Visually, Archer is pretty impressive. Set against a forest backdrop, the reels appear on a tapestry and include symbols of the Sheriff of Nottingham, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian and Robin Hood himself (who's a dead ringer for country crooner Kenny Rogers).
Robin is the top payer, awarding 1,500 coins if you hit a 5-symbol combination. There are also olde worlde playing card symbols from A to 9. The stack of gold coins is the wild. It only appears on the central 3 reels but substitutes for everything bar the scatter.
The flaming arrows symbol is the game's scatter, awarding 2, 10 or 50 times your total stake if you land 2, 3 or 4 of them anywhere on the reels. Keep an eye on the symbols with an arrow border around their edge. If there's a scatter anywhere on the reels too, the edged symbol will expand to fill the whole reel, splitting with the symbol already there to create a double symbol.
A second payout consideration will be made with the new split symbols in place. The payouts can really rocket here. This is known as the Expand & Split feature.
3 or more scatters will also trigger the Free Games feature - once active, you'll be awarded 7 free spins. The Expand & Split feature is in playing during the bonus round whenever an edged symbol appears. You don't need the scatter to trigger it here though. More free spins are on offer if you land 3 scatters here too with no limit to the number of times the free spins can be re-triggered.
The variance in Archer is on the high side of medium - the Expand & Split feature can provide some timely boosts to your payouts, especially in the free spins round if you manage to land them in combination with multiple wilds. Let’s hope it can leave you feeling as merry as his men!
Archer takes its inspiration from Robin Hood – for slots with a similar theme, NetEnt offer Robin Hood Shifting Riches and Barcrest off you Merry Money.