Play Dragon Warrior for Free

While most slot machines have a background image to highlight the theme, the designers of Dragon Warrior seem to have done overtime on the stunning artistry of a Chinese city that sits behind the reels. Elaborate dragon statues, pagoda roofed building and a brightly lit palace are all seen, along with an intricately carved frame that surrounds the main game. The soundtrack is exceptional as well, with seemingly an entire orchestra playing a dramatic tune as the reels spin.

If there’s one issue that divides opinion, it’s the use of playing card symbols to create the lower-value combinations. Dragon Warrior features the J, Q, K and A icons, which have nothing to do with the topic and while some players are happy to see these familiar icons, we would have liked to see all symbols related to the theme. It’s just a matter of preference though and feel free to disagree with us. The picture symbols are all superbly presented, with a traditional paper fan and a treasure chest joined on the reels by the three warriors who are the most valuable standard symbols.

A sword-wielding woman pays 64, 160, or 320 coins when she’s seen on three, four, or all five reels across an active payline, while the female archer is only needed on reels one and two to pay out 32 coins. Land her right across a line to collect a prize of 360 coins. The male warrior returns between 48 and 400, depending on how much of a payline he’s seen across. Symbols can sometimes be stacked several high on a reel, which makes it easier for them to complete combinations and full reels of three matching symbols will turn into giant 3x3 images.

The dragon is a wild symbol that will always appear stacked on any reel it lands on. It acts as all except the bonus symbol to complete lines and also returns the best prizes, with the 1,000x the per line bet claimed when the wild is seen right across a payline.

Although it only lands on the middle three reels, the Bonus symbol also appears stacked and pays out double the total stake when it fills seven, eight, or all nine spots on them. You also earn eight, 16, or 32 free spins, during which a randomly-selected symbol will also be stacked each time it appears. Novomatic call this the Xtra Stax feature  and it’s in effect during the free games, also ensuring that the wild and bonus symbols are stacked in a way that completely fills any reels that they are seen on.

Wins can be gambled in a feature that’s common across the Novomatic range. It’s an optional 50/50 guessing game that doubles wins if you predict the color of a playing card as it flashes from red to black. Get it right and you can either collect the prize or go on to double it again until you reach the gamble high limit. Any wrong picks will lose the initial prize, along with any gains made so far in the gamble round.

Unless all 30 paylines are active, you won’t be able to claim for all winning combinations that appear on the reels, so it’s usually best to activate all lines and raise your stakes to suit your budget. Just 0.30 is needed per spin, or you could simply try out the free Dragon Warrior video slots that are available at Novomatic powered online casinos.

An autoplay function is a useful feature if you like to just watch reels spin without having to do anything each time and you can choose how long these go on for, or set win/loss levels that will stop them when either limit is reached.

There’s seemingly no end to the number of slots that feature dragon motifs. or brave warriors from ancient times. The Red Dragon video slot from SimplePlay has similar symbols to Dragon Warrior, but with a more light-hearted, comical style. It’s a five-reel, 30-line game where you follow three warriors as they move through a magical kingdom of fire and ice, each side guarded by cute dragons. During a free games feature, special wild symbols will double prizes when they complete combinations for the first five spins. This multiplier rises throughout the feature, to a limit of eight times and an unlimited free spins mode can give you more free games when the right symbols appear.

Dragon Hunter is a Manga-style slot from Ganapati which plays out on a 5x5 grid of symbols. A cascading reels feature sees symbols that make up a win vanishing and new ones dropping down to fill the voids, while bonus features include a Dragon Fight round. This pitches the hunter and his assistant against three dragons in an epic battle, plus you can enjoy in-game features like sticky wilds and expanding wild symbols.

This attractive game looks just as good when you play on iPads, iPhones, Android, or Windows phones and tablets, although some of that beautiful background image is lost on the smaller screens.

If you like slots with an Asian theme, and let’s face it, there’s a huge number of players who do, then Dragon Warrior could be an ideal choice. The wild symbol substitutions, stacked images and free games are all ways that you can benefit from extra winnings and it’s a low to mid-volatility game that comes with a high return to player percentage. Like all Novomatic slots, it’s fully licensed and certified for fair gaming so spin these classic Asian-inspired reels and you can be sure of reliable results.