The Queens Curse Empire Treasures Slot Review

Introduction to The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures

The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures from Playtech throws you straight into a clash between a good queen, an evil queen, a princess and a witch. The slot uses a 5x4 reel set with 30 fixed bet ways paying left to right, and most symbols arrive stacked, so the screen can fill up fast. On top sit four Empire Treasures progressive jackpots, so every spin has that extra layer of tension for jackpot hunters like me.

What grabbed me first was how feature heavy The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures feels. The base game is dotted with stacked symbols, the Mirror Wild feature and two character features built around the Princess and Evil Queen. Then you have three different free games modes and the Princess Respins with 1,000x stake potential. It can look a bit chaotic at first, but once you have a few sessions it starts to flow nicely.

Theme, Graphics and Soundtrack in The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures

The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures leans hard into a fairy tale fantasy theme, putting good and evil queens on opposite sides of the reels with the princess caught between them. The mountains and castles in the background give it a mystical feel, while the symbols themselves are well drawn, from the crowns and sceptres to the card suits and shield. The soundtrack has that slow building, dramatic tone that suits the story and keeps spins feeling atmospheric.

The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures RTP and Variance

On the numbers side, The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures runs with an overall RTP of 96.34 percent. Of that, 0.99 percent feeds the Empire Treasures progressive jackpots, which leaves a base game RTP of 95.35 percent. That is pretty standard for a network jackpot slot, so I went in expecting a fair bit of grind broken up by features and the odd stronger hit from stacked premiums or wild lines.

In practice The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures feels medium to high in volatility. Sessions can tick over on smaller stacked wins, but the real jumps come from the Princess Respins, Mirror Wild sequences or a strong free spins set. Outside the jackpots the regular potential tops out at 1,000x stake from the respins, so I would say the real long term punch is locked in the Grand and Major pots rather than in single spin hits.

Bet Sizes and Pay Table Wins in The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures

The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures lets you choose total bets from 15p up to £300 per spin. I usually sit somewhere in the middle so the progress towards the Empire Treasures jackpots feels meaningful without burning the balance too fast. All wins are shown as multipliers of your total stake, and with 30 fixed ways in play you do not need massive line hits for the screen to light up when stacked symbols behave.

The high value symbols in The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures are the Good Queen, Witch, Princess, Orb and Sceptre, Evil Queen and Crown. On the top line of the pay table, five Good Queens pay 5x your total stake, the Witch pays up to 3.33x, the Princess 2.33x and the Orb and Sceptre 1.66x. Below them sit the crown followed by the club, diamond, heart, spade and shield as lower paying symbols built around card suits.

Wilds do a lot of work in The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures. The regular W wild symbol substitutes for all standard symbols and pays up to 8.33x stake for five of a kind. There is also a separate Mirror Wild that does not have its own line value, but when it lands on reel three in the base game it copies a premium symbol and turns every instance of that symbol into wilds. The Evil Queen vs Princess scatter only appears on reels one and five.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x8.3
	4	x2
	3	x0.6
	5	x5
	4	x1.2
	3	x0.53
	5	x3.3
	4	x0.8
	3	x0.4
	5	x2.3
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.3
	5	x1.66
	4	x0.53
	3	x0.26
	5	x1
	4	x0.46
	3	x0.2
	5	x0.66
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.13
	5	x0.53
	4	x0.33
	3	x0.13
	5	x0.53
	4	x0.33
	3	x0.13
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.26
	3	x0.06
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.06
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.06
	Scatter

The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures Free Spins and Bonus Features

Feature wise, The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures packs a lot in. On any spin you can get the Stacked Symbols feature where one symbol type lands heavily stacked on one or more reels, excluding scatters. The Mirror Wild feature triggers when a Mirror Wild lands on reel three and transforms all examples of a chosen high value symbol into wilds. There is also an Evil Queen feature that turns all high value symbols on the middle reels into Evil Queens when she stacks on reels one and five.

The Princess Respins in The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures are where I have seen the biggest regular wins. Land the Princess stacked on reels one and five and she locks with a cash prize on each symbol, then you spin until no new Princess symbols appear. Four Princesses start at 2x stake, and filling all 20 positions pays 1,000x. The main free games trigger when the Evil Queen vs Princess scatter lands on both outside reels and gives you one of three modes with 12 free spins as standard, each with retriggers and its own twist. Finally, any spin can launch the Empire Treasures jackpot feature, guaranteeing one of four progressive jackpots, with seed values of £200,000 for the Grand, £10,000 for the Major, £1,000 for the Minor and £100 for the Mini.

The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures Review

After plenty of time with The Queen's Curse: Empire Treasures, I see it as a feature rich fantasy slot that leans heavily on its progressives. The constant stacked symbols, Mirror Wild hits and character features keep the base game busy, while the three free spins rounds and Princess Respins add decent bursts of excitement. The regular 1,000x cap is not huge by modern standards, so for me this one shines most when I am in the mood to chase a network jackpot.

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