The Eye of the Storm is not as feature-packed as other high variance slots on the market right now, but it still has some compelling stuff going on, including wild reels and the free spins bonus round which is what you’ll need to unlock if you want to score something even close to the top payout.
Expanding Wilds
This is a common feature of Adventure slots and Ancient Egyptian slots. Our Wild Queen ALWAYS expands when she lands to help complete paylines. This is a fairly frequent event, coming up on just under 20% of spins in my test session.
An expanding wild in Eye of the StormPyramid Scatter Pays and Unlocks Free Spins
The Pyramid Scatter lands on anywhere on the reels. When 3 or more land, you have triggered the free spins round. And, you get a payout of 2x, 20x and 50x for 3, 4 or 5.
The free spins round in Eye of the StormThe free spins round starts with 12 spins and uses a progressive symbol upgrade feature. There are 6 levels. To progress to each new level you need to land Wild symbols. When you do, you get more free spins and your level increases. As you move up the levels, premium symbols will upgrade to higher value ones in the paytable.
This is how it works:
- Land 1 wild – add 1 more free spin and move up 1 level
- Land 2 wilds – add 3 more free spins and move up 2 levels
- Land 3 wilds – add 5 more free spins and move up 3 levels
The symbol upgrades are as follows:
- Level 2 – the fan will upgrade to the Ankhs symbol
- Level 3 – the Ankhs upgrades to the scarab symbol
- Level 4 – the scarab upgrades to the bird symbol
- Level 5 – the bird upgrades to the jackal symbol
- Level 6 – the jackal upgrades to the Eye symbol
This is a powerful progressive process that can unleash some massive wins as the reels display more and more of the higher value symbols.
And if that wasn’t enough, it’s also possible to unlock more free spins by hitting more scatters. 3 scatters gets you a re-trigger with 12 more plays.