Spirit of Adventure: Slot Overview

“Discover wealth, fortune, and good luck” – that’s the promise splashed across the opening screen of Spirit of Adventure, an online slot created by Pragmatic Play together with Reel Kingdom. It’s a pretty inviting pitch: spin a few reels and stumble into some luck—who wouldn’t be curious? With that upbeat vibe in mind, we hit “continue” to see what else the game offered. On paper, the headline attraction is a relic collection mechanic inside free spins, which sounded like it could be a fun hook, so if you’re feeling brave, keep reading.

Once the main game view appeared, though, the excitement dipped a touch. Reel Kingdom often has a habit of assembling elements that don’t always feel like they belong together. Here, you’ve got a mash-up of reel symbols ranging from (sort of) photo-realistic gems to wooden low pays and other oddities. Add in a swashbuckling, old-movie-style heroine firing a flare, plus tiki masks, frogs, and flax in the scenery, and it’s a definite mix. To be fair, it’s not the most chaotic collage the studio has ever stitched together, but the look is unmistakably Reel Kingdom. Whether that’s a plus or a minus is up to you.

The action plays out on a 5-reel, 3-row layout, with 10 fixed paylines paying left to right. One thing in Reel Kingdom’s favour is that their titles usually come with a solid set of numbers. In Spirit of Adventure’s case, that includes a return value of 96.6% in both the standard mode and when purchasing free spins, paired with a highly volatile model (rated 5 out of 5). You can take on the adventure on any device, with stakes starting at 10 p/c and rise to $/€100 per spin.

Every symbol apart from the top one needs at least three matching to form a payline win; the diamond pays on two or more. A five-diamond line returns 200x the bet, followed by 100x for the red gem, then 50x for the blue and green gemstones. Five of any relic symbol pays 20x the bet, while the 10-A low-value royals award up to 10x the bet for five. The heroine appears as the wild symbol. Wilds substitute for all standard paying symbols and show up only in free spins.

Spirit of Adventure: Slot Features

There are two routes into free spins. The first is landing 3, 4, or 5 bonus symbols, which awards 8, 10, or 12 free spins. The second happens when an island symbol lands on reel 3, granting 12 free spins. While free spins are active, relic symbols are money symbols, and each one carries a random value of 2x to 5,000x the bet, depending on which relic it is.

On every free spin, the wild symbol moves to a random position, taking the place of whatever was there. After moving, it collects the values of all relic symbols that are adjacent to it—horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. On top of that, whenever a relic is gathered by the wild, the relic is also collected on a trail.

• After collecting 4 swords, sword collection values are multiplied by x2.
• 4 collected discs mean future disc value collections are multiplied by x3.
• 3 collected chalices mean future chalice value collections are multiplied by x5.
• 3 collected masks mean future mask value collections are multiplied by x10.

Completing a trail awards 3, 4, or 5 extra free spins, though the total number of spins can’t exceed the amount originally granted. When free spins finish, a 1×1 totem symbol appears on the reels and shifts to a random position each spin. This follow-on feature ends only once the totem and the roaming wild land in the same position. Also worth noting: if an island bonus symbol lands during free spins, random relic symbols are added to the screen.

Mystery Prize

Once free spins conclude, if the total win is less than 2,250x the bet, players can choose to take the win or collect a mystery prize instead. The mystery prize may come in below or above the current total.

Buy Free Spins

Paying 100x the bet lets players instantly start the feature by landing 3, 4, or 5 bonus symbols.

Spirit of Adventure: Slot Verdict

Reel Kingdom, Pragmatic Play’s partner in crime, is the kind of studio you almost have to approach with zero expectations and just see where the ride takes you. Often, that destination is somewhere you didn’t realise you’d rather avoid—though credit to RK for sticking with their randomness. Spirit of Adventure isn’t as wildly eccentric as some of their other titles, like Cash Elevator or Book of Kingdoms, but it’s still a bit left-field. Their catalogue is so reliably strange that it’s hard to know whether Reel Kingdom builds games this way out of quirky creativity, or if they’re a Pragmatic Play offshoot set up purely to mess with players.

That said, Spirit of Adventure comes across as one of Reel Kingdom’s more straightforward efforts. It feels like the team intentionally aimed for something that’s entertaining rather than baffling in the way Star Pirates Code could be. Visually, it’s not exactly poor—just slightly “off,” and it’s difficult to pinpoint why. Maybe it’s the heroine’s bobbing animation, or the collision of symbols, cultures, and eras. Even so, Reel Kingdom keeps doing its own thing, so there’s no need to go too hard on their individualistic approach. The upside is that Spirit of Adventure’s features can be genuinely enjoyable at times, and the stats are perfectly respectable, meaning slot explorers can indeed find a decent dose of adventure here.

Overall, Spirit of Adventure is among Reel Kingdom’s more accessible releases, and it manages that without leaning on fish, fire, or leprechauns. Like a peanut butter freak shake, it won’t suit everyone, but if you enjoy Reel Kingdom’s particular flavour of fun, you’ll find plenty of it here.