It’s fair to say that Mermaid Queen won’t be troubling any awards committee when it comes to design as this is pretty basic fare on the sound and visuals front. The action takes place on classical wooden sailing ship. Joining the lower value royal symbols are charts and telescopes, pearl shells, chests full of treasure, a giant sailing ship and dolphins. Payline awards of up to 75 times your stake are on offer from the dolphins.
Helping you to land winning combinations is the sailor (who’s looks the opposite of a rugged pirate) - he replaces all other symbols apart from the scatter and offers payouts of 2, 40, 400 or 1,000 times your stake if you land 2, 3, 4 or 5 on the same payline. When the wild is part of a winning line alongside standard symbols, the payout gets a 2x multiplier boost and is doubled.
The mermaid queen of the title is the scatter - land 3, 4 or 5 of these on the same spin and you’ll pocket an award equal to 5, 20 or 50 times your total stake. More importantly, you’ll also trigger the game’s Free Spins Bonus feature. On offer here are 15 free spins. All payouts include a wild receive a 3x multiplier which trebles the payout.
Now, if a wild is involved in a win, the 3x multiplier is essentially doubled to give you a 6x multiplier altogether. 3 or more mermaid queen scatters will give you another 15 free spins too with no limits to how many additional free spins can be won.
That’s your lot as far as gameplay goes. Simple that gameplay may be but the wild multipliers and 3x multipliers in the free spins round can deliver some very decent action – to the tune of 3,000 times your stake on every free spin!
Mermaid Queen is certainly not a thing of beauty. The visuals look quite tired in comparison to many modern slot games. It certainly won’t be to everyone’s taste and but it’s highly volatile and has that authentic land-based feel which is very popular – if you want something glossier, Pirate’s Charm from Quickspin should do the trick.