Easter Island

The Easter Island video slot, available at Yggdrasil Gaming online casinos, is a title based on the place by the same name. It's known for its huge statues, and you can see two of them dancing along on the left and right sides of the reels in this game. As is the case with most of games by this provider, the graphics are tremendous, and the gameplay is designed to be pretty exciting. Everything centers around a re-spin feature that gives you extra ways to win and better opportunities to get paid than the regular play mode. It also has a high hit-rate, which results in a volatility on the lower end of things.

Slot Layout

The way this game is laid out is actually a bit different because the size of the reels can change. In the base game, you'll have five reels and three rows. There are 27 paylines to start with, but you'll only be paying 25 coins per turn. You only have one option for changing your bet size, and that's changing the sizes of the coins. This option goes from $0.004 to $8 apiece for a betting range of $0.10 to $200 per turn. They've obviously put some thought into making sure this game is accessible to even penny players with the abnormally small minimum coin size.

Basics of the Re-spin Mode

Whenever you get a winning combination in this slot, you're given a play at a re-spin feature. Your wins are given normally, and then the reels will start to spin again. If you have a winning low-paying symbol, then it will replace all of the other low-paying symbols for the re-spin. Likewise, if you had a winning high-paying symbol, then it replaces all of the high-paying symbols. This makes it much more likely that you'll get winning combinations, but that's not all that goes into this re-spin feature.

Note that you always get just one re-spin after each winning regular spin.

Expanding, Sticky Wild Symbols

There are golden wild symbols in this game, and they appear on the second and fourth reels only. However, whenever they appear, they will always expand vertically to cover the entire reel they lay on. Getting both of them at the same time would obviously make it much easier to get the larger, five-of-a-kind winning combinations.

However, they are also sticky wilds. This means that they will carry over to the re-spin feature, which makes it even easier to hit wins there since it compounds the symbol replacement feature that we noted above.

Expanding Reels Feature

Getting a three of a kind payout gives you a re-spin with the normal reel set. However, a four-of-a-kind combination expands the reels to be five spaces tall, and a five-of-a-kind prize expands the reels to be seven symbols tall. This gives you 65 or 103 paylines for those particular re-spins, respectively. Note that the expanding wild will cover the entire reel even in the case of the expanding reels feature being triggered, and that puts you in a position to get a ton of value when you hit four- or five-of-a-kind wins that include wilds.

Payout Structure

Five high-paying symbols appear on the reels. It starts with the red eagle, which is worth 500x for five on a payline. Five of the orange fox gets you 100x, and you can make it 80x for five of a kind of the green frog. The purple lizard and the blue fish get you 60x and 40x for five, respectively.

There are also four low-paying symbols in the form of card suits. The red heart, green diamond, purple club and blue spade all pay out 20x for five of a kind. Keep in mind that the symbol replacement feature combined with the other aspects of the re-spin feature mean that your hit-rate will be pretty substantial, so don't let the seemingly low nature of these bottom payouts mislead you about the value this game has to offer.

Our Thoughts

From a visual standpoint, the Easter Island online slot is clearly up to par with what Yggdrasil Gaming normally offers in that it looks great and has awesome animation and characters. From the position of the gameplay, everything is centered around a very exciting and fun feature that hits every single time that you get a winning combination, and it's hard to have anything bad to say about that. The combination of the symbol switching, the expanding wilds and the expanding reels create a very immersive experience with a ton of value.