Legacy of Undead Dragon Abyssways: Slot Overview
Software providers often come up with new features and give them names, flexing their creative talents while attempting to attract gamblers to the hottest new mechanic. Developer Play'n GO's Abyssways mechanic isn't screaming brand-new; it first appeared (unnamed) in Scourge of Rome, then rolled out again for 13th Trial Hercules, before slipping into the horror show of Static Nightmare. This time, it's hacking and slashing its way through dragons to find gold in the online slot Legacy of Undead Dragon Abyssways.
Players brave enough to take on the dragon find themselves in an ominous valley, rocky walls rising steeply to either side of the screen, and an active volcano bubbling in the distance. There's also a dragon sleeping peacefully on top of the grid, but hopefully not too peacefully, because when it wakes up, it'll bring positive effects to the reels. The reels are partly transparent, so more of the setting can be made out behind them, and the overall effect evokes certain brave, chivalric emotions.
Legacy of Undead Dragon Abyssways' gaming area moves around a bit, more so in the bonus round as symbols fall from the bottom or are added to the top. The default base game size is 6x4, but it can reach 6x6 at full stretch. A connecting paylines system is used to create winning combinations, which vary from 738 at the default size, up to a maximum of 1,456 during free spins and Dragon's Wrath. When picking a stake, the options vary from $/€0.10 to $/€100, while the math model is medium volatile, and generates a top RTP of 96.2%.
The pay symbols are 10 to A playing card icons, shields, swords, and adventurers. Lines of 6 OAK pay 3x to 4x the bet when made up of royals, or 5x to 10x when made up of the high pay symbols. Wilds award 20x when 6 of them create a winning line. Wilds and Fire Wilds are able to substitute any of the regular paying symbols.
Legacy of Undead Dragon Abyssways: Slot Features
Legacy of Undead Dragon Abyssways' base game features are Haunted Gold and Dragon's Wrath, while its free spins round is where the Abyssways mechanic comes into action.
Haunted Gold
All Coin symbols appearing on the reels have a chance of triggering the Sleeping Dragon, awarding an instant cash prize of 3x to 25x the bet.
Dragon's Wrath
Non-winning spins have a chance of triggering the Dragon's Wrath. This is a respin with the grid expanding from 6x4 to 6x6. During the respin, the Undead Dragon flies by the reels and creates a random number of Fire Wilds.
Free Spins
Landing 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatter symbols triggers 6, 8, 10, or 12 free spins, respectively. At the start of each free spin, a random number of symbols at the bottom of the reels become highlighted. At the end of each free spin, all highlighted symbols fall from the reel, reducing the reel size. Between each free spin, a new full row of symbols is added to the top of the grid, increasing the reel size, up to 6x6.
During the feature, all wilds created by the Undead Dragon are sticky, and each spin advances the win multiplier on the Fire Wilds by +1. Each Fire Wild applies its multiplier to the line win, and multipliers are added together when more than one Fire Wild appears on a line.
Legacy of Undead Dragon Abyssways: Slot Verdict
Legacy of Undead Dragon Abyssways is a good option for gamblers who have taken to the Abyssways system, yet it's unlikely to win over those who haven't fallen for its charms. The dragon theme is fine, but it's a bit generic compared to some of the games in the series that came before - Carthage/Hannibal Barca, horror, even the Hercules one was quite majestically presented. Legacy of Undead Dragon, by comparison, gets the job of flapping dragons and sword-wielding heroes well and truly done, but it was the least eye-catching of the series so far.
Another interesting choice was switching from a straight ways to win pay system to a connected ways method, drastically reducing the number of ways to win. Each Abyssways slot so far has come with quite different winning potential attached. Legacy of Undead Dragon is no different and clocks in with an advertised max exposure of 20,000x the bet, the lowest so far, with no noticeable increase to the probability of that figure occurring. The move to connected ways possibly plays a role in this decrease, since free spins otherwise play out similarly to previous Abyssways slots. That is, despair when symbols are falling off the reels, reducing the play area, rejoicing when they are added to the top. Wilds do not expand in this game, but they do get a progressive multiplier, which is a positive inclusion, and as before, they're sticky - to a point, because they can fall off the bottom of the reels, and when symbols are added to the top, they are pushed downwards.
Legacy of Undead Dragon is a heroic addition to the Abyssways range that brings with it some intriguing alterations, and there are enough positives here to encourage keen players to take a break from the previous three and give the dragon a go. However, wild multipliers are counterbalanced by connected ways, and the lower max win, while sizable, might have fans enviously eyeing the bigger numbers found in previous releases.
Legacy of Undead Dragon Abyssways brings innovation to the range but doesn't manage to soar any higher than its predecessors.
