Tower of Atlantis Slot Review

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Paul Crake holds the record. In 2003 he got to the top in 9 minutes 33 seconds. It takes me longer than that to find my car keys 🔑 on a good morning.

Tower of Atlantis slot from Games Global moves the stairwell to the bottom of the sea 🌊. Poseidon waits by the reels with his trident, and no one is running a stopwatch.

Gameplay

I'm not sure how I feel about this game's design language. The background is pretty detailed, and I like how the ebb and flow of the water distorts everything.

On the other hand, Poseidon (who looks like a buff Rob Zombie) has been rendered really minimalistically. The buy bonus options and the game information are really small, but ironically, things look better on a mobile phone than on a laptop.

The 5x4 grid has 63 paylines, the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.

RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. is 96.21%, volatility is medium/high, and the max multiplier is 5,896.96x. The max win is $235,878, with bets running from $0.25 to $40. It's fiat currencies only, and the Japanese yen didn't make the guest list.

The A, K, Q, J, Scallop Shell and Nautilus Shell symbols all pay the same: 0.08x for 3, 0.16x for 4 and 0.32x for 5 of a kind.

The Trident, Throne, Crown and Pillars share the top tier at 0.16x, 0.32x and 0.64x. So the best line in the game pays about 2/3 of your bet back. Poseidon keeps the good stuff somewhere else.

The Wild replaces all paying symbols, not the Scatter, and it only shows up in the base game.

The real base-game hook is the 2x, 3x, 4x and 5x Wild Multiplier symbols. They land on reels 2, 3 and 4 only, stand in for every paying symbol except the Scatter, and multiply any win they're part of by their value.

There are two prizes sitting at the top of the MegaClimb tower: the Minor Prize, worth 140x to 217x, and the Grand Prize, fixed at 5,000x. You can win either one inside the Mega Climb Bonus round only.

Features

POSEIDON SPINS MULTIPLIER FEATURE:

The feature triggers at random on any spin and drops up to 5 multipliers onto the grid. Each multiplier's value depends on its row. The bottom row is worth 2x, and every row higher adds +1x, so the top row is 5x.

The grid pays, then every multiplier moves up 1 row and gains +1x, and the reels re-spin and pay again.

Any multiplier that climbs past the top row leaves the grid, and the re-spins keep going until none are left.

That upward drift is what this feature is all about - a multiplier born on the bottom row gets 4 shots at a win, and each one is worth more than the last.

MEGA CLIMB BONUS:

Land 3 or more Scatter symbols on a single spin and you trigger the Mega Climb Bonus. The round plays out on up to 5 reels of 3 rows, and the number of Scatters that triggered it decides how many reels start active, with the rest disabled.

The tower, bottom to top, holds a 2x Multiplier, a 3x Multiplier, a 5x Multiplier, a Variable Multiplier that starts at 10x (and can reach 31x), the Minor Prize and the Grand Prize.

Every active reel can land Credit Prize, Advance, Prize Increase, Multiplier Increase, Skull, Restore or Blank symbols, which does nothing.

Advance symbols move you 1 position up the tower. It takes 3 Advances to unlock a Tower Multiplier, 15 to unlock the Minor Prize, and 18 to unlock the Grand Prize.

Credit Prize symbols pay 0.2x to 6.64x. At the end of each spin, every Credit Prize that landed gets multiplied by your active Tower Multiplier and paid out.

Prize Increase symbols add 1x to 7x to the Minor Prize. Multiplier Increase symbols add +1x to +5x to the Variable Multiplier.

A Skull disables the reel it lands on. A Restore switches a disabled reel back on.

Oh, and there's no spin count. The round ends when no active reels are left to spin, and it can't be retriggered. Any Minor or Grand Prize you've unlocked is paid at the end.

So the Skulls are the clock, the Advances are the climb, and whichever multiplier you've climbed to decides what every Credit Prize is worth.

BUY BONUS:

For 60x your bet, the Buy Bonus triggers the Mega Climb Bonus instantly. The Buy Super Bonus costs 100x and starts a Super Bonus with 5 Special Bonus symbols, which you can only get by buying it.

Performance

Tower of Atlantis slot behaved itself the whole way through my session, with nothing stalling or freezing.

Maximum Win

Put the 5,896.96x max multiplier together with the $40 top bet and you get a max win of $235,878. The minimum bet is $0.25.

Conclusion

The slot's money lives in the Mega Climb Bonus round.

The path to the max multiplier is 18 Advances before the Skulls shut every reel down. Even then, the Grand only covers 5,000x of the 5,896.96x, so roughly 897x more has to come from Credit Prizes and the Minor Prize in the same bonus.

One top Credit Prize of 6.64x on a maxed-out Variable Multiplier is about 206x, so you need a lot of good spins stacked together, rather than one lucky one.

The Buy Bonus costs well under what most studios charge, which makes it good value, and I'd take it.

The Super Bonus asks for 40x more for 5 Special Bonus symbols. But look, I'm not paying extra for a mystery box when the regular box is already priced fairly. But that’s just me - I have little T-Rex arms that don’t always reach my wallet.

The slot suits players with a bankroll built for medium/high swings who don't mind waiting for (or buying) the climb. If you want steady line hits from the base game, pass, because the plain lines won't give you that.

Slot Details

Game Provider: Games Global
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: 63
RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.

RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 96.21%
Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).

The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk you’re taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a game’s RTP.: Medium/High
Bonus Round: Yes
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Re-spins
Max Multiplier: 5,896.96x
Max Win: $235,878
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