Moonlight Fortune Slot Machine
An eerie light bathes the magical forest setting of the Moonlight Fortune video slot, making the strange creatures and wood-effect playing card symbol glow. It’s a very attractive 5-reel game that has 40 paylines and a couple of bonus features such as wild substitutions and free spins, along with an option to gamble winnings, to brighten up proceedings.
Moonlight Fortune is part of the SYNOT range, and along with all games from this developer, it has a good return to player percentage, is mobile-optimised and comes with smooth animations to complement the detailed design of the symbols.
The paylines run from left to right across the reels, although spinners can activate just 20 if they want to make a smaller wager, making the minimum stake 0.20 per spin, while the high limit of 100.00 should suit those with bigger bankrolls. Free Moonlight Fortune video slots are provided for practice sessions at most online casinos where SYNOT games are carried.
Playing Moonlight Fortune
A lush forest and gently falling leaves can be seen behind the reels, which are in turn framed by ivy, which all adds up to a peaceful scene. Players win by landing 3 or more of the same symbol type in a continuous run across a line from the left side, although this slot also has wild and bonus symbols which work in different ways.
Landing the 9, 10, or J symbols on 3 reels across a payline will be worth 8x the equivalent of the amount staked on each line, while 4 of a kind will pay 20x and full runs are worth 100x. Q, K and A are each worth 12x, 40x and 160x, while unique picture symbols are even more valuable.
These are made up of the magical creatures, each of which has luminous stripes across them to let players know that this is no ordinary forest. There’s a rabbit, purple owl and red fox, but the best wins in normal play are awarded by the unicorn, with prizes of 40x, 100x and 400x the line bet if it stops on 3, 4 or 5 reels across a line.
Wild Elf Substitutions
The wild symbol is good for the elf of bankrolls, as it’s a beautiful woman with pointy ears who is able to act as all except the bonus symbol if she’s in the right place to complete a line. She will complete a sequence of matching symbols or extend a win across extra reels if possible and can even do both at once.
The top wins are also scooped when the wild makes up a winning line on her own, with anyone seeing her right across a line getting paid 1000x. This wild symbol is stacked several high on each reel, so it’s a little easier for the elf to complete combos, while any time she’s part of a win, players see the stack transform into a full image of her, in a teeny tiny outfit that leaves little to the imagination.
Full Moon Bonus Spins
A glowing Moon pays 2x the total stake when it’s in any 3 places at once, but more importantly, it starts 6 free spins. Although this isn’t many, and there’s no free spins special symbols or features in effect during these games, if 3 more bonus symbols land, the round is retriggered. We’ve got to say that we’re a little disappointed that SYNOT have chosen to give the Moonlight Fortune video slot such a low number of bonus spins, as they have other games, like Hot Africa which award lots more, along with multipliers on any winnings. There’s some rewarding SYNOT slots listed here.
Gambling for Bigger Rewards
If players want to try and multiply a win, they can choose to enter the gamble feature. The aim is to correctly guess if a playing card is going to be a red or black suit and while a correct pick doubles the win and gives punters the further option of collecting the win or doubling it again, a wrong choice loses the triggering bet.
Although the results of previous cards are shown along the bottom, these really have no impact on future results and anyone who manages to get several successive correct picks is going to be pretty lucky.
The Verdict
Magical creatures and a fantasy setting are quite common topics for online casino games to follow and with the Moonlight Fortune video slot SYNOT have released a high quality machine that is sure to please fans of the genre. It’s always nice to see a game that’s available across all platforms and thanks to a clever design that places controls where fingers and thumbs naturally rest, you can play Moonlight Fortune on mobile devices without losing any of the quality or features.
If there’s anything we could criticise it for, it’s the relatively low number of free spin bonus games that are triggered. With just 6 spins, and nothing special on the reels to make them more rewarding, gamblers could end the round without actually winning any coins, but SYNOT have compensated for this by making it easier to land winning lines in the base game.
It's a beautiful-looking slot that’s going to attract those who like the mythical forest, magical creatures and fairies subject, but may be of limited appeal to those who are after multiple bonus features.
