Published: 09.06.2020, 13:22
3 min read
For their latest Oriental slot, the developers at BetSoft have gone for an adaptation of the acclaimed novel Journey to the West– just like Pragmatic Play did earlier with their Magic Journey Slot. If you haven’t heard of the novel, let us give you a quick overview…
Journey to the West is among the 4 Greatest Classical Novels of Chinese Literature alongside Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Dream of the Red Chamber. It follows a Buddhist monk (Tang Sanzang) who is sent on a mission to the West (Xiyu) to obtain some spiritual texts. He encounters many hardships on the way but Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, and the Dragon Prince soon come to his rescue.
Can this slot match the grandeur of what it is based on? Time to find out!
Play Quest to the West For Free- PC & Mobile
Another slot based on arguably the most popular literary work in Chinese Culture. Play here for real money or play a free demo below:
Slot Features
- RTP: 97.53%
- Medium Volatility
- 25 Paylines
- Bet Range: €0.04-80
- Win more than 1000X!
- Walking Wilds
- Devices: Desktop, Tablet, Smartphone
Rules
Let’s start by saying that Wu Cheng’en would be proud to see BetSoft’s accurate depiction of his book. The slot is an eye-pleaser overall, with the main characters of the book representing the paytable.
Unsurprisingly, Tang Sanzang is the premier symbol offering rewards of up to 37.5 times your bet. He appears to be doing the Abhaya Mudra, a gesture that represents fearlessness, blessings, and protection; just what you need for a slot spinning session. Coming in as the second strongest symbol is Sha Wujing aka sandy with rewards of up to 20X. He is a rather grisly character with a huge beard and a bald head. Last of the highest paying symbols is Zhu Bhajie who pays as much as sandy. He is a part-human, part-pig creature who often gets himself and his companions in trouble through his indolence, greed, and propensity for lusting after pretty women. At the weaker side of the paytable, you can see a dragon (the dragon prince, we presume), a white steed, the lotus flower, and card royals rewarding you with up to 8 times your bet.
Getting the reels spinning on the 25-payline grid that resembles a rolled out scroll is as easy as hitting the huge spin button or pre-setting up to 100 automatic spins with the smaller button adjacent to it. Before that, however, you have to select your preferred bet on the linear bet selector in the middle of the controls tab. The base game sees players lining up at least 3 identical symbols starting from the leftmost reel to trigger a win.
The Monkey King Triggers the Quest to the West!
Also among Tang Sanzang’s disciples is Sun Wukong, a man-like monkey who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. His symbols are wild throughout the base game and whenever you manage to land three of them on the grid at the same time, the quest to the west begins.
During this feature, all his symbols lock into place and transform into walking wilds that trigger just enough re-spins for them to shift to a meter that shows up on the left side of the grid. Here comes the good news: If you manage to fill the meter to the brim, you will walk away with a payout of 1000 times your bet on top of what you win during the re-spins!
Final Verdict
Unlike other slots that seem to be overly obsessed about the extras, this one doesn’t seem to care one bit. There aren’t multiple features to look forward to besides the slots universe hackneyed walking wilds, but the prospect of filling up that wild collector for a whopping 1000 times your bet will sure keep you hitting that spin button for hours on end.
Perhaps the greatest advantage of this slot is its extremely high Return to Player Percentage that is coupled with medium volatility to give you very high chances of landing wins as well as the wilds during normal play. The longest you can go without landing a wild is 10 spins, meaning that the electrifying walking wilds sessions won’t be too far apart!
