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avalon slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

As mentioned earlier, the legend of Avalon has persisted throughout generations – the Lady of the Lake, the wizard Merlin, King Arthur, and his Knights of the Round Table – all of this is related, but only play a small part in the original Avalon video slot. The sequel, Avalon II, makes much better use of the legend, but that’s a story for another day. As far the graphics are concerned, this is an older game – the resolution was increased when the game was remade in HTML5, but it doesn’t look any different overall. Sound wise, the music is very ambient and undistracting, so there is no danger of that bothering you.

The top symbol on the paytable is the wild, paying 150x your stake for a full line of five. After that you have the chest, which pays 50x but also acts as a second wild during the free spin’s bonus. This makes several extra combinations possible which cannot be won during the base game, but a full line featuring five chests will only pay the usual 50x times by any multiplier you are lucky enough to be awarded. The remainder of the picture symbols pay 40x, 30x, 25x, and 20x for five-of-a-kind. Avalon video slot is classed as a medium volatility game, which means you shouldn’t be surprised to see numbers such as these – nevertheless, the game does seem to throw a lot of dead spins at you considering the lack of anything resembling a monster hit on the paytable.

As for the betting range, this could be a quirk caused by testing the Avalon online slot in demo mode whilst writing this review, but the minimum wager per spin appears to have been doubled from €0.20 per spin to €0.40 when the game was converted from Flash to HTML5. I can’t see any good reason for Microgaming to choose to do this, however – a penny per line is perfectly normal in a low to medium variance game. The HTML5 version also removes the ability to bet on less than the maximum number of paylines as well – something Microgaming opted to do with every game they updated. If I am only depositing a few euros on an evening to play with, €0.40 per spin puts Avalon outside of my comfort zone, so I hope this is only a demo mode issue.

base game & modifiers

Experimentation was still in its early stages back when Avalon was first released – from memory, I’d guess this was sometime around 2005. A 5x3 play field with 20 paylines is the most common setup used by all slot machines back then, and Avalon doesn’t try anything flashy to break away from the mould. There are no modifiers in the base game either – just scatter symbols, a free spins bonus, and that’s your lot.

Whether this is a bad thing is up to your own preferences – I remember enjoying this game a lot when it was offered by Microgaming as part of their daily freeroll slots tournaments, but I never really put much of my own money through the game. Coming back to it today, I feel definite pangs of nostalgia – but little else. It’s a slot which is difficult to get excited about, even as someone who remembers enjoying it back in the day.

Note, some sites list this games RTP as being 97% - I’m unsure where this figure came from, as the help file included within the Avalon slot game lists the RTP specifically at 96.01%. This is likely to be a mistake that has been copied without due diligence by other review sites or automated bots.

avalon slot free spins Feature

The solitary bonus round in Microgaming’s Avalon slot game is a free spins bonus round which is triggered by hitting three or more scatter symbols. Two scatters do pay out 2x your stake, which is a little consolation for missing the feature - but not much more than that. Three scatters pay 4x your stake, as well as awarding the bonus round. Four and five scatters pay 20x and 200x respectively.

Landing three or more scatters awards 12 free spins, in addition to the cash pay outs mentioned previously. Each free spin will also have a random multiplier applied to it of between 2x and 7x. A five-scatter retrigger can therefore pay 1,400x your stake if you are lucky enough to be awarded the 7x multiplier at the same time – but retriggers seem to be rare full stop.

Five-of-a-kinds of every other symbol are much more likely during the free spins feature because of the addition of the second wild symbol – the chest is wild during the bonus round, in addition to the castle symbol. It is theoretically possible to win 3,000x your stake from a single spin if some reviews are to be believed. Without examining the reel strips, this is a difficult claim to verify, although it is certainly possible to win more than 3,000x your stake from a full free spins feature.

avalon slot review final thoughts

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