Divine Dynasty Princess

Divine Dynasty Princess: Slot Overview

It's funny in some ways, considering the fact gambling is essentially illegal in China, outside things like state-run lotteries or the special administrative regions of Macau and Hong Kong, how many Asian/Chinese-themed online slots there are. Here's another one. This time, software provider Fantasma Games has had a crack with a slot titled Divine Dynasty Princess. In this game, players are invited to 'Seek the beautiful princess, and may her smile bless you with fortune'. This she may or may not do through Avalanches, win multipliers, wild symbol adds, and free spins.

Fantasma Games slipped into a traditional mode when it designed Divine Dynasty Princess. The background is adorned with a golden phoenix and golden dragon decoration in a dimly lit space, like a high-rolling gambling room in Macau or a back street opium den from the 19th century. Divine Dynasty Princess has been quite harmoniously put together, and the gentle Asian-inspired soundtrack helps create a mood that keen players of this style should be down with.

Plonked centre stage is Divine Dynasty Princess' gaming grid, which has 6 columns and up to 46,656 ways to win. The reason why ways to win can vary is because symbols land on the reels in three different sizes – 1x1, 2x2, or 3x3, though the value or effect of a symbol stays the same regardless of the symbol's size. Behind the dragon and phoenix fa?ade is Divine Dynasty Princess's math model, which is medium-high volatile, producing a return to player of 94.36%, or 94.52% when buying free spins. Bets of 20 p/c to $/€40 may be selected, and if you're going to try to trigger free spins naturally, the theoretical frequency is 1 in 179.

Symbols in winning combinations pay out then disappear from the reels. After this happens, symbols fall downwards to fill gaps and create new win opportunities. The Avalanche mechanic continues until there are no more wins. Scatter symbols do not activate the Avalanche. All pay symbols award wins when matching symbols land on 3 to 6 adjacent reels, from the first reel onwards. The six low pays consist of blue, green, and bronze blocks, then 3 coin symbols, awarding 0.75 to 1.25x the bet for a 6 OAK hit. Next are blue, green, and red blocks with patterns on them, then a golden fish as the high pays, worth 1.5 to 5 times the bet for a 6 symbol winning way. Wilds help link wins together by substituting for any regular pay symbol, but they only appear on the reels when put there by the Phoenix Wild feature.

Divine Dynasty Princess: Slot Features

Divine Dynasty Princess' line up of extras includes an increasing multiplier, the Phoenix Wild feature, free spins, and buy free spins.

Increasing Multiplier

The multiplier begins at x1 and increases by +1 after each Avalanche. All following wins are multiplied by the multiplier, which in the base game resets at the end of a spin. The multiplier has a cap of x20.

Phoenix Wild Feature

In the base game, for every other winning combination in a spin, 2 wild symbols are added to two random winning positions before symbols drop down. The counter resets after the end of the spin.

Free Spins

Scatter symbols appear on reels 1, 2, and 3. Landing 3 scatter symbols in the base game awards 10 free spins. At the start of the free spins session, the win multiplier is set to x1, but it does not reset until the feature ends. Also, The Phoenix Wild feature activates every time winning symbols in combinations payout and disappear. Managing to land 3 scatter symbols during the round awards 10 extra free spins, and free spins can be retriggered up to 4 times.

Buy Free Spins

Buying free spin can be done in the base game at a cost of 70 times the bet. When bought, a round starts with a guaranteed free spins activation.

Divine Dynasty Princess: Slot Verdict

Fantasma Games have a few slots like this floating around now, not like clones or whatever, but similar-ish in function. Games like Medallion Megaways, Flower Fortunes Megaways, and Golden Castle sit within a broader family, which now includes Divine Dynasty Princess. As stated, they are far from being exactly the same, but they share traits like rising win multipliers, wild features, free spins, and so on, of which Divine Dynasty Princess is in possession. Not crazy wild innovative features, yet handy features and fun when they pop in unison. We've seen wild symbols be placed on the grid before symbols drop by a cascading feature; this is staple stuff in Yggdrasil Gaming's DoubleMax slots, for example. However, here you get two wilds, which can be useful, even if it is on every other win in the base game, though every win in free spins.

So there are things about Divine Dynasty Princess to entertain certain players in the frame of mind for an Asian-themed slot. Divine Dynasty Princess looks pretty decent; its soundtrack is okay, a bit low energy, but it picks up in places like big wins and so forth. Max win isn't bad either, tipping the scales at 5,702 times the bet, though the RTP doesn't exactly do its best to help Divine Dynasty Princess make friends. On the contrary, with such a huge number of alternatives in this category of gaming, Divine Dynasty Princess' return value is something of an own goal. It's not the worst we've seen, and it's better than some of what ELK Studios is doing, but still, eh.

Chop all of Divine Dynasty Princess' parts up, then put them on a set of scales weighing the pros and cons, and you've got a decent Asian slot, yet one that could have been better. Its return value is probably the biggest sticking point, but if you can look past that or couldn't give a monkey's uncle about it anyway, then Divine Dynasty Princess is a fairly attractive slot with a fairly attractive interplay of features.