Play Journey to the West for Free

The icons in this game are strange and interesting. The symbols here include an Oriental prince, a Viking warrior, a pig wearing a green outfit and crown, and a werewolf with a golden headband. There are also various symbols with Chinese style lettering, along with wild symbol and a free spins symbol with golden snakes slithering up the sides.

Then music in the background features violins and flutes along with an Asian sounding lute, while there are drums and cymbals crashing in the background to give an air of drama. The scene behind the reels features a dark blue sky with twinkling stars, and glowing Chinese lanterns swinging in the breeze.

Betting is easy in this game. You can choose how many coins to bet per line from 1 to 10 with a coin value of €0.01 to €0.50. There are 25 paylines in this game so that all works to give a minimum bet of 25 and a max total bet of 250. This is a medium betting range but might still prove a touch too high for low rollers.

The basic payouts in Journey to the West are quite poor with the highest award being 400 coins for 5 of the wild symbols. The next symbol to look for is the werewolf who pays just 100 coins for 5 symbols, while the prince pays 50 coins, the pig pays 30 coins, and the Viking warrior pays 25 coins. Finally, the Chinese lettering symbols pay from 13 to 15 coins for 5 symbols together on the screen.

The wild symbol is the green circle with the golden lettering in the middle spelling WILD. This symbol stands in for the others in the slot to give more possible wins, though it doesn’t stand in for the scatter.

The free spins symbol with the snakes climbing the sides is the scatter. If you hit 3 or more of these icons you trigger the free spins round giving 5 free spins straight away. If you hit 3 or more again during free spins, you earn another 3 free spins indefinitely!

For the free spins round you get to choose your own stacked symbol and multiplier. Choose one of the 5 different symbols to be your special stacked symbol during the free spins round. The payout alters for however many symbols appear on the reels, as does the multiplier, so choose wisely. The symbols range from 400 coins for 5 symbols with a 1x multiplier up to 25 coins for 5 symbols and a 5x multiplier.

Journey to the West has a strange yet appealing theme, mixing the idea of Eastern symbols with mythical werewolves and a pig character. This peculiar slot game has low payouts from the regular symbols yet some good features with some potentially lucrative multipliers and a permanently re-triggerable free spins bonus round.

There are 25 paylines and a reasonably high minimum bet, yet the payouts are not very good, which is a surprise. However the strong features make up for this and most players will enjoy the odd theme, gentle exotic music and chance to rack up free wins from the free spins round and interesting multipliers.

We certainly enjoyed the chance to select our own rewards from the free spins and multiplier options as this gave extra flexibility with the ability to personalise the gameplay.