Jade Legends

Jade Legends: Slot Overview

Asian themed slots are a staple for software provider Pragmatic Play, with releases such as its Triple Pot titles and 5 Lions range padding out an impressive portfolio. Jade Legends expands the selection, whisking players away to a mystical land of dragons, stylish buildings, and chests of treasure, which uses entertaining Coin-centred mechanics to separate it from its siblings. Combining cluster pays, tumbling wins, position multipliers, and four escalating free spins rounds, Jade Legends is a modern take on one of the studio's most familiar themes, cleverly mixing elements into a blend which manages to feel novel enough to justify another visit to Pragmatic Play's well-trodden Eastern-inspired realms.

Pragmatic Play might have a large number of Asian themed slots in its portfolio, yet it's hard to think of many that are as visually stunning as Jade Legends. The game resides in a lush fantasy land of curved-roofed buildings, water features and mountains, as seen through a dreamy golden filter, and accompanied by a dragon-wielding final boss-type guy, who looks like he has mastered every form of martial art there is, and can dispense violence in the physical, mental, and etheric planes. Free spins rounds continue the journey through other locations, from mountainous regions to ornate rooms full of treasure, yet no matter the phase, Jade Legends lays on a real feast for gamblers' optical enjoyment.

Matching pay symbols form wins when they create clusters of 5 or more connected horizontally and/or vertically. The tumble feature explodes winning combinations off the grid after they have paid, and removes all other instances of the winning symbols from the board. Tumbles cause a symbol drop to refill the grid and will repeat as long as new winning clusters hit. This takes place on a 7x7 grid, where players may stake $/€0.20 to $/€240 per spin. Mathematically, Jade Legends has a theoretical RTP of 96.5%, though lower models are available, while the volatility is classed as high.

The pay symbols are 5 gems, a lantern, a scroll, a fan, a ring, and a crown. Clusters of five matching symbols award 0.05x to 1x the bet, going up to 10x to 150x when landing a 15+ OAK cluster. Wilds substitute for anything except scatters, Golden Dragon, or Jade Dragon symbols.

Jade Legends: Slot Features

Jade Legends offers a mix of Coin wins and grid multipliers in its base game and four free spins rounds. Ante Bet players and features buyers are also well catered for with a stack of additional betting options.

Coin Collect Feature

When a winning symbol explodes, it highlights its position on the grid. After the second time a symbol explodes on the same position, a +x1 multiplier is added to the position each time one more winning symbol explodes on top of it.

Coins with values of 0.5x to 500x may land, as can Golden Dragons. When a Golden Dragon hits, at the end of tumbles, all highlighted positions get random Coin symbols added to them - in addition, up to 3 Pot symbols may appear in place of Coins. Coin values are multiplied by the multiplier values on their positions before being awarded. Each Pot symbol in view first collects the total value of Coin symbols on the grid, after they have been multiplied. If there is a multiplier in its position, that value is multiplied by the multiplier then awarded. At the end of each base game spin, highlighted positions are cleared when there are no more tumbles.

Free Spins

Hitting 4 scatters triggers 8 free spins where highlighted positions remain in place between spins until the end of the round or a Golden Dragon hits. When a Golden Dragon lands after the Coin Collect feature occurs, the highlights and multipliers are reset. If a Jade Dragon hits, it triggers the Coin Collect feature, but it does not reset the highlights and multipliers until a Golden Dragon lands or the round ends.

• Enhanced Free Spins - If 5 scatters land in the base game, 10 Enhanced Free Spins are awarded, where only Jade Dragons may appear, and Golden Dragons do not. Landing 3 or more scatters during a regular free spins round upgrades the feature to Enhanced Free Spins and awards 4 additional spins.
• Super Free Spins - Hitting 6 scatters in the base game awards 12 Super Free Spins, where only Jade Dragons may appear, and multipliers in highlighted positions double for every winning symbol that explodes on them. During Enhanced Free Spins, landing 3 or more scatters upgrades the round to Super Free Spins and awards +4 free spins.
• Ultra Free Spins - Hitting 7 scatters in the base game awards 14 Ultra Free Spins. Only Jade Dragons may appear in this feature, and one Jade Dragon is guaranteed to land on each spin. Landing 3 or more scatters in Super Free Spins upgrades the round to Ultra Free Spins and awards +4 free spins. If 3+ scatters hit during Ultra Free Spins, +4 spins are granted.

Special Bet & Feature Buys

Activating the Ante Bet increases the stake to 3x to have an 8 times higher chance of triggering any free spins. Super Spin 1 costs 20x to guarantee 1 Golden Dragon on every spin, while Super Spin 2, costing 250x, buys a spin where all grid positions have a multiplier of x2 to x1,024. During both Super Spin options, each exploding winning symbol doubles multiplier values, and free spins cannot trigger from Super Spins.

Players also have the chance of triggering standard free spins for 100x, the Enhanced Free Spins for 250x, the Super Free Spins for 750x, or random free spins for 200x the bet. When starting random free spins, players can gamble on a wheel to win a higher free spins round up to Ultra Free Spins before the bonus starts, or lose the whole round.

Jade Legends: Slot Verdict

Pragmatic Play has built a reputation for designing playable Asian-themed slots, and Jade Legends continues the tradition, transporting players to a mystical world inspired by Asian culture, where dragons, treasure, and enlightened masters take centre stage. While embracing the studio's interest in the East, Jade Legends follows through with mechanics that are both partly familiar yet innovative, climaxing in a multi-tiered bonus system which gives the game not only an attractive look but a strong mechanical identity that helps it stand out amongst Pragmatic Play's extensive collection of Asian themed slots.

While the game is a visual success, it's the depth of features that elevates the experience. The combination of cluster pays, tumbles, and grid multipliers evoked shades of Pragmatic Play's iconic Sugar Rush, yet the studio has twisted the mechanics to perform in an alternative way. Instead of multiplying regular cluster wins, those multipliers are reserved for Coins and Pots, added to the reels when Golden or Jade Dragons hit, in a way that brought about echoes of Hacksaw Gaming's Le Bandit series. Jade Legends is no mere copycat, though, as it manages to pull its gameplay in a fun and novel direction. This is a game of escalation, and nothing expresses this more than the four bonus rounds. Tiered free spins give the game a real sense of progression, and it's nice that players can upgrade from lower to higher, provided scatter symbols are landing. At the end of the journey is a win cap of 20,000x, and it's theoretically possible to get a lot of Coins on the screen, paired with a lot of multipliers, making Jade Legends a real treat when this sort of action is dropping from the clouds in abundance.

In Jade Legends, Pragmatic Play has transformed some already solid gaming ideas for use in a Coin wins slot, adding another game to a saturated genre which nevertheless manages to feel fresh. It honours the traditional aesthetics associated with this type of slot in an eye-catching way, while implementing modern Coin win action to create an entertaining experience that muscles its way into the upper echelons of the studio's Eastern-inspired collection.