Chambers of Ancients

Theme and Design

Epic Scenes In This Superb Slot With FOUR Different Gods

Chambers of Ancients is a gods-themed game with suitably epic design. The action takes place somewhere in the mountains of the gods with huge rocky cliff faces surrounding the reels and floating islands of rocks drifting amongst the clouds above. There is an ethereal soundtrack that doubles down on the sense of wonder and the reel set itself is stacked with gods from a mixed catalogue of belief systems, including Norse, Hindu and Celtic. At the start of the game, the gods appear from a giant portal center screen, each bringing their own powers. And the narrative is carried through into the bonus games where each god has a chamber in which hold and win games are played. It’s a well-executed idea and for those who enjoy their gods-slots, a nice addition to the category.

RTP and Variance

Chamber of Ancients has FIVE RTP settings – 96.31%, 94.31%, 91.31%, 87.31% and 84.31%.  Your casino may choose to run the game at any one of these rates. Whilst most UK slot sites will pick one of the higher rates, some may go as low as 87.31% in my experience. If you hit the ‘?’ at the bottom of the game screen the game rules will load up, including the live RTP setting. If it’s lower than 94.31% I would look elsewhere.

I recommend playing at MrQ casino where the RTP rates are consistently at the top end of the scale.

This is also a high variance game so it will be volatile and unpredictable in its pay distribution. That is matched by a very strong max win potential as we are about to find out.

Maximum Win

The top payout from Chambers of Ancients is 20,000x. That is at the higher end of Play n Go’s highest max win games though there are much bigger wins available on games like Kiss: Reels of Rock (50,000x) and The Last Sundown (36,000x).

Symbols and Paytable

Chambers of Ancients plays out on a 5 reel and 3 row game area with just 10 paylines to win on. Wins are triggered in the usual way by landing 3 or more identical symbols across a line from left to right, starting at the left most reel.

There are 11 symbols in the paytable. Low value ones are the cards, 10 through to Ace, valued at from 0.5x for 3 10s up to 5x for 5 Aces. The premiums are the 4 gods - Thor, Athena, Ganesha, Caishen, and Eset. These are valued at from 1x for Eset up to 30x for 5 of Thor.

There is a wild too, represented by a star emblem. This will substitute for all other pay symbols to complete paylines. It also comes with its own pay value of 4x, 8x or 40x for 3, 4 or 5 on a line. In addition, Wilds also expand to the full height of their reels if in doing so they can help to complete more paylines.

Features and Gameplay

In Chambers of Ancients there is a bonus Hold and Win game associated with each god. You have to unlock the games which take place in a Chamber.

Unlocking the Bonus Chamber Games

The games are unlocked by landing keys. Each god has a key associated with them and you need to land 3 of the same type on one spin to unlock the respective chamber. Here, the wild master key, displayed with the wild symbol when it lands, can help you here because it will make up the numbers if you only land 1 or 2 of a bonus key type. But that’s not all, if you land THREE wild master keys, then you get access to ALL four bonus games, one after the other!

How The Bonus Chamber Hold and Win Games Work

So, once you have unlocked any of the bonus games, then you are taken to the god’s chamber. A 3x3 grid is displayed and a Hold and Win game plays out. During the game, cash value coins and special coins land, though some positions will show neither. As long as at least one coin lands on a spin, the counter re-sets. And if the entire grid is filled with coins, all values are collected, the grid is cleared and the spins re-set to 3 to start again.

The cash value coins take their value from the god whose chamber you are in like this:

• Eset – 2.5x
• Caishen – 5x
• Ganesha – 7.5x
• Athena – 12.5x
• Thor – 25x

The special coins each activate the following events:

• Collector Coins – takes the value of all cash value coins on the grid before they are removed
• Value Booster – adds a random value to one cash value coin on the grid before disappearing
• Multiplier Coin – doubles the value of all cash value coins on the grid before disappearing
• Single Multiplier Coin – a 2x, 3x, 4x or 8x multiplier is applied to one coin on the grid
• Mystery – will reveal a cash value coin or a different special coin from this list
• Value Coins – show a prize of 0.1x to 5x depending on which bonus game you are playing

The bonus game ends when 3 successive spins return no coins.

Free Spins Round With More Keys

There is also a free spins round in Chambers of Ancients. It is unlocked by landing mask scatter symbols as follows:

• 3 mask scatters – 8 free spins
• 4 mask scatters – 10 free spins
• 5 mask scatters – 12 free spins

During the free spins there are more keys available via wilds and gods, which means a greater chance of triggering the bonus games. It is also possible to re-trigger the free spins to give yourself as many as 50 free spins. 

And, finally, if you get REALLY lucky, you can trigger a bonus game AND free spins on one single spin. In that instance, the bonus game, then the free spins round play out in order.