Storm to Riches Slot by Northern Lights Gaming 🎰 Free Demo and Review

Storm to Riches Review

Viking ships were propelled by both oars and sails, and they could reach speeds of up to 10 knots (around 18.5 km/h). Their asymmetrical hull made them the fastest ships of their time, and they were also the first known ships to use a stern rudder, which allowed them to sail in a straight line. The viking ship walking wilds you get in this game sail in a straight line as well, as they move straight across the game grid from the rightmost reel to the left.

This is the core feature in Northern Lights Gaming’s Storm to Riches, and each viking ship wild also collects any cash coins and jackpot coins that appear. The jackpot coins can be worth up to 5,000x your stake, and you get even more cash coins in the bonus round. The Kraken can appear to expand the grid in all stages of the game, and it’s possible to plunder up to 11,000x your stake in this daring viking expedition.

Storm to Riches Slot - Reels Screen

Storm to Riches Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 2 and 10 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and viking ship Wilds step in for pay symbols to help complete and/or improve wins. The wild pays up to 100x your stake should you land 5 wilds on a payline. Wilds appear on reel 5 only though, and they turn into walking wilds that move one reel to the left per spin that follows until they move off the leftmost reel.

You can land Coin symbols that come with prizes between 1 and 100 x your stake, and coins can also land with one of the jackpot prizes on display on the left-hand side. The jackpot prizes are known as the Mini, Minor, Major, and Grand jackpots, and they pay 20x, 50x, 500x, or 5,000x your stake, respectively. Keep in mind, however, that coin and jackpot symbols only pay if at least one wild symbol is in view. All wilds in view collect all the prizes, and this is known as the Viking Treasure feature.

Sometimes when a walking wild symbol reaches the leftmost reel, the Ride the Storm feature can trigger. This returns the wild symbol to reel 5 again, where it starts its voyage across the grid once more. Both the walking wilds feature and the Ride the Storm feature can trigger in all stages of the game.

The Kraken Reels feature can trigger at random times in all stages of the game as well, and a giant octopus will then expand the reels by adding up to +2 extra rows in the base game. It lasts for only 1 spin in the base game though. In the bonus round, however, it can expand the grid by up to +5 extra rows, and the grid remains expanded for the remainder of the bonus round.

The Valhalla Bonus Round triggers from 3 scatter symbols on reels 1, 3, and 5, and this takes you to a pick screen. You get to choose between 2 viking characters, and your pick will reveal 4 coins with random cash prize values, as well as 8, 10, 15, or 20 free spins.

Whenever your chosen viking symbol appears during the bonus round, it comes as a 2x2 sized symbol that reveals the 4 coins you got in the pick game. You still need wilds in view to collect the coin prizes though, just to be clear.

There is both a Bonus Buy and a Bonus Gamble feature in this game, and this means that non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can take a shortcut into the feature. If eligible, you can purchase the Valhalla FS round for 50x the stake, or you can pay 25x your stake to gamble for it on a green and red segmented wheel.

The 200 Spins Storm to Riches Slot Experience

You get to see the walking wilds feature in the base game, before we purchase and trigger the bonus round at 0:53 into the 3-minute highlights video. We went with the male viking, and he gave us 10 free spins with the top coin being worth 4x our stake. You can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The combination of a static backdrop and thunderstorm effects works quite well, but Storm to Riches does not come with the most engaging visual presentation we’ve seen in a vikings slot. Coin symbols occupy prime “reel estate” when there are no wild symbols in view, and they can, of course, be elusive when you finally land a walking wild. Many times you get to collect coins only on a single spin from a ship's whole journey across the grid, but this can, of course, change according to your luck.

What keeps the tension up in all stages is the fact that you can also collect jackpot coins, and that these can pay up to 5,000x your stake per wild that’s in view to collect them. We like that the win cap is more than twice that, and it clocks in at a solid 11,000x your stake. This is pretty good for a medium volatile game, and it certainly helps elevate Storm to Riches to a more attractive level. The key to winning in this game is the walking collector wilds, and getting the expanded grid also helps. This is not least the case when it’s persistent in the bonus round, and this game might just grow on you if you give it a shot.