Pillars of Asgard slot review (Nextgen)

With Pillars of Asgard, Nextgen has released an exciting video slot, offering several kick-ass features

Except for the cool Norwegian mythology theme, Pillars of Asgard has even more tasty bonus features and gameplay to offer:

• Free spins with expanding reels using the Dynareel’s mechanism
• Up to 1,000,000 (1 million!) ways to win
• A delightfully high variance
• Wilds with additional multipliers up to x 10

Pillars of Asgard gameplay & features

Pillars of Asgard’s base game has 6 reels with 4 rows of symbols. It is a win all ways slot.

Winning combinations are allowed to drop criss-cross on the reels, as long as they appear on the reels consecutively and from left to right.

As mentioned, there are 4,096 ways to win, and you bet a fixed amount per spin.

The minimum bet is $€ 0.25 per spin, and you can bet a maximum of $€ 10 per spin.

The theoretical payout rate is 96%, and the variance is massive – the wild multipliers and the massive number of ways to win make sure of that.

Nextgen Gaming hasn’t published a maximum win, but it wouldn’t surprise us if it exceeds 10,000 x the total bet.

Actually, after the release of Medusa Megaways, it has been tranquil with Nextgen Gaming. So quiet, we almost wondered if they were still planning to release any new slots at all.

Luckily, all of a sudden, there were Pillars of Asgard, taking us to the mythical fortress of Asgard, where the Norwegian Gods lived and from where they ruled the world.

Symbols & payouts

Odin’s helmet serves as wild, and the wild not only replaces all symbols except the scatters but also awards you a multiplier from x 2 up to x 10 all profits.

Spin 6 wilds, and you take home a prize of 25,000 coins anyway, or 1,000 x the total bet.

The double eagle is the highest paying symbol after the wild, and six the same reward you 250 coins: 10 x the total bet.

The 3 Norwegian runes symbols are the medium paying symbols and are worth between 1.2 x and 5 x the stake for a 6-of-a-kind.

Although the card symbols 10, J, Q, K and A only pay out a fraction of the total bet with six identical ones, they can still yield a nice payout because of the many ways to win and the wild multipliers.

Free spins bonus

If you win the free spins bonus, the real fireworks start with this slot, and prizes can skyrocket fast.

You always win 20 free spins as soon as you spin 3, 4, 5 or 6 scatters.

Every combination of scatters you spin will award extra reels, which lead to even more ways to win:

• 3 scatters: 1 extra row for 15,625 ways to win
• 4 scatters: 2 additional rows for 46,656 ways to win
• 5 scatters: 3 additional rows for 117,649 ways to win
• 6 scatters: 4 additional rows for 262,144 ways to win

But wait, there’s more! It might sound a bit like a corny Tell Sell tv commercial, but there is really more to come.

The wild multipliers are also active during the free spins bonus.

And to top it all off, you can grow the reels individually by spinning additional scatters.

So you can grow the reels up to 10 positions high and up to 1,000,000 million ways to win.

As you can see, these prizes can amount to serious coin, not peanuts – this is a free spins bonus of epic proportions.

The Buy Pass option in some versions of Pillars or Asgard offers you direct access to the free spins bonus.

Our verdict on Pillars of Asgard?

We are very impressed with Pillars of Asgard:

• The theme is super cool.
• The game mechanism is unique and surprising.
• You can win a ginormous amount of money.
• Up to 1,000,000 ways to win is unprecedented.

Nextgen may have released a real evergreen with this slot.

In any case, we hope that many players will give Pillars of Asgard a well-deserved try. This is an epic video slot.

4 out of 5 stars