Ivory Citadel Slot Review

The slot has 5 reels and 20 paylines across 3 rows. Released in December 2019, this game can be played at online casinos such as Guts, CasinoCruise or Rizk.

Theme and general information

Ivory Citadel comes with a bit of an unusual theme. Slots with Asian themes are not unusual at all. In fact, there are tons of them. But Ivory Citadel doesn’t take us to the far East. It takes us to Western Asia. Geographically, that includes India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and everything around those countries.

It’s a safe assumption to say that we are pretty much in the depths of India with this slot. The landscape is lush and green, the mountains are high, and the waterfalls plunge into the abyss. A pathway snakes up the mountain. At the entrance it is flanked by two stone elephants. The soundtrack is quite good, setting the mood for excitement and adventure.

The design is impressive and very well done. On the reels, we find stone heads of various animals such as a tiger, a water buffalo, a snake and a massive elephant with four tusks (this is the free spin scatter). There are also playing card symbols from J to A.

The most valuable symbol is the Ivory Citadel logo, which pays out 20x our stake for 5 of its kind. The wild, which looks a bit like a shield, is also worth 20x our stake for such a win. The three animal emblems are worth between 6x and 15x our stake for 5 on a payline.

You can play this game from 0.10 to 100.00.

Mystery symbols in the base game

There is a Mystery symbol in the base game, which looks like a golden emblem with a question mark inside. One or several of it can land on the reels on every spin in the base game.

They then transform randomly in one of the other reel symbols. The only symbol it can’t turn into is the scatter. Otherwise everything is possible. However, a winning combination is never guaranteed, so you get what you get. It’s also possible that the symbols only land on reels where no win can be achieved.

Sticky Mystery symbols in the free spins

If you land 3, 4 or 5 scatters, you can look forward to 8, 10 or 12 free spins. During the free spins, any Mystery symbols that land on the reels will become sticky. Should you manage to get a whole reel full of Mystery symbols, they will turn wild and stay in place for the rest of the free spins.

As far as we can tell, it is not possible to retrigger the free spins.

Conclusion: A great-looking slot that doesn’t captivate for long

The theoretical RTP (Return to Player) of Ivory Citadel is 96.03%, which is very firmly average. The game offers medium volatility and a maximum payout of 1,968x our stake. As such, it is quite suitable for the budget-minded who are looking for regular wins in a slot that is great to look at, offers a good soundtrack and can even yield a bigger win here and there.

This is, it seems, what Ivory Citadel was designed to do and the audience it was aimed at. But thrill-seeking slot players won’t be captivated for long. Mystery symbols that only yield random wins and the lack of actual wild reels forming in the free spins will leave you frustrated eventually. The potential for wild reels is there, but we didn’t see them and didn’t even realised that they could be formed until we read the description of the game. So, there’s that. Still, you do get plenty of sticky Mystery symbols and with a little luck, you walk away with 120x your win or something like that.