Winter Berries Slot
Whatever happens, you're guaranteed to have some good, winter fun along the way. Whether you're new to online slots or a complete expert, this game is very simple to navigate, so you'll be immersing yourself in the beautiful snowy forests before you can say ‘snowball fight.' 'Winter Berries' is virtually identical to another slot of Yggdrasil named 'Fruitoids', and arguably the only thing that changes are the pictures, now instead of fruits of alien appearance symbols are represented with colorful berries. Winter Berries Slot Free Spins and Super-Hot Multipliers Winter Berries free spins are different from what you might have seen before. Unlike Yggdrasil slots such as Nitro Circus, you don’t need to activate a bonus to bank some gratis turns. Instead, three or more matching symbols will initiate Winter Berries slot free play mode. Winter Berries is an online slot game brought to us by one of the best teams in the game. That team is, of course, Yggdrasil Gaming, a development studio which always hits the mark when it comes to creating stunning content. It is a five reel title which features twenty five pay lines and is available to play on all the latest devices. Winterberries Slot Review & Experience. Winterberries is a five-reel, twenty-five pay lines spectacular 3D online slot from Yggdrasil Gaming. Here you have your screen filled with juicy and colourful winter berries with well-designed and realistic graphics.
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Winterberries comes from the Swedish game developer Yggdrasil and the theme is very Nordic – Scandivanian berries in a wintery landscape. The music playing in the background is a Finnish tune named Ievan Polkka. Examples of berries that can show up are blueberries, lingonberries, common sea buckthorn, and cloudberries.
Winterberries is a high variance slot, which means that a small bankroll can dry up quickly since you can’t expect to be sustained by numerous small wins during a gaming session. For those who love high variance games, Winterberries is great. If low or medium variance is your cup of tea, you will probably grow frustrated quickly when playing Winterberries.
Winterberries lacks common features such as wild symbol, scatter symbol, bonus symbol, free spins mode, and bonus round. Instead, focus is on the base game and on the innovative freezing feature with re-spins.
Basic information about Winterberries
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- Game developer: Yggdrasil
- Launch year: 2014
- Reels: 5
- Paylines: 25
- Wild: No
- Scatter: No
- Free spins mode: No
- Bonus round: No
- Progressive jackpot: No
- RTP: 96.75 percent
Wagering
- You always play with all 25 paylines active on Winterberries.
- You always wager 1 coin per payline.
- You can select between the following coin values when playing in Swedish crowns (SEK): 0.10 kr / 0.20 kr / 0.50 kr / 1 kr / 2 kr / 5 kr / 10 kr / 20 kr.
- The smallest possible wager in SEK is 25 paylines x 1 coin x 0.10 kr = 2.50 kr. The largest possible wager is 25 paylines x 1 coin x 20 kr = 500 kr.
The freezing feature
If three identical berry symbols appear on a payline they will freeze in place, while the other symbols spin again, giving you a new chance of forming winning combinations without making a new wager.
Example: Three lingonberry symbols appear on payline #2. They freeze in place there and all other symbols spin again.
In this case, any new lingonberry symbol that appears after the re-spin will freeze in place to, and an new re-spin will take place. This will happen even if the new lingonberry symbol didn’t produce any win. (This is unusual in the slot world. Typically, a win is required for a new respin to take place.)
More and more of the same berry symbol being frozen on the screen will of course make it easier to form winning combinations.
Win multiplier
If both reel #1 and #2 gets covered in identical berry symbols, you will be awarded a 2x win multiplier.
If the third reel gets covered in the same symbol as reel 1 and 2, the win mulitplier will increase to 3x.
If the fourth reel gets covered in the same symbol as reel 1, 2 and 3, the win mulitplier will increase to 4x.
If the fifth reel gets covered in the same symbol as the other reels, the win mulitplier will increase to 5x.
Winter Berries was launched by Yggdrasil in January last year and it really captures the beauty of winter. White snow, blue skies, trees covered in snow and bright colored berries as items on the reel. Combine that with beautiful, twinkling music and howling winds and you have an enchanting slot with great gameplay, filled with a ton of winter magic. It’s a pleasure to spin and play, again and again.
