Lost Relics Review

Lost Relics is a video slot from NetEnt with 5 reels and in this slot, there are no set paylines, instead you get cluster pays, meaning six or more symbols of the same kind that touch vertically or horizontally on the reels will yield a winning combination in a 5×5 grid. You’ll be able to play Lost Relics at online casinos such as ComeOn, Zet Casino or Unibet.

Theme and game basics

Lost Relics gives us an archaeological theme. Just imagine a Lara Croft-style character digging in the sand somewhere to uncover treasures and antiques. Based on the symbols (a helmet, dagger, cuff, brooch), we’d have to go with a Mediterranean culture, whether it’s Greek, Spartan, Roman or even Cretan, we couldn’t say. There are lots of beautiful little details, though, and the camp fire atmosphere is quite lovely. Brooch and cuff are the most valuable symbols, giving you up to 6,000 coins when you get a whole screen of them. Helmet and dagger will still give you 3,000 coins when you fill the 5×5 grid with them.

Gameplay and features

During the base game winning combinations may randomly burst and trigger one of the following features:
Extra scatters that may activate the free spins
3 to 15 extra wilds added to the reels for the current spin
Instant coin win between 2x to 30x your initial bet
A combination thereof is possible as well. We’ve received wilds and extra scatters during such a random feature. Mind you, it doesn’t happen very often, so be glad you get it.
Indeed, triggering the free spins seems to be a more regular occurrence on the whole. We’ve played them several times during 200 spins and they were always different. The reason are the treasure chests, which you may or may not uncover during the free spins. You will start off with 10 extra spins and winning combinations will result in the bricks below to be destroyed to hopefully reveal a small, medium or large chest. Those will come with coin wins, extra spins and sticky wilds. It can be either of those things or a combination of two or three of them. Usually, you will get extra spins at the very least. Also, the first two times you manage to uncover a box, it will always be either small or medium. We’ve hit a medium box on first try once and another time three small boxes in a row. So, you really never know what might happen.

Conclusion

The theoretical RTP (return to player) Lost Relics is 96.30%. That’s good value, though the game can feel a little slow at times, offering lots of smaller wins, but rarely big ones. Lost Relics isn’t the most special slot in the NetEnt portfolio. We do like the look of it. The theme is quite well done, especially when it comes to the hidden treasure boxes and the way they are revealed. The special effects and animations are great and add to the fun of the game, especially if you like hidden mysteries. It’s a bit of a shame that we don’t get more excitement or bigger wins. That makes this game a nice little distraction, but eventually you might want to find something a little more interesting.