Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop

Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop: Slot Overview

Hey players, remember Hercules, the guy who had to complete 12 labours, including slaying the Nemean Lion and cleaning the Augean stables in a day? Yeah, the Greek demigod is pretty famous, as are his tasks, but arguably less well known is why he had to do the labours in the first place. The reason, according to a Net search, is that Hera put a madness on Hercules, causing him to murder his wife and their children. For that, the demigod was instructed to atone for his crimes by completing 12 labours for King Eurystheus.

This brings us to Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop, an online slot from Relax Gaming that conjoins the famous chap from antiquity to the studio's famous progressive jackpots. Some of Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop makes quite a visual impression, others, less so. One thing that stood out right away was the stone animals leaping from the sides of the gaming grid due to their ferocious realism. Is this based on a real statue somewhere? If so, the original must be pretty impressive. The symbols on the gaming area were slightly less impressive, as was the running water beneath it; not sure why, but no matter, Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop is an Ancient Greek slot that, on the whole, makes pretty good use of the subject matter.

The grid itself is an expandable 5-reel, 5-row matrix where players can land winning combinations of 3 to 5 of a kind using 259 to 664 connected ways. This pay system awards wins when matching symbols are on adjacent reels, one row above, one row above, or in the same row, starting from the leftmost reel. Rated 5 out of 5, Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop is a highly volatile slot and has an RTP of 94%, including a 12% jackpot contribution. As usual, there is also a non-jackpot version which comes bundled with a bonus buy and an RTP of 96.10%. When picking a stake, the bet options go from 20 c to $/€100 per spin.

Nine regular paying symbols are used in Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop. They are jagged Greek style J to A card ranks, then what at a guess is the Nemean Lion, the Cretan Bull, the Lernaean Hydra, Cerberus, and of course, c'mon, Hercules as the most valuable pay symbol. Values for a 5 OAK low pay hit are 0.5 times the bet or 0.8 to 4 times the bet for landing 5 matching picture symbols. No wilds of any kind appear in Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop. Ah well.

Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop: Slot Features

As well as Dream Drop Jackpots where the top prize can reach €3 million, Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop's got respins and a Beast Slayer Bonus.

Respins

When the leftmost reel is covered with a stacked high pay symbol, a respin is awarded. If a stacked symbol lands partially on the reel, there is a chance it nudges to fill the reel. For the respin, any symbols matching the symbol on the leftmost reel are sticky - all other symbols respin. A reel expansion symbol may land on the respin, awarding +1 extra row, and reels can expand up to 10 rows high. Symbols may land with an x2, x3, x4, or x5 multiplier, and any wins with these symbols are multiplied. If a winning connected way has numerous multipliers, the values multiply each other. Respins continue as long as matching symbols or expanding symbols land.

Beast Slayer Bonus

The Beast Slayer Bonus is awarded by landing 3 scatter symbols. The bonus game awards 3 respins, which reset back to 3 when any symbols land on the grid. If 3, 4, or 5 scatters trigger the feature, then the stacked symbol on the leftmost reel is the Lion, Bull, or Hydra, respectively. During the bonus, the stacked symbol type, possibly with multipliers of x2, x3, x4, or x5, may land and are locked in place when they hit. If a winning connected way has numerous multipliers, the values multiply each other. Landing expansion symbols add additional rows to the grid, 10 high at the most. The collection meter next to the reels is filled when shield symbols land, upgrading the stacked symbol to the next level when it reaches 10. When respins run out or the grid is filled, the feature ends.

Dream Drop

A Jackpot Spin may randomly trigger before a normal spin, with only blanks or DD symbols on the reels. Landing 5 DD symbols triggers the Dream Drop Bonus. The Dream Drop Bonus is where players can win the Rapid, Midi, Maxi, Major, or Mega Jackpot. Each jackpot is assigned its own reel where shield symbols appear. When a reel is filled, its corresponding jackpot is awarded.

Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop: Slot Verdict

By the end of Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop's labour, there was admittedly a bit of unleashing going on. The session did get a bit repetitive after a while, though, being a game built around respins rather than a full-blown free spins round or anything along those lines. It's like, there's a destination over that way, somewhere on the map in the form of Dream Drop Jackpots, and here's a couple of minor respin sights to grab your attention on the way. That's a bit harsh because the respin feature is quite clever. More so the Beast Slayer Bonus version since it comes with 3 lives, meaning it doesn't just tap out after the first respin not to land a matching pay symbol or expansion symbol comes along.

Non-DD winning potential is on the alluring side, at 10,000x the bet, so catching Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop in one of its magnanimous moods might be interesting. We're visualising a 10-row high grid awash in multiplier-adorned pay symbols for a final juicy win evaluation. It might happen, might not. The same goes for the Dream Drop jackpot, except the Mega must go to someone eventually when it reaches its ceiling value. Would a jackpot enthusiast be satisfied by playing Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop when that happened? To be honest, they probably couldn't care less what DD slot they were engaging with if hitting the big one. And so, Hercules Unleashed Dream Drop was a middling game, not one of Relax's big memory makers, but fine enough for labouring on in if hopes of triggering the Mega Dream Drop in an Ancient Greek setting is what you're in the mood for.