Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight

Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight: Slot Overview

It's funny, these days, if you have a hankering to explore what lies over the horizon, you can first do an internet search, find the best spots to eat and sightsee, maybe hop on Google Maps, zoom around for a bit in Street View mode, and get a feel for the place, right from the comfort of your armchair, or even while sitting on the loo. Back in the day, long-distance travel and exploration were whole different ball games. Putting the long list of dangers aside for a moment, just imagine what it would have been like when two completely different cultures met for the first time. The new sights, the sounds, the smells, the language barrier, the clash of utterly alien belief systems. Imagine no more, as two ancient civilisation heavyweights of the online gambling world square off in Yggdrasil Gaming's slot Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight.

The Vikings Go range has been going strong since the original game, Vikings Go Wild, was released in 2015. Remember 2015? Pre-pandemic, pre-Brexit, pre-President Trump, it feels like ancient history. Anyway, since Vikings Go Wild hit the scene, Yggdrasil has released several follow-ups, of which Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight is, by a quick count, the sixth one in the line. So far, these Vikings have braved Valhalla, hell, gone berserk - twice, and now they're broadening their horizons by visiting the realm of the pharaohs. Yggdrasil Gaming has done a great job with the accompanying artwork, such as the yellow-filtered image from the studio's website depicting a moment when Vikings arrive on Egyptian shores… What might possibly ensue from that meeting?

In Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight, players can find out on a 5-reel, 4-row gaming board equipped with 25 ways to win. The RTP is one of, if not the lowest, in the entire range, at 94%, and volatility has been marked by its maker as medium. Stake levels vary from a minimum of 25 c to a maximum of $/€125, and bonus buys are on hand to berserk your way right into the free spins round.

Cash is paid when 3 or more matching symbols land along a payline, starting from the leftmost reel on the matrix. The low pays in this wild fight are four Ancient Egypt Hieroglyph symbols, worth 1.6 to 2.8 times the bet for a 5 OAK combination, whereas the high pays are 4 frowning Viking characters, paying 6 to 10x the stake for 5 OAK. Wilds help out in this instance by substituting for all regular paying symbols.

Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight: Slot Features

Vikings Go slots are famous for their fighting features, and Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight keeps the tradition going. Things to look out for are Silver and Golden chests, free spins, Ragnar?k Free Spins, Rage meters, Berserk Vikings, and bonus buys.

Chests

The Silver chest symbol appears on the fourth reel and contains one of these prizes in the base game - 2x-40x the bet, or 7, 14, or 21 free spins. In free spins, the Silver chest can award 2x-40x the bet, 2, 3, or 4 extra free spins, a wild reel, 1 extra wild, or 2 extra wilds. The Golden chest symbol, meanwhile, appears on the rightmost reel and contains one of these prizes in the base game - 10x-400x the bet, 7, 14, or 21 free spins, Rage Boost +25%, or Ragnar?k Free Spins trigger. In free spins, the Golden chest can award 10x-400x the bet, 2, 3, or 4 extra free spins, 2 extra wilds, or a wild reel. If a chest lands on a sticky wild, both are active.

Free Spins & Ragnar?k Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters symbols awards 7, 14, or 21 free spins, respectively. Free spins cannot be retriggered, but wilds are sticky for the entire free spins session. When Vikings land on the reels, they attempt to fight Cleopatra. If the Viking wins, it transforms into a sticky wild. Fights take place before any wins are paid on the spin. Before entering free spins mode, one of the following features is selected: Ragnar?k Free Spins, +1-3 free spins, Extra wild, Wild reel, or +5 Silver chests and +5 Golden chests.

Ragnar?k Free Spins may be won from the Golden Chest and from the bonus randomiser before normal free spins. In Ragnar?k Free Spins, all Vikings are Berserk, so they always turn into sticky wilds.

Vikings Berserk Mode

When a Viking is Berserk, they always defeat Cleopatra and turn into a sticky wild. Vikings can become Berserk by filling their rage meter or by winning Ragnar?k Free Spins.

Viking Rage & Welcome Rage

Each win with a Viking in the base game collects Rage for that Viking. Bigger combinations give more Rage. When a Rage meter is filled, players get a free spins trigger with that Viking in Berserk mode, but no additional free spins bonus is selected. Viking meters require 700 points to fill, and a 3 OAK adds 4 points, a 4 OAK adds 12 points, while a 5 OAK adds 36 points. These free spins are played with a bet level that is the average of the bet levels used when collecting the Rage points. When entering the game for the first time, one of the Vikings has its Rage meter filled to more than 50%.

Buy Free Spins

There are three options at the buy free spins section. They are 7 free spins for 40x the bet, 14 free spins for 120x the bet, or 21 free spins for 260x the bet.

Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight: Slot Verdict

In the gambling biz, Vikings are huge, Ancient Egypt is huge, so hey, why not bring the two together into one big showdown? However, big is a subjective term, and it's not the word that came to mind to describe Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight. Some in the Vikings Go range have been monsters - Vikings Go Berserk and Vikings Go To Valhalla, for instance, but others have gone in the other direction. Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight is one that sits around the middle to lower part of the spectrum in many ways. Medium volatile, unexciting winning potential of 3,756x the bet, and a disappointing RTP. Statistically, Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight makes for pretty poor reading.

Where the game attempts to claw things back is in its evocative imagery, which conjures up the meetings and possible clashings between two extraordinarily virile civilisations. The might of Egypt dominated its part of the world for 1000s of years, and we all know how skilled the Vikings were at exploration and warfare. There's a feeling that if the two did come to blows, the conflict would have produced far bigger fireworks than those on show in Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight. The features, well they're a tad disappointing. Maybe not when viewed in a bubble, but on the whole, it feels like the same old stuff rereleased in a different environment. Not saying Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight can't be fun, but it wouldn't have hurt if the gameplay had been more original.

On top of that, Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight's stats simply let the side down; they're just not very strong, are they? Take away the punchy premise for a moment, and Vikings Go To Egypt Wild Fight feels like a game aimed at gamblers who are keen on mid-level volatility, mid to lowish-level winning potential and aren't fussed about things like the return to player value but just want to see Vikings and Cleopatra punch each other.