Tiger Emperor Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Tiger Emperor Review

With the Tiger Emperor slot, developer Wizard Games celebrates Chinese New Year and invites players on an exciting reel adventure to the Far East in search of big wins. As it's the year of the Tiger, those gorgeous beasts will bring you wealth and prosperity by triggering rewarding bonus features with massive cash prizes and jackpots.

Tiger Emperor - Slot Outlook

Much like any other Chinese-themed slot, Tiger Emperor shows little new when it comes to its design. The backdrop showcases familiar pagoda-style buildings and temples, sitting amidst majestic tall mountains. In the center is a standard 5x3 grid with 50 fixed paylines, decorated with classic Chinese ornaments including lanterns and gold lions, surrounded by blooming sakura trees. A pretty sight indeed, albeit not that original. Wizard Games has gone for a more cartoonish style than a realistic one, and they did pretty well considering both the graphics and animations look stunning. Overall, Tiger Emperor offers perfect Asian slot aesthetics in terms of the outer look, and a piece of enigmatic Chinese music adds a final touch to the vibe.

Tiger Emperor Slot - Reel Screen

The Tiger Emperor slot comes with quite a wide betting range of €0.2 to €200 per spin, which should certainly appeal to both high-rollers and casual gamblers.

The volatility is high, while the RTP is above the average level at 96.23%. However, note that Tiger Emperor has RTG ranges, so the payback can be lowered to 94.06% or 88.06%, which depends on the casino you play at, so make sure you always check the paytables before depositing to get a higher return rate. The hit frequency is 34.88%, 33.5%, and 30.49% for the three RTP versions respectively, thus wins occur roughly in 1 out of 3 spins.

The paytable in the Tiger Emperor slot includes four low and five high symbols, and you need to land at least 3 matching symbols on the reels starting from the leftmost to score a win. The lower section comprises classic A-J royals, and the premium lot includes in ascending order lotus flowers, fans, lanterns, drums, and coins. 5-of-a-kind low symbol wins pay 1x the bet, and higher value symbols are worth from 2x to 5x the bet.

The firecracker symbol is Wild, and it can appear on all reels to substitute for any other regular symbols, though, it doesn't have any own value. Finally, Wild symbols appear stacked on the reels to produce bigger winning opportunities.

Tiger Emperor - Bonus Features

True to the title, Tiger Emperor revolves around tigers, and those act as bonus symbols and trigger the Tiger Respins feature whenever 6 or more appear anywhere in view. That will award 6 Respins, plus 1 additional Respin for each extra triggering symbol. Then, the triggering symbols will lock in place and players will proceed to a new reel set consisting of blanks and bonus symbols, and all new tiger symbols that appear during the feature also get locked for the remaining Respins.

During the bonus game, adjacent bonus symbols form groups, and players will receive rewards depending on the group sizes at the end of the feature - when all symbol positions are filled or the players run out of Respins. Additionally, Super Bonus Prizes become available for each group bigger than 2x2 in size, which can be awarded randomly on a par with regular bet multiplier prizes.

Group Size	Rewards xBet	Available Super Prizes
5x3	100x – 750x	Major and Grand
4x3	50x – 250x	Minor and Major
5x2	40x – 150x	Mini, Minor, and Major
3x3	30x – 100x	Mini and Minor
4x2	15x – 80x	Mini and Minor
3x2	10x – 40x	Mini and Minor
2x2	6x – 20x	Mini and Minor
3x1	5x	None
2x1	3x	None
1x1	1x	None

There's also a Free Spins feature included in the Tiger Emperor slot, which is triggered when 3, 4, or 5 Scatter symbols appear anywhere in view on any base game spin, awarding 8, 12, and 15 free games respectively. It operates in a similar way to the base game, but the major difference is that only Scatter and Wild symbols can appear on reel 3 during the feature. Free Spins can be triggered, as well as players can access the Tiger Respins by landing 6 or more bonus symbols, after which the remaining free spins will continue.

Tiger Emperor - Slot Verdict

All said and done, Tiger Emperor is a lovely slot, and it's surely going to appeal to those really into the Chinese thing. Yet still, it has hardly anything new to offer both design and gameplay-wise.

We've seen similar looks in a countless number of Asian slots, and the features laid down here have debuted long ago in Wizard Games' older Alice Riches slot. Anyway, it's not a bad slot, though, it definitely doesn't lean towards unmissable within the niche.

Pros

• Great Chinese art work
• Exciting Respins with decent rewards and jackpots

Cons

• RTG ranges
• Reskin of the Alice Riches slot