How to play
Winter Berries has five reels which gives you 25 fixed paylines to play automatically, all at the same time. The cash bet is between €0.25 and €125, reaching between 0.01 coins and 5 coins. This is a big span with many variations and it makes it easy for you to play and bet however and how much you want. You can also see how the paylines are set up, simply by hovering with your mouse over the squares at the sides. This shows the paylines numbered from one to 25 and it’s quite interesting to see what patterns and paylines there is in-game. They also light up when winning at, so you can see for yourself what row you won.
Free spins and bonus games
There is two special features of Winter Berries. One is the freeze and spin, the other is the column bonus. The freeze and spin makes identical items freeze, if there’s enough of them at the same time in the reel. Freezed items stays on the reel while the rest spins again, as a sort of a free spin. The other feature is the column multiplier bonus, which gives you two, three, four or five times the score depending on how much of the screen are filled with ice.
The game experience
Winter Berries has kind of a playful feel too it, making you feel like a small child experiencing the winter wonderland for the first time. It’s full of hope and every spin you do is filled with anticipation and enchantment. The background is beautiful as well, with the Northerns Lights in the sky and the stars around it. Even the sound reminds of a beautiful winter landscape, much like the ones in a kids movie. There is howling winds and twinkly, playful sounds which together makes you feel cosy and safe. It gives you the feeling of being at home or in a cottage, with the winter storms flying outside in the cold and clear air. At the same time, it’s warm and safe inside, where you might be under a blanket. The sound effects are, as you may have understood by now, very well done by Yggdrasil’s sound artists. Both Yggdrasil and their sound artists have made a great job creating this gameplay that you’ll like being a part of.
Freeze spins
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One of the two special feature in this slot is the freeze and re-spin. Sometimes, some of the same items on the reel freezes and get buried in ice. This triggers a free spin, but with the freezed items staying in their positions. If more items identically to the ones in ice drops at the reel after the free spin, they also freezes, triggering yet another free spin. This continues to build up and can grow to be all over the screen. This then gives you the Big Win, combined with the column bonus. On the other hand, if there is no more items as the ones in ice after a free spin, the growing stops. You still get you win though, no need to fear a loss here. The best is of course to get the entire screen filled and once you get some parts freezed, you are much likely to clamp your thumbs in hope for it to spread so you get that Big Win!
Column Bonus
The other special feature in Winter Berries is the the column multiplier that gives you 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x you score. The columns decide what the multiplier bonus will be, and if scored at all of them, you will get a Big Win. The column bonus kicks in when a full row is covered with ice, which means three items vertically. When the three rows of the first three reels consists of nothing but freezed items, you get the three times bonus. The slot will spin again as a free spin after this, if one or more identical items popped up on the last spin and therefor got freezed, just like the freeze spin works. When all rows at all reels is freezed, being the entire screen, the 5x bonus kicks in and that’s when you get your long wanted Super Mega Big Win, the one making it even more exciting. Seeing the iced items building up is really enchanting and makes you even more into the game. When the free spins keep on ticking, we guarantee you will start cheering a little bit for it to continue.
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Play smooth and clear
The video slot runs exceptionally smooth and there is not much loading time at all. Winter Berries was originally not designed using the iSense 2.0 platform from Yggdrasil, but it was recently adapted and moved to it from the older version, just like many of their older slots. This is a big reason for the smooth experience and with the 16:9 game resolution, there is no doubt this is a well-made game, easy and pleasing for the players to use.
Mobile possibilities
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As well as many other slots and games from Yggdrasil, Winter Berries are available on mobile devices and desktops devices. It supports Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer, if you feel like playing on your desktop computer. If you are more of a mobile player and perhaps wants to spin a few rounds on the train or bus in the way home from a long day at work, there is of course a solution for you as well. You can easily play on you smartphone since Winter Berries are available and playable on devices using both Android and iOS. This is nothing new though, since basically all of Yggdrasil’s slots is available for multiple platforms. But it sure is nice to be able to play the slots wherever you are, and taking it with you where you want to go.