Reptoids

Offering some of the finest animation yet seen in slot gaming, Yggdrasil’s Reptoids depicts a world in crisis. Reptilian creatures posing as human beings are taking over the world, and only slot players can stop them. Bonus rounds feature up to six wild symbols, and up to 100,000 coins can be won on a single spin during base play.

Theme

This slot is set in a vintage world where aliens, disguised as humans, are trying to seize power on Earth. An electronic map of the world stands behind the reels, indicating the scale and stakes of the story, while city streets are visible at the sides. Gaming symbols include the cast of six characters – all reptoids disguised as humans. These include the President of the United States, a general, two scientists, a policeman, and a woman in purple. Whenever one of these symbols is revealed to be an alien, it becomes a wild symbol. Four military medals act as lower-value symbols. An unobtrusive plus sign at the lower left corner of the game screen allows players to adjust game settings, as well as view the paytable, rules, and hand history. The music is charming, but with an unsettling undercurrent, as if to remind players that not all is well in this otherwise beautiful world.

Betting Options and Functions

Yggdrasil built this slot with a sense of dramatic flair, but the fundamentals of the game are simple. There are 20 fixed pay lines, with one coin bet per line. Coin value is adjustable from 0.005 – 5.00 for an unusually broad overall per-spin bet range of 0.10 – 100.00 times the betting currency. Autoplay can be engaged without limit, with optional stops built in for single wins, bonus features, or overall increases or decreases in bankroll according to the player’s preference. The speed of each spin can also be adjusted. The theoretical return to player is a thoroughly respectable 96.1%.

Features

The design team at Yggdrasil wastes no time unveiling their slot’s most inventive feature: the reptoid detector. Present on every spin, this inventive element selects one gaming symbol at random. Should it land on an alien disguised as a human, that symbol becomes wild, along with every other matching symbol on the reels. As if this weren’t enough to make base play interesting, five scatter symbols on the reels pay out a whopping 100,000 coins.

When the free spin symbol is caught in the reptoid detector, the bonus round begins. Seven free spins are awarded at first, but every two aliens detected during bonus play add an additional two free spins to the total. As six reptilian creature symbols are available for detection, this can bring the free spin total up to 13. More importantly, reptoids detected during bonus play become wild for the entire duration of the feature – this means up to six bonus symbols may be on the reels at once, greatly increasing players’ chances of a big payout.

Our Take

Reptoids is about as good as an online slot can get. Offering unique features, gorgeous visual design and animation, and a plot as captivating as a game on any platform, this title again proves Yggdrasil’s mettle as a designer of the very first rate.