Lovers of 4096 ways to win and fantasy themed slot games, it's time to rejoice: Playtech's new Dragon Champions game is here. Played over 4 rows and 6 reels, the Dragon Champions video slot is a bit of a departure from Playtech's usual online casino fare. Dragon Champions Online Slot Date Updated:5 Oct 2019 Written by Jerico Enter the world of mythical dragons and heroic characters in this 6-reel, fantasy-themed Playtech slot that offers 4,096 ways to win.
Lovers of 4096 ways to win and fantasy themed slot games, it's time to rejoice: Playtech's new Dragon Champions game is here. Played over 4 rows and 6 reels, the Dragon Champions video slot is a bit of a departure from Playtech's usual online casino fare. But when you have lots of stacked symbols and free spins galore, who's complaining?
Fantasy and magic always make for some interesting gameplay and top graphics, but is Dragon Champions in the same league as Microgaming's Game Of Thrones or Dragon Hot by EGT? Let's review and take a look.
If you've played WMS/SG Gaming's amazing Raging Rhino online slot, you'll know that covering so many paylines doesn't always mean high variance. That game too has 4096 ways to win off a 4x6 grid of reels. And most winning combinations pay off as long as you match at least two symbols.
We're in firm Dungeons & Dragons territory in Dragon Champions, with wizards, warriors, and elves the main characters. Most symbols can appear stacked on the reels.
Coins begin at 0.01, and the total bet per spin is 40x the coin. Coin values go up to 2.00 for an 80.00 max bet. There's also an AutoPlay function and a Turbo Mode featured. As mentioned, there are no actual paylines in Dragon Champions. Instead, simply landing matching icons on adjacent reels is enough to trigger a win.
Most of the base game wins in Dragon Champions are pretty flat. But when you consider there are stacked symbols and so many ways to win, that's not surprising. The low limit royal symbols pay out for 3x to 6x matching symbols. The 9, 10, J, Q, K, and A symbols can earn you 10-120 coins.
Further up, we find an evil-looking wizard and elf, both of whom pay out 20-160 coins for 3OAK to 6OAK. The female and male warrior both pay a little better - a top jackpot of 200 coins for 6OAK.
The fiery red dragon is this online slot's big secret, however. Just two adjacent dragons wins the gambler 40 coins, while 6 symbols wins you 400 coins. Watch out for any symbol that lands with blue 'dragonfire'. If these appear, they will expand in four different directions to improve your wins.
Dragon Champions features a regular substituting Wild symbol - the Dragon Champions logo - but it doesn't carry any kind of real cash multiplier. However, there is a free spins bonus game that can be triggered in the usual fashion by landing three or more Scatters. Look for the FREE GAMES emblems.
Here's where things get interesting: All Dragonfire expanding symbols that land will be Wild Symbols. That can make for some truly huge wins for players. In addition, if you land two or more FREE GAMES Scatter symbols, you'll bag some more free spins. Two FREE GAMES gets you 5 free spins, while three Scatters gets you 8 free spins. Hitting six adjacent FREE GAMES symbols earns you a whopping 100 free spins.
So, how does Dragon Champions stack up to the other 4096-ways games out there? Well, despite some flat payouts, it felt very high-variance when we played. The Dragonfire bonus is a good one to transform low limit symbols into big winners, but it cropped up pretty infrequently. In addition, the free games Scatters were few and far between, and our bonus games yielded just 3x-8x our total stake.
WMS's Raging Rhino is a better bet, in our opinion. It has more generous stacked Wild symbols, the free spins retrigger a lot, and the overall feel is a bit fresher. It's surprising that Playtech are marketing Dragon Champions as a new slot as it feels pretty old. Some 3D graphics wouldn't have gone amiss too.