Pillars of Asgard Slot Review

Pillars of Asgard Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Pillars of Asgard slot begins on 6 reels, 4 rows and 4,096 ways to win. To get a winning combination, land 3, 4, 5 or 6 matching symbols across adjacent reels beginning from reel 1.

Playable from 25p to £40 per spin, click on the plus and minus buttons above/below the main spin button to adjust accordingly. There’s an Autoplay function which allows up to 100 autospins with single and total loss limits. In the Settings tab, you can choose the quality of effects (good, better or best).

The Pillars of Asgard RTP is 96.1% which is marginally higher than the 96% average. If you’re playing outside the UK, you may play the Buy Pass version where the RTP is at 96.55%.

As mentioned in the introduction, the variance is extreme and is NextGen Gaming’s most volatile slot (at time of writing). With big risk does come big rewards. The maximum win is 25,000 x your total stake per spin.

Theme – head to Asgard

With a Norse mythology theme, the Pillars of Asgard slot takes to you Asgard which can be reached from Midgard over the rainbow bridge Bifröst. Beautifully designed, it has an epic feel to it. The soundtrack is stirring which sets the mood perfectly.

Symbols on the reels include A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9 royals. The higher value symbols include Norse runic stones which have a spear, horn, Valknut and raven on them. Then you have the Odin wild which is the most valuable symbol and pays 1,000 x your total stake for 6 in combination. It also substitutes for all symbols bar the scatter. Here’s a list of all symbols and their payouts/functions:

Symbol	Payouts/Info
9	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.28, 0.4 or 0.6 x stake
10	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.28, 0.4 or 0.6 x stake
J	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0,2, 0.4, 0.6 or 0.8 x stake
Q	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0,2, 0.4, 0.6 or 0.8 x stake
K	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.4, 0.48, 0.6 or 0.8 x stake
A	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.4, 0.48, 0.6 or 0.8 x stake
Spear	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 or 1.2 x stake
Horn	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.6, 0.8, 1.2 or 2 x stake
Valknut	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.8, 1.2, 2 or 5 x stake
Raven	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 1.2, 2, 5 or 10 x stake
Odin Wild	Substitutes for symbols above + pays 100 x stake
Scatter	3+ triggers Free Games feature

Pillars of Asgard Mobile

With Pillars of Asgard created with HTML5 technology, it’s available to play on desktop, mobile and tablet devices. Despite the high quality graphics and animations, larger screens are better for the full experience, especially when you play with 1 million ways to win.

Pillars of Asgard Bonus Features

With a total of 7 bonus features, Pillars of Asgard is action-packed. It’s the first NextGen Gaming slot to use a new DynaReel engine and Pillar Shift mechanic. Extras include wild multipliers, free spins, reel rises and wild stacks.

Wild Multiplier feature

When you get a winning combination with 1 or more Odin wild symbols, you will trigger the Wild Multiplier feature. The multiplier you benefit from is random and depends on how many Odin wild you see:

Free Games feature

The Pillars of Asgard slot comes with the customary Free Games feature. You will receive 20 free spins when you get 3 or more scatters anywhere on the reels. The more scatters you trigger the feature with, the more extra rows will be added which gives you more ways to win.

Known as the DynaReel engine, the reels (or pillars) increase in height. Each extra row will give you more possible ways to win:

Reel Rise feature

During the free spins, every scatter symbol that appears increases the number of symbol positions on its respective reel by 1. Known as the Reel Rise feature, each reel can extend to give you up to 10 symbol positions on each reel. This can give you a whopping 1,000,000 (1 million) ways to win!

Odin’s Blessing Bonus feature

During the free spins, a reel reaching the maximum height of 10 symbol positions will activate the Odin’s Blessing Bonus feature. Each reel that reaches 10 symbol positions will give you the following:

• 5 additional free spins
• All scatter symbols are replaced by wilds for the remainder of the feature

Rise of Odin Bonus feature

When all 6 reels have reached their maximum height, Odin awakens and becomes charged with power. Known as the Rise of Odin Bonus feature, a wild stack randomly replaces a full reel for the remainder of the free spins. This wild stack (wild reel) is floating so moves over a new reel with each free spin.

Buy Pass & Take a Chance features

Pillars of Asgard comes with a Buy Pass feature which is found in other NextGen Gaming slots. You can buy your way into the Reel Rise feature for 80 times your total stake. There’s also the Take a Chance feature where you can gamble for a chance to activate the Buy Pass feature. These cost 10 times your stake. Both these extras aren’t available in the UK due to regulation.

Pillars of Asgard Review Summary – NextGen Gaming’s best-ever slot

NextGen Gaming has outdone themselves with the Pillars of Asgard slot. With superb visuals and animations, the excitement builds once you trigger the Free Games feature. The Reel Rise feature is where the big wins will come from as playing with 1 million ways to win can be truly epic.

The real big payouts will come when you play with floating wild stacks in my opinion. That said, it’s extremely volatile so most wins will be small if at all.

Pillars of Asgard looks particularly good on mobile devices as it uses the Pillar Shift mechanic. It’s a new way to display wins on large reel arrays. Winning symbols are differentiated from losing ones as they are displayed in colour. This dramatically simplifies the playing experience and makes wins obvious.

The most volatile slot in NextGen Gaming’s history, Pillars of Asgard can pay up to 25,000 times your total stake on each free spin. I would summarise as an absolute must-play slot.

If you like Norse mythology, Peter & Sons’ Hammer of Gods offers something different. However, my choice would be Vikings Go Berzerk Reloaded that has been revised by Yggdrasil Gaming to offer up to 25,000 x stake payouts.