Towering Fortunes

Theme and Design

Towering Fortunes is an aspirational slot game themed around the high life and set in a gleaming modern metropolis at nighttime. It has the feel of a game like Mega Fortune Dreams by NetEnt or Blinged by Play n Go. The backdrop features huge towering skyscapers and a big wheel, and what looks like a large river in the foreground. In the main feature, Hold and Spins, the action switches to a new grid lit up by huge spotlights.

The graphics and style are very straightforward and it certainly invokes the feeling of wealth and opulence its aiming for, but in the modern age of sophisticated design, Towering Fortunes already looks quite dated.

RTP and Variance

Towering Fortune has three possible RTP settings: 96.5%, 95.5% or 94.5%. Which you play at will depend on your casino operator. We checked four UK slot sites to see which setting they chose for this game:

• Casumo (independent): 94.5%
• MrQ (independent): 96.5%
• MrPlay (Aspire Global): 94.5%
• BacanaPlay (Skill on Net): 94.5%

MrQ was the only site to be offering Towering Fortune at the optimum RTP setting. So if this is an important number for you then we recommend that you play there.

If you are looking for a Pragmatic Play slot with higher RTP you could try Clover Gold (96.54% RTP) or Panda’s Fortune 2 (96.51% RTP).

The hit frequency is 32.63% which means around one in every three spins will turn up a win of some kind. And the odds of hitting the top payout are 1 in 1,000,000,000.

This is also a high variance slot with a rating of 4.5/5 so be ready for some long low spells before short bursts of big wins. It will be a tough one to crack.

Maximum Win

The top payout is set at 6,422x which can be won in the special Hold and Spin feature game. This is an unimpressive jackpot for a high risk game. There are other Pragmatic Play games with higher top payouts. If that is what you are looking for then you could try Eye of the Storm (10,000x) or Crystal Cavern Megaways (10,000x).

Symbols and Paytable

Towering Fortunes takes place on standard 5 reels and 3 rows reel set with 20 fixed paylines. Wins are triggered by landing three or more identical symbols on the reels from left to right on a payline.

Symbol values are good with the chance to score some high wins from the premiums and five wilds on a line.

Low-paying symbols are the Jack through to Ace and can pay between 2.5x and 5x when you land five of the same kind on a payline. The premiums are sports cars, glasses of liquor and cigars, Lear jets, luxury yachts and blinged-up lady. These pay anywhere between 7.5x and 50x for five-of-a-kind.

The Wild is super-cool here. It subs in for all others to form wins AND it has a valuation of its own. No less than 250x is paid out for five on a payline.

Watch out as well for the Briefcase Mystery Symbol and the Money Symbols which are key to the bonus round.

Features and Gameplay

There are two features in Towering Fortunes.

In the base game, look out for random Mystery Symbols represented by the briefcase. Up to 7 can land at one time. Watch them ALL transform into the SAME symbol from the paytable which increases the odds that you score a win.

Mystery Symbols rarely produce a big win in our experience and your focus should really be on triggering the Hold and Win Feature by landing three or more Money Symbols, represented by a gleaming tower block.

In this game round the game grid shifts to one with 11 rows on 5 reels. Each Money Symbol that triggered the round will remain on its reels, dropping to the bottom row. And each reel gets 3 lives and a multiplier, displayed at the top. The value of the multiplier correlates to the number of Money Symbols that appear on the reels as follows:

• 0 to 5 Money Symbols – no multiplier
• 6 Money Symbols – 2x multiplier
• 7 Money Symbols - 5x multiplier
• 8 Money Symbols – 10x multiplier
• 9 Money Symbols – 20x multiplier
• 10 Money Symbols – 30x multiplier
• 11 Money Symbols – 100x multiplier

During the round only money symbols and blanks drop. The name of the game is to keep stacking money symbols on every reel. Any time a blank drops on a reel its lives drop by 1. Each time a Money Symbol lands, the lives re-set to 3. Once the counter hits a zero, that reel is blocked.

The game continues until ALL reels are blocked.

The total prize at the end of the round is calculated by adding the value of all money symbols on each reel and multiplying it by the multiplier value at the top, then adding all values together.