Yggrasil, a term denoting the mythical sacred tree of the Vikings, has meant something else since 2013, equally mythical. In 2013, a development studio with the same name was founded, which somewhat changed the rules of the gaming world back then.
Under the leadership of a former executive director of NetEnt studio, Yggrasil studio quickly built a reputation as a studio that disrupts the rules of the gambling world. This "rule-breaking" happened only in the best sense of the word! Yggrasil brought players titles that stood out for their aesthetics, music, features and overall design.
Among Yggrasil's most popular games is certainly the slot Vikings Go Berzerk. The popularity of this Viking and bonus-packed slot is confirmed by the fact that it received several sequels! Vikings Go Wild, Vikings Go to Hell and other slots in this series bring players exciting music, original graphics and many paylines.
For fans of The Walking Dead series, Yggrasil's slot Deadly West will be a delight! With just one click, it takes you to a post-apocalyptic world, where the living dead reign. Besides a 50,000× multiplier of your bet, you'll find five reels and three rows here. On all positions you'll find truly unpleasant and creepy symbols – whether it's a zombie horse with a human hand in its mouth, a corpse holding a human leg in its teeth, or a bird with a brain in its beak!
The Syncronite slot, in which the company introduced one of its later very popular game mechanics with six reels and three rows. On this pleasant, unobtrusive slot with funky musical background, you'll experience an atmosphere similar to a real casino!
We must certainly not forget the slots from the Tiki series either! On this rather peculiar slot, you'll find three reels with a varying number of rows. The number of rows changes depending on how and what game mechanics are triggered for you in the game. You can enjoy two, three or four rows. And even different numbers of rows on individual reels. The entire environment of the slot is very pleasant, fairy-tale-like and feels more like a computer game than a gambling slot.
Precise graphic design, however, is not the only thing that has won Yggrasil the hearts of so many players. Not at all. The real breakthrough was the special features and game mechanics that the studio introduced. These are nothing more than features like GigaBlox, Splitz, MultiMAX, GigaRise, DoubleMax or FastPot5. Don't know what this is about? We'll tell you.
The GigaBlox mechanic was introduced by the studio in the game Lucky Neko and quickly became one of the most successful and popular innovations of the studio. In this clever game with Asian atmosphere, a system appeared for the first time that randomly or with certain regularity enlarges symbols on the reels and combines multiple symbols into one "giga symbol". Hence the name of the entire system. Enlarged symbols typically can occupy 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, or even 6×6 fields. Enlarged blocks then count as multiple pieces of one symbol and thus facilitate wins on multiple paylines at once. Players quickly fell for this system, primarily because of the tension this mechanic brings. You never know exactly how large a block will land on the next spin and how much it will affect your game.
Another system called Splitz can be found in the slots Temple Stack, where the mechanic was introduced, or in games Syncronite or Neon Rush, was also an innovation. This time it's a feature that brings players hidden fields that shatter into multiple identical symbols during play. One block can, according to the game and its rules, simply break apart into 3, 4, 5 or more identical symbols, thus increasing your chances of winning. The display of so many identical symbols gives you a higher chance of getting interesting and especially comprehensive winning combinations.
The MultiMAX mechanic was first introduced in the similarly named game Multifly! This system, again very popular among players, works so that each game reel has its own multiplier. And while at the beginning of the game most reels in individual slots with this feature start at a 1× multiplier, during the game and with the gradual appearance of wilds and other bonus symbols, individual multipliers increase. In some slots, the individual multipliers even multiply each other, so you can easily reach a multiplier of 5, 6 or even 7.
In the popular slots Towering Pays Excalibur and Atlantis Megaways GigaRise, another original system was introduced – GigaRise. This brings players of these slots a format with dynamic reel expansion, which works on the principle that one or more reels in the slot grow by one or more fields upward and thus increase the number of paylines, that is, your winning opportunities.
As long as you win, your win multiplier doubles. What's that? That's simply the DoubleMax system. Yggrasil studio introduced it in the same-named game – Raptor Yggrasil. The entire reward system works so that whenever you win on one of the paylines, a win multiplier is activated. It then doubles (so ×2, ×4, ×8, ×16 and so on) as long as you keep winning on subsequent spins. Once a spin lands where you win nothing, the exponentially growing multiplier resets. This system repeats whenever you win on one of the paylines.
Another innovation that the studio brought to market was a mechanic called FastPot5, which combines five jackpots on a single slot. It's a rewards system that combines multiple games into one rewards system.
In some slots, the studio even combines mechanics.
As we've already revealed, within a single game from Yggrasil you can encounter several bonus mechanisms and systems.
Given how we've presented and described the individual systems, it's no wonder that since Yggrasil studio appeared on the global gambling market, it has attracted a lot of attention and continues to win the hearts of more and more players. Both newcomers to the world of slots and experienced players appreciate the originality and cleverness of both individual slots and the bonus systems.
What further strengthens Yggrasil's good name is its consistency in the visual and audio design of individual slots. Almost every game from this studio has a cohesive style, regardless of whether you're drawn to the world of fantasy, sci-fi or history.
The studio also values technical infrastructure and stability – its slots perform well on a variety of devices and respond well during extended gaming sessions. The credibility of the entire casino is further enhanced by the fact that it holds more than 6 licenses, including Gibraltar Regulatory Authority and Maltese license.
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