Shields of Lambda Slot Review + Free Play

How To Play Shields of Lambda Mobile Slot

The Quickspin Shields of Lambda slot is set on a 5×5 grid with two statuesque warriors by each side of the reel, promising wins of up to 9926x your bet thanks to avalanching wins, cluster pays, colossal wilds and a Unity feature that adds multipliers to the free spin bonus.

What the **** is. Lambda? We googled it. Lambda is the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet and is represented by the upside-down V. Why? Because under this 5×5 grid lies a whole load of red ^ (or lambdas), which are collected over the reels when you get a win of symbols over.

When you collect 70 lambda symbols you are guaranteed to get 15x your bet, followed by a whole new set of symbols. You need to collect 20 of those little Greek letters in the free spins. Better yet, every time you trigger this ‘Unity Feature’, you will increase the multiplier on the feature by +1x.

All this is helped by the fact that this Shields of Lambda video slot has avalanching reels with cluster pays. 5 symbols touching will explode and leave behind space for more wins. The wild symbol, which can come mega-sized, helps create these wins, but you’ll soon notice something weird happening to the paytable.

The Shields of Lambda slot Unity Feature

Collecting symbols in video slots can be tricky. On one hand, if they don’t trigger often enough, you can feel cheated. One the other, if they trigger too often, they often don’t pay out much. Both times, the features feel pretty useless. Just look at slots games like Brawlers Bars Cash Collect.

This is why this Shields of Lambda slot did something interesting. You have low-paying symbols and high-paying symbols. The low-paying symbols are Ace to 10, and then the Animals symbols: lions, goat, ram, sheep and owl.

The low-paying symbols all pay the same, and the high-paying symbols all pay the same. So you have two symbols, under the guise of eight of them, just for the look of things?

This matters because the Unity Feature triggers a screen full of low-paying symbols, which pay out 15x your bet (no matter which symbol is picked), explode, and tumble down another free re-spin.

The Shields of Lambda Slot has a Top Win of 9926x

You will need 3 scatters to get 10 free spins. You might catch the free spins with 4 or 5 scatters and get 15 or 20 free spins, but that’s unlikely. You will get a chance to gamble to get more spins, but it’s tricky. We managed to increase our free spins one in 10 tries. That’s a lot of chances to miss out on the free spins.

The reason you might want to gamble, and why the Shields of Lambda free spins are so lucrative, is because it’s the only place you’ll get multipliers.

Every time you trigger the Unity feature, the multipliers increase by +1x for each avalanche. These multipliers stay sticky, allowing them to build up. That said, 10 spins don’t allow this feature to trigger more than two or three times on a good round, making it a very volatile affair.

It’s the main reason why we can’t, in good conscience, give this slot more than 4 stars. The numbers and mechanics are all good, but getting the right numbers (i.e. that top win) is damn hard.

Should You Play The Quickspin Shields of Lambda Slot?

This reminded us a little bit of the original 300 Shield slot machine, a game from long ago that we played. It was a fight, it was a struggle, but if you won the war, you would walk away King.

This is an all-or-nothing struggle. Yes, the mechanics are built to pay you 15x your bet, often enough to make you forget that you’ve not had a big win in a while, but that’s what makes this game dangerous, not good.

You can become complacent. You might even be tempted to spend 70x your bet to buy the free spin. Don’t. Wait for it to happen organically, and if you win 1,000x your bet, maybe check out some of those long-supped-up games, like 300 Shields Mighty Ways and 300 Shields Extreme.

Sometimes an online casino slot come along that inspires you. Sometimes, you get inspired to play other mobile slots like it. Either way, it’s a nice little casino game to find in your rotation of high-variance slot machines.

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Shields of Lambda Bonus Features

Wild and Colossal Wild: The Wild symbols susbtitutes for all symbols except scatter. Sometimes, these can show up randomly to cover 2x3 symbols.

Cluster Pay and Avalanching Reels: Every time you get 5 symbols touching horizontally or vertically, you win. The symbols then explode, leaving space for more symbols and wins. This continues until no more symbols create wins.

Lambda Symbols: Below the reels are red-like arrows called Lambda symbols. If you win over these symbols, they are collected in the meter above the reels. In the base game, you must collect 70 Lambda to fill it, while in the free spins, you must collect 20 symbols. When the meter is filled, you trigger the Unity Feature.

Unity Feature: The screen will be populated with one random low symbol, creating a 15x your bet win. The tumbling reels trigger, and more symbols then fall down.

Ferryman's Free Spins: Three, four, or five scatter symbols award 10, 15, or 20 free spins. You can then risk increasing the number of free spins (up to 20) via a gamble wheel of fortune game. If you lose, you lose the free spin bonus; if you win, you get +5 spins. During the free spins, only 20 Lambda symbols are collected to trigger the Unity Feature. During this feature, a progressive multiplier is applied to the wins that increase by one with every winning tumble, starting at x1, with no upper limit.

Buy Bonus: You can buy entry into the free spins by paying 70x your bet.