Ishtar Power Zones Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Ishtar Power Zones Review

With the Ishtar: Power Zones slot, developed in conjunction with Playtech, Ash Gaming expands its rapidly growing portfolio of online slot machines. Based on an ancient Mesopotamian goddess of sexual love, war, and justice, the game revolves around the flashy Power Zones mechanic, which debuted less than a year ago in the Stallion Stike slot and has already captured players' hearts all around the globe.

Ishtar: Power Zones - Slot Outlook

Set in somewhere in Mesopotamia, the Ishtar: Power Reels slot plays out on a massive 6x5 grid, producing 15,625 ways to play on each spin. For those who are unaware, Mesopotamia was a region in the Near East between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, where the earliest human civilization on Earth was born - Sumer. People believed in many deities back in the time, and Ishtar was one of the most worshiped Sumerian gods and had a sanctuary built in her honor. Apparently, you can see it to the left of the reels, while the right side of the screen showcases a typical mountainous landscape of the Near East.

The math model in Ishtar: Power Reels is similar to the one found in the Legend of Hydra: Power Reels slot, and the biggest difference is RTP, which has been lowered significantly to 95.62%. Meanwhile, the high volatility, as well as the 10,000x max win capability, remained untouched. The stakes here, in turn, range from $0.2 to $250 per spin.

The paytable in the Ishtar: Power Zones slot consists of 11 regular symbols, and Ishtar herself is a top star here.

Ishtar: Power Zones - Bonus Features

As we proceed to the extras, we see that Ishtar: Power Zones offers quite a different gameplay than other games powered by the Power Zones engine. Oddly enough, the developers omitted the bonus game, and the slot relies heavily on the 3 random modifiers that can pop up on any base game spin.

Anyway, the Power Zones mechanic is central to the gameplay, and most wins come via transforming symbols.

If a charged symbol lands on a position marked as the Power Zone, it transforms all other symbols in the area into the same instances. Then, triggered Power Zones will be removed from the reels.

The 3 random modifiers are called Flames of Ishtar, and depending on the color of flame, you can get the following features:

• Random Wilds - when the screen gets blue, a random number of Wild symbols will be added to the reels.
• Goddess Mode - when the screen gets green, you'll receive a random number of paid Respins with a 2x Multiplier, which applies to all wins featuring Power Zones. Each symbol transformation adds +1 to the Multiplier value, and the feature always ends with a Fire Spin.
• Fire Spin - when the screen gets red, all symbols in Power Zones transform into the same randomly chosen symbol. If the Fire Spin plays after the Goddess Mode, the accumulated Multiplier will be applied to the win.

Ishtar: Power Zones - Slot Verdict

Players love when slot developers come up with new ideas, and so does the Ash Gaming studio, which doesn't just recycle its trademarked Power Zones mechanic, but tweaks it in different ways to offer a different kind of experience. The Power Zones suite of games already counts only 4 titles, but you cannot say those play out pretty much the same despite having a common core mechanic, and that's highly appreciated.

Pros

• Gorgeous design and soundtrack
• Exciting random Flames of Ishtar modifiers
• Decent max win of 10,000x

Cons

• No Free Spins feature
• Low RTP of 95.62%