Aztec Spins slot review

About the slot machine

The Aztec Spins slot machine immerses the player in ancient Mexico, where long-concealed riches from the Aztec empire remain. Here, the paylines are active in both directions, and the bonus round with free spins also provides the opportunity to activate even more free spins. Aztec Spins is one of Red Tiger's daily Drop slots that also gives players the chance to win a jackpot every day. For many players, this is enough. But as a finishing touch, Red Tiger Gaming has also included a wheel of fortune, which can make the whole gaming experience even more interesting.

Aztec Spins makes its theme clear through sound, graphics, and symbols. All are typical of ancient Central American cultures.

Bets & winnings

First, you select the bet you want to play. The bet levels in Aztec Spins are uncomplicated. You merely input your total bet per spin, which can be anywhere from 0.10 euro to 150 euro per spin. This means that you can bet low or high, which makes Aztec Spins a really cool slot in terms of stake level, because it suits all kinds of players.

Also activated in Aztec Spins are multipliers, which can lead to attaining the game's top payout of 4500 times your stake.

The theoretical payout percentage (RTP) of the game is 95.71%, which is quite high, but it pales in comparison to the 96% (or more) that we see associated with many, e.g., NetEnt slots. Still, this is a theoretical figure that is ultimately not so important. Much more interesting, and useful for our purposes, is the information we can glean simply by looking at the game and considering how it works. This is a slot with quite high volatility, which means that there are certain game rounds (and even stretches of game rounds) in which you won't get any wins.

Functions

Clearly, a slot machine can be loaded with extra entertainment, in the form of bonus features and others of its kind, without turning itself into a video game or something else that it should not be. Aztec Spins, then, having been put together by those who know how to give a slot machine those kinds of qualities, is bonus-heavy and feature-full, and what we have to say about it will mostly concern this aspect.

The jackpots of Aztec Spins

There is more than one way to win a jackpot in Aztec Spins Daily Drop. Besides the current jackpot you're seein' at the top left when you open the game, there's also Super Drop and Hourly Drop—i.e. a jackpot win every hour.

The clock is always visible next to the amount of money that can make a player richer every hour, counting down to the moment that money is to be dropped into the machine.

The wheel of Fortune

The most amusing part of Aztec Spins, apart from the opportunity to win the daily jackpot, might be the fortune wheel, which is always in the background. This wheel dispenses all bonus features depending on which feature it stops at.

Additionally, a randomly occurring Aztec wheel appears in the game. It can be found in one of four positions on the playing field, and it's identified as a giant golden wheel. When it triggers, it gives the player one spin on the Aztec equivalent of the Big Wheel of Fortune.

Locked symbols

When the wheel of fortune in the background of the game stops on one of the symbols, this symbol completely covers reels 3 and 4. Anytime this symbol lands on the reels, it will lock in place until a winning combination occurs. If the symbol appears on reels 3 and 4, the game is giving you a very up-close view of that specific anatomical part. (I'd call it an error, except there's no "right" way for a game to depict anatomical parts.)

Stacked multipliers

Moreover, Aztec Spins has multipliers which can boost wins a lot. When the wheel stops on 'x10', a multiplier of 10x the next win is applied. Should players then manage to spin another Aztec wheel that lands on the multiplier, it will be added to the previous one, and can multiply even the next win by x30.

Free spins

An appreciative extra feature is the one with complementary spins. When you manage to enter the complementary spins round, 12 spins that cost nothing are activated first. But if lady luck smiles on you, the Fortune wheel stops on the complementary spins once again, and you get another 6 spins that cost nothing and are activated automatically.

An additional slight advantage of the game round with free spins is that the wheel of fortune in the background reacts more often, thus activating more bonus features than in the game's regular game rounds.

Symbols

In Aztec Spins, the symbols work in tandem with the exotic theme of the game. The powerful symbols that yield the game's slightly larger wins on tumbles are a golden pyramid that pays best of all the game's symbol sets, followed closely by totem deities, Aztec icons, and totems.

The game's weakest symbols that represent the lesser winning combinations are the classic playing card symbols: A, K, Q, J, and 10. But even these symbols—usually so carelessly rendered in games—have been given a graphic touch that makes them palatable, if not hugely attractive, by the standards of today's game art.

Summary

We have a strong fondness for Aztec Spins, primarily due to its exhilarating graphics and the wheel of fortune that can spring surprises with bonus features at any time. We also find it very appealing that you can stop the reels by pressing the same button you use to make them go. The music isn't bad either. It's not too much or too overwhelming in any way, and it doesn't get irritating after a while—which is a problem we frequently encounter in other video slots.