The Queens Curse Empire Treasures Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

The Queen's Curse Empire Treasures Review

Playtech has had mediocre success with their Empire Treasures jackpot range, at least so far, and The Queen's Curse Empire Treasures is another effort set in a fantasy world. You’ll get in the middle of a good and evil queen, a princess and a mysterious witch. You can look forward to 3 base game features, and these are again enhanced in the 3 versions of the bonus round you get from a randomized selection pre-feature.

Visually, you get plenty of busty females dressed in ways that don't hide their attributes, but we feel that this game would have benefitted from a backstory to tie things together. We’re not really sure who’s friend or foe, but we get that the evil queen and the princess don’t see eye to eye (at least metaphorically, as they get a pretty intense eye contact moment when the bonus round triggers). Anyway, if you’re after a feature-heavy fantasy game with a somewhat forgiving risk/reward profile, look no further.

The Queen's Curse Empire Treasures Features

The premiums consist of a good queen, a witch, a princess, a sceptre, an evil queen and a king’s crown. These symbols pay between 0.66 to 5 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and all symbols tend to land in stacks that may lead to larger wins. In addition, you have a regular ‘W’ wild symbol that pays 8.33x your stake for 5-oak wins, and it also substitutes for all regular pay symbols to help complete winning combinations.

In addition to the tendency of symbols to land stacked in general, one random symbol may land heavily stacked at random times.

The Mirror Wild feature triggers when the Mirror Wild lands on reel 3 in the base game. The Mirror Wild then displays a randomly chosen premium pay symbol, and all instances of that symbol instantly turn wild for that spin.

Landing the Princess symbol on reels 1 and 5 at the same time triggers the Princess Respins feature. The present princess symbols become sticky with a cash prize attached, and you can now land only blanks or new princess symbols. You get a new respin for each new sticky princess you land, and the feature ends when you run out of spins. You’ll win between 2 and 1,000 x your stake for 4 to 20 princesses in total, respectively.

The Evil Queen also has her own feature, and you need the Evil Queen symbol stacked on reels 1 and 5 to trigger it.

You trigger the Bonus Round when the ‘Evil Queen vs Princess’ scatter lands on reels 1 and 5 in the same base game spin. You get 1 of 3 features randomly chosen up front, and they come with 12 free spins no matter what. You can also win 3 or 12 extra spins, respectively, when you land 1 or 2 scatters on a free spin:

• Princess Free Spins - comes with a randomly chosen and heavily stacked symbol per free spin. The top-tier Queen symbol is excluded from this feature, and so are scatters.
• Queen Free Spins - Any premium symbol win turns the relevant symbol into the top-tier Queen symbol for the remainder of the bonus round. You also get +1 extra spin if you win with a premium symbol on the last free spin.
• Mirror Wild Free Spins - comes with up to 3 Mirror Wilds on the 3 middle reels, and these turn up to 3 random premium symbol types wild for that spin.

The Queen's Curse is part of the Empire Treasure jackpot network, and the feature can trigger randomly at any given time. Your jackpot feature chances are slightly better if you play with higher stakes though, and it guarantees 1 of 4 progressive jackpots. Here’s an overview of the jackpot seed values:

• The Grand Jackpot seeds at £200,000.
• The Major Jackpot seeds at £10,000.
• The Minor Jackpot seeds at £1,000.
• The Mini Jackpot seeds at £100.

The 200 Spins The Queen's Curse Empire Treasures Experience

We land a larger payout after a while of base game grinding, and the princess respins feature is triggered right after. Around 2:22 into the 4:31-minute highlights video, we finally trigger the bonus round.

eview Summary

Playtech Vikings has spun together both a character and feature rich fairytale drama with The Queen's Curse Empire Treasures, but it comes across as a bit disjointed at times. A large selection of decent features have been thrown into the mix, so the game will keep you entertained if that’s what you’re after. However, it’s a bit too much and all over the place to make sense in a coherent way.

Underneath all the bells and whistles, the low symbol values and lack of multipliers gives you small to medium sized single spin payouts at best. Up to 1,000x can be won in the Princess Respins feature, but you’ll need the top-tier progressive jackpots to truly do damage. If you’re into fantasy and enjoy a wide variety of features, well then The Queen's Curse Empire Treasures might just be worth checking out.

Pros

• Random stacked symbol feature
• Mirror Wild symbol-to-wild transformation
• Evil Queen symbol transformation
• Princess Respins w/ 1,000x top prize
• 3 different bonus rounds (randomized)
• Grand Jackpot seeds at £200,000

Cons

• The regular 1,000x potential is not impressive
• RTP is 95.35 % without the 0.99 % jackpot contribution

If you enjoy The Queen's Curse Empire Treasures you should also try:

Dark King Forbidden Riches - is a somewhat popular fantasy release from NetEnt, and you can look forward to multiplier wilds up to x5, as well as a bonus round with hot zone sticky wilds that also provide extra spins.

Wild Crusade Empire Treasures - is a midieval-themed installment in Playtech’s progressive jackpot series, and it comes with 5x4 reels and 40 win ways. You can look forward to walking wild crusade respins where the wild increases in both size and multiplier value, and this is how you can win up to 10,000x your stake.

Pride of Persia Empire Treasures - is the 3rd installment in the Empire Treasures jackpot range from Playtech, and it comes with 5x4 reels and 100 ways to win. You can look forward to a cash prize pick ‘em game, as well as a two-tier bonus round with sticky wilds. The volatility is medium, and you can win up to 600x your stake.

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