The Mythical Unicorn Slot
Beautiful forest fairies, brightly-coloured flowers and magic horses are the topic of The Mythical Unicorn video slot from GamingSoft. It’s all set in a magical forest that looks like it’s come straight out of the Avatar movie, and there’s some blockbuster bonus features such as expanding wild symbols, free spins and progressive jackpots to claim as you spin the 5 reels of this online slot machine.
It’s 40-payline game, where the symbols are arranged over 3 rows and gamblers will be hoping to land matching symbols across any line in an unbroken sequence from left to right for a win. Like most of the GamingSoft online slot games range, it’s been very well designed and surrounds the reels with an ornate framework, while the realistic symbols will appeal to fans of the magic and mysticism slots genre that’s quite popular.
Free The Mythical Unicorn video slots are provided for practice spins, and if you want to play for real cash a minimum of 0.40 per spin will be needed. There’s options to set the reels spinning faster, or get them going on Autoplay for as many times as you want, or until the bankroll runs out.
Entering the Magical Realm of the Mythical Unicorn
To complement the glowing blue and purple flowers that fill the background image of this game, the lower-value symbols are made up of even more flowers, with the bright blue one returning winnings equal to 5x, 12x, or 20x the stake per line when it stops on 3, 4, or 5 reels across any payline. There’s a purple flower symbol, a white and orange one, and the top-paying flower is full of every colour of the rainbow, paying out 8x, 20x, or 35x.
Bigger and better prizes are awarded by the forest fairies, starting with the green girl, who is worth up to 80x the line bet, while the redhead returns up to 90x and the blue-eyed fairy pays a maximum of 100x. The best wins in normal games are paid out by The Mythical Unicorn logo, and spinning this onto 3 reels of a payline will result in a win of 30x, there’s 80x the line stake for 4 in a row, and filling a whole payline with the logo symbol is worth 200x.
A ghostly silver image of the unicorn is a wild symbol and when needed, it will be able to substitute for others to complete winning combinations, or stretch win-lines further across to the right-side reels for a correspondingly higher return. The golden wild unicorn will only appear on the middle 3 reels, but in a nicely animated sequence, it will add up to 3 more silver extra random wilds on any reel apart from number 1 on the left side.
There’s nothing paid out for lines of either wild on their own, and neither of them can replace the scatter of jackpot icons.
Free Spins Somewhere Over the Rainbow
A rainbow stretching across valley is the attractive and colourful scatter symbol, which takes players to a free spins bonus round when 3 or more stop anywhere on reels 2, 3 and 4 at once. A random number of bonus games are awarded and while there’s no special symbols in play, or greater chance of landing winning lines during the round, there’s still a good chance of getting a few wins before the bonus games end and players are returned back to the basic spins.
Like the majority of online casino slots in the GamingSoft range, The Mythical Unicorn video slot machine has a 4-level progressive jackpot feature. The Mini, Minor, Major and Grand jackpots are displayed above the reels, steadily rising in value with each wager made right across the range.
A jackpot symbol of multicoloured flowers will need to be seen on reels 2, 3 and 4 at once to trigger the round, which plays out in the forest, where the unicorn is standing next to a number of flowers. A click on a flower reveals any progressive jackpot level and it’s instantly awarded, although only high roller gamblers on the maximum stakes qualify for all 100% of each prize. Those at lower stakes get less and less of a jackpot, until just 10% is awarded at the minimum bet level.
The Verdict
It’s not often that the main problem with a slot machine is the frequency of a bonus feature, as usually we can’t get enough of them, but the golden unicorn wild turns up very frequently and slows down the pace of the game, as it leaps out from the reels and sends showers of magical sparkles from its horn. The extra silver wilds that it adds to the reels are very welcome, but it’s a slow-paced animation that can’t be speeded up, even in fast mode.
However, if that’s the worst complaint about a game, then the rest of it is clearly pretty good, and we really like the style and features of The Magical Unicorn video slot.
It’s not mobile-optimised, but to do full justice to the highly detailed symbols, it’s best seen on the larger screens of a PC anyway, so anyone who likes magical-themed slot games is sure to like this one.
