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SHIFTING SEAS SLOT REVIEW

The Shifting Seas slot created by Thunderkick has 6 reels which come in a default 4-4-3-3-2-2 pattern, up to 117,649 ways to win, up to 96.15% RTP and a high variance level. When players launch this game, they will find themselves on the high seas, join a group of daring pirates who are hell-bent on looting and plundering all precious resources that come in their path.

GAME LAYOUT

The high seas and blue skies provide the background graphics for the Shifting Seas game. A gold frame beautifully outlines this slot’s innovative 4-4-3-3-2-2-reel grid.

PAYTABLE
SYMBOLS	ON A PAY LINE
	6	5	4	3
The treasure chest	5.00	2.50	2.00	1.00
The ‘W’ icon, pyramid-like structure, octopus, and wave icon – Identical symbols only	5.00	–	–	–
The lady pirate	1.80	1.20	0.80	0.50
Male pirate on a green portrait	1.40	0.90	0.50	0.40
Male pirate on a pink portrait	1.20	0.80	0.50	0.40
A parrot	1.00	0.70	0.50	0.40
Ace	0.80	0.60	0.40	0.30
Queen and King – Identical symbols only	0.70	0.50	0.30	0.20
Of the same nature Jack, Nine, and Ten	0.50	0.40	0.20	0.10

SYMBOLS

The available symbols incorporated in the Shifting Seas include the treasure chest, a lady pirate, a male pirate on a green portrait, a male pirate on a pink portrait, a parrot and royal symbols.

BONUSES 

• Wild: The golden icon which comes with a ‘W’ inscription acts as the substituting symbol.

• Scatter: The skull icon inside a boat inscribed BONUS acts as the game’s standard scatter symbol.
• Shift Win: During gameplay, whenever players land a winning combination or a boost shift, the rightmost reel disappears and a new reel is formed on the left-hand side. This, therefore, necessitates the increase in the grid reel height as left-hand reels are longer than right-hand reels.

• Avalanche Feature: Winning combinations landed during gameplay allow players to scoop handsome payouts. However, before the next paid spin, the winning symbols vacate their positions thus making it possible for new symbols to drop down and fill the vacant positions. The beauty of this is that it necessitates the evaluations of new win lines hence the possibility of landing consecutive win lines.

• Special Wild Feature: When a wild symbol is involved in a win line (hence disappear owing to the avalanche feature) or when a wild is pushed off the grid owing to the boost shift, the special wild feature activates and awards a guaranteed wild on the newly formed reel or avalanche drop-down symbols (dependent on how the feature is triggered).

• Boost Shift Feature: This is a randomly triggered feature which activates only after the shift win. When it activates, it awards an additional new reel on the left-hand side of the grid. The symbols on the previous left-hand side reel are copied to the newly constructed reel as is.

• Special Rush Feature: The special rush feature is a randomly triggered feature that when it activates, transforms four to eight icons into the same type of regular symbol.

• Wild Surge Feature: The wild surge feature is a randomly triggered feature that when t activates, transforms one to three regular symbols into wilds.

• Bonus Game: Eight free spins are awarded when the shift win feature pushes a reel that has a scatter symbol off the reel grid. During the bonus game, another shift win feature that pushes off a scatter symbol awards an additional four free spins.

• Wild Reel Feature: This feature triggers at random but only during the bonus game. Upon activation, the first reel transforms into a wild reel. The wild reel comes with a 1x multiplier and moves to the right like all other reels during the shift win. When the shift win feature pushes off the wild reel from the grid, another wild reel emerges on the left-hand side of the grid. When this happens, an additional free spin is awarded and the wild reel multiplier increments by one.

SUMMING UP

The numerous bonus features incorporated in the game makes this slot fun to play for free or real cash. The max payout for the Shifting Seas slot machine is 15,000x the bet whether one is playing in the base game or the bonus rounds.  We love all the bonuses in this game and it’s one of the best Thunderkick slots that we have played thus far.