Dragon’s Dawn

Theme and Design

Nicely Crafted Fantasy-World Slot With Quality Illustrations and Animations

Dragon’s Dawn is a full-on Dungeons and Dragons fantasy trip in an alternative world populated by fire-breathing dragons and wizards wielding long staffs. The backdrop is an intricately drawn landscape with a towering castle, rocky mountains and rivers. A flying dragon hovers to the right of the grid. The atmosphere is not scary though, but rather peaceful with a nice piano track giving off a kind of relaxing spa-vibe! If you are into fantasy-style movies and books this could be a good slot for you.

RTP and Variance

There are two RTP settings available for Dragon’s Dawn – 94% or 96%. There is not much between those but I always advise that you find a slot site which runs at the higher of the two RTPs if possible. Usually Casumo, or White Hat Gaming sites like Barz Casino, are a good option as they will run Stakelogic slots at the optimum RTP.

It’s also a high variance game so it will be volatile with some tough runs but also the chance to really kick out some big wins where powerful free spins, cascades and multiplier features combine.

Maximum Win

The top payout in Dragon’s Dawn is 7,500x which is OK but nothing too special. If you are looking for a Scatter Pays slot with a higher max win, try our ‘best of’ list which includes Money Train 4 (150,000x) or Sweet Bonanza (21,100x).

Symbols and Paytable

The exciting part about Scatter Pays slots of course is that you can build wins with lots more symbols than you do in most pay line games, which gives you bigger payouts. And that is reflected in the paytable in Dragon’s Dawn. In this case, 8 or more identical symbols need to land ANYWHERE on the reels to trigger a payout.

There are 12 symbols in all.

The low payers are the cards, Jack, Queen, King and Ace. These are valued at from 0.2x for 8 Jacks up to 8x for between 12 and 36 Aces. The mid-range symbols are the gems in green, blue, purple and red. These are valued at from 0.8x for 8 greens up to 20x for 12 to 36 reds. The premiums are the dragons in green, blue, purple and red. These are valued at from 3x for 8 greens up to 200x for 12 to 36 reds.

There is also a Wild, represented by the letter W, that substitutes for all pay symbols to complete scatter wins.

Features and Gameplay

Dragon’s Dawn comes with some interesting extra features to boost your wins. They work as follows.

Cascading Wins With Progressive Multiplier 

This feature is commonly found in scatter pays and cluster pays slots. After each win, winning symbols are removed from the grid and new ones drop in to replace them. If more wins are created, the process repeats. This goes on until no more wins occur.

In this case, the cascading wins feature comes with a progressive multiplier. This is unusual in the base game and a strength of this game. The multiplier starts at 1x and increases by 1x with each successive cascade. It is then applied to the total win from the sequence. It re-sets to 1x when the cascades end and a new spin round starts. 

Three Reel Modifiers To Increase Chances of Wins

These modifiers can be triggered in both base game and bonus round. They change the symbols on one or more reels so that a non-winning spin can become a winning one.

• Lightning Strike – lightning strikes between 1 and 6 reels, turning all symbols on those reels into the same symbol. Clearly very powerful, and capable of turning the entire grid into the same symbol!
• Meteor Shower – meteors land on the grid and change between 3 and 10 symbol types into Wilds.
• Portal – when this triggers then a portal appears, displaying one pay symbol. This symbol will drop onto a random number of positions on the grid.

Free Spins With Persistent Progressive Multipliers

There is a free spins round too, triggered by landing 4 or more bonus symbols. These get you 8, 12 or 15 free spins when 4, 5 or 6 bonus symbols land.

The game rules are the same in this free spins feature with one difference. Now, your progressive multiplier does NOT re-set between spins but instead just keeps growing.

This round can also be re-triggered in the same way it was first triggered. So, landing more bonus symbols can earn you more free spins with a bigger and bigger progressive multiplier.