Viking Hoard

Join the wild warriors on their next plundering voyage on the slot from Core Gaming. Viking Hoard will see you invading a 6×4 reel set in a quest to loot untold treasures and return home to a glorious welcome. Cascading symbols, wild substitutions and a free spins round can lead to wins of up to 25,000 times your bet or 250,000 credits, whichever is reached first.

Slot Details

Viking Hoard is a cascading video slot with six reels, four rows and 4,096 ways to win. Pays are awarded for two to five matching symbols or in combination with a wild on adjacent reels from left to right only. You can join the plundering hoard on desktop or mobile from 0.20 to 10 credits per spin. The game has high volatility with a respectable RTP of 96.55%.

A typical Nordic scenery awaits when you load the game. Lush greenery with snowcapped mountains in the distance surround a crystal-clear fjord that leads to the open sea. The Viking longship is moored on the shores, indicating that the hoards have just returned from their latest plundering tour. Ropes are fixed to a carved wooden frame that holds the floating game window. A heroic soundtrack is mixed with thumping sounds and the usual reel noises.

All pay symbols excluding scatters and wilds can appear stacked at any time. They start at the low end with carved card royals from 9 through to A, awarding 0.8x to 1.75x your stake for a single six of a kind. The premiums are battle axes, Viking horns, tribal rings and a Viking warrior. Hit six across the reels to win 2x to 50x your stake

An intricate icon with Norse carvings and marked with the word itself is the wild symbol, appearing on reels two to six only and substituting for all regular pay symbols. A wooden carving marked with ‘Bonus’ acts as the scatter on this slot.

Viking Hoard Slot Features

At the core of the gameplay is a 6×4 reel set with a cascading reel mechanic, where at the start of a spin sequence wooden symbol blocks tumble from the top into position. All blocks from a winning combination will shatter and disappear while the remaining symbols drop towards the bottom of the game window. New symbols will then cascade into the empty spaces, potentially creating more winners and setting off a chain reaction. This continues until no new wins occur after a cascade.

While you can score sizeable wins in the base game due to the sheer amount of ways to win and the tumbling reels, the bigger potential is in the Voyage of Wealth Free Spins feature. Three, four and five or more scatters in view at the end of a spin sequence will trigger 10, 15 and 20 free spins respectively. During the feature, two, three and four or more will add +5, +10 and +15 extra free spins, no limits.

The scenery changes to a night setting with the Aurora Borealis providing a majestic display in the background. Key to scoring mega wins of up to 25,000 times your bet is the progressive win multiplier. It starts at x1 and increases with each winning combination. From x1 to x15 it will rise in x1 steps, followed by x20, x25, x30, x40, x50, x60, x70, x80, x100, x100, x200 and x250. The multiplier will not reset until the end of the feature.

Final Verdict

Vikings were known to be volatile warriors who would sail on their longships across the seas to make landfall on any shores they could find for their plundering tours. They were masters in early astrology and navigation skills, taking them safely to faraway places and back home. The creation from Core Gaming is just as volatile with a bonus feature that has the potential to set the reels on fire. The slot is brutal at times, taking hundreds of spins and a good chunk of any balance before it triggers the free spins. As usual with such games, we recommend some caution on the bet size.

Bonuses

Winners

Comments

Remember, you can play Viking Hoard here