Vikings The Saga of Fenrir

Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir: Slot Overview

Back in the day, if you were a peaceful villager tilling the fields or a monk illuminating a manuscript, one of the last things you'd want to see is Viking ships full of warriors frothing at the thought of plunder and pillage powering towards you over the sea. If you're a gambler, it's the opposite since Vikings can be found fronting a host of solid games. Fingers crossed, we've got another one on our hands. Titled Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir, it comes from Games Global partner studio Foxium, and it's big on full wild reels while boasting three free spin rounds for players to choose the one they like the look of.

Speaking of looks, Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir is no blockbuster like Cossacks The Wild Hunt, but it visually serves up a hearty helping of Viking-ness. We're talking fjords, flames, axes, warriors, and wolves. This ain't no regular wolf, though, no, no. According to the game info, Fenrir is a mighty wolf that was so feared by the Gods of Asgard it was chained to a rock by Odin but has broken free to lead players on a journey to gather riches from the world above as well as the world below…

A 5-reel, 3-row gaming grid is Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir's active space, with 20 paylines and Orb Meters lined along the top. With several RTP models available, the one to look for if you're after the highest value is the 96.14% version. All are medium volatile, have a hit rate of 27.3%, and take bets of 20 c to $/€100 per base game round.

Ten entries are to be found on Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir's list of pay symbols. Jack through Ace card symbols make up the lowest four, followed by four Viking-inspired designs, before ending up on Ingrid the Magical Queen and Ragnar the Warrior King of the Vikings. Lines of 5 matching royals are worth 1.5-2 times the bet, the pattern symbols pay up to 2.5x-5x, while full lines of characters are worth 10-15 times the bet. Fenrir appears on the wild symbol. It substitutes for any regular pay symbol. If wilds make their own winning lines, they are worth up to 50 times the bet for 5 of a kind.

Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir: Slot Features

Wild reels are the center of attention in Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir. They're known as a Wild Reel of Fenrir and appear in the base game by collecting Orbs or in free spins where they roam about the place. Side features include the Viking's Axe Smash, a rather brutal win generator, and the Hoard Of The Fenrir, which is a bit of a tease device.

Orb Collect & Wild Reel Of Fenrir

An Orb Meter sits above each reel in the base game. Landing an Orb symbol on a reel adds it to the Orb Meter. A total of 2 Orbs are needed to fill a meter, and once filled, a Wild Reel is triggered on that reel. Orbs are not collected on active Wild Reels, and Orb Meters persist for each bet level. The Wild Reel feature turns all positions on a reel wild, and it is active like this for 2 paid spins in the base game. Free spins scatter symbols shine through Wild Reels.

Viking's Axe Smash

The Viking's battle axe randomly smashes the screen, thereby nudging the grid to create a winning result.

Hoard Of The Fenrir

Scatter symbols appear on the leftmost, middle, and rightmost reels. In the base game, if 2 scatters land on the leftmost and middle reel, the rightmost reel gets covered in Fenrir Hoard boxes. Fenrir Hoard boxes may reveal the third scatter symbol.

Free Spins

Hitting 3 scatter symbols in the base game triggers the free spins bonus round and pays 2x the bet. Players get a choice of 3 features when entering free spins:

• Feature 1 - 2 free spins with 3 Wild Reels.
• Feature 2 - 8 free spins with 2 Wild Reels.
• Feature 3 - 25 free spins with 1 Wild Reel.

Wild Reels randomly change position on each free spin, and hitting 3 scatters again retriggers the feature.

Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir: Slot Verdict

Vikings give a game presence right off the bat, and Norse mythology is absolutely fascinating, so it's no wonder slot makers return to this topic time and time again. Foxium itself has delved into this subject matter before when it made Vikings Fight For Honour. Aside from the topic, that was a very different experience. For Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir, Foxium has done a pretty good job of squeezing in Vikings and myth, but it wouldn't have hurt if the studio had squeezed even more in. It didn't take long for Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir to produce yearnings for more once the session had settled into cycling through spins, Orb Meter filling, Wild Reels production, and not much else. This might sound a bit moany, but add everything together, and Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir just felt lacking.

One culprit was the €/$100,000 max exposure, which works out to 1,000x the max bet. Another was the feeling that Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir was a watered-down version of Oink Farm, which, being an earlier Foxium slot, also functions around collecting objects to create full reel wilds. Oink Farm arguably has the better bonus round in some ways since you can create new wild reels that persist till the bonus round concludes. Here, okay, you can pick 1, 2 or even 3 wild reels from the start, but that's it; there is no room for growth, and with the modest max win multiplier, there is not a load of potential loot to shoot for.

The axe attack feature is pretty neat, and low-key gamblers with historical or mythological leanings might be satisfied, but in general, and with win numbers like this, these are the sorts of Vikings that the community of Lindisfarne would have driven back into the sea in 793 using nothing more than rudimentary makeshift weaponry and dogged tenaciousness.