Pirate from the East

Ahoy! Set sail into the adventurous world of pirates on the slot from NetEnt. Pirate from the East will take you to the high seas on a volatile reel ride with wild substitutions and multipliers as well as a choice of three free spins features that can lead to wins of up to 2,000 times your bet on a single line.

Slot Details

Pirate from the East is a video slot with five reels, three rows and 15 fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for two to five matching symbols on a line from left to right only. Your road to riches on desktop or mobile starts at 0.15 credits and peaks at 75 credits per spin. The game has high volatility with an RTP of 96.38%.

The visuals evolve around the pirate theme aboard their ship with the sail serving as the reel backdrop and the controls held in wooden planks. Cannons are flanking the grid on either side with markings for the number of the pay lines.  The two juvenile pirates are the dominant figures on the reels. A rather generic soundtrack goes into dramatic thumps on winning spins.

The pay symbols do not appear stacked and start at the low end with the card royals from 10 through to A. Hitting five on a line will pay 3.33x to 4.16x your bet. They are followed by an old-style sake bottle, an ancient Asian compass, a pair of handguns and knives, an Asian junk and a chest of gold. Land five across the reels to wins 13.33x to 133.33x your stake.

The one-eyed male pirate holding a bag of gold coins is the wild symbol, substituting for all regular pay symbols and tripling any win it is part of. The female pirate wielding a handgun acts as the scatter on this slot.

Pirate of the East Slot Features

Since the game is an exact clone of Piggy Riches, there are no changes to the bonus features, well, actually it is only one. However, it is capable of delivering mega wins of up to 2,000x your bet on a single bet line. Three or more female pirate scatters will trigger the round and will also pay 4x, 15x and 100x your total bet for three, four and five scatters respectively. Two scatters will pay 2x your bet as a small consolation prize for having missed a feature trigger.

The game will lead to a second screen, displaying three options for your bonus round. You can pick any on each occasion. During the feature, any scatter appearing on any reel will award +1 free spin, no limits.

• 22 free spins with an x2 win multiplier
• 15 free spins with an x3 win multiplier
• 9 free spins with an x5 win multiplier

Not to forget, you can still land the male pirate wild which will multiply any win by x3. Together with the round multiplier, this can lead to an overall win multiplier of x15. Hitting a full line of gold chests would then pay 2,000 times your bet.

Final Verdict

Well, it looks like NetEnt is on a quest to conquer the Asian market as they released in 2019 about a dozen reskinned games with adapted visuals and new soundtracks. Basically clones of some of their most successful slots where they probably hope that the games will reach the same popularity as the originals did in the rest of the world. It is all part of an expansion into the largely untapped Asian market, especially China and Japan. With over 1,8 billion people, there is surely sufficient potential for success. While the games with the Asian themes are available worldwide, it remains to be seen how our gaming friends from the Far East will respond to them.

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