Hall of the Mountain King slot review (Quickspin)

Hall of the Mountain King is a wondrous, fairytale-like video slot by Quickspin with a remarkable history

It so happens that the creative director at Quickspin found out, purely by accident, that the copyright on the classic piece “Hall of the Mountain King” by the 19^th-century Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg was expiring.

He immediately knew that this beautiful, inspiring and cheerful music about trolls, caves, and Orcs would make a perfect backdrop for a video slot.

And thus, it came to be that a video slot was designed to work around the music, and not the other way around, which is the usual scenario.

Granted these are all fun facts, but they quickly lose their charm if the actual slot is a disappointment.

Fortunately, that is not the case: Hall of the Mountain King is very much a success. Graphically speaking it is a masterpiece, the music is divine, and the bonus round is exhilarating, even though it takes a bit of an effort to figure it out.

Hall of the Mountain King is not only one of the most ambitious projects undertaken by Quickspin; it has also ended up being one of the most outstanding ones they have ever released.

Hall of the Mountain King gameplay and features

Hall of the Mountain King is set in a beautiful world full of trolls, elves, Orcs and mysterious caves. And every time we think that a slot by Quickspin has reached the ultimate level as far as beautifully designed graphics go, the design team at this Swedish game developer proves us wrong again. This slot looks phenomenal.

The game has 5 reels with 3 rows of symbols and 20 fixed paylines.

The betting ranges between $€ 0.20 and $€ 100 per spin.

Hall of the Mountain Kins is a high variance slot: the maximum payout is 7,000 x the total bet. That is certainly worth getting up for!

As far as the slot’s payout rate is concerned, Quickspin scores big time as well with 96.29%.

Symbols and payouts

The wilds replace all symbols, except for the scatters and are, together with the Mountain King himself,  the highest value symbols in the game. Both of them will reward you with 40 x the total bet when you hit 5-of-a-kind.

The medium value symbols (various trolls and elves) are worth between 7.50 x and 20 x the total bet with five identical symbols.

The card symbols are the low-value symbols, and they will get you anywhere from 2.5 x to 6.25 x the total bet if you manage to spin 5 of the same on an active payline.

Wilds with extra multipliers

The more wilds drop on the reels, the higher the multiplier goes. The maximum multiplier is 5 x. Clearly, this mechanism was ‘borrowed’ from the Netent slot Lost Island.

Free spin bonus

The free spin bonus in this slot is won by spinning three scatters on the middle reels.

It consists of 3 levels.

Although it would get to be a bit much to explain the bonus round in detail, it kind of goes like this:

1^st round: high-value symbols replace the low-value symbols by creating winning combinations.

2^nd round: here the winning combinations get you extra wild symbols. You can collect up to a maximum of 6 wilds.

3^rd round: All collected wilds are now brought into the game at random times and sometimes will earn you extra multipliers.

The Mountain King himself can also give you a real boost by doling out extra multipliers. Besides that, he also crushes the rocks that contain the upgrades when you produce winning combinations.

The more (and the faster) you can make winning combinations, the more money you can make in this very cool bonus feature.

Our verdict on the Hall of the Mountain King video slot

Quickspin has, as far as we are concerned, outdone themselves with Hall of the Mountain King:

• The slot looks beautiful
• The classic, cheerful music piece supports the game perfectly
• The bonus rounds are surprising and lucrative
• The theme is original

There is just one last thing we can add to all this:

Play that bad boy!

4.6 out of 5 stars.

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