Asgardian Stones

An interesting issue that comes up in the online slots industry is that there are certain themes that get used over and over again. In the case of the Asgardian Stones slot, available at Net Entertainment casinos, you have a game based on Norse mythology, which is a popular concept for slots. However, it stands out in every way you can imagine, so it doesn't even feel like one of the group as a whole in this way. The graphics are absolutely outstanding, and the gameplay is different than most of what's available out there because of the focus on a different style of features instead of just rehashing the same old thing.

Format and Layout

A solid format is important as a foundation for a slot experience. With five reels, three rows and 20 paylines, it's hard to get much more solid than that. You will not be able to change how many lines you're playing with, but you do have two ways to adjust your bet size. The first is to wager between one and ten coins on each of the 20 available paylines for a betting range of 20 to 200 coins per turn. Along these lines, you can also change the values of those coins from $0.01 to $1, which gives an overall range of betting from $0.20 to $200 per spin. Without a doubt, players at all bet sizes will have something that works for them within this betting spread.

Avalanche Feature

The first gameplay feature that you'll likely come into contact with is the Avalanche Feature. Instead of symbols spinning into place, they fall into place in the form of large stones. If you get a winning combination, it is paid, and then the winning stones disappear to let new ones fall into place for a type of free re-spin. If you get new wins, then the process continues until you have an avalanche with no winning combinations, at which time your turn is over.

Colossal Symbols

In this game, colossal symbols can appear as well. They are larger square symbols that take up either a two-by-two or three-by-three position on the screen, and this counts as either four or nine, respectively, of the symbol it's made up of. If you get one of these colossal symbols as a part of a winning combination, then the whole thing disappears as a part of the Avalanche Feature, which allows even more new symbols to fall into place to give you extra chances of hitting new wins.

Colossal Crush Feature

After the initial avalanche, you can get this feature at random. The way it works is that a colossal symbol will fall down through the reels, crushing symbols as it goes on each stop, and it will give you multipliers of up to 4x on all of the wins it creates in the process. This gives you opportunities to get several of the same payout over and over again multiplied by a factor of up to four, so it's easy to understand how this could turn into a major value.

Important Payouts and Symbols

There are wild symbols and chances for free spins in this game in addition to the regular paying symbols. Odin in red will give you 500x, and Loki in green pays 300x for five of a kind. You can pick up 150x for five of the blue figure, 120x for five of the purple or 100x for five of the gray.

For the bottom end of the pay table, you'll have the A, K and Q card rank symbols in a great font and colors in red, green or blue, respectively. Five of any of these three symbols will pay out 30x. These are reasonable enough payouts considering they're all subject to multipliers and opportunities to win several times in a row with the various features.

Our Thoughts

The Asgardian Stones slot by NetEnt puts players in a position to win big in a few different ways. The unique combination of features, including some we have never seen before, come together to form a very exciting and atypical style of gameplay that's particularly action-oriented. As such, this game has a fairly low volatility and a fairly high hit-rate, but you don't have to sacrifice your chances for some pretty substantial wins in the process. Overall, we like everything that this game has to offer, and we think it's well-rounded enough to appeal to a large majority of players.