Dragon Tiger Fortunes

Dragon Tiger Fortunes: Slot Overview

In an industry that moves as fast as iGaming, it can feel like studios often lean on familiar tropes as a safety net. While it's tempting to view these as 'fallback options,' there is always a chance that generic elements have turned out that way simply because large numbers of gamblers wanted to see them in games. Pragmatic Play's Dragon Tiger Fortunes is a potential example. It's a slot which fires its shot at a particular gambling taste, that is, players who like to indulge in Asian-inspired decor while spinning to win rewards, including several Jackpot prizes.

Subtlety is not one of Dragon Tiger Fortunes' strong suits and is instead an unashamedly proud Asian-themed slot. The eyes are blasted with pink flowers, a regal tiger, pagodas, misty mountains, reds, golds, the whole kit and kaboodle folks. Its Grand Jackpot is valued at 8,000x, meaning the number 8, considered the luckiest of numbers in most of East Asia, has also been snuck in there for good measure. So yeah, a Jackpot slot heavily doused in this particular theme is either the cat's pyjamas, or, meh. Pragmatic Play no doubt knows who it's going after with this one.

Dragon Tiger Fortunes uses a 243 ways to win pay system across its 5 reels. A wide range of bets may be picked, from $/€0.20 all the way up to $/€240. The volatility is high, and if the top RTP variant is what you want, that would be the 96.54% version.

From minimum value symbols to the maximum, Dragon Tiger Fortunes has 9-A royals, pots, necklaces, lanterns, flowers, and bonsai trees. Landing 5 matching symbols pays 0.2x to 0.25x when made up of royals, or 0.5x to 3x when made of premiums. Wilds land on reels 2, 3, and 4, substituting for all symbols except scatters, Wheel, and Wheel upgrade symbols.

Dragon Tiger Fortunes: Slot Features

In this section, we go over free spins with highlighted prize-generating positions, the Wheel Bonus, the Super Wheel Bonuses, and feature buys.

Free Spins

Hitting 6 or more scatters triggers 6 free spins. When the round starts, the positions of the triggering scatters are highlighted with a bronze dragon mark. During the round, whenever a scatter hits, its position is highlighted with a bronze dragon mark, or if it is already highlighted, it gets upgraded to silver, then gold. If a scatter lands on a gold position, it upgrades another random position. If all positions are gold and a scatter lands, 10x to 250x the bet is awarded for each of these scatters. Should 3 or more scatters hit, +1 free spin is awarded. At the end of the round, highlighted positions reveal money prizes. Bronze dragon marks reveal 0.5x to 2x, silver dragon marks reveal 2x to 20x, the Mini (10x), Minor (50x), Major (1,000x), or Grand (8,000x), while gold dragon marks reveal 10x to 250x or one of the named Jackpot prizes.

Wheel Bonus

The Wheel symbol appears on all reels, while the Wheel Upgrade symbol lands only on the rightmost reel. In the base game, hitting 3 or more Wheel symbols triggers a random reward:

• Tiger's Gate - A 2x2 to 5x3 scatter or two 2x2 scatters land and free spins are awarded, with starting highlighted positions covered by the big scatters.
• Dragon's Call - Dragons starting from the triggering Wheel symbols move to the right edge of the grid, highlighting positions till they leave. If dragons move over the same spots, they upgrade the spot to the next level. Then, free spins trigger.
• Radiant Roar - The triggering Wheel symbols transform into gold marks, and free spins begin. When free spins are triggered this way, each landed scatter highlights its position in gold.
• Random Jackpot - The Mini, Minor, Major, or Grand is awarded.
• Wheel Upgrade - A new award is revealed from the Super Wheel.

Super Wheel Bonus

If two or more Wheel symbols land alongside a Wheel Upgrade symbol, players win an award from the Super Wheel.

• Super Wheel Tiger's Gate - Free spins are played on a 5x6 grid. At least two big 2x2 to 5x3 scatters can hit, creating highlighted positions.
• Super Wheel Dragon's Call - Same as Dragon's Call but played on a 5x6 grid, with all symbols duplicated onto the new three rows.
• Super Wheel Radiant Roar - Same as Radiant Roar, except it is played on a 5x6 grid, with all symbols duplicated onto the new three rows.
• Random Jackpot - Awards the Major or Grand Jackpot.

Feature Buys

For 50x the bet, players can buy into the free spins round, whereas 100x the bet buys the Wheel Bonus.

Dragon Tiger Fortunes: Slot Verdict

As touched on in the intro, it's easy to be cynical when certain themes and mechanics feel like fallback options rather than creative choices. Ideas rarely become generic without a reason, as they often build off successful blueprints or from sheer popularity. Even so, there is a clear line between a proven classic and a lack of inspiration. When keeping its nature in mind, Dragon Tiger Fortunes sits somewhere between those two extremes, though arguably further away from the classic end of the spectrum.

While the game is a relentless celebration of Asian slot visuals, the gameplay was more complex than first suspected. The tiered 'bronze-to-gold' position upgrades in free spins provide a breakaway from standard hold-and-win rounds, bringing with them a sense of progression. It's not exactly a new twist, though, having seen this sort of thing before. Play'n GO's Buildin' Bucks, for example, did so using wooden, brick, and golden frames. If you enjoyed that sort of thing, it shouldn't take much effort to enjoy Dragon Tiger Fortunes' version of it, either. It might help if you like prize wheels as well, since the game has not one but two of them, awarding various bounties from free spins to Jackpots, not forgetting the super versions.

Glossy production values, a suite of features, and an 8,200x win cap mean Dragon Tiger Fortunes isn't exactly punching its way in the bantamweight division. Pragmatic Play knows how to make these sorts of games; it's likely got a good idea of what players with these interests want, so for a robust jackpot addition to the Asian-inspired catalogue, Dragon Tiger Fortunes is a perfectly fine specimen.