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Secret of the Stones review

Theme and Storyline

Secret of the Stones has an ancient look, reminiscent of the Ancient Britons’ and Ireland’s druidic past.

The secrets that the stones are hiding won’t be immediately clear, but the atmosphere and art style the theme allows is both intriguing and beautiful.

Grab your sickle, dig up some mistletoe and go dance around the singing stones. They’re calling to you...

Graphics, Sounds and Animations

A mix of Norse and Celtic styles make up this very pagan slot’s look. A beautiful mix of digital watercolours for the background and digital stonework for the reels. The Celtic knotwork and the stone animals have a unified style that works really well.

The stoney nature of the slot is amplified by well chosen reel sounds. The symbols fall with the sound of stones hitting each other and the music is eerie and ambient.

The animations are simple, but work very well with the theme and style of the slot. Overall this is one of the prettier slots out there.

Gameplay

Secret of the Stones is a basic five reel slot with three rows and twenty-five win lines.

There’s a single bonus game that can be activated, though this has some variety injected by randomised features (see below for details).

There is no gamble feature.

Wilds, Bonuses and Free Spins

The Wild symbol substitutes for all symbols except the Scatter symbol. Wilds can be stacked.

Landing three or more Scatters anywhere on the reels triggers 10 Free Spins. Before the spins start, the player completes a picking game.

During the picking game, 20 stones are generated. The player picks one stone per Scatter they landed. Behind each stone is a random feature that will be active for the free spins or additional multipliers and spins.

Bet Sizes, RTP and Variance

The return to player of this game is 96.72%, well over our yardstick for average of roughly 96%. A high RTP counts strongly towards a game’s recommendation.

The range of bets on the site we tested ran from a minimum bet per spin of $/£/€0.25 up to a maximum of $/£/€125.00 per spin.

The volatility of this game is medium to high, which makes it a moderately good match for our preferred slot machine strategies. Our slot strategies target the highest possible volatility.

Conclusion

Lovely to look at this slot is also a delight to play. The gameplay is simple but fun, and with an RTP of 96.72% it’s pretty cheap to boot.

Couple that RTP with the medium-high volatility and you’ve got a decent slot for our preferred strategies.

The main appeal of this slot is the atmosphere and visuals though and for them alone we’d give this one a recommendation.