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shifting seas slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

Pirates, the sea, and the beach are all popular online slot themes, and Shifting Seas takes all three and blends them together to create a great looking, if somewhat ambiguous, theme. I can’t imagine that the theme of this game alone will attract too many players – it feels pretty random, and there is little explanation of who or what the characters and objects featured on the symbols are intended to represent. I know that storylines appear in very few online slot machines, but this is one title where I can’t help but think a little additional information on what is going on would make the game feel more enjoyable.

As for the paytable, it’s difficult to get an idea of whether the numbers shown are good or bad because of how winnings are awarded. The Shifting Seas slot game uses pay ways, but unlike most games that utilise this payout mechanic, this one requires that symbols appear on adjacent rows for a win to be awarded. A diagram of this is shown on the paytable, making it easy to visualise a winning pay way, but calculating how many are active each time a new and larger reel is added to the stack was far too tedious for me.

The top symbol is a treasure chest with a return of 5x your stake for six-of-a-kind. This is followed by the pirate queen at just 1.8x for all six, another female pirate at 1.4x, and then a deckhand at 1.3x. The last of the “high-paying” symbols is a parrot which pays 1.2x your bet for six-of-a-kind; my intuition says that these are all meagre numbers, especially for a game with only two spots on the last reel at the beginning of each spin. Still, I wanted to keep an open mind for now.

Wager selection is typically Thunderkick – the developer always tries to accommodate the biggest high rollers and the lowest low rollers. They stick to that philosophy here by offering a minimum bet of €0.10 per spin and a maximum bet of €100.00.

base game & modifiers

You can’t help but be intrigued by the unusual layout of the base game in Shifting Seas. The layout is larger on the left-hand side of the screen at four reels high and gets progressively smaller until it is only two reels high on the right-hand side. To hit a win, you need to land matching symbols from left to right on adjacent rows, which will trigger an “avalanche” where the winning combination is removed, and new symbols drop in from the top. We’ve seen this feature in many games – nothing unique so far - but things are about to get much more interesting.

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