Vikings Of Fortune Slot Review
Vikings Of Fortune is a slot that put all its treasure on one reel. The middle reel carries the wild, the expansion, the respins and the entire personality of the game, and the four reels flanking it exist mostly to feed that centrepiece. You’ll either find that focus refreshing or feel the other reels going to waste.
It’s a bold way to build a 20-line game, and the gilded Norse presentation leans into it: dragon-headed pillars in Celtic knotwork, crimson banners, a fjord landscape fading into cold mist. It’s ornate rather than cartoonish, a dark fantasy take on the theme. Vikings Of Fortune is a Blueprint Gaming title on a 5×3 grid with 20 win lines, topped by a three-tier progressive jackpot ladder.
It runs at a 94% RTP. Sister titles such as Viking Fall and Vikings Unleashed Reloaded took the theme further later, but this is where the longship launched.
Base Game & Features
The base game is a classic line slot. Three, four or five matching symbols from the leftmost reel on one of the 20 lines is a win. Line wins are multiplied by the value bet on that line, and wins across different lines add together.
Only the highest win on each line pays, so a wild combination and a longer symbol combination on the same line never stack. Scatter wins are added to any line wins.
The Wild substitutes for every symbol except the Bonus symbol, and it’s the richest payer on the reels by a distance. The reels are crowded with Viking warriors: a bearded warrior, a horned-helmet fighter and a crowned shield-maiden sit above the helmets and crossed weapons lower down.
All pays are multiples of the total bet, not the line bet, which matters on a game carrying an extra feature stake. Here’s what each symbol returns for three, four and five of a kind:
- Wild – 40x, 200x or 4,000x the total bet
- Bearded Viking Warrior – 20x, 40x or 200x
- Horned-Helmet Viking Warrior – 8x, 30x or 100x
- Female Warrior (crowned) – 6x, 20x or 80x
- Green Helmet – 4x, 10x or 40x
- Crossed Axes and Shields – 2x, 4x or 20x
The drop from the wild to the warriors is steep: five wilds pay 4,000x, while five of the bearded warrior pay 200x. Under that, the horns, helmets and crossed weapons slide down in steps of 100x, 80x and 20x for the top of each row.
One quirk of the staking: the total bet isn’t simply bet per line times 20 lines. There’s an additional 5x line bet attached for the feature game. It’s the standard arrangement on Jackpot King titles.
The reel surround itself is aged timber with a sawtooth border carved along its rails, and the whole cabinet sits on a varnished plank surface, as though the machine rests on a hall table. Presentation does the heavy lifting between wins.
Thunder Streak
A Wild on the centre reel expands to fill that entire reel and awards the Thunder Streak. The other reels then respin with any winning symbol locked in place, and the respins keep coming for as long as new line wins form.
Once the streak stalls, every winning line is evaluated and paid together. It’s a hold-and-respin loop rather than a flat modifier, so a single centre-reel wild can snowball. That middle reel does all the work in this game, and the design makes no secret of it.
Vikings Of Fortune Bonus Features
Bonus Thunder and Thunderspins
Three or more Bonus symbols in view awards the Bonus Thunder. The reels respin with any Bonus symbols held in position, giving extra symbols a chance to land and push you further up the Thunderspins ladder.
The more you collect, the more spins you take into the round, and the ladder climbs steeply at the top:
- 3 Bonus symbols – 8 Thunderspins
- 4 Bonus symbols – 10 Thunderspins
- 5 Bonus symbols – 12 Thunderspins
- 6 Bonus symbols – 15 Thunderspins
- 7 Bonus symbols – 20 Thunderspins
- 8-9 Bonus symbols – 50 Thunderspins
- 10+ Bonus symbols – 100 Thunderspins
During the Thunderspins, the Bonus Thunder Wild is fixed on the centre reel for the whole round. Since every spin carries an expanded wild on the middle reel, every single win is guaranteed to trigger the Thunder Streak respin.
The base game’s best moment stops being a matter of luck and becomes the round’s engine. There’s no stated retrigger rule for the round, so what you take in is what you play. The 100-spin ceiling at ten or more Bonus symbols is the top of the ladder, and it’s a generous one for a game of this shape.
Jackpot King
The Jackpot King can activate at random on any spin, whatever else is happening on the reels. It’s the familiar three-stage Blueprint progressive. First you spin to collect crowns, with more crowns awarding a bigger multiplier of your total bet.
Then you pick from the King’s Treasure to increase the prize, and finally you enter the Wheel King for a shot at the biggest totals on the ladder. A three-tier ladder sits above the reels throughout, feeding from progressive pots that climb with play across the network.
Five Jackpot King symbols award the Jackpot King itself, the top rung. Because the pots are progressive, their values aren’t fixed properties of the game; what’s fixed is the structure, and it’s the same ladder shared across every Jackpot King title in the network.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
Playing this is mostly a waiting game with a gilded hall around it. You spin, the warriors pay their modest multiples, and you wait for the middle reel to do its one trick. That’s the reason anybody chooses it: when the wild lands centre, the streak builds, and for a handful of spins this feels like a much bigger game.
The Thunderspins round is the best thing here, because pinning the wild to the centre reel turns the base game’s rarest moment into a certainty. The weakness is the paytable underneath: strip away the wild and the top warrior pays just 200x, which is thin for a game this patient. The Jackpot King is a shared network ladder, not something built for Vikings.
This is one for players who like a simple line slot with a progressive pot riding on top, and who’d take one well-made respin over a dozen half-formed features. Anyone chasing modern feature-heavy engines won’t find it here. But the hall is warm, the pillars are gold, and the middle reel delivers what it promised.
Vikings Of Fortune FAQs
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How does the Thunder Streak feature work in Vikings Of Fortune?
Any Wild appearing on the middle reel grows to fill that reel. The remaining reels then respin while winning symbols stay locked, and the respins only stop once a spin produces no new line win. At that point every winning line is totalled up and paid. -
How many Thunderspins do Bonus symbols award in Vikings Of Fortune?
Three Bonus symbols award 8 Thunderspins, four award 10, five award 12, six award 15, seven award 20, eight or nine award 50, and ten or more award the maximum of 100 Thunderspins. The reels respin with Bonus symbols held, giving more chances to climb the ladder. -
What is the Jackpot King bonus in Vikings Of Fortune?
The Jackpot King can activate at random on any spin. You spin to collect crowns for a bigger total bet multiplier, pick from the King’s Treasure to increase your prize, then enter the Wheel King for a chance at the progressive pot. -
What does the Wild symbol substitute for in Vikings Of Fortune?
The Wild substitutes for all symbols except the Bonus symbol. It is also the top payer in the game, worth 4,000x the total bet for five across a payline. -
Is the wild fixed during the Thunderspins round?
Yes. For the whole round the Bonus Thunder Wild sits fixed on the centre reel, which guarantees that every win triggers the Thunder Streak respin. -
How many paylines does Vikings Of Fortune have?
Vikings Of Fortune has 20 win lines. Line pay symbols must appear on a played line and on consecutive reels starting from the far left reel, and only the highest win on each line is paid. -
What is the grid size of Vikings Of Fortune?
Vikings Of Fortune runs on a 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows, with 20 win lines running across them. -
Who makes Vikings Of Fortune?
Vikings Of Fortune is made by Blueprint Gaming, the UK studio behind the Jackpot King progressive network and titles such as Viking Fall and Vikings Unleashed Reloaded. The release date of Vikings Of Fortune is 29 August 2013.
