Baron Lord of Saturday

Baron Lord of Saturday: Slot Overview

Baron Lord of Saturday is an online slot from developer Play'n GO, whose name didn't make a lot of sense when it first hit the review queue. That is until a Google search revealed that 'Baron Saturday' is the English version of 'Baron Samedi', the lwa (spirit) of the dead in Haitian Vodou, and the pieces of the puzzle started falling into place. Baron Lord of Saturday's pieces include a bundle of theme-related icons and features focused on getting full reel wilds, which are boosted by multipliers during the free spins bonus round.

Baron Lord of Saturday might be a Voodoo-type slot, but it's not one done in the same style as, say, ELK Studios' Voodoo Gold or Yggdrasil's Baron Samedi. There's a bit of dank going on in the background, yet Baron Lord of Saturday has a fairly friendly mood, considering the subject matter, coming across like a Scooby Doo cartoon. The old-school 1960s/70s Scooby Doo cartoons at that. In fact, the 1976 episode 'Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo' might serve as a mood setter before leaping into Baron Lord of Saturday, but we digress.

Covered in skulls and candles dripping wax is Baron Lord of Saturday's gaming grid, made up of 5 reels and 20 paylines. Making line wins is a straightforward, left-to-right starting from the leftmost reel deal. With a highly volatile math model, players can expect a maximum RTP value of 96.2% and betting options of 5 c to $/€100.

Four potion bottles with clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades on them are the low pay symbols, granting players 1.6 to 2 times the bet for a 5 OAK winning line. Following them are cigars, dolls, a lady character and a male character as the high pays. Hitting 5 matching premium symbols pays out 3 to 8 times the stake.

Baron Lord of Saturday: Slot Features

The principal aim of Baron Lord of Saturday is to get into its free spins bonus round, then levelling it up by collecting bonus symbols to land as many full reel wilds with the maximum multiplier attached.

Wilds and Wild Reels

Wild symbols substitute for all pay symbols and appear on the three middle reels. Random wilds may trigger on any spin to add 3 to 6 wild symbols when activated. Reels 2, 3, and 4 may randomly activate a Wild Reel effect. Only one Wild Reel may be activated in the base game, whereas 1 to 3 Wild Reels may activate during free spins. Any wild symbols that land on an activated Wild Reel expand to fill the whole reel, replacing all other symbols on it.

Free Spins

Free spins scatter symbols are present on the leftmost and rightmost reels. Landing 2 scatter symbols triggers 8 free spins, where wilds begin with x2 multipliers. Scatter symbols are collected in free spins when they hit. Collecting 4 scatters awards +3 free spins and increases the wild multiplier value from x2 to x3 to x5 and finally to x10. Three upgrades and up to 9 more free spins are the limit, as scatter symbols are removed when reaching the x10. Multiple multipliers in the same win have their values added.

Baron Lord of Saturday: Slot Verdict

Voodoo might have scary, forbidden undertones in pop culture, but if Baron Lord of Saturday is any guide, it can also be used in a playful, friendly way. In terms of theme use, some may consider Play'n GO to be a 'general consumption' type studio, catering to a wide swathe of middle-ground gamblers, rather than making something controversial to attract curiously experimental players who prefer extreme slots that would make regular punters nervous. Therefore, it would have been quite a surprise if Play'n GO had made Baron Lord of Saturday in the style of, say, Print Studios' Darkness, a slot from a developer with no qualms exploring stranger, fringe topics.

And so, headless chickens, buckets of blood, and terrifying zombie cliches are out, playful 'safe' Voodoo accompanied by horn-led ska is in, and in this regard, Baron Lord of Saturday puts on a fun show. It doesn't have masses of varied features, yet everything it has to offer triggered quite regularly, such as the random wilds effect and expanding wilds. The base game was not very fruitful, though, as wins, even with a full reel wild, tended to be meagre. Since just one expanded wild can exist on a base game spin, it wouldn't have hurt if multipliers were available in that phase of the game, too. But no, free spins are where you need to be for the multiplier to jump into action, and the bonus round's progression feature provided some much-needed depth.

Free spins are also where you need to be to achieve the game's full 3,500x the bet potential. Compared to the bulk of the slots we review, this is not a mountain of possible dough. But, that's the sort of game Baron Lord of Saturday is - a playful wee flirt on the mysterious side of life rather than a dive head first into existential lunacy, like taking part in a seance everyone knows is not working yet goes along with it anyway just to say they've done it.