Pirates Charm

Pirates Charm is a video slot that has been produced by the company Quickspin, and you'll be able to access their games through the Microgaming Quickfire platform as well. This game centers primarily around a special transforming symbol, which we'll go more into below. However, it has a good style of graphics that look great and that match up with the theme of the title very well. Aside from that, the gameplay overall is fast-paced with a very high hit-rate and many ways to win several times on the same spin. This leads to a particularly low volatility and very small swings.

Format and Game Layout

The format here provides a lot of opportunities for the high hit-rate style of play that you get from this title. It comes by way of five reels, three horizontal rows and 243 ways to win. The 243-ways format works by turning all normally paying symbols into left-to-right scatters, which makes it much easier to hit payouts in general. Betting goes from $0.20 to $100 per spin, which is a pretty reasonable range on all levels, and all of your payouts are multiplied by the total size of your wager, which is pretty reasonable as well since it makes it clear exactly how much you're going to pick up when you hit the different winning combinations.

The Mystery Charm Symbol

A majority of video slots have a wild symbol at the center of their gameplay. With Pirates Charm, it's a bit different. You'll have the Mystery Charm symbol instead, and it looks like a glowing, six-sided crystal that can turn into other symbols. At the conclusion of your spin, all of the Mystery Charm symbols will turn into a randomly chosen symbol, but they'll all be the same, and the idea is that this makes it easier to get lots of wins that you would have missed otherwise without relying on the tired wild symbol trope.

Mystery Charm Re-spin Feature

This charm symbol is the key to one of the main features in this game. If you get any number of them on the first three reels at the same time, then all of them lock into place after your wins are awarded for a free re-spin where everything that's not a charm symbol spins again. This happens repeatedly if you get new charms until no new charm symbols are added to the reels. This symbol then turns into one of the random paying symbols, and you are awarded your prizes accordingly.

Stormy Free Spins Feature

If you get three of the bonus ghost ship symbol, then you'll trigger a set of 10 free spins. The charm symbols will lock in place throughout the entire feature, and whenever you fill a reel up with them, you'll have two more free spins added on. This is obviously worth quite a bit since it'll give you chances at guaranteed wins on your free turns, and those winnings add up pretty quickly.

Mystery Spin Feature

During regular gameplay only (not the free spins), you have a chance to trigger a Mystery Spin feature. This is a single-spin feature that adds extra Mystery Charms to the reels to help you get better odds of hitting the re-spin feature as well.

Payouts and Prizes

The captain gets 5x for five of a kind, and the redheaded woman pirate will pay out 4x for five. Five of the other male pirate with a green background gets players 3x, and a win of 2x is yours for the golden skull with two swords. The wheel with the anchor in the center in silver over a map symbol earns you 1.5x as well.

For the card rank symbols, both the red A and blue K are worth 1x each for five. Five of the yellow Q, purple J or green 10 symbols will pay out 0.75x.

In Summary

The Pirates Charm slot by Quickspin centers around a mystery symbol that dictates a lot of the gameplay as a whole. It's the centerpiece of three different key features while being a feature in itself, and that's the type of thing that gives players a much different style of gameplay then maybe they're used to from any other title. They managed to dodge a lot of the typical tropes that you see within the pirate-themed sub-genre as well, and that helps it to stand out on that basis too.