Story Of Love Aphrodite S Spell Slot Review
Turquoise water churns behind a marble frame, roses and vines climb its columns, and two draped stone figures hold the whole thing up at the corners. Story Of Love Aphrodite S Spell is a lush, painterly take on the goddess of love, and it saves its real energy for free spins, where wilds fill whole reels and pay two ways at once.
Spinomenal have built this one on a 5×4 grid with 20 fixed lines, running at 96% RTP with high volatility. The biggest single line pay is 5,000x the total bet for 5 Crowns, and 4 full reels of expanding wilds in free spins can stack line wins and scatter prizes on top of that. It sits in the studio’s catalogue alongside Majestic King, Tiger Charms and 3 Aztec Spells.
Symbols, Lines and the Wild
Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, only the highest combination on each line counts, and multiple line wins in one round add together. Wins are multiplied by the bet per line, of which there are twenty, all fixed. It’s a conventional lines setup with nothing non-standard about how it pays.
The symbol ladder is topped by a Crown, with Aphrodite’s gold bust close behind, then a shell with its pearl and a dove sharing a tier. The royals fill the bottom three rungs. Values below are multiples of the total bet for three, four and five of a kind:
- Crown – 350x / 1,500x / 5,000x
- Aphrodite Bust (gold) – 300x / 1,000x / 3,000x
- Shell and Pearl, Dove – 100x / 200x / 600x
- A, K – 75x / 100x / 200x
- Q, J – 50x / 75x / 100x
There’s a wide gap between the top two symbols and everything beneath them. The Crown and the bust pay in a different league to the shell, dove and royals, so most base-game wins are small tier-three and tier-four hits while the bigger line pays wait on the rarer combinations.
The wild is Aphrodite’s portrait, standing in for every symbol except the Free Spins scatter. 5 wilds on a winning line pay 3,000x the line bet, which makes the wild the richest symbol in the game by a clear margin. In the base game it can also arrive into company.
Extra Wilds
While the reels are spinning, between 3 and 6 extra wild symbols can appear on the grid at once, magnifying the chances of a line win. This happens in the base game only. It’s the one base-game flourish, and the frames where several wilds sit on the grid together are where the game looks most generous.
Round the edges, the usual Spinomenal controls apply. Autoplay runs continuous spins at the selected bet, opens a configuration screen where you choose how many spins to play, and can be stopped at any time with the pause button.
Turbo Mode shortens each round to its minimum length, toggled from the corner of the desktop layout or the settings menu on mobile. During free spins the bet controls lock, so the round always plays out at the stake that triggered it.
Free Spins and Expanding Wilds
The free spins round is triggered by 3 or more scattered Free Spins symbols, and the awards step up sharply with the scatter count:
- 3 scatters – 10 free spins
- 4 scatters – 25 free spins
- 5 scatters – 50 free spins
Bet per line and the number of lines stay exactly as they were in the round that triggered the feature, and the triggering spin’s stake carries through the whole round. What you start with is what you play with. Every spin of the round plays out the same way from there.
Expanding Wilds and the Re-Spin
Free spins mode is where the wild changes character. When a wild lands during the round, it expands to fill its entire reel, and if 1 or more wilds expanded, the game follows up with a single re-spin.
That re-spin comes with the expanded wilds still in place, so the follow-up spin plays across a grid already partly stacked with wilds rather than a fresh one. There’s a second payout route on top of the lines. 1 or more scattered expanding wilds anywhere on the slot pay:
- 1 expanding wild – 2x the bet
- 2 expanding wilds – 5x the bet
- 3 expanding wilds – 10x the bet
- 4 expanding wilds – 20x the bet
These scatter prizes are paid in addition to regular payline winnings, and 5 wilds on a line still pay 3,000x the line bet during the round. With a 5×4 grid there’s room for 4 full-reel wilds, which is the round’s ceiling: every reel wild, the scatter prize paid, and the line wins on top.
Buy Feature
The Buy Feature lets you purchase and immediately trigger a free spins round. Clicking the button opens a window where you can modify both the bet and the number of free spins you’ll play the round with. The buy price is set according to the bet and the spin count you select, and clicking Buy pays that price and starts the round at once.
Because the price scales with your choices rather than sitting at a fixed multiple, it’s worth checking the quoted figure against the scatter ladder before committing. A bought round plays under the same expanding-wild rules as a triggered one: wilds expand, expansions earn a re-spin, and the scatter prizes for 1 to 4 expanding wilds still apply.
Buying the larger spin counts effectively buys time for the mechanic to work. Expansions only compound when wilds keep landing across separate spins, so a 10-spin round gives the feature fewer chances to stack than a 50-spin one, and the price difference between them reflects that.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
This is a waiting game wearing a beautiful dress. Most of your time goes to a plain twenty-line base game where the royals and the middle tier pay modestly and the Crown only matters in the rare five-of-a-kind, and the reason to sit through that is the free spins round, where expanding wilds pay through line wins and scatter prizes at the same time.
The bonus is the best thing here by a distance: wilds that fill whole reels, a re-spin whenever one lands, and a 50-spin award at the top of the scatter ladder is generous by any measure. The weakness is everything either side of it – the base game has one flourish and the steep paytable means most wins in it are small. If the scatter count is low, ten spins can pass without an expansion doing much at all.
It’s for players who enjoy a slow, pretty build towards one strong round, and who won’t mind long quiet stretches to get there. Anyone after frequent action will find the sea a bit too calm. For the patient, Aphrodite’s coast rewards the wait.
Story Of Love Aphrodite S Spell FAQs
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What is the RTP of Story Of Love Aphrodite S Spell?
The RTP is 96%, paired with high volatility. -
When is Story Of Love Aphrodite S Spell released?
Story Of Love Aphrodite S Spell’s release date is 20 July 2023. -
How many paylines does Story Of Love Aphrodite S Spell have?
The game runs on a 5×4 grid with 20 fixed paylines, all active on every spin. -
How do you trigger free spins in Story Of Love Aphrodite S Spell?
3 or more scattered Free Spins symbols start the round. 3 scatters award 10 free spins, 4 award 25, and 5 award 50, with the bet per line and number of lines carried over from the triggering game. -
What do expanding wilds do in the free spins round?
When a wild lands during free spins it expands to fill its entire reel. If 1 or more wilds expanded, the game triggers a re-spin, and scattered expanding wilds pay 2x, 5x, 10x or 20x the bet for 1 to 4 of them, in addition to line wins. -
What does the wild symbol pay in Story Of Love Aphrodite S Spell?
Aphrodite’s portrait is the wild, and it substitutes for every symbol except the Free Spins scatter. 5 wilds on a winning line pay 3,000x the bet per line. In the base game, 3 to 6 extra wilds can also appear on a single spin. -
Can you buy the bonus on Story Of Love Aphrodite S Spell?
Yes. The Buy Feature triggers a free spins round immediately, and a window lets you modify the bet and the number of free spins before purchase, with the buy price set accordingly. -
Who makes Story Of Love Aphrodite S Spell?
Spinomenal, the studio behind titles such as Majestic King and Tiger Charms.
