Orient Express

The exclusivity and elegance is quite evident in Yggdrasil's slot. We can start with the colors. The game makers have chosen sober shades of gold, brown and red to show off the abundance of luxury. In the past, stylish Scandinavian design was not immediately fashionable!

Yggdrasil I also made a nice design for the wheels. On the left and right, parts of the interior of a train carriage are shown. However, the wheels themselves are depicted against a background that shows one of the four cities that were most central on the journey from London to Istanbul. You start playing in Paris and then there's a (slightly $ okig!) version of the Eiffel Tower shown in the background. In Venice, instead, it is the canals that are in the center and in Belgrade you will see a view of the Old Town. In Istanbul, almost the entire window/wheel arch is covered by the huge Hagia Sofia.

In addition to the fact that each city has its own graphics, there is also a difference in the background music. In addition, the special features are unique to the respective city. It is therefore not wrong to say that the Orient Express is like four slot machines compressed into a single !

Stakes and winnings

If you have played a slot from Yggdrasil, you have played all of them – at least that is the case when it comes to the stakes. Choosing a bet on a Yggdrasil slot is the easiest thing there is. Simply click on the coin value arrow buttons until you are satisfied with the total bet.

In Orient Express you bet between 10 cents and 50$ per each of the 20 lines. It gives the result that you play with at least$ 2 and at most$1000. If you want to speed up the game, you have an autoplay function to activate. Snopet enough, however, with this you can not make any settings for when the spin should end.

If you look at the winning plan, you will see that the symbol that pays the best – the elegant woman – gives 1000 coins for five in a row. With the help of jokers and stacks with the woman, if you get full screen with the woman, you win 20,000 coins, which is the maximum win of the game. You can also win massively using the multiplier in Belgrade (see more below).

Orient Express RTP is on par with the standard for Yggdrasil's machines. In short, you get back 96.10% of your bets over time (many thousands of spins). It is difficult to be impressed by this figure, but at the same time it is not completely lousy.

Symbols

Those who traveled with the Orient Express when it started were no paupers directly. When it was most popular to travel by train, that is, in the 1930s, the price of a one-way trip was equivalent to about an annual salary of an ordinary worker. This is reflected in the symbols.

The four symbols that pay the most dividends represent people with good money in their pockets. A woman showered with jewelry pays the best dividends. She is accompanied on the reels by three gentlemen who also seem to have a really good time. A nice detail is that the respective symbol is animated when winning. For example, the well-to-do lady gives you a throw kiss if she is included in a win. The set of paying symbols is then completed by a quartet of card symbols (diamonds, hearts, spades and clubs).

Functions

In Orient Express There are wilds in abundance and a free spins round that looks different depending on which city you are ”visiting”. Here is a brief summary of the goodies in the game.

Special features for the different cities

There are four different wilds in total in the Orient Express. One of them is always there. The rest are specific to the specific destinations. The ever-present Joker is a pure substitute symbol.

Paris
In Paris, a conductor may appear on the screen from time to time. He is a walking wild the same type as Jack in NetEnts Jack and the Beanstalk . In short, each step to the left gives an extra respin. In the free spins round, the conductor appears significantly more often than in the base game.

Venice
In Venice there is no wild, but there is a multiplier. It gives a win of between 2x-5x line wins. When playing the base game, this feature is activated from time to time. In the bonus round, it is active in just every spin.

Belgrade
In Belgrade you get to play with wildhjul. The graphic presentation of this is really delicious. Small train symbols roll along the game window and when they stop, you get one or more wild reels. In the free spins round, you are guaranteed at least one wild wheel in each new spin.

Istanbul
Postcards are the focus of Istanbul. In the base game, you may occasionally see Golden postcards flying across the screen. Where they land you get extra wilds. At least two and at most twelve symbols can be covered by jokers. When playing free spins, you always get ”postcard Wilds " on the screen.

Free spins

Now you are probably interested to know how to activate the free spins round. It happens when you get at least three free spins symbols (black and gold colored Globes) scattered on the screen. Three, four and five scatters give you 7, 15 and 30 Free Spins respectively. The feature can be reactivated several times so it is not impossible to play over 100 spins in succession!

Important to know is that you have to make a ”journey” with your free spins. The first time you hit 3+ scatters, you play the free spins round in Paris. Next time you will have to choose between Paris and Venice, and so on.

Summary

It is clearly odd to create a slot on something as specific as the Orient Express. However, Yggdrasil is not known for thinking inside the box! If you like games that have a very clear character, Orient Express can be a very nice choice. If you also have a craze for bygone times and old aristocratic luxury, this video slot is of course optimal. Regarding the features, we have to say that we think Yggdrasil has created a delicious set of features and that the balance between them is approved. It's just terribly difficult to get to the free spins round!