Lion Saga Odyssey Slot Review

We recently read that Play’n GO is expanding in Canada via a PointsBet partnership, and it did the same in Finland through a deal with Veikkaus, the Finnish state lottery not too long ago. So, Play’n GO is a studio that is always up to something. It releases three to four games per month, and the last one of its November batch was Lion Saga, unleashed on the 25th of November after Play’n GO distributed Boat Bonanza Christmas a week before.

As expected, this title is doing really well in Finland, where it ranks among the top one hundred most played slots and is sitting in the top one hundred standings in Poland, Ireland, Iceland, and Portugal at the time of writing. It is doing respectably well in other markets as well. In the press release for this spinner, Play’n GO’s Head of Game Retention, George Olekszy, noted that this is a game with which this Swedish company hopes to guide online gamblers to greener pastures and big wins. Set in the African wilderness, Lion Saga Odyssey is a title that looks to bring Africa’s beauty onto digital reels.

Theme & Design

Without a shadow of a doubt, the main inspiration behind this slot is Disney’s Lion King cartoon. In our eyes, Play’n GO has made this quite obvious. For those who have lived under a rock, The Lion King was released in 1994 and is a musical coming-of-age animated film about a prince lion and his journey back to his home kingdom after he survives an assassination attempt by his uncle, who kills his father during it. It was remade into a CGI photorealistic film in 2019.

There are loads of visual nods to The Lion King franchise here, and the music is quite similar to what is in the original animated film. When it comes to lion-themed slots, this is one of the better-looking ones out there. It has an intro and other high-quality animations that add a sense of mood, elevating the presentation of Lion Saga Odyssey, whose gameplay occurs against a safari landscape setting.

Lions have been a popular theme in the online gambling realm, and we can think of multiple games that have used this animal to great effect, not counting Mega Moolah. You have Golden Pride by BGaming, Majestic King from Spinomenal, and Blueprint Gaming’s Majestic Fury Megaways.

Specs & Gameplay

The gaming entertainment here plays out on the usual three-row, five-reel layout, one boasting ten paylines, which pay left to right, where only the highest reward per line gets cashed out. Lion Saga Odyssey comes in multiple RTP variations. We discovered five of these. The lowest one was 84.55%, which we are unsure which casinos house, as this is below the allowed RTP minimum of 85% that most online gambling regulators mandate. It also comes in an 87.56% RTP variant, a 91.51% one, a 94.51% version, and a 96.58% one, which is the most standard iteration of the Lion Saga Odyssey slot, a spinner with a hit frequency of 31%, and a max payout of x5,000. The odds of you hitting this sizeable win are one in around nine million, and you can attain it using bet sizes that start at $0.10 per spin, up to $100. The variance level of this game is high, and it essentially relies on the Book of Mechanic.

Lion Saga Odyssey pays out wins when you line up two to five identical symbols on one of this game’s ten paylines. The low-pay tokens on this Play’n GO creation are your traditional card royals, represented as trees in letter form. They are A, K, Q, J, and 10, paying out wins from x80 to x120 for five matching symbols landing on a spin on a payline. The premiums, or high-pay tokens of this title, are five images. These are lemurs, a zebra, a mama lion and baby cub, a king lion, and a mystical ghost-like lion. These tokens pay out prizes from x600 to x5,000 your stake, with the lion producing wins of x5,000. Note that the low-pay royals require three to five matching royals for a win, but the described premiums can yield payouts with only two identical tokens.

The mentioned glowing blue mystical lion is the scatter wild of this slot, and it can create winning combos of x200 for five hits on the same spin.

Bonus Features

What we call the mystical lion is the spirit scatter on Lion Saga Odyssey, as we explained, and it activates the free spin bonus by landing three to five times. Before the triggered bonus free spin modes begin, a random pay symbol gets selected to act as the expanding one for the duration of this feature. Fans of Book of Dead and its many siblings, Book of slots, are well familiar with this system. After standard win evaluations get completed, the expanding symbol or symbols extend to cover the/their entire reel(s). Expanded symbols pay on all active paylines from any position. They do not need to be adjacent, and hitting three or more scatters in this mode awards an extra eight spins, with another expanding token getting selected. Up to nine can be active at once.

As in most other Book of slots, in the base gameplay, any total prize from a spin can get gambled by you trying to correctly guess the color of a facedown card. You can do this up to five times, as is the norm in these titles.

GOSU Verdict

If you are directly asking us what we think of Lion Saga Odyssey by Play’n GO, the answer is not much. Play’n GO has a long history of making Book of spinners, and this is just another one in a long line of similar titles from this provider. It looks good and all, but it brings nothing interesting to the table. Its specs are okay, but there is nothing here to make this release worth playing. You’ll get a similar experience from a wealth of other Book of picks.

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