Fortune Rangers
- Game provider
- NetEnt
- Name
- Fortune Rangers
- Feature Buy
- No
- Released
- 2020
- Game type
- Video Slots
- Mobile version
- Yes
- Grid slot
- No
- Wilds
- Yes
- Reels
- 5
- Sticky wilds
- No
- Rows
- 5
- Scatters
- Yes
- Paylines
- 76
- Free spins
- Yes
- Payout/RTP
- 96,90
- Bonus game
- No
- Volatility
- Low
- Progressive jackpot
- No
- Min. bet
- 0,20
- Random Feature
- Yes
- Max. bet
- 200,00
- Autoplay
- Yes
- Maximum win
- 760
- Last update
- January 7, 2020
Review
Venture into the dragon’s lair on the slot from NetEnt to join the Fortune Rangers in their quest to retrieve the golden treasure under guard of the beastly creature. Hone your karate skills as you spin the reels with wild substitutions, random Lucky Wild Reels and a free spins round with linked reels and you could be rewarded with up to 760 times your bet on a single spin.
Slot Details
Fortune Rangers is a video slot with five reels in a 3-3-4-4-5 format with 76 fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for two to five symbols on a line from left to right only. You can join the rangers on desktop or mobile devices from 0.20 to 200 credits per spin. The game has low volatility with a default RTP of 96.90%.
A traditional Asian palace on a full moon night is in the background of a heavily ornamented game window. Light applications in neon colours are an attempt to bring the visuals into the 21st century. The same goes for the sunglass-wearing male ranger. Lampions flank the reels which are dominated by golden colours and a deep red structure as the backdrop. An Asian soundtrack completes the slot design.
The pay symbols start at the low end with Asian fans, ancient scrolls, a trio of lucky coins and golden ingots, awarding 1x to 1.5x your bet for a single five of a kind. They are followed by a female and a male fortune ranger, paying 5x and 10x your stake when five land on a line. A golden dragon is the wild symbol, substituting for all regular pay symbols, while a Yin-Yang icon acts as the scatter.
Fortune Rangers Slot Features
Fortune Ranger is after Dazzle Me and Motorhead the third slot in NetEnt’s portfolio with the reel set in a horizontal conical shape. While that can be part of an exciting game, the three are more or less exact clones of each other. This creation is part of their efforts to release games geared towards our Asian gaming friends but is, in essence, a copy of Dazzle Me.
If you ever played the original, then you will know what to expect from Fortune Rangers. The extremely low line pays make it totally dependent on the features to deliver some good wins. In the base game, that honour falls to the random Wild Reels feature. The screen can go dark at the start of any spin before one reel is randomly highlighted as a stacked wild. The process can repeat up to four times to cover all five reels with wild and with the payout being the same as the top-paying symbol, you would be looking forward to a win of 760x your bet.
Hitting three, four or five scatters in one spin will trigger 8, 12 and 16 free spins respectively, which can be indefinitely retriggered. During the feature, two reels can link up to synchronize and display the same symbols when they stop. Up to two sets of Linked Reels can activate on each free spin. However, each set is separately synchronized, which makes little sense as it does not increase the potential to hit a big win.
Final Verdict
Fortune Ranger will be the second release for the Asian market in 2020, showing that Netent is putting every effort in to impress our gaming friends in the Far East. It is just a pity that they simply clone some of their existing games and basically re-release them with different visuals. Whether that will prove to be sufficient to be successful in the mostly untapped market in China, Japan and beyond is something that only time will tell. As the games are available worldwide, it gives players anywhere an alternative to the originals.