Vikings Go To Vegas

Neon replaces longships in Vikings Go To Vegas, where Yggdrasil drops its Norse warriors into modern Las Vegas, complete with hats and sunglasses. Mechanically it is a re-skin of the studio's earlier Egyptian trip, so the engine is familiar and only the costume has changed.

The game runs on a 5x4 grid with 25 paylines, and a win needs three or more matching symbols running from the leftmost reel. Stakes range from 0.25 to 125. Yggdrasil keeps the theoretical return low here: 94% in the main version, with a 90.5% variant also in circulation. Volatility is medium, roughly 23% of spins return something, and the top prize is 4,375x the bet.

Eight symbols pay. Cards from J to A make up the low tier, giving 1.6x to 2.8x for five in a row, while four Viking characters occupy the top tier at 6x to 10x. Wilds are sticky and replace any standard symbol.

Two kinds of chest drive much of the action. Silver chests appear on the fourth reel and Golden ones on the fifth. In the base game a Silver chest holds a prize of 2x to 40x or a set of 7, 14 or 21 free spins, and a Golden chest can pay 10x to 400x, hand out free spins, add 25% to the Rage boost, or trigger Ragnarok Free Spins. During free spins both types switch to extra spins and wilds on top of cash prizes. A chest that lands on a sticky wild activates both.

Three, four or five scatters start 7, 14 or 21 free spins. Those rounds cannot be retriggered, but wilds stay put until the end. When a Viking symbol lands, it spins to reveal either itself or a wild in a Wild Fight, resolved before payouts. Before the round starts, one extra is chosen: Ragnarok Free Spins, one to three added spins, a sticky wild, a sticky wild reel, or five Silver plus five Golden chests on the reels. In Ragnarok Free Spins, every Viking is Berserk and always becomes a sticky wild.

Base-game wins also feed the Rage meters. Each Viking needs 700 points; three of a kind adds 4, four adds 12 and five adds 36. A full meter starts free spins with that Viking Berserk, played at the average of the stakes used while collecting. A first-time visitor finds one meter already above half.

Free spins can be bought in Vikings Go To Vegas: 7 spins for 40x, 14 for 120x, or 21 for 260x, each carrying one random extra.