Dragon Coins - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Introduction

Meet yet another excellent Revolver Gaming slot. Dragon Coins combines the simplicity of five reels, 25 paylines and a calming Oriental garden setting with thrilling gameplay, including a free spins round with increasing multipliers.

Theme, graphics & soundtrack

Dragon Coins is pretty as a picture. You are in an Oriental garden with the cherry blossom blowing gently and a stream trickling at your feet. In the distance is a house hung with Chinese lanterns; behind is the magnificent edge of the mountains.

A soft and decidedly Asian-sounding melody plays in the background, interspersed with cheery birdsong. It is a restful place to be until you hit the spin button and the tempo of the music speeds up to go with the thrill of the reels, the boldly drawn symbols - top of which is, of course, the dragon - and the dancing animations that often accompany winning spins. This is when the fun starts.

Dragon Coins RTP and variance

This slot comes with an RTP of 96.01 per cent, which is right where we would hope it to be in a modern slot. Don’t forget that any slot can see wild deviations in its results once you start playing. You will also need to consider the increased risk presented by Dragon Coin’s high variance. This means that whilst individual wins may be bigger, they could be spread pretty far apart. Again, it is just a guideline, which is why it is always best to try free play slots before spending your own money at an online casino.

How to play Dragon Coins

Come this way to step under the cherry tree:

1. The first thing you will see before the game loads is an option to play with the volume on or off. If you change your mind later, you can change it from the top right-hand corner of the main screen.
2. Next up is another loading screen, but all you need to do if you want more is go to the question mark to the top right or the menu button to the bottom left. These will take you straight to the game rules.
3. From here you can also navigate to other pages displaying the paytable and, once you have started playing, your game history. It is also where you will find the settings page.
4. You have more comprehensive sound controls - separate toggles for the music and the sound effects, plus a sliding meter to adjust the volume. You can also switch the splash screen off and choose the spacebar to spin.
5. There is one more option on the settings page, which is a reality check. This can warn you when you have been playing for a set number of minutes and is a good way to make sure you don’t get so lost in the game that you play for too long.
6. In addition to the reality check, the other way to keep your game under control is to set a budget with loss and single win limits. To do this, you will want to keep an eye on your current balance and most recent win at the bottom of the screen.
7. This is also where you will find the bet adjustor. Use the plus and minus symbols to either side of your displayed bet to move it up and down; unfortunately, there is no max bet button to speed it up.
8. When you are ready to play, you could just click the big spin button towards the right; however, there is another option right next to it. Autoplay can give you between 10 and 1,000 automatic spins with no extra clicking. You can include loss, single win and total win limits, and set it to stop on any win or feature.

Bet & win sizes

The bet adjustor enables you to go from a 0.25 minimum to a 250.00 maximum, which is not bad at all.

As you change your bet, the values on the paytable also change. It shows every symbol and how it will pay if you match it three, four or five times adjacently across a payline. This is the minimum bet paytable:

• Ten = 0.05, 0.15, 0.40
• Jack = 0.05, 0.15, 0.50
• Queen = 0.06, 0.20, 0.75
• King = 0.05, 0.20, 0.80
• Ace = 0.10, 0.25, 1
• Lantern = 0.10, 0.35, 1.50
• Bag of coins = 0.15, 0.50, 2
• Fish = 0.25, 1, 3
• Tortoise = 0.25, 1.50, 3
• Dragon = 0.50, 2.50, 5 

Dragon Coins bonus features

Scatter

You may be wondering what the Dragon Coin has to do with all this, and here it is - it’s the scatter and can be used to trigger free spins:

Three scatters - 2x total bet
Four scatters - 5x total bet
Five scatters - 20x total bet

Free spins

During the free spins, there is also a multiplier that increases from 1x to 2x, 3x and 5x all the way to 8x. You can also retrigger up to five times, with two more free spins each time. If you are lucky enough to retrigger, the multiplier will increase further to as much as 300x on your 15th spin.

Dragon Coins review: our verdict

There is a deceptive tranquillity to the setting of Dragon Coins that makes it very welcoming, even before you pick up the pace and realise it is hiding lots of thrills. The theme may not be original; however, excellent graphics, gameplay and features more than make up for it, especially considering the potential size of the free spins multipliers. 

You may fancy trying Reign of Gnomes from Revolver Gaming next.
 

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