Storm to Riches

Storm to Riches: Slot Overview

One of the neat things about the internet is getting glimpses into ways of life that would have otherwise remained a mystery. For example, non-seafaring folk can quickly access a host of video clips of life at sea and witness some of the power of mother nature as huge waves rock ocean-going vessels. Clips of modern ships getting tossed up and down are terrifying enough, but spare a thought for what it must have been like back in the day, encountering monstrous waves in a creaky wooden boat. Players get an imaginative taste of this in Games Global partner Northernlights Gaming's online slot Storm to Riches.

Storm to Riches' terror is evoked in two ways, one realistic, one less so. The first is the game's background image, depicting a Viking boat about to get slammed by a wave that is as big if not bigger than the ship is. The second terror is generated by a dreaded denizen of the deep, none other than the infamous aquatic monster, the Kraken. The Kraken appears in conjunction with one of Storm to Riches' features, though, so we'll get to it later. For now, take a moment to bask in weather and seas that aren't exactly conducive to smooth sailing, but according to the game's title, storms are connected to riches, so who knows?

Storm to Riches is played on an expandable grid, which is likely to spend the majority of its time in a default 5-reel, 3-row mode. At this size, 20 paylines are active, though, at the full 8-row high configuration, the number of paylines increases to 45. A medium volatile slot, Storm to Riches, is available in four RTP configurations with a maximum return value of 96.09%. It is playable on any device and takes bets of 10 p/c to $/€20 per spin.

At the highest RTP level, the game has a hit rate of 32.76%, and regular line wins consist of at least three matching symbols, starting from the leftmost side of the grid. For low pays, it uses jaggedly runic J-A card ranks, worth 0.5 to 1 times the bet for five-of-a-kind, and a beer mug, shield, axe, and helm as premium symbols, worth 2 to 10 times the bet for five. Present in the base game and free spins is the boat wild. Wilds substitute for any regular pay symbol and are worth up to 100 times the bet if a five wild winning line hits.

Storm to Riches: Slot Features

Another important thing about the wild symbols in Storm to Riches is that when they land, they land on reel 5. Then, on each following spin, the wild moves from right to left. Not only do wilds substitute pay symbols, but if one or more coin symbols are on the reels, each wild symbol collects the coin values.

Viking Treasure

Coins can be worth 1 to 100 times the bet or possess one of the pot prizes. These are the Mini, Minor, Major, and Grand pots worth 20x, 50x, 500x, and 5,000x the bet, respectively.

Ride the Storm

When a wild symbol reaches reel 1, Ride the Storm may be triggered. If it is, then the wild symbol returns to reel number 5 to begin its journey all over again. If Ride the Storm is not triggered, then the wild on reel 1 will exit the game. Ride the Storm is available in the base game and in free spins.

Kraken Reels

Kraken Reels may randomly trigger at any moment in Storm to Riches. This feature expands the grid up to 5 rows high in the base game and lasts for 1 spin. In free spins, when Kraken Reels triggers, the grid grows up to 8 rows high and stays that way until the feature ends. For each extra row added, 5 additional paylines are also added.

Valhalla Free Spins

Scatter symbols landing on reels 1, 3, and 5 in the base game trigger Valhalla Free Spins. Players then pick one of two characters, which reveal 4 coins with various values and 8, 10, 15, or 20 free spins. In free spins, the chosen character lands as a 2x2-sized block, revealing the 4 coin values.

Buy Bonus/Gamble

Players have two ways of potentially fast-tracking entry to the free spins round. The first is by buying them for 50x the bet, the second is by gambling on a red and green segmented wheel to possibly win entry for 25x the bet.

Storm to Riches: Slot Verdict

The last Northernlights Gaming slot we reviewed was Monkey Bonanza, a primate-themed game that had a money coin collection feature at the heart of its action. This the studio has followed up with yet another slot built on the foundations of a coin collection feature. Coming so close together, you might have thought would have induced a substantial level of coin fatigue, which admittedly was one of the initial suppositions - emphasised by the use of such a common though at times thrilling online gambling theme such as Vikings.

However, by the end, Storm to Riches proved it had one or two tricks tucked away up its sleeve, or the Viking equivalent of a sleeve, to possibly entertain players with. It'll naturally appeal more to players who are tickled by coin collection features, and while there are a ton of these on the market already, Storm to Riches' particular peculiarities help it stand out from the herd to a certain degree. The most fun was had when more than one wild boat was steaming its way across the gaming grid, hoovering up coins. Technically, coin values can be quite high, well, the pot ones anyway, though players are totally at the mercy of which coins, if any, appear.

You may be fed up to the gills with coin collect style games, and fair enough, a steady stream of them pour forth from provider production lines like a broken vending machine. On the other hand, game makers wouldn't be slinging these slots out with such enthusiasm if no one was playing them, and Storm to Riches' brand of action should be entertaining enough to sail it towards an appreciative audience.