Eternal Empress – Freeze Time

Eternal Empress – Freeze Time Review

In Wild Streak Gaming’s Eternal Empress – Freeze Time slot, the stunning Empress herself appears suspended in time, floating beside the 5x3 grid. A massive clock resembling a time machine portal dominates the backdrop, hinting at the game's unique Time Freezing feature. Winning combinations are formed by landing 3 to 5 matching symbols across 248 win ways, starting from the leftmost reel. The Eternal Empress is the highest-paying symbol, followed by a golden mask, a purple sphere, a ring, and a pocket watch.

These premium symbols award 2.5x to 7.5x your stake for 5-of-a-kind wins, while the royal symbols pay 0.5x to 2x for the same. Beyond standard wins, the Money Symbol Collect feature offers another path to riches. Red Ruby symbols act as collectors, gathering the value of Money Symbols worth up to 250x your stake in both the base game and bonus round. Multiple Ruby collectors can appear simultaneously, each collecting the value of all money symbols in view. These money symbols also function as Wilds, substituting for any pay symbol to complete or improve winning combinations.

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The time-freezing element comes into play during the Bonus Round. Landing 2 special symbols activates Freeze Time Mode, where all Money Wild symbols become sticky and trigger respins. This innovative mechanic not only boosts your chances of landing winning combinations, but also your money prizes collection possibilities. New Money Symbol Wilds that land also become sticky, and the respins continue indefinitely. The feature concludes in the same manner it began, by landing the triggering symbols.

With a betting range of €0.2 to €100 per spin, Eternal Empress – Freeze Time slot caters to most types of players, including both penny punters and high rollers. The game has a below-average hit rate of 22.93 %, meaning wins occur approximately every 4-5 spins on average. The RTP of 96.5 % is above average for online slots, while the max win of 4,888x your stake is slightly below average for a highly volatility game.

Eternal Empress – Freeze Time Features

Money symbols are collected in all stages of this game, including when time freezes in the bonus round. Let’s take a closer look at how it all works! ‘

Money Collect Feature

The Money Symbol serves double duty as a Wild symbol in this game, appearing on reels 2, 3, and 4 only. It substitutes for pay symbols to help complete or improve line wins, while also displaying cash prizes between 1x and 250x your stake. You need the Ruby symbol to collect the money symbol prizes, and Ruby collectors can appear on reels 1 and 5.

Eternal Empress – Freeze Time Free Spins

The Bonus Round triggers from 3+ scatter symbols in view, awarding 10 free spins. You can land a Clock symbol on reel 1 during the feature, and a Padlock symbol on reel 5. Landing these two symbols on the same spin triggers the Freeze Time Mode. This freezes all present Money Symbol Wilds until Freeze Time Mode is finished.

The remaining positions respin, and all new Money Symbol Wilds that appear become sticky as well. In Freeze Time Mode, your free spins counter is not affected by respins. You can land both regular line wins and Ruby collects wins during Free Time Mode, and this mode only ends when you land a Padlock and Clock symbol on the same spin once again. You cannot retrigger the bonus round, and the only extra spins you get are via the Freeze Time feature.

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Pros and Cons of Eternal Empress – Freeze Time

Our Verdict

While Wild Streak Gaming has crafted decent visuals for Eternal Empress – Freeze Time game, a bit of backstory or an intro sequence would have gone a long way. The symbols are somewhat obscure, leaving you to decipher the meaning behind certain icons yourself. The Empress, clad in Renaissance attire and seemingly capable of floating through time, adds to the enigmatic atmosphere. The soundtrack effectively builds tension during gameplay, but aside from Time Freeze Mode, this game is fairly standard stuff.

While the base game Money Collect feature offers the potential for decent payouts of up to 250x your stake, it’s hardly groundbreaking. Still, being able to collect these prizes up to multiple times is appreciated, and up to 6 Ruby collectors can appear on any given spin. This mechanic keeps the base game somewhat engaging, and it helps that the bonus round triggers quite often as well. However, despite frequent smaller wins, significant money symbol prizes remain elusive, even in the bonus round.

Playing in turbo mode by holding down the space bar is a good idea for this game, especially since there is no bonus buy feature. The dual function of Money symbols is another thing I appreciated. Unlike many games where these symbols block regular wins, they help complete line wins in this game. This advantage becomes even more apparent during the Time Freeze Mode, where sticky Wilds can also be collected as money symbols. Unfortunately, the value of Money symbols doesn't seem to improve much during the bonus round or even in Time Freeze mode, with higher-value prizes rarely seen at all.

Slot games that attempt to play with the concept of time come along once in a while, like in 60 Second Heist and Itero, to name a few that come to mind. It’s an interesting concept to build a game around, sure, but seemingly not as easy to execute in a way that withstands the test of time. Wild Streak Gaming has done an okay job with Eternal Empress – Freeze Time slot, but this concept needs a bit more fine-tuning to truly create a timeless gaming experience.