Fictional explorer Amber Sterling is setting off on an action-packed Mystic Shrine adventure… and you’re invited! We’re taking a look at this online casino slot by Microgaming, whose features include an additional Action Reel. As well as delving into some of the game details, we’ll also let you know what you can expect from the overall experience. Read our review here.

Game overview

Fortune Factory is the studio behind Amber Sterling’s Mystic Shrine, released on Microgaming’s Quickfire platform. The 5-reel, 3-row online slot offers 20 paylines, an Action Reel feature (which we’ll talk about later,) and the Blazing Wild Streak bonus feature, plus you get to spin the reels for a chance to win 5,000x your stake. The simple but interesting gameplay makes this slot a great choice for beginners.

How to play

You can start playing this casino game by setting your bets. Simply select the up and down arrows below the reels to set your chosen bet level, and hit the spin button to start.

If you hope to win, you’ll need to get 3 or more matching symbols across a payline from the leftmost reel across to the right.

Keep in mind that there are no free spins in Amber Sterling’s Mystic Shrine, but you do get a Pick’em Game instead, which offers 4 fixed jackpots worth up to 5,000x your stake. The main pillar of the game, though, is the Action Reel feature, which we’ll cover in the Features section.

Graphics

The title’s high-quality graphics are pleasing, with the figure of adventurer Amber Sterling staying on the right side of the reels as you search for hidden treasures throughout the game. The background is the overgrown ruins of a mystic shrine, which adds a nice touch of atmosphere to the adventure-quest theme.

Low-paying symbols on the paytable include the A, K, Q, J and 10 royal playing cards, while the high-payers are a stone Buddha statue, compass, golden elephant, and lantern. The wild symbol is represented by a golden medallion, and can stand in for all regular symbols to help you land winning combinations. The wild can also pay as much as the highest-value Buddha symbol.

Features

Okay, so we’ve finally got to the features! Let’s find out about this Action Reel we’ve been talking about!

Action Reel

The Action Reel is the cornerstone of Amber Sterling’s Mystic Shrine online slot machine. You’ll find it at the top of the screen between two stone statue heads. This bonus reel opens randomly, and when it does, one of two things happen. If the reel shows 1, 2, or 3 flames, an equal number of positions are also marked on the regular reels. In the second scenario, the Blazing Wild Streak feature is triggered.

Blazing Wild Streak

This feature is activated when the Action Reel displays a 1x, 2x, or 3x Respin symbol. That symbol is then locked in place, and you get one free respin. When this happens, all marked positions become wild symbols that can have up to 5x multipliers. Get more than one multiplier in a win and all multipliers stack to give you the total prize.

Wilds and scatters

The golden medallion wild stands in for all other symbols to increase your chance of landing winning combinations, while 3 scatters landing anywhere on the 3 middle reels, in the absence of a free spins mode, will unlock the Jackpot Bonus Pick’em Game.

Bonuses and jackpots

Once the Jackpot Bonus Game is triggered, Amber steps onto a stone mechanism, which results in the regular reels disappearing into the ground. You’ll then see 12 stone Buddha statues which you can pick from to show different-colored gemstones that correspond to the fixed jackpot prizes. Now all you need to do to win is match up 3 of the same. The 4 jackpots up for grabs are: grand (5,000x your stake), major (200x your stake), minor (40x your stake), and mini (15x your stake).

Amber Sterling’s Mystic Shrine is a high-volatility casino slot game with a return to player (RTP) of 96.3%, and is definitely worth a few spins.

Similar games

If you want to keep the adventure going, there are a number of real online slots that are similar to Amber Sterling’s Mystic Shrine:

• Lara Croft Temples and Tombs has Rolling Reels with a progressive multiplier and a bonus round that gives you a shot at winning up to 7,343x your stake.

• Cat Wilde and the Lost Chapter features a special expanding symbol which varies per free spin, and could result in payouts of up to 10,000x your stake.

• Cat Wilde and the Eclipse of the Sun God offers a higher set of cascading-win multipliers that can go up to 10x in the base game, and 70x in the bonus round, with potential payouts of up to 5,500x of your stake.

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