The Northern Lights are considered 1 of nature’s most beautiful events so Quickspin, renowned as they are for high-end design, are an ideal developer to bring them to life online. As usual with slot game from this developer, the visuals are very classy.
Set against a mountainous, forest, night sky backdrop, the reels are made up of lower value gemstone symbols and a series of crystal animals. They include bears, owls, wolves and reindeer. The game is played using an avalanche reels game engine - after a successful spin, the winning symbols are removed and new ones drop in to replace them. A new payout consideration is made with the new symbols in place. The avalanches continue until there’s one where no new winner is produced. This is known as the Respin feature.
The main feature offering is the Free Spins Bonus feature which is triggered by landing 3 bonus scatter symbols on the same spin - you can then look forward to 10 free spins. That sounds pretty standard. The extra wrinkle here is that all of the lower value symbols are removed. You’ll only see higher value animals, wilds and scatters spinning around the reels.
As you’d hope given the subject matter, Northern Sky is a fine-looking slot game. Quickspin rarely produces duff looking titles and Northern Sky is another cracker on that score. The range of features isn’t especially wide but you can expect plenty of action courtesy of the avalanche re-spins which come along at regular intervals.
The free spins round offers some very decent potential too thanks to the removal of all of the lower value symbols. Expect to land more winners and for them to be more lucrative when you do. There’s up to 3,111 times your bet to be won on every spin so it can be highly rewarding – it’s also high variance so tread carefully.
It might not live up to the dazzling magnificence of the Northern Lights but Northern Sky is still a pretty good slot game, offering solid features and some lovely imagery. I also suggest you wonder over to Wild North by Play ‘N Go which features the Northern Lights.