Beast of Wealth

Brace for an encounter with four mythical guardians on the slot from Play’n GO. Beast of Wealth is a celebration of Far East fortune bearers and lucky charms where you can win one of four progressive jackpots in a separate pick-me bonus game. Throughout the gameplay, wild substitutions and a free spins feature with five options can lead to wins of up to 5,000 times your bet.

Slot Details

Beast of Wealth is a video slot with five reels, three rows and 243 ways to win. Pays are awarded for three to five matching symbols on adjacent reels starting from the left. You can join the auspicious reel festival on desktop and mobile from 0.10 to 100 credits per spin. The game has high volatility (8/10) with a total RTP of 96.17, which includes 1.5% jackpot contributions. Lower RTP settings at 94.17% or 91.19% might be offered, always check the help files to find out which version you will be playing.

The second in a series of three progressive jackpot slots is taking you to the Asian highlands where a temple entrance on a mountaintop serves as the frame of the translucent reels. Dragons and symbols of wealth, status and balance dominate the paytable while the four jackpot displays on top of the game window will attract most of the attention.

The pay symbols start at the low end with Asian-style card royals from 9 through to A, awarding 0.4x to 1x your stake for a single five of a kind. They are followed by four dragons in green, purple, white and red colours. Hit five across the reels to win 2x to 10x your bet. A Chinese gong is the wild symbol, appearing on all reels and substituting for all regular pay symbols. Five in view will also yield 10x your stake. Lastly, a Yin Yang icon acts as the scatter, paying a coin win of 5x, 10x and 50x your total bet for three, four and five scatters respectively.

Beast of Wealth Slot Features

Although founded in 2004, Play’n GO so far abstained from releasing progressive jackpot slots, something that most other major providers have had in their portfolios for years. They are now joining the herd and that with not one but three games released in one go. Celebration of Wealth and Temple of Wealth are the two siblings of Beast of Wealth, all three sharing the same progressive jackpots. A portion of each bet on any of them will contribute to them.

The base play is rather standard and has only one bonus feature to keep up your spirits on the sometimes arduous journey to the top of the mountain to try your luck at winning the Grand progressive. Hitting three to five Yin Yang scatters anywhere on the reels will trigger 8 Free Spins, which can be indefinitely retriggered with the same combinations.

Similar to Celebration of Wealth, it comes with five options from which you can pick one on each occasion. The game will lead to a selection screen from where you can make your selection for one high-value symbol and how many of them will be on the reel strips for the duration of the feature. The number of free spins does not change, no matter which option you choose.

• Green Dragon: 118 on the reels
• Purple Dragon: 108 on the reels
• White Dragon: 98 on the reels
• Red Dragon: 88 on the reels
• Mystery Choice: randomly selects one dragon and one of the four numbers

Only the selected symbol will appear on the reels alongside the card royals, wilds and scatters. Naturally, the Red Dragon gives you the highest win potential but also fewer chances to score a win at all. There are no other multipliers or modifiers active during the feature.

The four progressive jackpots towering on top of the auspicious slot reels are fed by 1.5% of each bet made on any of the three slots in the series. They can be won in the base game only via a separate Jackpot feature. Worth noting is that a higher bet will have a higher chance of triggering the bonus game. When it does, one to five reels can randomly turn into Golden Reels. Landing a wild symbol anywhere on such a reel will trigger the Jackpot feature, guaranteeing the win of one of the four progressive jackpots – Mini, Minor, Major and Grand. Hence, you won’t be walking away empty-handed. When the free spins and jackpot features are triggered together, then the latter will be played first and any wins added to the total win from the triggering round and the free spins.

The scenery will change again, displaying a 4×3 grid with 12 Beast of Wealth coins. The aim of the bonus game is to select coins and unveil three matching mythical creatures. You can pick repeatedly until you have three turtles, tigers, phoenix birds or red dragons to win the Mini, Minor, Major and Grand jackpot respectively.

Final Verdict

It is really clear to me why Play’n GO opted to release three jackpot slots on the same day. It feels somewhat like overkill, especially because they have similar themes, layouts, graphics and even features. Nothing wrong with giving players choice as the Mega Moolah series from Microgaming has done with great success. However, each of the games in that series stands by itself, whereas Play’n GO opted for striking similarities. Although there is a distinct difference for the bonus round. Only time will tell if that is sufficient. Other than that, Beast of Wealth feels like a very playable slot with ample win potential from the base play.

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