Dark King: Forbidden Riches

Enter a wicked fantasy world for a daring reel adventure on the slot from NetEnt. Dark King: Forbidden Riches will see you descend into a harrowing lair to face an insidious royal and his cohorts of evil creatures in a battle to retrieve untold treasures. Brave spinners will be rewarded with wild multipliers and a free spins round with sticky wild that can lead to wins in excess of 1,500 times your bet.

Update 25th September 2020: The game has been pre-released as an exclusive at William Hill brands including Mr Green, RedBet, Winning Room and MamaMia Bingo. It will go global as scheduled on 8th October 2020.

Slot Details

Dark King: Forbidden Riches is a video slot with five reels, three rows and 20 fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for three to five matching symbols on a line from left to right only. You can challenge the mighty royal on desktop or mobile from 0.20 to 400 credits per spin. The game has low to medium volatility with an RTP of 96.06%.

A sinister scenery is opening up when you load the game that will see you entering the royal quarters of the Dark King filled with skulls of the lost souls who tried and failed to defeat him. He will be standing on the left of the reels, ready to come alive the soon you enter the free spins. Two royal chairs are facing the reels which are dominated by the king himself and his insidious cohorts of evil warriors. A harrowing, often heartwrenching soundtrack rounds of the slot design.

The pay symbols start at the low end with medieval-style card royals from 10 through to A, awarding 2.5x to 5x your stake for a single five of a kind. They are followed by four fantasy creatures on blue, green, yellow and red icons as well as the Dark King. Hit five on a line to win 12.5x to 25x your bet. A magical orb is the wild symbol, substituting for all regular pay symbols and also yielding 25x your stake for five across the reels. A deep red gem held in a golden skull frame acts as the scatter.

Dark King: Forbidden Riches Slot Features

Reading the brief for the slot brought back memories of Lost Island, a game NetEnt surprisingly shelved in 2020 although it was quite popular in the player community, mainly for its wild multipliers. Well, they are resurrecting the mechanic in part on Dark King: Forbidden Riches and added another twist that will make the bonus feature more suspenseful and also potentially more profitable.

Watch out for the small display at the bottom of the reels as it will light up the soon wild symbols land on the reels to award a win multiplier of up to x5 for the current spin in the base game and bonus feature. The multiplier will be equal to the number of wilds anywhere on the reels and will be applied to all wins from the round. For example, having three wilds in view will award an x3 win multiplier.

Hitting three, four or five red gem scatters anywhere on the reels will trigger 10, 12 and 15 Free Spins respectively. Before the start of the feature, a Sticky Wilds Hot Spots area is placed in the centre of reel three. The area covers five symbols in the shape of a cross – middle reel two, all three positions on reel three and middle on reel five. Any wild landing inside the cross on a free spin will turn into a Sticky Wild for the remainder of the feature and award +1 free spin. The most you can get is 5 extra free spins. The win multiplier for every free spin is calculated by adding the number of sticky wilds and other wilds landing outside the Hot Spot area but still peaks at a maximum of x5.

Final Verdict

Lost Island fans will most probably be pleased with the release of Dark King: Forbidden Riches as it brings back the wild multiplier mechanic from the 2014 original. The game impresses with some stunning visuals and animations but not much more really. The max win potential is noted with 1,250x bet at odds of roughly 1:5 million spins, while the theoretical maximum peaks at 2,500x. Thus, do not expect super mega wins, however, it should deliver frequently in the 100x to 250x region as Lost Island connoisseurs will concur.

Last Update: 27th September 2020

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