Viking Clash Slot Review

Viking Clash Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Viking Clash slot has an unusual setup as it’s played on 2 separate 5 reel, 3 row, 25 fixed payline machines. You have a Red and Green reel set. To land a winning combination, you need to land 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols from left to right (starting from reel 1) across any payline, and on any of the 2 reel sets.

Bets-wise, you can play Viking Clash from 25p to £100 per spin. The upper limit of £100 is configurable by casino sites so you may see a lower max bet at certain casinos. Using Push Gaming’s standard interface, click/press the arrow icon in the Total Bet section to see all available bet options. Players outside the UK have Autoplay (with loss and single win limits) and Turbo Mode (via the Settings section).

Interestingly, the Viking Clash RTP is 96.67%. This is very high compared to the 96% online slots average but falls just short of the top RTP slots. Being released originally in August 2018, the good news is that this is the only RTP version available.

Medium to high volatility, the Viking Clash slot offers you 13,177 x bet max wins. That said, the theoretical max win is infinite like in the Razor Shark slot game. By the by, bigger wins will come from the free spins due to the potential multiplier Wild Shields.

Theme: sharpen your axes + sound the war drums

With a viking theme, the Viking Clash slot sees you sharpen your axes and sound the war drums. You head out on open waters as you prepare to do battle. The setting is on the waves as you’ll see Viking longships in the backdrop.

With cartoon-style graphics, it has a comedic and fun feel. It’s a far cry from the seafaring Vikings who raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout Europe from the late 8^th to the late 11^th centuries.

The soundtrack is traditional with war drums providing the base tone. The 2 reel sets that appear in the middle of the screen are a little small truth be told. It actually looks better on a mobile/smartphone device.

Across the 2 reel sets, you’ll see 3 low-value rune stones, axes and hammers. The red and green reel sets have 3 Viking characters each. The pair of red-bearded Viking symbols pay the most with 1, 3.6 or 16 x bet awarded for 3, 4 or 5 across a payline on any reel set.

Viking Clash comes with 2 wild symbols. You have the Wild Shield that substitutes for all other symbols except the scatter and only appears during the free spins. There is also a Wild Ship symbol that substitutes and only appears during the Wild Ship feature.

The other symbols include the Red Catapult Scatter which appears on the Red reel set and Green Cannon Scatter which appears on the Green reel set. Both can trigger the free spins.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
Rune Stone 1	3, 4 or 5 = 0.16, 0.4 or 1.2 x bet
Rune Stone 2	3, 4 or 5 = 0.16, 0.4 or 1.2 x bet
Rune Stone 3	3, 4 or 5 = 0.16, 0.4 or 1.2 x bet
Axe	3, 4 or 5 = 0.32, 1.2 or 3.2 x bet
Hammer	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 1.6 or 4 x bet
Green Reel Set Viking 1	3, 4 or 5 = 0.6, 2.4 or 10 x bet
Red Reel Set Viking 1	3, 4 or 5 = 0.6, 2.4 or 10 x bet
Green Reel Set Viking 2	3, 4 or 5 = 0.8, 2.8 or 12 x bet
Red Reel Set Viking 2	3, 4 or 5 = 0.8, 2.8 or 12 x bet
Green Reel Set Viking 3	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 3.6 or 16 x bet
Red Reel Set Viking 3	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 3.6 or 16 x bet
Wild Ship	Appears random in base game + shifts until it sails off reel 1
Red Catapult Scatter	3+ Red Catapult/Green Scatters trigger free spins
Green Cannon Scatter	3+ Red Catapult/Green Scatters trigger free spins
Wild Shield	Appears during free spins + is sticky (can contain multipliers)

Viking Clash Mobile

Released back in August 2018, the Viking Clash slot was produced using HTML5 technology. Compatible with desktop, mobile and tablet devices, the game looks better in Portrait mode (mobiles). It’s available to play on iOS, Android and Windows smartphones.

Viking Clash Bonus Features

The Viking Clash slot comes with 2 bonus features. A giant wave can randomly arise from the bottom of the screen to drop a trio of Wild Ships onto the reels. These Wild Ships shift 1 reel left with a payout made after each shift. This continues until all Wild Ships have sailed off the reels. Then you have the Viking Battle Free Games feature where Wild Shields are fired onto the various reel sets. These are sticky wilds. Wild Shields landing on other Wild Shields will see a multiplier added to these sticky wilds.

Wild Ship feature

Firstly, you have the Wild Ship feature which is triggered randomly on a base game spin. A giant wave will rise from the bottom of the screen and drop 2 or 3 Wild Ships onto the reels (on reels 3, 4 and/or 5). A new payout consideration is then made.

The Wild Ships then shift 1 position to the left and another payout is made. The process is then repeated until all the ships have sailed off past reel 1.

Viking Battle Free Games feature

The Viking Clash slot focuses on the Viking Battle Free Games feature. It’s triggered by landing 3 or more Red Catapult Scatters and/or Green Cannon Scatters anywhere on the reel sets. 6 free spins are then awarded. The triggering scatters act in the following way:

• Red Catapult Scatter: each triggering Red Catapult Scatter fires a Wild Shield symbol onto the Green reel set. They will appear in any position on the reel directly below each Red Catapult Scatter.
• Green Cannon Scatter: every triggering Green Cannon Scatter adds a Wild Shield onto a random position on the Red reel set.

If either of the scatter symbols lands on either reel set, an extra free spin is awarded as well as another Wild Shield symbol added. More importantly, if a Red Catapult or Green Cannon Scatter fires a Wild Shield on top of an existing Wild Shield, a multiplier is added to the existing Wild Shield.

Viking Clash Review Summary: sticky wilds during free spins key to plundering the high seas

With so many Viking-themed games available online, the Viking Clash slot has a lot to live up to. Aesthetically, it has more of a tongue-in-cheek feel as the characters aren’t as ferocious or scary as what Vikings were meant to be like. The cartoon-style graphic helps depict this.

When it comes to the bonus features, the Wild Ship feature sees up to 3 Wild Ship symbols added to random positions on the reels. These shift with a payout awarded after each shift. No matter what happens, there is a max win of 800 x your total bet on each base game spin. This can occur if you fill all positions with the highest value symbol and/or Wild Ships.

The main objective in Viking Clash is to land 3+ Red Catapult and/or Green Cannon Scatters to trigger the free spins. Basically, sticky Wild Shield symbols are added to the reel sets which remain in place till the feature ends. Landing scatters will result in more free spins and another Wild Shield added. The key is to land a Wild Shield on top of another Wild Shield which adds a multiplier to the original Wild Shield.

With no limits to the number of free spins and Wild Shield multipliers, the Viking Clash slot can deliver 13,177 x bet max wins. Couple this with the unique setup and you have an interesting game which holds its own in the viking genre. However, the lengthy spells between triggering the free spins can be frustrating. Get lucky with the extras on offer there and Viking Clash can deliver some decent seafaring thrills.

If you want a more realistic seafaring adventure, the Vikings slot by NetEnt is the official game of the iconic TV series that features Ragnar Lothbrok. It offers transforming mystery symbols, Raid Spins which are played with 78,125 ways to win and 10,000 x bet payouts.