Fight For Your Honour With Crown of Valor
Crown of Valor is the latest addition to the Quickspin portfolio. Quickspin gained a reputation for creating pokies aimed at casual players, but Crown of Valor shows the Swedish developer has a darker, more serious side.
Crown of Valor Fundamentals
The unique 5×5 layout is the first thing you notice about Crown of Valor. The majority of the pokies you find in online casinos play on a 5×3 layout. A lack of win lines is something else that sets Crown of Valor apart from rival machines. The machine pays out for landing clusters of matching symbols instead of the traditional pay lines.
Players have a broad range of betting options, from $0.20 to $100. We suggest starting at the lower end of the scale because Quickspin has ramped the volatility up to the max. The high volatility combined with a 96.16% RTP could eat your bankroll.
However, you will forget all about that if you manage to get your hands on the maximum possible payout. It weighs in at a huge 15,619-times your bet, enough for an ample medieval feast!
Crown of Valor Symbols
Crown of Valor uses Quickspin’s excellent 3D Engine, the same as Nero’s Fortune, and it looks incredible. We take our hats off to Quickspin for creating such a beautiful machine. The similarities to Game of Thrones are there for all to see, but we do not mind that at all.
All the symbols have a medieval/castle feel to them, which is apt seeing how you are defending your castle from a siege. Royals make up the lower-value symbols; they pay up to 7.50x for a cluster of 12+.
The Crown is the symbol you want on your board. It pays between 2.00x and a whopping 250.00x.
There is a Burning Wild symbol, also, but we will cover that in the features section.
| Symbol | Cluster of 5/6 | 7/8 | 9/10 | 11/12+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacks, Queens | 0.20x/0.50x | 1.00x/1.25x | 2.00x/2.25x | 2.50x/5.00x |
| Kings, Aces | 0.25x/0.50x | 1.25x/1.50x | 2.00x/2.50x | 5.00x/7.50x |
| Eagle | 1.00x/1.25x | 2.00x/2.25x | 2.50x/4.00x | 7.50x/15.00x |
| Tiger | 1.00x/1.25x | 2.00x/2.50x | 3.00x/4.00x | 8.00x/20.00x |
| Lion | 1.50x/2.00x | 2.50x/4.00x | 5.00x/6.00x | 15.00x/50.00x |
| Crown | 2.00x/4.00x | 6.00x/8.00x | 10.00x/15.00x | 30.00x/250.00x |
What Are The Features of This Poker Machine?
Crown of Valor has a tumble feature where new symbols tumble down whenever you trigger a winning cluster. The cluster is removed from play and replaced with new symbols. A Burning Wild appears in any tumble after a cluster win. Should this Burning Wild get used in a new cluster win, the progressive multiplier increases by one.
The machine features a Wild Fire meter, which is displayed on the right-hand sign of the screen. It fills as you trigger wins and needs 18 wins to fill it. Filling the meter starts the Wild Fire feature, which begins after a cool cutscene featuring barbarians and burning rocks!
Wild Fire gives you four randomly placed Burning Wilds. Each wild that is part of a winning combination increases the multiplier, just like the base game. The multiplier does not reset until the end of the feature, however. These wilds can drop off the screen thanks to battle axes cutting them down. It is all rather exciting!
Keep an eye out for BNS powder kegs because landing 3, 4, or 5 of these scatters kicks off the free spins bonus round. The powder kegs explode spectacularly before granting 10, 14, or 18 free spins.
Each win during this round increases the multiplier by +1 with no limit on how high it can grow. Land a new scatter if you want an additional free spin.
Conclusion
Crown of Valor is a good pokie, but one that tests your patience. Its volatility is extreme and is not for the faint of heart. Our playthrough so countless dead spins, leaving us wondering if we would ever see a winning cluster. Quickpsin realised their machine does this, which is why it throws you a bone every 18th win.
Your ability to soak up long losing streaks determines whether or not you love or loathe Crown of Valor. Having a 15,619x potential win may be the difference between sticking it out and giving up.
