Arcane Reel Chaos Slot Review

Arcane Reel Chaos is a video slot from NetEnt with 5 reels and 20 paylines. Released in May 2019, you can play this game at online casinos such as LeoVegas, Unibet or PlayOjo.

Theme and basic information

Arcane Reel Chaos brings us a rather unique theme: a dystopian magical superhero theme. The scene is set in a destroyed church with a few city lights in the background. Four heroes with magical powers fight against the evil Deep Pockets, who is very dangerous and incredibly powerful.

Our four heroes are not to be underestimated. Flare, Zero.X, Chrono and Psyop each have their own skills and powers and together they may just stand a chance to defeat Deep Pockets.

The slot is visually incredibly well done, and the dark and dangerous atmosphere carries well across. The symbols are all featured after playing cards with a touch of Tarot cards and when the reels spin, it sounds as if the cards are being dealt. Nicely done! The graphics are overall incredible, and the game is just really cool to look at. The background sound supplies the sound of the city and dark musical elements.

Our four heroes and one villain grace the reel symbols as well as playing card symbols from 10 to A. Deep Pockets is the most valuable symbol, paying out 50x our stake for a win of 5 of a kind. Flare pays out 25x our stake for such a winning combination and Zero.X is worth 15x our stake. Chrono pays out 10x our stake for 5 on a payline and Psyops still pays out 7.5x our stake.

You can play this slot from 0.20 to 200.00, making it suitable for just about any budget.

Four random features in the base game

The base game is all about our four heroes and their superpowers. These are triggered completely at random and can bring in some decent wins here and there:

• Chrono’s Re-Spins: Triggered on a non-winning spin, Chrono rewinds the reels and gives you free re-spins until you hit a winning combination. Best of all, as long as you don’t win, a multiplier keeps increasing, ending up at 10x, if you keep getting non-winning spins.
• Flare’s Multiplier: A magic wheel shows up and determines which multiplier you get on a random winning spin. The wheel gives you guaranteed either 3x, 4x or 5x multiplier.
• Psyop’s Stacked Wilds: 3 stacked wilds can cover the whole reel at random. If you get all three, prepare for awesome wins.
• Zero.X’s Overlay Wild: When our double-headed hero arrives, wilds appear and are split up across the reels. 3 to 5 random wilds can end up on the reels, once again providing decent wins.

These four features show up often enough to be worthwhile and keep you going until you hit the free spins.

Defeat Deep Pockets in the free spins

The scatter to trigger the free spins only shows up on reels 1, 3 and 5. When that happens, a stack of cards showing your heroes will be dealt to you. You get health points above that card stack and on the other side Deep Pockets shows up with health points and a multiplier.

Now, for each winning spin, your heroes get to strike at Deep Pockets. Whenever his health points are depleted, your multiplier increases. But then he comes back and has more health points than before.

On each non-winning spin, Deep Pockets gets to strike, robbing our heroes of a health point. On the next spin, the hero changes as you lose a card from your stack. Should you manage to defeat Deep Pockets once again, you get 1 health point back.

In theory, the free spins are unlimited. The multiplier can climb up to 4x, however, and once you defeat Deep Pockets, you get a final 10x multiplier for each of your remaining health points.

In practice, you’ll usually end up playing about 20 spins, if you’re lucky, and get maybe the 3x multiplier before your heroes are defeated.

Conclusion: A fantastic slot with great features that is very playable

The theoretical RTP (Return to Player) of Arcane Reel Chaos is 96.81%, which is fantastic value. The slot is not overly volatile, and most wins are not incredibly huge, though the potential is definitely there. During the free spins, we managed to get 50 to 70x our stake, which seems to be average.

More is absolutely possible, if you manage to get more wins than your opponent. Plus, the base game features are very helpful to keep you going, easily supplying you with wins of 20x your stake here.

Arcane Reel Chaos is a fantastic slot from NetEnt. It looks great, offers engaging gameplay and a great return to player quote. As long as you keep getting wins here and there, you’ll want to keep playing as well.