Ring in 2018 as the Year of the Dog in the Chinese Zodiac-themed Fu Chi slot from RTG. With 50 adjustable paylines, up to 30 free spins available at a time, and a progressive jackpot with a top payout of 30,000x, there’s a lot to celebrate.
Theme
The East Asian feel of the Chinese New Year permeates this slot’s design. The reels are situated amidst a beautiful pagoda with lions standing guard, with fireworks lighting up the sky in the background. Gaming symbols inclue red lanterns, fireworks, apples, lotuses, coins, and written Chinese characters, which act as lower value symbols. In celebration of the year of the Dog, dog symbols act as wild. The overall visual and sound design is somewhat clunky, but while true aesthetes may be put off, overall gameplay does not suffer for it.
Betting Options and Functions
There are many ways to vary the bet in Fu Chi. RTG offers a whopping 50 adjustable paylines, with coins per line adjustable from one to five and coin value adjustable from 0.01–0.05 times the betting currency. This yields an overall per-spin betting range of 0.01–12.50 times the betting currency. There are two progressive jackpots, major and minor, which can be won on any spin: the major jackpot has a maximum payout of 30,000 times the bet size. The overall theoretical return to player ratio is respectable at 96.2%.
Features
The Chinese Zodiac scatter symbol, potentially combined with the wild symbol, opens the door to free spins in this slot: three scatters award 10 free spins, four symbols trigger 20 free spins, and five scatters award a massive thirty free spins. During the bonus round, all wins receive an automatic triple multiplier, and scatter symbols will remain on the reels, allowing for the chance of retriggering free spins within bonus play.
There are two sub-varieties of free spin on offer. When the feature is triggered by a combination of wild and scatter symbols, the reels of the bonus feature will resemble those of base play. If, however, bonus play is triggered by scatter symbols alone (with no wilds involved), free spins will feature no wild symbols on the reels. To more than make up for this lessened opportunity, the total number of free spins awarded will be doubled.
Our Take
It’s fitting that Fu Chi celebrates the new year, as this slot has everything modern gamers crave: smooth play (albeit not the prettiest design), potentially huge bonus feature wins, and massive jackpots available. Gamers who prefer lower-variable slots might wish to look elsewhere, but the average player will find a lot to like here.
Video Slot game data and features
- 5Reels
- 50Pay lines
- $10,000.00Max cash jackpot
- YesWild Symbol
- YesMultiplier
- $0.01 - $50Betting Range
- 0.01 - 1.0Coin bet range
- 1Coins per line
- YesProgressive
- 10000Max coins jackpot
- 50Max coins
- YesScatter Symbol
- YesFree spins available
- NoBonus Game
- NoBuy feature
- Asian Game theme
- High Volatility