Play Paris of the East for Free

This certainly isn’t a typical Chinese themed online casino slot machine, as most seem to be set much further in the past, so it’s a nice change to see the more up-to-date characters that populate this game, paying out the higher value wins when landing across a payline in an unbroken sequence from the left side. At the top of the paytable, there’s a beautiful singer, who is worth 3x the line bet when she’s on reels 1 and 2, while full lines of this lady are worth coin wins of 80x.

Then we have a handsome guy in a hat, who is worth up to 70x the line stake, another girl in a traditional red dress who will pay up to 60x, plus there’s a bald, enigmatic character in his sunglasses and smoking a cigarette, who looks distinctly evil and is also worth up to 60x the line stake.

Smaller wins come from the typical playing card icons 10, J, K, K and A, and if there’s anything we don’t like about the design of the Paris of the East video slot, it’s the use of these standard symbols, that are not directly related to the theme, although they have little hats, fans, or microphones on them. But they will create the majority of the win-lines, with the 10 and J returning up to 12x the line bet, and the others being worth a maximum of 14x when filling a payline.

The Paris of the East game logo is a wild symbol that can substitute for others, apart from the bonus symbols, if it’s in the right spots to complete a winning combination. If a line of symbols has a piece missing and the wild is there, players will be paid as if there was no break in the sequence, or it’s also possible for more valuable combinations to be made if the wild is towards the right side of the game and extends a line across further reels.

The wild symbol is quite valuable even when it doesn’t substitute, being worth up to 80x the line bet when it fills a payline on its own.

A red paper fan is a special symbol, that turns up on every spin, filling at least 1 random reel and sometimes 2 or 3. Once the spinning stops, the fan folds up and magically transforms into any other character, or playing card symbol. and while this isn’t always going to result in a new winning line being formed, it frequently does.

Part of the old Shanghai skyline, complete with fireworks, is a scatter symbol and any time it stops in 3 or more places at once, a free spins bonus game begins. A random number of games are awarded, and while any bonus spins are welcome, there’s nothing in the symbol mix to make them more valuable, and they can’t be retriggered.

The last symbol to cover is a luxury car, which takes players to the progressive jackpot round when it’s on 1, 2 and 3 at once. To win either the Mini, Minor, Major or Grand jackpot prizes (or a percentage of them), you simply click on your favourite beauty pageant contestant from the 4 options and the jackpot is revealed.

The Paris of the East video slot is an attractive slot game delivers some steady and reliable winning spins, particularly when the fan transforms into new symbols, or the wild complete a line. We found the free spins bonus round to be difficult to trigger, but maybe it was just us, and of course, entering the progressive jackpot feature is going to be a rare event for any player.

But it’s still got plenty going for it, so anyone who likes low volatility slots, where they get frequent, but small-ish wins, should certainly play for real money at GamingSoft casinos.