With a valley shrouded in mist in the background, you’ll see lower value royal values spinning around the purple reels as well as 5 standard symbols that relate to the Asian theme. The fan and the swords both offer up to 8 times your total stake per payline. They’re followed by the money pouch and the chest full of jewels which award up to 10 times your stake per payline.
The best paying symbol is the princess. Land 2, 3, 4 or 5 of these in combination and you’ll pocket a payout of 0.2, 0.4, 8 or 20 times your total stake. If you manage to fill the whole of the reels with princess symbols you’ll hit the jackpot and with it a payout of 1,000 times your stake.
The pink lotus flower is the wild. This substitutes for all other symbols apart from the golden dragon bonus scatter which appears on reels 1, 2 and 3 only. Landing 3 dragon scatters on the same spin delivers a payout of 4 times your stake as well as triggering the game’s Free Games feature.
On offer here are 10 free spins. An extra wild is added to reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 on each free spin. By the end of the round, you’ll see plenty of extras wilds which can boost your winning opportunities. That’s certainly the case if you manage to land a re-trigger which adds 5 extra free spins to your tally.
In many ways, Royal Lotus is a typical Novomatic slot game. The design is better than many of the developer’s earlier efforts and the soundtrack is a combination of classic bangs and bleeps and something far more soothing. The gameplay is very straightforward, but the Free Games feature can deliver some decent action courtesy of the extra wilds. The variance here is in the medium range.
There’s nothing very complex on offer on Royal Lotus. That’s no bad thing though. Well designed and with a punchy feature, this Asian adventure is a simple but very playable one. Saying that, there are better Novomatic slot games available with the film-inspired From Dusk Till Dawn recommended.