Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir: Slot Overview

In centuries past, whether you were a quiet farmer working the land or a monk bent over an illuminated text, the last sight you’d want on the horizon would be Viking longships packed with warriors eager to raid. For slot fans, it’s the complete reverse, as Vikings headline plenty of dependable titles. Hopefully, this is another of them. Called Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir, it’s produced by Games Global partner studio Foxium, and it leans heavily on full wild reels while offering three different free spins rounds so players can pick the setup that appeals most.

On the visual side, Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir isn’t a spectacle on the scale of Cossacks The Wild Hunt, but it still delivers a solid dose of Viking atmosphere. Expect fjords, fire, axes, warriors, and wolves. And this isn’t just any wolf either. As the game details explain, Fenrir is a powerful beast so dreaded by the Gods of Asgard that Odin chained it to a rock—only for it to break loose and guide players on a quest for treasure from both the world above and the world below…

The action plays out on a 5-reel, 3-row grid, featuring 20 paylines and Orb Meters displayed across the top. There are multiple RTP configurations, and the one to seek out for the best return is the 96.14% model. Each version is medium volatile, comes with a hit rate of 27.3%, and supports wagers from 20 c to $/€100 per base game spin.

Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir includes ten pay symbols. The bottom four are Jack through Ace card ranks, followed by four Viking-themed icons, and then the top pair: Ingrid the Magical Queen and Ragnar the Warrior King of the Vikings. Five-of-a-kind royals pay 1.5-2 times the bet, the themed symbols award up to 2.5x-5x, and full lines of the character symbols return 10-15 times the bet. Fenrir is the wild symbol, substituting for any standard pay icon. When wilds form their own winning combinations, they can pay up to 50 times the bet for 5 of a kind.

Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir: Slot Features

Wild reels take the spotlight in Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir. They’re referred to as a Wild Reel of Fenrir and can show up in the base game by collecting Orbs, or during free spins where they move around the reels. Supporting features include the Viking’s Axe Smash, a fairly savage way to generate wins, and the Hoard Of The Fenrir, which acts more like a tempting tease mechanic.

Orb Collect & Wild Reel Of Fenrir

An Orb Meter is positioned above each reel in the base game. When an Orb symbol lands on a reel, it’s added to that reel’s Orb Meter. You need 2 Orbs to fill a meter, and once it’s full, a Wild Reel is triggered on that reel. Orbs won’t be gathered on reels that are already active Wild Reels, and Orb Meters are retained for each bet level. The Wild Reel feature turns all positions on a reel wild, and it remains active for 2 paid spins in the base game. Free spins scatter symbols can still appear through Wild Reels.

Viking’s Axe Smash

The Viking’s battle axe randomly crashes down, nudging the grid to create a winning result.

Hoard Of The Fenrir

Scatter symbols can land on the leftmost, middle, and rightmost reels. In the base game, if 2 scatters hit on the leftmost and middle reels, the rightmost reel becomes covered in Fenrir Hoard boxes. These Fenrir Hoard boxes may reveal the third scatter symbol.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatter symbols in the base game activates the free spins bonus and awards 2x the bet. Players get a choice of 3 features upon entering free spins:

• Feature 1 – 2 free spins with 3 Wild Reels.
• Feature 2 – 8 free spins with 2 Wild Reels.
• Feature 3 – 25 free spins with 1 Wild Reel.

During free spins, Wild Reels randomly change position each spin, and landing 3 scatters again retriggers the bonus.

Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir: Slot Verdict

Vikings instantly give a slot a strong identity, and Norse mythology is endlessly compelling, so it’s easy to see why developers keep revisiting the theme. Foxium has explored similar territory before with Vikings Fight For Honour. Beyond the setting, though, that game delivered a very different style of play. With Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir, Foxium does a decent job weaving Vikings and myth into the package, though it feels like the studio could have pushed the concept further. After a short while, Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir started to feel like it needed more, once the session settled into a loop of spinning, filling Orb Meters, triggering Wild Reels, and not a great deal beyond that. It may sound a touch critical, but taken as a whole, Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir came across as a bit thin.

One factor was the €/$100,000 max exposure, which equals 1,000x the max bet. Another was the sense that Vikings The Saga Of Fenrir is a diluted take on Oink Farm, an earlier Foxium release that also revolves around collecting items to build full reel wilds. In some respects, Oink Farm arguably offers the stronger bonus round, since you can add new wild reels that remain in place until the feature ends. Here, sure, you can choose 1, 2, or even 3 wild reels at the outset, but that’s the limit; there’s no progression, and with the restrained max win multiplier, there isn’t a huge stash of potential rewards to chase.

The axe strike feature is a nice touch, and more casual players with an interest in history or mythology may be content, but overall—and with win figures like these—this is the kind of Viking raid the people of Lindisfarne would have repelled back into the waves in 793 using little more than crude improvised weapons and sheer stubborn resolve.