Queen of the Seas Slots

Hoist the mainsail and get ready to grab some plunder from online casinos as the pirate-themed Queen of the Seas online slot machine from GameArt spins up some treats such as free games with multipliers, wild substitutions and scatter awards. Although the online casino world is already filled to the gunnels with piratey slots games, this one has all the style and detail that GameArt apply to all their releases.

There’s 5 reels here, and running from the left side to the right, we have 20 paylines, across which players will want to see 3 or more of the same symbol type to get paid for a win. Just 0.20 is needed to get started for real cash awards, with the maximum being 10.00, and there’s a free slot game version of Queen of the Seas slot games for those who want to get some practice in first.

Our Queen has clearly been a very successful pirate, as there’s huge piles of gold stacked up beneath the reels, while behind them is the ship, a skull-shaped cave and blue skies above. A nice touch is the way that the actual reels are designed to look like they are on a sail, complete with the masts and rigging around them and it’s a good example of the care with which this game has been created.

Cast off with the Queen of the Seas

If there’s such a thing as a pirate style of writing, the decorative lines of the high card symbols will be it, with the 9, 10, J, Q, K and A all in different colours and all bringing players the smaller winnings. Apart from the 9, all playing card symbols need to land on 3 reels across a payline to be worth anything. The bigger winlines are made by the unique picture symbols which include a parrot, the pirate ship, a dagger sticking in a treasure map and best of all, a compass and the attractive pirate Queen herself.

These last 2 symbols pay out the highest awards in normal gameplay and only need to land on the first 2 reels from the left rather than the 3 reels that other symbols need. Wins range from 2x the line bet right up to 750x when either of these runs right across all 5 reels.

A golden skull and crossbones is able to award the top prizes when it lands, with up to 9000x the line bet for a full 5 appearing, but it also doubles up as a wild symbol that can act as any regular icon and complete winning combinations. There’s a nice surprise in store when this happens, as any winning line that it becomes part of will be doubled in value.

Grab Some Booty with Free Spins

The wild symbol won’t be able to substitute for the treasure chest scatter symbol, which pays up to 2000x the coin value and also launches a free spins bonus game when any 3 or more land at once. These are some pretty special spins, as gamblers get to choose the volatility of the round by deciding how many spins they want and any multipliers to go with winnings throughout them.

The options are for the Pearl games, where 20 spins play out and any prizes are tripled, the Jewels games, with 15 spins and a 4x multiplier, the Silver spins which consists of 20 games and a 6x multiplier, or those players who want to take a bit more risk could choose the Gold round where they only get 6 spins, but any wins during them are multiplied 10x over.

Three or more scatters appearing at any point in the free spins games will retrigger the round, but it will automatically be at the same spins to multiplier ratio already chosen.

Gamble Feature

Any win can be gambled, with players ready to take the risk doubling the amount won if they correctly guess the colour of a face-down playing card. This can repeated up to 10 times, but anyone who manages to get 10 consecutive correct guesses is going to be incredibly lucky and should immediately go out and buy a lottery ticket.

The Verdict

While pirate-themed games are nothing new, the Queen of the Seas slot machine looks better than most and has enough features to keep its head above water. Like all GameArt slots, it has a good return to player percentage, is mobile optimised and fully guaranteed for fair play and reliability.

We particularly like the option to choose the number of free games and multipliers, but even in the base games this is a slot with lots to enjoy.