Shaman Song

Shaman Song Slot Review

A dark moon hangs over snow-capped peaks, its rim glowing orange against a sky full of stars, pines black along the forest edge and a faint green shimmer behind the ridgeline. Underneath that quiet night, Shaman Song is one of the least generous base games you’ll spin all year – and that’s deliberate. It pays 2x the bet for six of its best symbol, and every coin it withholds is going into rows, meters and features instead.

It runs at 95.2% RTP with high volatility on a 6×3 grid that can stretch to 10 rows. That reveal system is the whole game, and the free spins round it feeds can be built in layers. Red Rake Gaming also brought us Million 777 Pot and Piggy Vegas, and Triple Fiesta sits in the same catalogue. If the drums start calling, best answer.

Rows, Paylines and Reveals

This is a fixed-odds game rather than a fixed-payline one. You get six reels and up to 10 rows, but only the bottom three show after a spin. Land a win and a fourth row appears above. Keep landing new paylines with symbols that have already paid and the upper rows reveal themselves one at a time.

A dead spin is over in a moment: three rows, nothing matching, done. A good one snowballs. Every row that appears adds paylines, and every new payline with a winning symbol can add another row, so the grid you end a spin on and the grid you started it with can be very different animals.

Combinations only count left to right. If a line pays more than one way, the highest win is the one that counts. The wild sits on an active payline and substitutes for everything except the gem symbols and the urn, so it can’t build the meters for you.

The pays are small at the bottom and modest at the top, which tells you where this game expects its money to come from. Values below are multiples of the total bet.

• Eagle – 0.25x for three, 1x for five, 2x for six
• Wolf / Horse – 0.4x for three, 0.75x for five, 1x for six
• Arrows – 0.2x for three, 0.5x for five, 1x for six
• Dreamcatcher / Totem – 0.15x for three, 0.5x for five, 0.75x for six
• A / K – 0.2x for three, 0.3x for five, 0.5x for six
• Q / J – 0.1x for three, 0.3x for five, 0.5x for six

Even the Eagle, the top symbol in the game, returns just 2x the bet for a full six-of-a-kind. The royals sit at a quarter of that. Base wins alone won’t carry a session here; they’re fuel for the reveal chain and the meters, nothing more.

There’s also the Shaman+1 symbol, which reveals an extra row whenever it lands. Every extra row is more room for the left-to-right chains that keep the reveals running. It also nudges the gem meters along, which is where the free spins trigger comes from.

Gem Meters and Free Spins

How the Gem Meters Work

Three meters sit beside the reels: purple, green and blue. Every time a new row is revealed, you step forward on the purple meter and on one of the other two. Land a gem symbol and you step forward on that gem’s meter.

Land the symbol carrying all three gems at once and all three meters advance together. Filling any meter launches 10 free spins. Whichever meters you filled on the triggering spin decide which features you take in with you. Fill two, or all three, and they stack.

The meters don’t reset between spins, so progress carries across a whole session. That’s the engine of the game: every row revealed anywhere is also a step towards the next feature, and the tri-gem symbol can be worth three steps at a time when it lands at the right moment.

The Three Free Spins Features

• Purple gem – two random symbols are chosen at the start of the feature, and their wins are multiplied by 3
• Green gem – two random symbols are chosen and pay even when they don’t land on adjacent reels
• Blue gem – four rows are revealed at the start of each spin instead of three

The purple and green picks are decided once, at the feature’s start, and then hold for the whole round. The blue gem is different: it changes the starting geometry of every single free spin, so each one begins closer to the rows that matter.

On top of those sits the 10-row multiplier. Reveal all 10 rows during the feature and the entire feature win is doubled. Every second time the 10 rows appear after that, the multiplier goes up by one more.

Reaching the top of the grid inside free spins is where the real money on this game lives. A round that combines all three features and still finds the 10th row twice is the ceiling of what Shaman Song can do.

The Shaman Drum Minigame

Three Shaman Drum symbols anywhere on the reels launch the minigame. It’s a complete change of pace from the reveal loop. Four outer reels rotate and turn up symbols, while a double reel appears in the middle where reels 3 and 4 sit, revealing a symbol and a multiplier together.

The multiplier on that centre reel is the prize you’re chasing. The outer reels do the ordinary work of producing symbols; the double reel in the middle is where the round pays or doesn’t. Hit a high multiplier matched to the right symbol and the minigame can outearn anything the base grid has shown you.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Playing Shaman Song is a waiting ritual, which feels right for a game about a shaman under an eclipse. Most spins are three quiet rows and a nudge of the meters, and the reason you’d pick it over a livelier slot is that the waiting always counts for something: nothing you do here is wasted, it all feeds the next feature.

Its strength is that stacked free spins round. Starting with two or three features combined, then climbing for a multiplier that grows every second time you top the grid, gives the bonus more genuine variation than most games manage in their whole feature set. The weakness is the base game’s paytable, which is thin enough that the drum minigame is the only thing breaking up long barren spells.

It’s for players who enjoy a slow build and trust the payoff, not for anyone who wants steady wins to keep them warm along the way. Under that moonlit mountain, patience gets paid. Eventually.

Shaman Song FAQs

• What is the RTP of Shaman Song?

  The RTP is 95.2%.
• Is Shaman Song high volatility?

  Yes, it’s a high volatility slot. Wins build slowly through the row-reveal system, and the biggest potential sits in the free spins features.
• How do paylines work in Shaman Song?

  There’s no fixed payline count. It’s a fixed-odds game with six reels and up to 10 rows, where new paylines are revealed by landing matching symbols, and combinations only pay left to right.
• How do you trigger free spins in Shaman Song?

  Filling any of the three gem meters launches 10 free spins. Meters advance whenever new rows are revealed, when gem symbols land, or when the tri-gem symbol appears, which steps all three meters forward at once.
• Can free spins features be combined in Shaman Song?

  Yes. The purple, green and blue gem meters each unlock a different feature, and whichever meters you filled on the triggering spin all carry into the round, so you can start with one, two or all three combined.
• What does the Shaman+1 symbol do?

  The Shaman+1 symbol reveals an extra row whenever it appears. More rows mean more paylines and a step forward on the gem meters, so it feeds both the reveal chain and the free spins trigger.
• How does the Shaman Drum minigame work?

  Landing three Shaman Drum symbols starts a separate round where the four outer reels rotate and reveal symbols, while a double reel in the middle, where reels 3 and 4 sit, turns up a symbol paired with a multiplier.
• Who makes Shaman Song?

  Shaman Song is made by Red Rake Gaming. Its release date is 28 March 2024.