Easter Island

About Easter Island slot

Easter Island is the name of the mysterious island in the Pacific Ocean, which has Chile for a closest neighbor. Over 1,000 stone statues (moai) stand watch on this island. They are large in size, unique in character, and old in age—over 1,000 years for the oldest among them. The idea was that the statues would have a watchful eye over both the settlements of the island and the sea surrounding it.

Easter Island features two of its statues playing the main roles. They serve two functions. First, they are decorative, standing and swinging next to the reels in time to the game's cheery and dancing calypso music. Second, they have the not-so-simple task of activating the game's specials—those sweet emerging surprises that bring players back repeatedly. Game developer Yggdrasil is a master at combining special graphic elements with special features, and nowhere is this clearer than in Easter Island.

Yggdrasil also excels at crafting beautiful, vibrant slots. Easter Island exemplifies this. The moai statues have birds and butterflies in their auditory company, and the wonderful row of flowers slightly to the left and right of the vertical reels is an arresting image, especially with the wind blowing through. Even if the Easter Island demo game that the developer has given us to play in order to appreciate its work were somewhat less than delightful, there wouldn’t be any reason to eschew it because of some bad seaside vista.

Stakes and winnings

Easter Island consists of five reels over which runs three rows of icons. In the basic state game, there are 27 fixed lines. You can only alter the coin value which spans from 0.04 to 80.00 USD, for a total bet ranging from 1.00 to 2000.00 USD. Although this game includes a sufficient amount of lines to warrant calling it a "25 lines slot" (hence the title of this paragraph), there are definitely 27 opportunities to win on every single spin.

You must understand that in the base game, you have only 27 paylines available. However, in the respins feature, you can play with either 65 or 103 paylines.

In general, Easter Island functions as a low-risk, low-variance slot. We do not have the exact figures on hit percentage, but it likely lies well above 20%. You can achieve wins either from the smaller "battle" or from the larger "battle". The top win per line is 500 coins, translating to somewhere between $20 and $40,000. The top win you can achieve on a single spin is 51,500 coins. The Easter Island RTP is 96.10%.

Symbols

Easter Island has a rich and ancient culture. Like all other Pacific islands, it has a profound appreciation for animals of every kind. The Polynesians who settled Easter Island held certain animals in such high regard that they carved impressive effigies of these creatures. The symbols that represent high wins in the game depict some of those animals. A bird—reminiscent of the now-extinct Easter Island moas—pays the highest prize, at five times the next-highest-paying animal. The other four animals in the high-win echelon are a reptile, an amphibian, a fish, and a terrestrial mammal. The winning symbol roster is rounded out with suite symbols and a wild.

Game features

The round of free spins is absent from Easter Island, as is any sort of bonus game. In direct contrast to how the game developer usually rolls, the sole focus here is on a respins feature.

Symbol Swap

Every minor achievement you accomplish with a minimum of three in a row grants you the ability to access the game Symbol Swap Respins. You can win a single $ona, and it doesn't really matter!

The very first thing that takes place is that the moai statue on the left gathers all the icons featuring the same value (either high win or low win symbols, as appropriate). Next, the moai statue on the right erases all other icons of the same value. As a result, all high-win and low-win symbols are replaced with the Selected icon.

You write down a victory with the lizard sign. For the spots on the reels that should be occupied by high-win symbols, just the lizard is there.

Expanding wilds and expanding reels

When the moai statues have completed their duties, two bonuses can be utilized. Look up above the reels, and you will see that there are icons above reels 3-5. The icon above reel 3 tells us that we will receive a respin with a payoff of three symbols lined up in a row. Pay attention, because if you get four in a row, you win a respin on a machine that is set up for five high symbols (65 paylines). If you get five in a row, you are playing on a beast of a machine that is set up for seven high symbols (103 paylines). Oh, and did I mention that, in the bonus round, all wilds also expand to cover the entire reel?

Summary

In our eyes, Easter Island is a treat, with fantastic graphics and a nice package of special features. However, the game has a little less depth than many of the developer's other offerings. It feels a bit "all or nothing" with this title. If you enjoy slots that have an even distribution of potentially high-scoring moments across the game's different feature areas, this is a less optimal choice. On the other hand, if you like your slots to be almost always about the business of being "exciting" in the core gameplay segment—that is, the stuff that happens between the spins—you might not find anything in this title that can't sustain your interest from spin to spin. And it might even thrill you a little more in its basic segment than some of the developer's other games.

We must also mention that it is hard to be impressed by the payback. 96.10% is a very mediocre figure for a modern video slot. It is also wise to remember the low variance. You win a lot when you play Easter Island. This also means that you can't expect the average win to be particularly high. A hit that looks big on the reels doesn't have to do a whole lot more than pay back the bet.