Panther’s Reign

Welcome to a vibrant paradise, welcome to the Amazon jungle on the slot from Quickspin. Panther’s Reign is bringing the elusive predator together with cheeky monkeys and colourful parrots to a 5×4 reels set with wild substitutions, a random wild spray feature and a free spins round with locking-win respins that can lead to payouts of up to 5,202 times your bet.

Slot Details

Panther’s Reign is a video slot with five reels, four rows and 50 fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for three to five matching symbols on a line from left to right only. Your journey to the Amazon on desktop or mobile starts at 0.10 coins and peaks at 100 coins per spin. The game has high volatility (5/5) with an RTP of 96.25%.

According to Quickspin’s brief, the slot is a homage to the Amazon rainforest as they started the design at the time when hundreds of fires were ravaging through the dense vegetation that is called the lung of the world. Very fittingly, a sprawling waterfall in the midst of a lush, green jungle scene is in the background of the stone-encased game window. Parrots, frog, monkeys and other jungle creatures dominate on the reels, all under the watchful eye of the black panther.

The pay symbols start at the low end with the card suits – diamonds, clubs, spades, clubs and hearts – all held on beautifully crafted stone icons and awarding 5x to 10x your bet for a single five of a kind. The premiums are in ascending order of value the frog, the parrot, the monkey, the jaguar and the black panther. Hit five on a line to win 15x to 100x your stake.

A golden rock with panther scratch marks with the world itself across it is the wild symbol, substituting for all regular symbols. It will yield also 100x your bet when five land across the reels. An ouroboros with a green gem acts as the scatter on this slot.

Panther’s Reign Slot Features

With a focus on wild creatures that can be found in the Amazon rainforest, it comes as no surprise that the wild symbol has a central role in the gameplay on Panther’s Reign. Quickspin went as far as applying that to both, the base game and free spins. The Wild Spray feature can trigger randomly at the start of any spin or free spin to add a number of wilds to random reel positions and thus providing more potential to score a win. In the base game, 3 to 10 wild will be sprayed on to the reels, while in the free spins, up to 7 wilds can be added. They are not sticky and will disappear after the win evaluation.

Three or more Ouroboros scatters anywhere on the reels in one spin will trigger 5 Free Spins, which cannot be retriggered. However, the scatters appear stacked on the reels and any further in view on the triggering spin will award +1 free spin, taking the maximum for a bonus round to a total of 22 free spins.

While the Wild Spray feature can activate at the beginning of any free spin, the modifier that will have a larger impact on your potential winnings is the Respin feature. Any winning combination will trigger it, locking all symbols included in the combo and awarding a respin without deducting any spins from the free spin counter. Should any further winning symbols land anywhere on the reels on the respin then they will become sticky too and another respin is awarded. The process is repeated until now new matching symbols land, after which wins are evaluated and paid before the next free spin starts.

Final Verdict

Panther’s Reign is another visual masterpiece coming from the studios of Quickspin. Rich in colours, abundant animations and a vibrant mix of animals that you would encounter on a visit to the Amazon rainforest. However, while the features are executed in an impressive manner, it feels like they are missing some extra ‘oomph’, maybe a multiplier or semi-sticky wilds, something that would give them that extra suspense when they trigger.

Given the maximum volatility that the creators used in their maths model, the overall win potential of 5,202 times the bet is not really impressive either, especially since they hit it once only in their test simulation over 1 billion spins. Overall though, a well-designed game that should provide ample entertainment but only some bang for your buck.

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