Empire Fortune

Yggdrasil Gaming built Empire Fortune around a global progressive jackpot, staging the action inside an ornate court dripping in gold and jewels. The five-reel, three-row layout runs on 20 paylines, with stakes from 0.20 to 100 per spin feeding 5.5% of every wager into that shared prize pool.

Card-suit symbols done up as polished gemstones fill the low end of the pay table, while four coloured gems — encased in gold, with the red gem topping the list at 125x the stake for five in a row — make up the premium tier.

A Hold feature can trigger in the base game once two free-spin or bonus symbols appear: spending 3x the stake keeps those two tiles frozen for the next spin, buying another shot at completing the trigger. It normally works only once per sequence, but landing two more symbols while two are already frozen brings all four together at once, and using the feature during Free Spins earns one bonus spin added to the round.

Scatter symbols open the Free Spins round on a sliding scale — more scatters mean a longer round and a bigger attached multiplier, topping out at thirty spins carrying a tenfold boost when all five land. Landing three or more bonus symbols instead spins up the Jackpot Wheel, a three-tier wheel stacked with prizes: the global Empire Jackpot appears alongside a local Diamond Jackpot and a local Gold Jackpot, coin wins ranging from the low hundreds to 2,500, a smaller coin prize that also earns a respin, a Fireworks round where a batch of rockets fires off and collects whatever prizes they land on, and a mystery award of up to 5,000 coins. Landing on an arrow instead of a prize moves the wheel up to its next, richer tier.

Empire Fortune runs at medium/high volatility with a 94.3% RTP and a 23.2% hit frequency, and its non-jackpot ceiling reaches 1,300x the stake.