Huangdi: The Yellow Emperor Slot Review

Microgaming announced that their first product in 2017 will be themed after Hunagdi, the famous Yellow Emperor who ruled about 5,000 years ago and who is considered to be the initiator of Chinese civilisation.

So, what we have in front of us is yet another slot themed after Chinese mythology. Since Huangdi is such an important figure in Chinese tradition, Microgaming has a challenging task of creating a game worthy of such a ruler.

The released teaser seems promising enough, with crisp graphics, very good animations and an oriental soundtrack. The slot will be playable across all devices, and gamers can benefit from free spins, stacked and expanding symbols, lots of Wilds and multipliers.

Developer

Microgaming is one of the most famous software development companies in the iGaming industry. The company based on the Isle of Man started working back in 1994, when they released the first online casino ever, called the Gaming Club.

Microgaming recently released great slots like Dragonz, Lost Vegas and Jungle Jim El Dorado, while they plan to finish 2016 in style with a game themed after Tarzan.

How To Play It

Rumour has it that the 2017 release is set in a time of the historical battle of Zhuolu, when the Yellow Emperor defeated the Jiuli tribes led by Chiyou. Since Huangdi led the army, we can assume that the Yellow Emperor will be the highest paying symbol of the slot.

Also, you will come across his Sword, Scabbard and Medicine Box, functioning as high-value symbols. The low-paying ones are portrayed by playing cards done in Chinese calligraphy.

Emperor’s faithful dragon Yinglong is used as the Scatter crucial for triggering the Free Spins feature. The slot’s Logo is as a Wild.

When talking about the rules of the game, we know that the slot will offer five reels and 25 fixed paylines.

The Microgaming product will pay left to right starting from the leftmost reel, with three of a kind being the minimum for landing winning combinations. Betting should go from $0.25 to $125 per spin, and we are still to see how many automatic spins will be available in Autoplay.

Some of the high-value symbols will have the ability to expand and appear in stacks, meaning that when a high-value symbol appears fully stacked on reel one, all matching symbols on the reels will expand.

In this way the Yellow Emperor probably wants to give his faithful spinners an opportunity to land some hefty payouts in the base game as well.

Special Features

As we already said, Yinglong dragon is a Scatter, and you will need to land at least three of them in order to trigger the Free Spins feature. You will be awarded with 15 freebies to begin with.

If you manage to land four Scatters, you will also get a 10x multiplier, while five Yinglong dragons can reward you with an excellent 100x multiplier of the triggering bet.

Apart from other stacked and expanding symbols that appear in the base game, the neat addition to the story is that even Wilds will have the ability to expand during the Free Spins feature.

This will happen once you land a full-reel Wild on reel 1. Then all other Wild symbols on the reels will expand to a full-reel length.

The best thing is that you can re-trigger the feature at any time if you manage to land at least three Scatters on the reels, meaning that you can get up to 30 freebies during the feature.

Maximum Payouts

Based on the information we got from the teaser, spinners can get up to 60,000 coins during the Free Spins feature. This will probably happen once you fill the cells with the Huangdi symbols, in combination with that cool 100x multiplier.

The good thing about the 2017 release is that gamers can land lucrative payouts both during the Free Spins feature and the base game, thanks to stacked and expanding symbols.

Summary

To be completely honest, we are not too excited with the idea of having yet another slot based on Chinese mythology, since there are more than enough games available that deal with this topic.

However, Microgaming will try to make their new product stand from the crowd with a couple of fun and rewarding features.

Stacked and expanding high-value symbols, stacked and expanding Wilds, generous multipliers and up to 30 freebies promise plenty of chances for hefty payouts, but we will have to wait until January to give the slot a spin or two and determine whether the game will be as awesome as the real Huangdi was.