The Grand Journey Slot Machine
Pack your bags for The Grand Journey from Microgaming, an adventure themed slot set in an exciting landscape filled with wild animals, mountains and volcanoes.
This game has a comic book feel and a cheesy style, while symbol on the reels include sabre toothed tigers, dinosaurs, toadstools and explorers’ equipment. There are 5 reels and 30 paylines here along with expanding wild symbols, scatters, free spins, multipliers and bonus round. Prepare for a cheesy adventure in pre-historic surroundings with a T-Rex on your heels!
Packing Your Bags
Before heading on your journey, it’s time to decide on your bet. There are 30 paylines in this slot and these are all fixed into position, giving you the maximum number of ways to win on every spin. You can alter your bet per spin by clicking the arrow to move from a minimum bet of €0.30 up to a maximum bet of €12.00 per spin. This is quite a small betting range so players who prefer to play cautiously will enjoy this slot, while high rollers might feel a little restricted in their betting.
The theme is exciting with powerful music in the background and wild animals on the reels. The background features a landscape scene with mountains, caves and a thundery sky. The symbols remind us of a fun comic, with Aztec-style wooden structures mingling with volcanoes and binoculars. The most humorous symbols are the two explorers.
The first is a woman with long red hair wearing large hoop earrings and a yellow bikini – perhaps not the most appropriate outfit for hacking through the forests and fighting wild animals. Her companion is an action man with a square jaw and five O’clock shadow, dressed in a shirt and T-shirt combo. Other symbols are the globe, the T Rex, the tiger, and the red and white-spotted toadstool.
Rewards from Your Grand Journey
The regular payouts here are decent with the wild Grand Journey logo paying the highest reward at 1,000x your bet for 5 symbols together on the reels. This symbol is the wild, so it stands in for the other symbols, except the scattered globe, to create more potential wins. This Summer Holiday logo is also stacked, so it creates even more possible wins, while any payout featuring the wild symbols also receives a 2x multiplier!
The male explorer is the second-best paying symbol, awarding 500x your bet for 5 symbols, the female explorer is the third-best paying symbol awarding 300x your bet for 5 symbols, while the dinosaur symbol awards 150x you bet for 5 symbols. The tiger pays up to 100x your bet, while the volcano pays 50x your bet for 5 symbols. The Aztec wooden structure awards up to 45x your bet, the toadstool awards up to 40x your bet, and the explorers’ tools award up to 35x your bet for 5 matching symbols on the reels.
Globe Triggers Free Spins with up to a 10x Multiplier
The scattered globe awards up to 100x your total bet when you hit 5 of these on the reels. It can also award free spins when you hit at least 3 globes together. If you spin 3, 4 or 5 globes you win 15 free spins and you can also enjoy up to a 10x multiplier! Each non-winning spin during the free spins round increases the multiplier by 1x until you hit a win. Any winning spin resets the multiplier.
You have the potential to win up to 6,000,000 coins during this round if you bet the maximum and hit the top multiplier.
Expanding Wilds Boost Your Winning Combinations
In addition to the game logo, there is also another wild symbol in the drill expanding wild. This symbol can appear during any spin at random and expand on the centre reel to fill the sure reel. This means massive winning opportunities as the entire reel turns wild!
Cheesy Fun in the Comic Adventure World
The Grand Journey slot machine is a fun and adventurous offering from Microgaming. The wild animals add an exotic feel to the game while the bonus features keep the gameplay entertaining. The free spins round triggers regularly from the globe scatter and this is where your bankroll can enjoy a great boost thanks to the increasing multiplier awards.
Although the maximum €12.00 bet per spin might be a bit too low for the higher rollers, there is the potential to win 6,000,000 coins during free spins for some highly lucrative exploring during your grand journey!
