NetEnt is on a celtic trip as of lately, and Druids Dream is their second slot with a mystery forest and fairy kind of theme (the other one being Wilderland). While Wilderland was centered around a lone female forest elf, Druids Dream slot is all about the male and female druids, as they play an important part in both the stacked wild respins feature and the free spins bonus round.
The game is set in a forest opening with celctic runes on the stones, and mysterious “fairy circles” in the grass. It all plays out on 5 reels, 4 rows and 40 fixed paylines. You can place bets between 20p and £400 per spin across all platforms and devices here, and the game’s RTP of 96 % is just about as average as they come (leaving you with a House edge of 4 %).
The visual presentation is nice, as usual from NetEnt, and the atmosphere is dreamlike and harmonious. You can land stacks of both regular symbols, and of wild symbols on reels 2 and 4. If you also land a druid symbol below or above a wild stack, you trigger the sticky wild respins feature. This, in turn, can help you trigger the game’s bonus round, but either way, the max win potential is only 200x your stake on this low to medium variance game.
The low value royals have been replaced by runes that are more true to the theme at hand, and the highest paying symbol is the white wolf. None of the symbols stick out very much when it comes to value, and even the wild symbol only pays as much as the wolf. Anyway, you need to land between 3 and 5 matching symbols to win, and here is the paytable for Druids Dream slot:
The wild symbol is hard to miss, with the word “wild” written in thick golden letters, and it’s the key to a lot of what goes on in this game in terms of bonus features. You can land regular wilds that step in for all regular symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5, and also stacked wilds that can only land on reels 2 and 4.
There are two different scatter symbols here, namely the male and the female druid. The female will land on reel 4 only, while the male can only land on reel 2. Whenever you land the male druid at the bottom of a wild stack on reel 2, or the female druid on top of a wild stack on reel 4, you will trigger the Charged Wild Respins feature.
You will then see the reel with stacked wilds and a male/female druid become “charged”, which basically means it’s frozen in place, giving you sticky wilds and a sticky scatter. You then get the same number of respins as you have sticky wilds in the stack. This means 3 respins is the maximum you can get.
If you land a new wild stack without a scatter on reel 2 or 4 (depending on which one is sticky already) during the respins feature, you will trigger the Nudge feature on the next respin. Basically, this gives you one more chance to land the scatter you need to trigger the bonus round.
Free spins in Druids Dream
As we’ve touched upon above, you need to land stacked wilds with a druid scatter below/above on reels 2 and 4 to trigger the free spins bonus round. This gives you 6 free spins at first, but then each “charged” wild on reels 2 and 4 is counted up, and this gives you one extra spin per wild. This means you can play with a maximum of 12 free spins.
The scatter symbols also turn into wild symbols before the feature plays out, so you start with a nice stack of sticky wilds on the two reels. During the bonus round, you can also land a stack of wilds with a druid scatter above/below on reel 3 (the middle reel), and this gives you 3 extra free spins added to your tally.
What is the jackpot (max win)?
You will not find any kind of jackpot on Druids Dream slot, and if you’re looking for massive wins, look somewhere else. The max win is a measly 200 times your stake here, which is unimpressive even for a low to medium volatile game. You can, however, play with up to £400 per spin, which means that you can win up to £80,000 on a single spin here.
You can play Druids Dream for real money at one of the listed casinos below:Where to play Druids Dream.
Don’t want to play for real money? No problem, you can easily play the demo for free here at SlotCatalog:Play Druids Dream for free.
You can, of course, also play Druids Dream on your mobile phone and tablet, and NetEnt Touch always makes sure their games are optimized for all handheld platforms. This gives you the freedom to play on the go, and all you need is your Android, iPhone or iPad.
Druids Dream certainly has a sleepy, dreamlike quality to it, but not necessarily in a good way. The base game payouts will hardly keep you “awake at the wheel”, and the max win potential of 200x is just not enough to make it worthwhile. If you love nature mystery slots, and don’t care too much about anything else, you might like this game. For all we know, it might also be what druids dream of, but we expect better than this from a first rate developer like NetEnt.
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