NetEnt · 2018 · hotspot / scatter pays
Vikings on a phone
Upright works. 3.2 s to playable over cellular, and big buttons once it is there.
The phone check
Spin and bet sit where a thumb already is. One hand, no stretching. The demo pulls about 13 MB before the first tap registers, which on a poor bar is where the 3.2 s goes. Getting money back out is a separate count and we keep it at cashout.
One build, one return figure
One build, 96.05%, no variants. Worth appreciating: 123 of the 306 titles on this board carry two or three return configurations and look identical in all of them, so this is one of the few pages where the number is simply the number.
Where it sits on the board
On the phone score it lands 130 of 306. Orientation carries the most weight, the wait carries the next, the buttons carry the rest. That is 1.1 s slower than the 2.1 s median, every time you open it.
NetEnt has 24 titles on this board, 14 of them upright, with a median load of 2.6 s.
What the game is
A 2018 release from NetEnt. Board is 5x3 base / 7x5 free spins, the mechanic is hotspot / scatter pays. TV-branded saga where the Hotspot column transforms all matching characters and Raid Spins expand the grid to 78,125 ways.
Medium volatility, so treat the demo as a look at the rhythm and not at the maths. Twenty dollars buys around 100 spins at the C$0.20 floor. Ceiling is 10,000x and it is not going to happen to you.
The rest of it
| Studio | NetEnt |
|---|---|
| Released | 2018 |
| Board | 5x3 base / 7x5 free spins |
| Mechanic | hotspot / scatter pays |
| Volatility | Medium |
| Top licensed return | 96.05% |
| House edge on that build | 3.95% |
| Max win | 10,000x |
| Minimum stake | C$0.20 |
| Spins on twenty dollars | about 100 |
| Free demo | yes, no account needed |
| Tags | branded, expanding-grid, free-spins |
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