300 Shields Slot Review

300 Shields Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The setup in the 300 Shields slot is nice and straightforward. The action takes place on 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines. To create a winner, land 3 or more matching symbols or wilds across a payline starting from reel 1.

Stake levels here start at 25p per spin, rising to a potential maximum of £12.50 per spin. Click on the coins in the settings tab and use the slider to adjust your stake. Settings is also where you’ll find autoplay. You can run up to 100 autospins if required here.

The 300 Shields RTP is 95.3% which is a little below average. However, The action here is extremely high variance. 300 Shields is a very volatile slot. The maximum win is large too. The most you could potentially win from a single spin is 17,773 x your total stake.

Theme – Audio & Design Features – inspired by the epic battle

The 300 Shields slot takes inspiration from the ancient Battle of Thermopylae where 300 Spartan warriors confronted a Persian army of much greater strength. With a Spartan theme, here’s a comic book-style to the imagery here which is simple but nicely done. Everything is clean and sharp.

Released way back in March 2015, you’ll hear a suitably drum-heavy, martial backing track while you spin, accompanied by blood curdling splats whenever a shield scatter lands. It’s all rather good.

Set against a backdrop of fields full of crops with marble temple building in the distance, the reels are made up of A to 9 royals, swords and arrows, ships and fighters. The fighter is the most rewarding symbol giving you 10 x your stake for 5 in combination.

The Leonidas symbol is the wild. This replaces all the standard symbols in a winning combination and pays 0.2, 1, 10 or 40 x your total stake if you land 2, 3, 4 or 5 across a payline. Those figures can get much bigger in the free spins thanks to the potentially massive multiplier boosts available.

There are fully optimised versions of 300 Shields available for all devices including desktop, tablet and smartphone. The classy cartoon design and simple gameplay are well suited to the small screen. We had no grumbles playing the 300 Shields mobile slot in comparison to the other versions.

300 Shields Bonus Features

There’s just the single bonus feature to concern us in the 300 Shields online slot. It has the potential to be an absolute corker though. It’s a free spins round where wild wins are doubled. Retriggers not only add extra free spins, they also increase the multiplier up to a maximum of 300x!

Battle Feature Free Games feature

Trigger the Battle Feature Free Games feature in the usual manner by landing 3, 4 or 5 shield scatter symbols anywhere on the reels on the same spin. You’ll pocket an award worth 5, 12 or 100 x your total stake.

You’ll also be awarded 5 free spins. Each time a wild warrior symbol makes up part of a winning combination, the payout is boosted by a 2x multiplier and doubled.

Each time a shield scatter lands during the free spins, the scatter is collected in a meter to the right of the reels. If you manage to collect 2 of them during your initial haul of 5 free spins, you’ll land a retrigger. Another 5 free spins are added to your total, this time with all wins that include the warrior wild benefitting from a 5x multiplier.

If you manage to collect 6 shields during the second round of free spins, another retrigger ensues. This time, there’s a 25x wild multiplier in play during this round of free spins.

Collect 12 shields and you’ll get a 4th series of 5 free spins. These come with an enormous wild multiplier which sends payouts rocketing by a massive 300x. Land 3 shields on a single free spin and you’ll get 5 more free spins at the current multiplier level. To summarise:

300 Shields Review Summary – a high variance favourite

The 300 Shields slot is a cult favourite that has become a huge hit with slots players due to the potential 300x multiplier. Not for the faint-hearted, the possibility of a 300x multiplier is not common at all so this is a unique game in that respect.

NextGen Gaming has kept things nice and simple though. The visuals aren’t exactly the height of HD sophistication but this was released in 2015. The gameplay is a basic as the design and again that’s no bad thing.

It’s all about collecting shield scatters in the Battle Feature Free Games feature which increases the multiplier and gives you additional free spins. As you might expect from a slot where the multipliers can reach stratospheric heights, the action here is extremely volatile so tread carefully. If you like the ancient theme and simple, high variance gameplay, 300 Shields has plenty to offer.

Since the initial release, NextGen Gaming has released 300 Shields Extreme which is more or less the same but with better graphics and a Buy Pass feature. Another option would be the Spartan King slot by Pragmatic Play which comes with 2×2 wilds that have a multiplier up to 25x.