Le Mystere du Prince Slots

Hailed as something of a breakthrough title for Zeus Gaming, Le Mystere du Prince is a graphically striking five-reel slot machine based around the classic fairy tale of a handsome but selfish prince being cursed to live the rest of his life as a savage beast until he learns the meaning of true love.

If that sounds at all familiar to you, don’t worry – you’ve probably seen the exact same story in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast! However, whereas Gaston and Belle could certainly entertain you for a couple of hours, Le Mystere du Prince gives you a shot at winning a massive 27,000x max payout.

Featuring 10 paylines, wild symbols and a free spins bonus feature, Le Mystere du Prince is essentially a straightforward enough title to pick up and play, but the engaging visuals and a couple of unique quirks add an extra layer that will keep even hardcore slot players coming back for more.

Dark Magic

In terms of the basic game mechanics of Le Mystere du Prince, players won’t really find anything that they haven’t experienced before. The paylines are fixed meaning the only decision you’ll have to make is how much to wager on each new spin, with between one and 30 coins available per line.

In the base game, all lines pay from left to right (this changes in the bonus feature, but more on that later) and you usually have to match three adjacent symbols to trigger a payout. The exception to this is for the highest and lowest value symbols, plus the scatter, where you only need two in a row.

At the maximum coin value, payouts range from 5x your stake per line for two “nine” playing card symbols all the way up to a massive 27,000x per line for finding a rose wild symbol on all five reels.

Beauty Within?

Graphically speaking, Le Mystere du Prince is a striking game featuring a number of symbols that bear more than a passing resemblance to some of the characters and objects featured in the similarly-themed Disney film, with candlesticks, clocks, a princess and the beast himself all present.

All symbols are animated whenever you hit a winning payline, meaning there’s plenty of visual flair to compliment the generally decent artwork across the five reels – and one of the coolest aspects of the game is that the symbols transform from their dark and dreary “beast” designs into more beautiful and ornate icons during the bonus spins feature, adding a touch of magic to the game.

In a similar style, the background audio – which sounds like the airy passageways of an abandoned castle to begin with – changes into something far more upbeat once the bonus feature begins, with chirping birds and forest sounds coming into play to create an altogether more cheerful ambience.

Beast Mode

Having now read about how the bonus feature changes the look and sound of Le Mystere du Prince, you’re probably itching to know exactly how it effects the game and how it’s triggered – well, fear not, because the good news is it significantly boosts your winnings and is incredibly easy to activate.

The bonus feature begins whenever three “Le Mystere du Prince” book scatter symbols appear anywhere across the game’s five reels and, once activated, players will receive 10 free spins. The magic doesn’t stop there, however, as during these free spins not only are all winning paylines tripled in value, but they also now pay out from right to left as well as left to right to help your odds.

Obviously, this makes the free spins worth significantly more than a spin during the base game – and to make things even more attractive – you get an extra 10 spins whenever three subsequent scatter symbols appear on the reels, meaning you can chain together potentially limitless winning streaks.

A Picturebook Slot

Overall, Le Mystere du Prince delivers a beautiful and immersive video slot experience to casual players while including a worthwhile bonus feature to attract traditional slot purists. The game is well presented both in terms of its sound and animation and is incredibly straightforward to play, meaning you can easily lose yourself in the fairy-tale story as you spin your way to a happy ending. This developer has come a long way since games like Honey Money.