Baron Samedi

Yggdrasil Gaming has brought together a lot of elements of voodoo and dark magic to the Baron Samedi slot. This video slot offers a different way of giving players extra value with a set of features that can be randomly dealt to the players during bonus features.

From a visual and aesthetic standpoint, this title is excellent, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a lot of games that outright beat it in the graphics department. The spooky soundtrack also helps players stay immersed in what this title has to offer.

Format and Layout

The layout of this game looks more complicated than it is because of the decks of cards sitting across the top of the table that the slot is set on. What you'll want to pay attention to are the five reels and three rows of symbols under the card layouts since that's the main grid for the game, and there are 25 paylines that pay from left to right that go across that grid.

Yggdrasil is really good about offering up a lot of bet sizes for players at all stakes. This is found out here by a minimum wager of just $0.004 per line for a minimum overall bet size of $0.10, which you don't often see on a 25-payline game. On the other end of things, you can pick coin sizes of up to $5 for a maximum bet size of $125 for each spin.

Free Spins Symbols and Re-spins

There are actually two different types of base features in this game that can be awarded with the free spins symbols. Get two or more anywhere on the game board to trigger a single re-spin with three feature cards (see below) dealt out.

Alternatively, three or more of this symbol on the game board will award a number of free spins with a coin-based prize. Three of them five you seven free spins with a 50x payout. You can earn 375x with 12 free spins for four of a kind as well, but the biggest win in the game comes from the 25,000x jackpot you earn for five of these symbols, and that's made even more valuable with the 15 free spins that you get along with it.

Feature Cards

On each re-spin or free spins, three feature cards are dealt across the top of the game board in the spaces provided. These provide a variety of features like super stacked symbols, mystery symbols added to the reels, mystery symbols added at random to the game board, multipliers worth up to 10x, random wilds, random wild reels, forced five of a kind prizes on the middle row and low-paying symbol conversions to symbols that pay out more.

You can collect these cards into sets as well, and when you get a full set, you're given an additional three free spins, so there's some degree of value given for players who stick with this title for a while.

Other Symbols and Payouts

Four different types of spooky figures show up as the top paying symbols. Five of a kind of the man in red gives you 120x, and that drops onlly slightly to 115x for five of the woman in blue. The male voodoo doll in orange pays 105x for five, and five of a kind combinations of the green female voodoo doll awards you 100x.

From there, there are four gem symbols on the reels as well. These start with 35x for five of the red octagon gem, and it continues with 30x for five of a kind combinations of the green triangle gem. The blue diamond pays 25x for five, and five of the purple square is worth 20x.

Overview

With the Baron Samedi video slot, Yggdrasil Gaming has brought to life a voodoo experience with multiple layers of features that come together in a very smart way. We love the card-dealing dynamic and the fact that it's so easy to trigger a re-spin with just two matching scatters anywhere on the game board. It's a great title from a visual standpoint as well, and it's set up in a way that will appeal to lots of types of slot fans.