TUNDRA’S FORTUNE

HOW TO PLAY TUNDRA’S FORTUNE SLOTS

From the player’s end, Tundra’s Fortune works like most online slot machines. You find it in your favourite Pragmatic Play casino, launch it, and start by picking the size of your stake. Then, it’s a simple matter of hitting ‘spin’ and hoping for the best.

However, the reels themselves are a bit unusual. Instead of the classic square-like grid, Tundra’s Fortune uses a 6×4 honeycomb-like grid. Wins are still calculated based on connecting three or more symbols on adjacent reels, going from left to right. However, the hexagonal grid means that every symbol can be matched with two symbols to its left and two symbols to its right. This gives the game some flexibility in terms of how winning lines are formed, resulting in 64 total ways to win.

Note that high-paying symbols represented by different prehistoric animals can pay with only 2 symbols in a line. The female character acts as a Wild symbol and can substitute any other regular symbol.

Beyond that, the only other option you have is whether to turn on a bet multiplier that increases your chances for free spins. We’ll get to those later, in the Extra Features section of this review.

TUNDRA’S FORTUNE FREE SPINS

The most notable feature of the Tundra’s Fortune slot game is the Free Spins bonus round. It’s rather ordinary in terms of slot free spins – hitting enough bonus symbols triggers a special bonus round.

Specifically, 3, 4, 5, or 7 Bonus symbols anywhere on the board award 8, 15, 20, or 40 Free Spins, respectively. These extra spins are calculated based on the stake you used in the spin that triggered them.

During the free spin round, all Wild symbols have a random multiplier between 2x and 5x. This multiplier increases the winnings on any winning line that the Wild symbol is a part of.

Tundra’s Fortune free spins can be re-triggered at the same rate as the initial trigger.

Casino Bloke Best tips for Tundra’s Fortune

• 1Turning on the Ante Bet feature increases the game’s RTP by a whole 0.02%. More importantly, it increases volatility, so be careful while using it.
• 2It is theoretically possible to rack up more than the 12,500x maximum payout in the Free Spins feature. If that happens, the feature ends immediately and you get the max payout.

PAYOUTS & RTP

The game comes with 11 regular symbols in total, not counting Wilds or Bonus symbols.

Six of these are low-paying card symbols. They’re quite frequent but offer very small returns. On the other hand, the symbols marked by various prehistoric animals are high-paying. You only need two of them to get a payout, which makes the volatility slightly more manageable.

All in all, Tundra’s Fortune RTP sits at a comfortable 96.04%. Turning on the Ante Bet feature to increase Bonus symbol instances increases the average return to 06.06%.

TUNDRA’S FORTUNE BY PRAGMATIC PLAY – OUR VERDICT

Although it’s certainly not the most interesting release of the season, Tundra’s Fortune is just unique enough to be engaging. It’s generally a fairly straightforward game, though the hexagonal symbols certainly make it stand out from the crowd.

The Ante bet is a welcome addition, as are all features that give players a degree of control over the experience. However, we feel like a full-fledged option to just buy the feature would have been better. This way, the game sometimes seems to just be padded time until you trigger the Free Spins round.

The bottom line is that it’s a good game, though we don’t feel it has enough to truly be memorable. Give it a shot if you want a relaxing yet volatile game experience.