The Faces of Freya

Delve into Norse mythology for an encounter with the goddess of love, sorcery and war on the slot from Play’n GO. The Faces of Freya is taking you on a spiritual gaming journey across five reels with wild substitutions and no less than four free spins mode reflecting the powers of the fabled goddess that can lead to wins of up to 5,000 times your bet.

Slot Details

The Faces of Freya is a video slot with five reels, three rows and 20 fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for three to five matching symbols landing on a line from left to right only. You can delve into Norse mythology on desktop, mobile or tablet from 0.20 to 100 credits per spin. The game has medium volatility (6/10) with a default RTP of 96.20%. Beware, lower RTP settings at 94.20% or 91.20% might be offered, always check the help files to find out which version you will be playing.

In Norse mythology, Fólkvang is the meadow ruled by Freya where half of those that die in combat go upon death, whilst the other half go to the god Odin in Valhalla. Play’n GO is using it together with the godesses’ hall Sessrúmnir as the backdrop to their semi-translucent reel set populated by card suits carved with Norse runes as well as Freya and her fabled two pieces of jewellery, a golden bracelet and the necklace Brisingamen (source: Wikipedia).

The pay symbols start at the low end with carved card suits – diamond, spades, hearts and clubs – awarding 2.5x to 5x your stake for a single five of a kind. They are followed by battle axes, Freya’s wild boar, her two cats and her golden bracelet. Hit five on a line to win 10x to 17.5x your bet. Freya herself is the wild, substituting for all regular symbols and yielding 20x your stake for five. Her fabled Norse necklace Brísingamen acts as the scatter.

The Faces of Freya Slot Features

Freya is known as the powerful goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, war, gold and sorcery in North mythology on par with Odin, the revered god of wisdom, healing and knowledge. Play’n GO took three of Freya’s powers for their slot creation, attributing a specific free spins round to each of them while also adding a grand finale that will go down in the heavenly meadow of Fólkvang. Reason enough for us to take a closer look.

Landing three scatters will trigger on of three Free Spin modes, each with 6 free spins and distinct modifiers. Every scatter appearing on the reels during any of the rounds will add +1 free spin, no limits. The bonus feature can be triggered with only two scatters thanks to a random nudge to bring the third scatter into view.

• Spins of Sorcery: Random selection of one, two or three medium-value symbols (axe, cats, wild boars) to be upgraded to the next higher-value symbol. Either axe to cats, axe and cats to wild boars or axe, cats and wild boars to golden bracelet.
• Spins of Love: On every free spin, 2 to 5 random wilds are added to the reels
• Spins of War: Applies a random x2, x3, x5, x10 or x20 multiplier to a win in a free spin.

The grand finale is triggered when you land four or five scatters anywhere on the reels in the base game, granting you entry to the sacred hall of Folkvang. The Spins of Folkvang consist of four levels where the Spins of Sorcery, Love and War are played out in consecutive order with 5 free spins each. Any progress from the three rounds is then transferred to the Spins of Folkvang. You will get 3 or 4 Folkvang Free Spins for four and five triggering scatters respectively. All effects accumulated in the first 3 levels will be active throughout the grand finale.

• Level 1 – Spins of Sorcery | 5 Free Spins: Axe symbols upgrade to wild boar symbols at the start. Collecting three scatters will upgrade the wild boars to cat symbols while five scatters will upgrade the cats to golden bracelets.
• Level 2 – Spins of Love | 5 Free Spins: Round starts with 2 random wilds per spin. Collect three, five, seven scatters to raise the number to 3, 4 and 5 respectively
• Level 3 – Spins of War | 5 Free Spins: The win multiplier starts at x2 and builds up to x20. Collect three, five, seven, nine scatters to upgrade it to x3, x5, x10 and x20 respectively.
• Level 4 – Spins of Folkvang | 3 or 4 Free Spins: All features and modifiers from the previous three rounds are combined with the achieved progression – upgrades, number of random wilds, win multiplier. No scatters are on the reels in phase four.

Final Verdict

Faces of Freya is a fine example why Play’n GO is a Tier 1 game studio and a testament to their capabilities of churning out at least three slots creations per month. They are not always spectacular, but provide entertaining gameplay with decent win potential that is usually capped at 5,000x bet. Faces of Freya falls into the mainline category and should please most players who like some diversity in the features and games with less than maximum volatility.

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