How does the Conan slot work?
Conan looks really stunning, let's name that anyway. In terms of style, it looks very much like a Quickspin slot and that's about the biggest compliment you can get.
The animations are bold, Conan is unmatched in his toughness and everything exudes atmosphere. Unfortunately, we do miss a bit of the carnage that Conan could unleash with his sword when he was in a bad mood. It all remains very tame now. The game has 6 reels with 4 rows of symbols and 24 win lines.
Winning is done from both sides, which ensures that the hit frequency is extremely high. The theoretical payout percentage is 96.28%, which is fine but not too sensational.
In terms of variance, Conan is really a low variance slot. You win small prizes all the time and the (mini) bonus features are very frequent. So it is a very suitable slot if you mainly want to be entertained. If you are a serious online slots player, then Conan will probably bore you quickly. The maximum win is 2,000 x the stake.
Symbols and payouts
As always, we start with the most important symbol of the game: the wild symbol.
The wild takes two forms in Conan: there are Tower wilds (extend vertically) and Battle Wilds (grow horizontally).
The premium symbols consist of Conan, the evil Thoth-Amon and Canon's buddy Valeria.
Do you spin 6 x a Conan on an active line? Then you win a modest 6 x the total bet.
All the low symbols are barely worth anything and only become interesting of their own when a fat multiplier is active.
How many mini-features can one person have?
Conan is bursting with mini-features, which can also fall at the same time.
While that may sound very exciting, it is a bit disappointing in practice.
For the most part, a lot happens, but it doesn't often result in an interesting prize.
Toth-Ahmon Feature: spin a stacked reel of mystery symbols in combination with a wild and Conan's arch nemesis will trigger a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6 additional mystery symbols.
- Mystery symbols: stacks of mystery symbols can fall on all reels.
- Mystery multiplier: as soon as a stacked reel with mystery symbols appears on the middle reel, our hero Conan comes into action. He provides an additional multiplier that is between x 3 and x 7.
- Linked Reels: multiple reels are synchronized, just like in Twin Spin.
- Extra Wilds: extra wilds appear on reels 1, 2, 5 and 6 for more winning combinations.
3 different free spins bonuses
3 scatters activate the free spins. At least, you get to choose one from three options. Because why keep it simple?
These are the options:
- City of Thieves Free Spins (low to medium variance): 10 free spins with extra Tower wilds on the reels, possibly combined with Linked Reels.
- Temple of the Serpent Free Spins (medium to high variance): 10 free spins with extra mystery symbols. The wilds are removed from the game, but you can still win the Toth-Ahmon feature.
- Walls of Tarantia Free Spins (low to medium variance): 10 free spins, now with extra Battle wilds on the reels. As with the City of Thieves bonuss, the Linked Reels are also active here.
What does allvideoslots think of the Conan video slot?
As beautiful as Conan looks and as much as Netent has done its best to really pull it off, Conan is still a disappointment. Overkill is the feeling that lingers at CasinoJager after playing Conan. With some slots, lots of bonus features can work just fine (think of Guns N' Roses and Planet of the Apes, both also from Netent), but with Conan it's just too much.
Too much, you know. Way too many bonus features, too many mystery symbols, linked reels, mystery wilds, free spins bonuses. After a few minutes of playing, your head is reeling from it and that can never be the intention. It's going too far for CasinoJager to award Conan with a fail, but we did expect more from it. 3 out of 5 stars.
