Soaring Eagle Hold and Win

The sky isn't the setting. It's the direction.

Dragon Gaming puts an impressive collection of eagles on the reels, but looking majestic will only get them so far. The real movement in Soaring Eagle Hold and Win comes from Golden Coins and a 5×3 grid that develops two very different ambitions. 

In the Hold & Win feature, your goal is to fill the grid. During Free Spins, you want to climb from it.

There are 20 fixed paylines, supported with 93.96% RTP. ( learn more about RTP HERE)

That gives this medium-volatility slot more direction than its traditional setup initially suggests. Bets start from $0.20 to $100 and have a maximum win of 2,000x the total bet.
Quick Spin is also there to speed things up.
 

Theme and Symbols

There was never much danger of forgetting the theme. Bald eagles survey the reels from practically every altitude, joined by card ranks, a Wild and a Bonus symbol against blue skies and snow-covered mountains.

The Golden Coins are less interested in posing.

They provide the connection between the game's main features, while four fixed Jackpots wait above the reels: Mini 50x, Minor 100x, Major 250x and Grand 1,000x.

The game is mobile-friendly and offers pure pleasure for players, allowing them to play in portrait or landscape mode.

During Free Spins, those prizes become more than numbers on display. The Ladder turns them into destinations, giving every collected Coin a visible reason to keep heading upward.

Betting Options and Special Features

The Hold & Win feature has the simpler ambition of the two: more Coins, more occupied positions. (more about Hold and Win feature HERE)

Landing 6 or more Golden Coins triggers the feature and removes the regular symbols from the 15-position grid. You begin with 3 respins, landed Coins remain in place and every new arrival resets the counter to three. Fill the entire grid and you'll receive the Mini 50x Jackpot plus all collected Coin values. ( discover more about Jackpots HERE)

Free Spins look at the same Golden Coins rather differently.

Three Bonus symbols award 10 Free Spins, with retriggers capable of adding up to 30 more. Now the Ladder becomes active, and whenever 5 or fewer Golden Coins appear on a Free Spin, they're collected toward its milestones.Then comes the interesting part.

Land 6 or more and apparently the route upward is not required to be a straight line. Instead of joining the Ladder collection, those Coins trigger Hold & Win. The feature can interrupt Free Spins this way up to three times.

Same grid. Two ambitions.

One feature wants you to occupy every available position. The other uses Coins from those reels to push the Ladder higher. And just when you think you're climbing, enough Coins can send you sideways into Hold & Win before the journey continues.

However, if you don't want to wait for the Bonus symbols to align on the grid, you can grab the Buy Bonus for 80 times your total stake and get free spins right away.

Conclusion

This online slot could easily have settled for eagles, mountains and a familiar Hold & Win feature. Instead, its Ladder gives the theme something useful to do.

Compared to other Dragon Gaming releases, here the same Golden Coins behave differently depending on where you are.

Collect a few during Free Spins and you're moving toward the next Ladder milestone. Land six or more and Hold & Win takes over, changing the ambition from climbing higher to filling wider.

The destination remains above you, but the journey doesn't always travel in a straight line.

Two ways forward. Apparently, eagles don't need roads anyway.