Vikings: Empire Treasures Slot Review

Vikings: Empire Treasures Slot RTP, Details and Wager Limits

The Vikings: Empire Treasures slot is played using 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines. Create a winning combination by landing 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols or wilds from left to right across a payline starting from reel 1.

Bet levels here range from between 25p and £500 per spin. Use the + and – tabs next to the Total Bet box to adjust your stake size. Click on the i to open the paytable. Payout amounts are shown in coins. In some countries, there’s a Turbo Mode and Autospin function.

The Viking: Empire Treasures RTP is 96.35%. 0.99% of goes towards the 4 progressive jackpots. Medium to high variance, the bigger wins will come from the free spins. The max win is 12,500 x your total stake, excluding the jackpots. The Grand Jackpot is guaranteed to pay out at least £200,000.

Theme – Audio and Design Features – join a band of mighty Norse warriors

The second in the Empire Treasures series, the Vikings: Empire Treasures slot is well designed and very impressively done. With a Norse mythology theme, the backdrop consists of a Viking longship and 3 enormous swords.

The imagery here is packed full of detail and very nicely drawn. There’s a rather haunting soundtrack playing in the background while you spin. It’s a good fit for this Norse theme. This is another impressively designed Playtech slot.

The reels are made up of playing card suit symbols which appear alongside 2 pieces of Norse jewellery and 3 higher value Viking character symbols. The best of these pays 16 x your total stake if you manage to land 5 across a payline. He also looks quite a bit like Viking’s Ragnar Lothbrok.

Potentially far more rewarding is the wild. This can land on all 5 reels and substitute for all the standard symbols when it makes up part of a winning combination. Land 5 wilds on a payline and you’ll win a payout of 100 x your total stake. The Viking longship is the bonus symbol. This can land on reels 1, 3 and 5 and trigger the features.

Vikings: Empire Treasures has been fully optimised for play on all devices including desktop and laptop computers, tablets and mobiles. This is due to developer Playtech using HTML5 technology for all their games.

Vikings: Empire Treasures Bonus Features

In addition to the massive progressive jackpots, there are 2 features of note in Vikings: Empire Treasures. There’s the Berserker Bonus feature which awards cash prizes and multiplier boosts as well as free spins, complete with stacked symbols. That’s a total of 3 bonus features.

Berserker Bonus feature

The Berserker Bonus feature triggers when you land the Bonus symbol on reels 1 and 3 on the same spin. You’ll then be offered the choice of 2 Axe symbols. Pick one. This will reveal a cash prize or a +1 multiplier value:

• Cash Prize: is awarded instantly
• +1 Multiplier: it is saved and becomes active the next time you trigger the Free Games feature

You can trigger the Berserker Bonus feature multiple times so multiplier can get as high as 5x when you trigger the free spins. Check the current multiplier value in the meter above the reels. If you trigger the feature when the multiplier is already at 5x, the potential awards are a cash prize or an instant trigger of the free spins.

Free Games feature

Trigger the Free Games feature by landing the Bonus symbol on reels 1, 3 and 5 on the same spin. You’ll then be shown 2 rows of 4 symbols.

• Pick a symbol at the top: determines how many free spins you’ve been awarded (7-25)
• Pick from the bottom row: will decide which 1 of the 4 higher value character symbols will be stacked

If you have any accumulated multipliers from the Berserker Bonus feature, they are applied during the free spins. If the multiplier is 2x or more, you’re more likely to land a retrigger.

When you’ve finished your free spins, you’ll return to the base game and the multiplier resets to 1x. In the 24 base game spins that follow the free spins, you’ll have a 50% chance of retriggering the Free Games feature.

Empire Treasures Jackpot feature

Viking: Empire Treasures offers players a shot at landing 4 progressive jackpots. The Empire Treasures Jackpot feature can trigger at random on any spin.

You’ll then get to choose from 20 jackpot icons. Behind each one is a coloured symbol that is associated to 1 of the 4 jackpot prizes. This is added to its respective meter. Fill the whole of a meter and you’ll win that jackpot prize. Here is what the jackpots are seeded at (minimum amount you’ll win):

You can check out the current value of the Mini, Minor, Major or Grand Jackpots in the meters above the reels but only in real money mode (not demo mode above).

Vikings: Empire Treasures Review Summary – another historical epic from Playtech

This addition to Playtech’s jackpot series is nicely done. The design in the Vikings: Empire Treasures slot is very classy and there’s some decent action on offer courtesy of the free spins, stacked symbols and multipliers.

To win the 12,500 x stake max win, you need a screen full of wilds with a 5x multiplier in the free spins. The key to bigger wins is actually from the Berserker Bonus feature which can allow for your multiplier in the free spins to reach 5x.

The main reason for playing this game is the Empire Treasures Jackpot feature which also applies in the Wild Crusade: Empire Treasures slot. Compared to the Age of the Gods network for example, the Grand Jackpot guarantees at least a £200,000 payout (vs £100,000).

Even without the jackpots, there’s enough going on from the features to make Vikings: Empire Treasures worth a look. If Norse sagas are your thing, Vikings Go Berzerk from Yggdrasil Gaming is recommended. My pick, however, would be the Vikings slot by NetEnt which is the official game of the superb TV series.