Valley Of The Gods

Go to a time when gods walked the earth, when humans fought daily to survive and treasures dwelled in palaces of pharaohs. Valley of the Gods online slot ensures that those treasures we mentioned no longer lie out of reach in undiscovered tombs, but rather in close reach of your fingertips courtesy of Yggdrasil gaming, the software studio behind this epic title.

The first thing that stood out was the quality of the graphics. The intro video draws comparisons with The Mummy film franchise and even the Book of Dead slot due to the scarab beetles, but the quality of animation is just unreal. The soundtrack also has a hint of The Mummy franchise. In general, it is safe to say Yggdrasil took inspiration from The Mummy movies that found great popularity.

The 5 reels and 5 rows lie on an ancient Egyptian background of pyramids and desert. On either side of the reels lie 2 statues, 1 holding an orb with an X and the other holding an orb with a heart. We’ll explain these god like figures later on. You might want to know if the game plays well on mobile, and the answer is a resounding yes. I tried it on an iPhone and was most impressed. Less impressive is the medium to high variance aspect of the slot, meaning wins don’t come as often as in some titles but the wins tend to be bigger when they happen. The Return To Player ratio is 96.2% which helps make up for the high variance, while players on a budget can take it easy at times with a minimum bet of £0.10.

The big wins are definitely possible in Valley of the Gods, but you’ll need to go at a max bet of £100 to see the Egyptian fortune of 580 000 coins. Yggdrasil have added a gigantic 3125 ways to win, which mathematically is hard for me to comprehend, but we’re not complaining since it obviously benefits us.

Feature Symbols

Yggdrasil have gone all out on the ancient Egyptian theme, and you’ll see they’ve done their research when viewing the symbols. Software studios usually add in some playing card symbols as lower paying icons, but Valley of the Gods online slot only has symbols in line with the theme. Lower paying symbols are all hieroglyphics, with the stork paying out the most at 40x your bet if 5 are lined up across the payline. The higher paying symbols are all Egyptian gods. The highest paying symbol of all the base game symbols is Horus, the eagle headed god. Land 5 of this titan and you’ll be looking at 500x your wager.

Bonuses and Jackpots

We’ve mentioned Yggdrasil a few times in this review, and we’ll bring them up again and say that they have no issues in going for creativity. Most online slots add a wild symbol as well as a scatter symbol, but not Valley of the Gods. Here you’ll have a mix of respins, multipliers and alternative features that don’t depend on bonus symbols.

Respins

Every time you land a win there will be a follow-up free spin. The great thing is that if the respin is a win there will be another respin, and so on.

Destroying Blockers

You’ll notice that not all the spaces in the pay table have symbols landing in them – 12 to be precise. These don’t spin and have a scarab beetle symbol fixed on them. Every win will destroy some of the scarab symbols, while the objective is to destroy all 12 scarab symbols.

Lives

This is where the statue to the right of the screen comes in holding the orb with a heart symbol. Destroying all the blockers mentioned above releases 5 scarab beetles from the reels which will crawl into the statue and award you 1 extra life, which the statue will indicate. The extra life comes into play when you suffer a losing respin. The life means you will have another respin.

Multipliers

These are obtained in the same manner as the lives feature, by destroying all blockers and collecting the 5 scarab beetles that crawl into the statue on the left of the screen. The multipliers are applied to any winning respins that one might be awarded.

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It must be said that there are plenty of ancient Egyptian themed online slots such as Loot’En Khamun and Coins of Egypt at almost all online casinos out there, however I’m still to play one with graphics as accomplished as these. In saying that, I’m also not sure what to make of the lack of traditional bonus features such as free spins as well as no wild symbol. There do always seem to be wins happening due to the respin feature plus the lives and multipliers, however it all feels a little convoluted. I would definitely recommend giving it a try as it makes for a unique experience, but I’ll leave it up to you to decide if you prefer straightforward bonus features or the creativity Yggdrasil have tried to incorporate.