Le Viking

This time he brings his fake beard to play in an All Ways Win slot machine. Moreover, coins are given a central role within all bonus features. For this, their value range is neatly displayed with a legend.

The medium volatility makes it a fun game for new and recreational players. And with a theoretical payout percentage of 96.32%, you stand a decent chance. You can read how Le Viking came out of the test in this slot machine review.

How to Play Le Viking

In Le Viking you see the familiar playing field with 6 reels and 5 rows. However, the way you win is different from its predecessors. In total, there are 15,625 Ways to Win as all possible paylines count. You may lower the bet from the standard $2 to $0.10 or increase it to $100.

What you are trying to do is to collect equal symbols on each reel. But from the moment you see the same symbol on the first three reels, you already win something. Unfortunately, a winning combination does not result in a Cascade.

Symbols and Payouts

The winning symbols may be the Viking weapons, such as hammer Mjölnir which gives 1 times your bet when three and 3 times the bet when six. Arrow and bow pay the least with payouts of 0.30 to 1.50 times your bet.

In addition, you have five card symbols with a lower value. With three of the same, they all give you only 0.10 times your bet. If you manage to get a six-of-a-kind, this will win you 0.50 to 0.70 per Win Way.

Bonus features of Le Viking

Le Viking has a maximum payout of 10,000 times your bet. While a playfield full of the same symbol can certainly fulfill this, statistically this doesn’t seem very achievable. So time to discuss the bonus features.

Raid Spins

During spins, you won’t just encounter card symbols and weapons. There are also regular coins (and diamonds) on the reels. What value these represent can be read in the legend at the top. If you want to know exactly what values they might be, we’ll tell you:

• Bronze coins: 0.2x, 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x or 4x
• Silver coins: 5x, 10x, 15x or 20x
• Gold coins: 25x, 50x or 100x
• Diamonds: 150x, 250x or 500x

When you see 6 or more of these coins during a regular spin, you win the Raid Spins feature. It is a Respins bonus that you start with 3 lives. You only encounter skulls and coins during the Respins. And each time a new symbol appears, your lives are restarted.
Plus there are green and gold clovers on the reels. The green ones multiply all surrounding coins by a Multiplier between 2 and 20. The gold ones do this for all coins in your play area.

Plunder like a purebred Viking to collect coins and diamonds with the French Smokey Le Viking.

Free Spins Bonus

The Free Spins Scatter can be recognized by the letters ‘FS’ with mushrooms around them. Regardless of how many you can collect, you also get another Respins bonus with 3 lives. Multipliers appear at the locations of the Scatters:

• Berserk bonus with x2 multiplier for 3 Scatters
• Valkyrie bonus with x3 multiplier for 4 Scatters
• Ragnarök bonus with x5 multiplier for 5 Scatters
• Journey to Valhalla bonus with x10 for 6 Scatters

Besides the symbols from the Raid Spins bonus, you can encounter two more. You have magic cauldrons that collect all current symbols. That is, coins show their value and Multiplier spaces and clovers instantly increase them. After that, you may continue with only the Magic Cauldron in your playing field.

Finally, there is a heart symbol that increases the number of levels. This allows you to have a maximum of up to 5 lives. It goes without saying that your chance of continuing to play is then greater.

Le Viking compared to 4 other slots from Hacksaw Gaming

Feature and Bonus Buy

With the familiar yellow Buy Bonus button at the bottom left, you can buy features and bonus games. Here’s the cost and what each option does:

• 3 times your bet with Bonushunt Featurespins to get 5 times more chances to win a bonus.
• 30 times your bet with Raider Featurespins for a guaranteed Raid Spins bonus.
• 100 times your bet for Berserk Free Spins.
• 200 times your bet for Ragnarök Free Spins.

What is our opinion of the Le Viking slot machine?

Hacksaw Gaming is a master of horror slots as you can read in the Wings of Horus and Klowns review. But they also like to provide casual games with a light theme. Le Viking fits within this second category with Smokey and his fake beard who still greets you with “Bonjour.”
The slot is well put together, as we are used to from the provider. Still, we find the gameplay only fairly ordinary. Whereas nowadays slots are often overrun by features, it is good to be able to play a simple game.
However, if you play the same feature in the base game as during the Free Spins, we still find it too little.