You may or may not already be familiar with a lot of the video slots featured on Slotjunkies but if you're
anything like me, it's all well and good seeing names and stuff, but I want to know which slots have things like
stacked wilds, free spins features and nice juicy multipliers that are
going to change my life one day! Ok so I am an optimist, but that's why I play slots - for the adreneline rush of a
big win.
In this article I have pulled out a number of online slots that have big multipliers during the bonus game. Most don't
come close to the 300x multiplier you will find in
300 Shields
mind you - that's a one-off but well worth a look. Invariably, the high multipler slots are all free spin bonus slots
and many are what you call
high variance slots
too, but as the variance is usually higher, always play carefully. The potential for big wins always comes at a
price and that usually takes the form of long barren spells, so don't overdo the bet size when playing these!
I have organised these by software as all the online casinos on the site licence in their casino software from one
of four main providers: Microgaming, IGT, Playtech or Realtime Gaming (RTG). You will see in the right-hand
sidebars throughout the site each casino and what software it uses, so just marry up the software and you can be sure
the slot you want is at that casino. We'll start with ... IGT:
Aristocrat Slots
Two slots from Aristocrat really stand out when it comes to multipliers. Firstly the one with the biggest
free spin multiplier is the
Lucky 88 slot which, as you
can probably guess, goes up to x88! You are basically in control here by having to choose between the number of
free spins and the multipliers - x8, x18, x38 or x88 feature in there.
The
Coy Sun Doa slot (which will probably be instantly
familar to land-based casino players) has a very similar structure although the top multiplier here is less at
a mere 30x! Once again you chosee the free spins/multipliers yourself depending on how much risk you want to take!
IGT Slots
IGT soaked up the online casino software provider Wagerworks, so where you see one mentioned invariably it refers to both. In
a nutshell, Wagerworks created slot games of their own plus they have brought some of the more popular
IGT slots online also. The first slot from IGT that springs to mind for good
multipliers and free spins is
Captain Quids Treasure
which I have seen recently in my local land-based casino too. The free spins feature allows you to select certain points
on a Treasure map, each one revealing either a free spin or a multiplier. It is a similar concept to the very popular
Pharaoh's Fortune slot (
not currently availabe online) and you can win up to 40 free spins with
10x
multipliers! rare, but very nice if you can get it! A very similar slot is the
50000 Pyramid game which is essentially the same wolf
in different clothing!
Most of you will no doubt be familiar with the
Cleopatra slot machine
but the interesting one for the purposes of this article is the follow-up slot,
Cleopatra II. Once again we have a free
spins bonus triggered by 3 scatters but this time, with every free spins you get awarded, the multiplier increases by x1.
In theory, you could win up to 50 spins with the last spin being
50x but the reality is you get between
8 and 14 free spins so the highest multiplier will of course be
14x on the last spin. To get to the magic
50x you need a retrigger or 3 but that's the beauty of Cleo II. Say you get 11 spins initially, that takes you to 11x on
the last spin but if you retriggered the bonus during those 11 spins, you get 11 more so your multiplier will continue
up to 22x and so on!
Finally in the IGT slots section I have to mention the "Fortress of Fortunes" edition of the excellent
Dungeons & Dragons slot. This one works like the
aforementioned Captain Quids Treasure except that it also brings stacked wilds into the free spins. D&D awards
up to
6x multiplier and in my experience about 19 free spins, but it's a very decent game.
Microgaming Slots
One of the hidden gems with big multipliers and a free spins bonus is the
Dolphin Tale slot. Like most free spin slots, you get the free
spins by getting 3 scatter symbols in view. You then get to pick a character and that determines how many spins and what
multiplier you get on each spin. The less spins, the higher the multiplier. You could end up with 5 free spins at
20x, 10 spins at
12x or 25 spins at
5x, but there are plenty of options
inbetween and there is some luck involved in picking, but it can be very lucrative.
Another slot in Microgaming's armoury that goes up to
25x is the
Harveys slot. This works slightly differently in two ways. Firstly, the
free spins are triggered by a Bonus symbol on reels 2 and 4, and secondly you get a random number of free spins (up to 30) where
every win gets awarded a random multiplier from 2x to 25x. It's also quite low varaince so good for low rollers.
If you want something a little more "standard", then the high variance Egyptian themed
Isis slot has a free spins bonus with a
6x multiplier on
every win. You get 20 - 30 free spins (for 3, 4 or 5 scatters) and it can pay out huge if you are really lucky. I once had
$49,000 from a $12.50 bet by getting 5 scatters in the free spins (600x x 6x). One of my favourite games but be warned, it
really can eat your money. For the record, the drag-racer themed
Supe It Up slot
is an exact clone of Isis only in a different skin.