Armageddon 10K Ways: Slot Overview

Are you the sort of person who likes to really build a scene before launching into a slot, digesting all of the accompanying text, absorbing the back story, and immersing yourself in its game world as fully as possible? Or do you prefer just loading up, slamming the spin button and letting the action carry you away? Players who lean towards the former grouping may appreciate developer ReelPlay's online slot Armageddon 10K Ways in that case. This game tells of the discovery of an ancient portal connected to otherworldly realms, which scientists unintentionally used to unleash hordes of demonic fiends on Earth. Players take on the role of planetary defender and are tasked with protecting the world from the demonic threat with the help of futuristic weaponry and a high-tech combat suit.

It's a pretty interesting story, tapping into ideas of whether science should do something just because it has the capabilities to do so. Also, how human curiosity can be both a blessing which may have helped us rise from the ranks of insignificant apelike bipeds to masters of the world (for now) and a potential curse that leads to our demise. Whether the demise is due to our own handiwork or whether we attract the attention of forces beyond our understanding who crush us as we do 'lesser' creatures who stand in the way of our expansion and resource utilisation. A demonic infestation sounds particularly nasty, and ReelPlay has created a handsome virtual world of the future for the showdown to take place in. The music's pretty headbanging at times, too.

Grid setup is one thing that tends to link 10K Ways slots together. In Armageddon 10K Ways, it's got a main area consisting of 6 reels, holding 4 symbols each, plus a 4 symbol reel sitting on top of the four centre reels. As the name says, this system provides 10,000 ways to win – left to right from the leftmost side of the board. For volatility, Reel Play has gone for a medium-high setting and a default RTP value of 96%, though lower configurations are available. The stake range is 20 c to $/€20 per spin.

Futuristic metal 9-A card ranks are Armageddon 10K Ways' low pay symbols, followed by 4 Demon symbols as the highs. Hitting a 6 OAK winning way made up of royals gets you 0.5 to 1.2 times your stake, or 2 to 100 times the bet is paid when hitting ways of 6 matching Demon symbols. In the base game, the Soldier symbol appears only on the top reel. The Soldier is wild, so it substitutes for all symbols except scatters. Winning symbols explode off the grid by the cascade mechanic, which drops symbols down on the main reels or from the side on the top reel to replace them, providing another chance to win on the same spin.

Armageddon 10K Ways: Slot Features

Armageddon 10K Ways' main feature is its bonus respins round. It is triggered from the base game when at least 6 scatter symbols appear. In this feature, 3 respins are awarded with all scatter symbols held while the remaining positions spin. What may land are scatters, Soldiers, Demon symbols, or blanks. Demons and scatters display prize or bonus prize values. Only a single Soldier may appear on a respin, only if there are Demon symbols on the screen.

Demon symbols have life values. The Red, Purple, Green, and Blue Demon have starting lives of 4, 3, 2, and 1, respectively. When a Soldier appears, its value is determined by collecting the prize/bonus values of all Demon symbols in view that have a life value greater than 0. All visible Demon symbols' life values are reduced by 1 to a minimum of 0.

When a new prize symbol (scatter, Demon, or Soldier) appears, it is held and respins are reset to 3. When all positions are filled or no more respins remain, the round ends, and each prize symbol awards a prize or bonus prize. Non-bonus prizes on scatters or Demons range from 1x to 100x the bet. The bonus prizes are the Mini, Minor, Major, and Grand, worth 10x, 50x, 250x, or 2,000x the stake, respectively.

Armageddon 10K Ways: Slot Verdict

We mentioned Armageddon 10K Ways' rich story in the opening paragraph, and while the game world has been well designed, it is a slot which fell flat fairly fast. There's just not a lot going on action-wise for much of the time. The base game is without features or modifiers (aside from cascades if they count), just hit winning ways, and get teased when less than 6 scatter symbols hit about the place. Armageddon 10K Ways inhabits a captivating world of the future, one ripped apart by unbridled scientific ambition and hubris, but there's a lot of sitting around waiting while nothing really happens before getting to the more exciting stuff.

That would be Armageddon 10K Ways' respins bonus, and again, it's pretty light-going. Okay, Demon symbols have life countdowns, and Soldiers collect their values, but that's about it. Gamblers can chase the Grand Prize, yet outside this one ray of hope, the rest of the prize values are generally quite meagre. The max win is not, though, marked as 10,338.5x the bet by the ReelPlay team, which was surprising. Clearly, Armageddon 10K Ways has the technical capabilities to perform. One of the game's main highlights is the Soldier collecting symbol values in the bonus respins round, provided there are some juicy Demon values in view for him to collect.

ReelPlay's 10K range continues to chug along, and Armageddon 10K Ways was one of the more satisfying examples to review. There are limitations; the lack of secondary features is noticeable, and the bonus respins round is pretty basic, for example. But, the world-building, the thought patterns the theme evoked, and the Soldier collector symbol possesses a level of intrigue that pushes Armageddon 10K Ways above a few of its 10K Ways contemporaries.