Atlantis The Forgotten Kingdom

Atlantis The Forgotten Kingdom: Slot Overview

Atlantis The Forgotten Kingdom is the second slot from Microgaming partner Half Pixel and raises a couple of talking points right off the bat. The first is the title. With the abundance of Atlantis themed slots on the market, is it really a forgotten kingdom? Debatable. The second is the divisive response its four main characters may provoke in certain players. Some might think draping foxy ladies across reels is all a bit of fun; others might be insulted by the objectification of mermaids. If you find yourself teetering on the fence, read on, and we'll see if we can convince you one way or the other.

If you're doing an Atlantis themed slot, there's only one place the action can occur, which is at the bottom of the sea. As such, Atlantis The Forgotten Kingdom is played on a 5-reel, 243 win ways game grid, surrounded by bubbles, seaweed, and fish groupings floating through deep dark ocean. Atlantis can partly be made out in the distance, but more focus is given to the wild reel on the left-hand side, plus the max win and free spins potential advertised up top. A carton, almost manga, quality has been injected by the four ladies in a pleasant underwater scene that explores the Atlantis scenery further in free spins.

Playable from between 20 p/c to $/€30 per spin, there's nothing untoward to note about the game's stats, except a variable RTP. So, be on the lookout for the most generous version, possessing a theoretical return of 96.19%. The volatility, meanwhile, is high, as is a hit rate of 39.24%.

Scrolling down the help file to the paytable reveals eight regular pay symbols. The lower value half are J-A card ranks; the next four are premium value mermaids. Each has a name associated with their role in Atlantis, such as the warrior, the adviser, the beauty, and the queen. Lining up five high-value symbols is worth a payout of 3 to 6 times the stake. Premium symbols not only appear in 1x1 size but can also land in 1x2 or 1x3 dimensions and may become wild as covered next.

Atlantis The Forgotten Kingdom: Slot Features

This Atlantis is all about full reel symbols turning wild, a bit of multiplier action, then bringing everything together for a five-option bonus game for players to choose from.

Have a little look-see at the 4-symbol bonus reel spinning horizontally to the side of the main grid. If all 4 positions display matching mermaids, the wild feature is activated. Here, the triggering 1x4 mermaid wild appears on a random reel. Wilds replace any pay symbol and multiply wins by x1, x2, x3, or x4 – depending on what symbol turned wild. Wilds pay when forming combinations of themselves, so landing 5 warrior, adviser, beauty, or queen wilds is worth 15, 20, 25, or 40 times the stake.

The pearl jewellery icon is the scatter - landing 3 or more in view triggers free spins. Next, players are presented with 5 options of which they must choose one:

• The Warrior's Free Spins – 20 free spins where the warrior symbol is wild. Wild wins are multiplied by x1 (3,600x potential).
• The Adviser's Free Spins – 15 free spins where the adviser symbol is wild. Wild wins are multiplied by x2 (4,800x potential).
• The Beauty's Free Spins – 10 free spins where the beauty symbol is wild. Wild wins are multiplied by x3 (6,000x potential).
• The Queen's Free Spins – 5 free spins where the queen symbol is wild. Wild wins are multiplied by x4 (7,200x potential).

The 5th option picks a spin component and multiplier component at random from the above options. So, you might get 20 Queen Spins in the best-case scenario or 5 Warrior Spins at worst. During any of the bonus rounds, landing 3 scatters at once awards +5 additional free spins. The last thing to note is that scatter symbols also pay from any position, so 2, 3, 4, or 5 in view are worth a cash win of 1, 2, 10, or 100 times the stake.

Atlantis The Forgotten Kingdom: Slot Verdict

Taking cues from Triple Edge Studios' Sisters of Oz, Half Pixel has drenched Atlantis The Forgotten Kingdom in female allure. Cheap ploy or all a bit of fun? There's a cartoon quality about the four full reel ladies, and they do add to the Atlantis mystique, so we'll let players be the judge of that. Combine the mermaids with mysterious sound effects, and Half Pixel has crafted a half-decent underwater fantasy scene some players might well be all over.

The gameplay is volatile, so not a whole lot goes on a lot of the time. Then out of nowhere, four matching symbols appear on the wild reel to cook up a win to keep you in the game. This is aided by the 243 win ways and multipliers, so landing full reel wilds alongside a few premium symbols can haul up a surprising number of coins. Free spins seemed to be even more volatile and proved extremely hard to trigger during our test run. Moreover, keep in mind that the chosen free spin wild symbol is not guaranteed to land during the feature. Since Atlantis The Forgotten Kingdom is so hit and miss, perhaps it was a clever move by Half Pixel to distract players from the downtime by the quartet of chesty mermaids.

On a certain level Atlantis The Forgotten Kingdom kind of works. Its bevvy of 'babes' populate a dreamy underwater realm, and the features can technically produce satisfying results. Players into strong female leads who aren't afraid to use their assets to get what they want might appreciate it. On the other hand, Atlantis The Forgotten Kingdom does come across as a little cheesy, Hooters under the sea at times. Filling a slot with flesh might be controversial, it might not be, but it creates a talking point in an otherwise so-so game.