worth entering.
Reign Of The Mountain King FAQs
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What is the RTP of Reign Of The Mountain King?
The RTP is 96%, which sits at the standard mark for an online slot. -
Is Reign Of The Mountain King high volatility?
Yes, it’s a high volatility slot, so wins come less often but tend to be larger when they land. -
How do you trigger the Mountain King Respins?
You need a wild on each of the three middle reels, which are reels 2, 3 and 4, on the same spin. The wild only appears on those reels, so that’s the only route into the round. -
How does the wild multiplier work?
A solitary wild that helps form a four or five-of-a-kind win can pick up a multiplier of x5, x8, x64 or x512, which then boosts every win that wild is part of. It only applies when there’s a single wild in view; two or more wilds means no multiplier at all. -
Can the wild multiplier apply to three-of-a-kind wins?
Yes. The multiplier attaches to every win containing the wild, including three-of-a-kind lines, even though the multiplier itself is earned through a four or five-of-a-kind connection. -
What is the highest-paying symbol in Reign Of The Mountain King?
The Mountain King wild and the Queen share the top spot, and the Axe overtakes them both for a full five-of-a-kind line at 56x the total bet. -
How many paylines does Reign Of The Mountain King have?
It has 10 fixed paylines, which is a notably sparse count for a 5×4 grid. -
Does the Mountain King Respins round have its own prize table?
No. The respins play out on the same board with the same symbols and the same 10 paylines, and everything the round pays comes through the ordinary paytable. -
When is Reign Of The Mountain King released?
Reign Of The Mountain King’s release date is 24 November 2021.
