Vikings: Empire Treasures Slot by Playtech

Vikings: Empire Treasures is one of Playtech's Norse jackpot slots, built by the Ash Gaming studio and part of the Empire Treasures progressive range. The 5x3 reels stand on a snowy fjord shore under a pink-and-purple dusk, a red-sailed longship gliding past. The symbols are a shield-maiden, a bearded chieftain and a tattooed warrior alongside Thor's hammers and jewelled card suits, with a red ram-horn medallion as the wild. It's a high-volatility game with a healthy 96.35% default RTP.

The Berserker mechanic is the hook, and it works in two directions. During normal play the Berserker Bonus can fire, and it hands you a choice, or rather a weighted outcome: either plunder a cash prize outright, or bank a higher win multiplier for the next free games. Berserker symbols you land also feed that multiplier meter, the one reading "X3 in next free games" above the reels.

Then the longship bonus opens the Berserker Free Games, and they run with whatever win multiplier you've built up, anywhere from x1 up to a full x5 applied to every win in the round. Stack a x5 into a good run of spins and that's the route to the game's 12,500x max win, which is a strong ceiling before the jackpots are even counted. The round can retrigger too.

Above it all sit the four Empire Treasures progressives, Grand, Major, Minor and Mini, won through a random collect-a-set pick bonus where you gather symbols to complete a jackpot. The Grand seeds at over 200,000. As network progressives they read "Not available" in the free Playtech demo, so the demo is for learning the Berserker multiplier build-up rather than chasing the jackpots. Worth noting operators can run the RTP lower, down to 93.16%, so check the paytable. A feature-rich Norse slot well worth a demo run.