North Guardians Slot Review

North Guardians Slot Overview

North Guardians throws me straight into a snowy Viking stronghold, with a carved wooden frame around a 5x5 grid and glowing braziers in the background. It looks and sounds solid without trying too hard, and the two Viking characters give the game a bit of personality. Underneath the colourful symbols you get those faint grey markers sliding around, hinting that this is not a standard paylines slot at all.

North Guardians Slot Information

North Guardians runs on 5 reels, 5 rows and 50 fixed paylines, with bets from 0.50 up to 100 per spin in most setups. The default RTP is 96.38%, but operators can pick lower settings, and the bonus buy version trims it slightly. Volatility is right at the top, rated 5 out of 5 by Pragmatic Play, and the game is capped at 5,000x the stake, which means up to 500,000 at max bet.

North Guardians Symbols and Paytable

The paytable in North Guardians is split into three clear tiers. At the bottom you have rune stones in dark green, purple, blue, light green and red, paying around 0.48x to 0.8x the bet for a five of a kind win. Mid range symbols are the axe, shield, horn and gold coin, which step things up to between 1.2x and 3.6x your stake for five across a line.

Premium symbols in North Guardians are the two Viking warriors, a female and a male. Five of the woman pays 6x your stake, while the man pays 10x, so line ups of those are where standard line hits can feel meaningful. Odin acts as the wild symbol, substituting for regular symbols and paying 0.6x, 4x and 15x for three, four or five in a line, which matches the best line pay in the game.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x15
	4	x4
	3	x0.6
	5	x10
	4	x3
	3	x0.52
	5	x6
	4	x2.4
	3	x0.4
	5	x3.6
	4	x1.6
	3	x0.24
	5	x2.4
	4	x0.8
	3	x0.2
	5	x1.6
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.16
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.24
	3	x0.12
	5	x0.8
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.08
	5	x0.8
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.08
	5	x0.48
	4	x0.12
	3	x0.04
	5	x0.48
	4	x0.12
	3	x0.04
	5	x0.48
	4	x0.12
	3	x0.04
	Scatter

North Guardians Slot Features

The core feature in North Guardians is the Wild Pattern Wheel, and your access to it is controlled by the so called marking rectangles. On every spin you see two halves of a square moving independently under the symbols. When they land on the same position and form a complete square, the large wheel to the right of the reels wakes up and starts to spin.

That Wild Pattern Wheel in North Guardians has two types of segment, level up and wild pattern. Hitting level up moves you to the next tier and spins again, while hitting a pattern throws a specific cluster of wilds onto random positions on the grid. There are five levels in total, and the higher you climb, the denser and more rewarding the wild layouts become, with level five capable of covering the whole grid in wilds.

In the base game of North Guardians the wheel feels quite stingy, at least in my sessions. The rectangle halves wander around for dozens of spins without lining up, and when they finally do, it is common to get a low level pattern that barely connects anything. The trade off is that when the feature does land on higher levels, the screen can change in a heartbeat, with several lines paid at once.

Free Spins in North Guardians

Three, four or five scatters in North Guardians trigger the Free Spins feature with 5 free games and an instant payout of 2x, 10x or 100x your stake. The real twist is that the Wild Pattern Wheel is active on every single free spin, starting from level one. Here the level does not reset when you upgrade, so you can grind your way up the ladder and lock in stronger wild layouts.

Each time you level up the wheel during North Guardians free spins you gain extra spins, which helps counter the low starting number. Moving from level one to two and from two to three adds three spins each, level three to four grants two, and the jump to level five adds one more. Some jurisdictions offer a bonus buy at 100x your stake for direct entry, but that is off limits if you are playing under UK rules.

North Guardians Slot Conclusion

For me, North Guardians is all about chasing those wild patterns rather than grinding out base game line hits. The standard game can drag when the markers refuse to meet, and a lot of wheel triggers fizzle at low levels. Once you get into the bonus and start climbing towards level four or five though, the slot finally shows its teeth, with that 5,000x cap hanging in the distance for the most patient Viking raiders.

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