Crystal Queen’s Coins

Crystal Queen's Coins: Slot Overview

British poet Edith Sitwell said, 'Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.' Winter is also the time for Christmas reskins, and while Crystal Queen's Coins from developer Quickspin isn't strictly a Christmas slot per se, it is a reskin. For this wintery wonderland, the studio has buffed the skin off Catrina's Coins and given the game a snowy makeover. Accompanying the snow are Snowpots, Crystal Ball Multiplier symbols, Crystal Coins and a Frozen Fortune Bonus hold 'n win round.

Where Catrina's Coins took place on what looked like a warm, sunny Mexican day, the complete opposite can be said for Crystal Queen's Coins. Say goodbye to balmy days by the pool choking back Corona's, hello to snow, runny noses, and wrapping up indoors. That's a bit harsh. Winter comes with a beauty of its own, and some of that beauty has been squeezed into Crystal Queen's Coins in the form of bare naked trees, snow, and a touch, just a hint of the animated musical Frozen.

Crystal Queen's Coins is a 5-reel, 3-row video slot, working out the winning combinations with the aid of 20 paylines. Be on the lookout for alternate RTPs, as is Quickspin's typical way, and if you want the biggest return value, that is the 96.06% version. If everything looks a-okay, then wagering options range from 20 c to $/€100 a game round when you're ready to take a punt, and the volatility is high.

Eight symbols are displayed on Crystal Queen's Coins' hierarchy of pays. The low wins are woody J to A card ranks, giving players cash prizes of 1.25x to 3.75x the bet for a 5 OAK hit. What are called the medium wins are a snowman, a Nordic Fabio chap, a red-haired lady, and a cat, awarding 15 to 37.5 times the bet for 5 OAK. Worth even more at 75x for 5 is Crystal Queen's Coins' wild, which can substitute any of the aforementioned pay symbols.

Crystal Queen's Coins: Slot Features

It might look pretty snazzy, but mechanically, Crystal Queen's Coins is essentially a hold 'n win slot with big-ish top prizes and multipliers thrown in.

Crystal Balls

Landed Crystal Ball symbols reveal a random multiplier of x2, x3, x4, or x5. Crystal Ball Multipliers are applied to Snowflakes and line wins in the base game. In the base game, when more than Crystal Ball Multipliers hit, their values are added together then applied. In the Frozen Fortune Bonus, Crystal Ball Multipliers are applied to Snowflakes and Crystal Coins.

Snowflakes

Landing a Snowflake symbol awards a fixed Snowpot prize of 20x, 100x, 500x, or 2,000x the bet. Snowflakes are present on the rightmost reel in the base game or any reel in the Frozen Fortune Bonus.

Crystal Coins

Hitting at least 3 Crystal Coins in the base game triggers the Frozen Fortune Bonus. The triggering coins are transferred over to the bonus round where they lock in place. Crystal Coins have values of 1x to 5x the bet.

Frozen Fortune Bonus

The Frozen Fortune Bonus starts with 3 free spins, where only Crystal Coins, Snowflakes, or Crystal Ball Multipliers may land. Landing a new symbol resets the spin count to 3. When they land, Crystal Ball Multiplier symbols multiply all Snowflakes and Crystal Coin values currently on the reels. When the round has concluded, the values of all Snowflakes and Crystal Coin symbols in view are awarded.

Buy Feature

For 60 times the current total bet, players can buy the Frozen Fortune Bonus round, bypassing the base game formalities. At least 3 Crystal Coins will hit to trigger the feature.

Crystal Queen's Coins: Slot Verdict

Crystal Queen's Coins was one of those games that felt like a reskin practically from the word go. The features and rules just all felt so familiar. There were question marks at the beginning of the review, however, along the lines of - does this feel familiar because Quickspin has used the bones in another slot before, or is the gameplay just that generic? It is sad to say that both of those assessments apply at the same time. Crystal Queen's Coins is an offshoot of Catrina's Coins, sharing stats and components while also rehashing gameplay that was pretty plain the first time around.

Press play, land coin symbols to skate into the hold 'n win round, and watch symbols stick. It's the sort of basic core action that the market is flooded with. One of Crystal Queen's Coins' possibly redeeming aspects is its Crystal Ball Multipliers, which are able to turn a meh result into something, well, less meh. Their multiplying ability does brighten up the list of Snowpot prizes displayed beside the reels, which might suggest a top prize in the vicinity of 2,000x. However, the max win potential is listed as 10,151x in the game sheet, similar to what Catrina's Coins is claimed to be able to produce.

It doesn't boast a whole lot else, though, centring the action on a basic, blink-and-you-miss-it stack-up money symbols bonus round. Some may enjoy the simplicity or the Frozen references, but Crystal Queen's Coins, like its older sis Catrina's Coins, is easy to lose track of in the crowd.