Story Of Vikings

Story Of Vikings Slot Review

Embers drift past a shield that has seen real use, a bearded warrior stands axe-first on a smoke-dark shore, and the frame glows like the aftermath of a fight rather than the promise of one. Story Of Vikings plays the same way. It’s a line-pays game where the most important moments arrive unannounced, in the seconds before the reels settle, and the bonus round – built by Spinomenal on a wheel of features that stacks its modifiers – is less the point of the game than most players will expect.

The claim holds up across the whole build. Random modifiers drop in mid-spin on a 6×4 grid running at 96.3% RTP, and it’s the same formula the studio ran in the Christmas edition of this game and in Story Of Odin. What’s argued below is that the formula works better here than the plain numbers suggest.

The Base Game

Story Of Vikings is a line-pays game at heart, and the wild does its usual job: it counts as any symbol except the Bonus symbol, and six of them on a winning line pays bet per line x1,000. That exclusion matters more than it sounds. Because the wild can’t stand in for the Bonus symbol, the two symbols that drive the whole game never interfere with each other, and a reel full of wilds still leaves the bonus trigger untouched.

The reels sit against that painted battlefield, with stern shieldmaidens in portrait panels watching every spin. The interest comes from what happens while the reels are still moving. During the base game, one of three features can appear at random mid-spin, and each arrives in three levels of increasing strength:

• Win Multiplier – multiplies any win in the round
• Synced Reels – locks reels together as identical copies
• Power Spin – strips low-paying symbols off the reels

There’s no telling which one you’ll get, or how far up the ladder it lands. The three levels are shared across all of them, so a Level 3 Power Spin and a Level 3 Synced Reels hit are meant to feel like events of the same magnitude.

Win Multiplier

The simplest of the three. Any win in the round gets multiplied according to the level, which steps from x2 at Level 1 to x3 and then x4 at the top. It doesn’t touch the reels themselves, so what you win is whatever was already coming, just larger.

A full line of the top symbols under a x4 multiplier is the sort of base game result that sticks in the memory. It’s also the only one of the three modifiers that changes the payout rather than the board.

Synced Reels

This one reshapes the board. Reels lock together and become identical to one another, with the count growing as the level climbs:

• Level 1: reels 3 and 4 sync
• Level 2: reel 5 joins them
• Level 3: reel 2 completes the run, leaving four matched reels

On synced reels, medium symbols appear as colossus symbols, filling the matched reels with the same oversized icon. The effect is twofold. Identical reels make five and six of a kind far easier to assemble, and colossus symbols mean those wins arrive looking the part.

At the top level, four identical reels with colossus symbols stacked across them is where the base game’s biggest moments come from. Nothing else in the regular spin comes close.

Power Spin

The third modifier takes the opposite approach. Rather than adding anything, it clears the low end of the paytable off the reels for the current round:

• Level 1: 10 and J removed
• Level 2: Q and K join them on the sidelines
• Level 3: the ace goes too, taking every royal with it

Strip every royal off a 6×4 grid and what’s left is all premium symbols and wilds. It’s a blunt idea, but an effective one, and at Level 3 it competes with Synced Reels for the best thing that can happen outside the bonus.

The two mechanics also pair differently with the grid. Synced Reels concentrates the middle of the board, while Power Spin raises the floor of every remaining spin.

Free Spins and the Wheel of Features

The bonus trigger is specific: one Bonus symbol on reel 1, counting from the left, and one Bonus symbol on reel 6, awards 10 free spins. Both ends of the grid have to cooperate, which keeps the trigger honest rather than frequent.

Bet per line stays the same as the game that triggered it, so nothing about your stake changes when the round begins. The round you’re heading into is the interesting part.

Once it lands, you’re shown a wheel of features. Spin it, and the result determines which feature appears on each spin of the free spins round. It’s a commitment mechanic: you don’t collect a scatter bag or pick a volatile option, you take what the wheel gives and ride it for the duration. The three modifiers from the base game are the raw material, but the wheel decides how they’re served.

Retriggers and Upgrades

Free spins can retrigger, and the retrigger is where the round gets interesting. Each one awards another spin on the wheel plus 2 additional free spins, and the new wheel result can either combine a second feature with the current one or upgrade the feature you already have.

Stacked Synced Reels on top of Power Spin is a genuinely different round to either on its own, and the possibility of it is what keeps a running bonus alive.

There’s a limit: the wheel can be spun a maximum of five times. After the fifth attempt, the Bonus symbol is removed from the reels for the rest of the round, so the stacking stops there. It’s a clean ceiling that gives the bonus a defined shape rather than an open-ended one, and it means a long round tops out at a known combination of features rather than an unknowable one.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Sessions on this shore are ordinary line-pays most of the way through, and the reason to choose it is exactly that: the ordinary turns extraordinary without warning, mid-spin, while the storm still hangs over the warrior’s shoulder. You’re not waiting out a dull base game for a bonus that pays for everything else.

The free spins wheel is the best thing here. Retriggers that stack and upgrade features, capped at five wheel spins, give the round a shape you can describe before you enter it – a rarity in feature-driven slots. The weakness is variety: everything runs off the same three modifiers, and Win Multiplier, a boost to a win you’d already take, is thin next to the other two reshaping the board.

It’s for players who want their spins eventful and their bonus rounds legible, and it’ll leave anyone shopping for an outsized jackpot cold. For the crowd it was built for, the fire on this shore burns warm enough.

Story Of Vikings FAQs

• What is the RTP of Story Of Vikings?

  Story Of Vikings runs at an RTP of 96.3%.
• How do you trigger free spins in Story Of Vikings?

  You need one Bonus symbol on reel 1, counting from the left, and one Bonus symbol on reel 6. Landing both awards 10 free spins, with bet per line matching the triggering game.
• How does the wheel of features work in the free spins round?

  When free spins begin, you’re shown a wheel of features and spin it to determine which feature appears on each spin of the round. You keep the feature the wheel gives you for the duration.
• Can free spins retrigger in Story Of Vikings?

  Yes. A retrigger awards another spin on the wheel plus 2 extra free spins, either combining a second feature with the current one or upgrading an existing feature. The wheel can be spun a maximum of five times, after which the Bonus symbol is removed from the reels for the rest of the round.
• What does Power Spin do?

  Power Spin removes low-paying symbols from the reels for the current round. Level 1 removes 10 and J, Level 2 also removes Q and K, and Level 3 removes every royal including the ace.
• What does Synced Reels do?

  Synced Reels locks reels together so they’re identical to one another. Level 1 syncs reels 3 and 4, Level 2 adds reel 5, and Level 3 syncs reels 2 through 5. Medium symbols on synced reels appear as colossus symbols.
• What is the grid size of Story Of Vikings?

  Story Of Vikings plays on a 6×4 grid.
• Who makes Story Of Vikings?

  Story Of Vikings is made by Spinomenal.