Empire Fortune Pokie Review

The game is based on an opulent theme. The reels are filled with precious gemstones and jewels. The game has been set behind a room filled with gold. This is also supplemented by great graphics and animations.

Developer

Yggdrasil is the brain behind the development of Empire Fortune Pokie. The developer is known for their great work in developing a wide array of games in the range of video pokies, classic pokies, video scratch, 3D video poker, keno games, live studio lotto, progressive jackpots and scratch games.

They make use of state of the art technology which has made it possible for them to launch their games on mobile and desktop platforms.
Other titles developed by the company are Joker Millions, Monkey King, Wicked Circus and Bicicleta.
Yggdrasil has formed strategic partnerships with companies like Mr Green, Unibet, LeoVegas, Cherry, Bwin.party, Betsson group and Bet365.
Technological innovations they use in their products include iSENSE 2.0 and HTML5 frameworks. These platforms make it possible for players to launch the games simultaneously on mobile and desktop.
Yggdrasil has licenses and approvals from different jurisdictions and these are Malta where they have a class-4 license, UK, Gibralta and Romania where they have a class 3 license.

How to play the game

When you want to start playing the pokie, select your coin denomination and hit the spin button. The coin value starts at 0.01 to 5. The bet amount value starts at $0.2 to $100 for a spin. This is a clear indication that this is a pokie for the low and high roller players. The pokie has 5 reels and 20 fixed lines.
The pokie has eight symbols. The regular symbols will trigger a win when three or more are lined up on a payline. The lines pay one way (from left to right).

Special Features

Scatter symbol/ Free Spins Rounds
When you have three or more of the scatters in a winning line, you will have the free spins round brought into action. When you have three free spins, you will have 10 spins awarded and a two times multiplier. When they are four, you get 20 spins and a four times multiplier. Five of these spins will give you thirty free spins and a multiplier of 10.
Jackpot Wheel
The jackpot wheel has three levels where each level has its own rewards. You have the chance to move up the level by getting the arrow symbols on the reels.
Five symbols get you a spin on the top tier, four of them will give you a spin on the middle tier while three of these will give you a spin on the lowest tier.
Fireworks feature
After spinning the wheel, it might land on this feature and there will be several rockets shot and will at random land on selected sections. All the wins you get by hitting will be awarded and these might include the free spins and the mystery wins or any extra rockets.
Hold Feature
When you have two scatter symbols or two bonus symbols landing; the reels the symbols are on will be held for the upcoming spin. In case, you alter the coin value, the feature will be deactivated.  This feature is activated automatically on free spins and whenever it is active, you will get an extra free spin.
Jackpots
Empire Fortune has three jackpots. There is the Empire Fortune Jackpot, Diamond and the Golden Jackpot. The Ultra jackpot is linked to the Joker Millions Jackpot. The Mini and Medium ones are independent and unique to the game alone.
The diamond jackpot will be brought to life when you have the diamond symbol on the top tier wheel. The golden jackpot will be activated when you have a gold bar symbol on the middle tier. You will activate the empire jackpot when you have the joker symbol on the top tier wheel.

Maximum Payouts

The highest payout you can get would be when you win the progressive jackpot which is usually in millions of dollars.

Summary

Empire Fortune Pokie is a great pokie that I will be playing for real money after launch. It is unique, has plenty of features and the jackpots are mind boggling. With the highest bet standing at $100, it would be a great pokie for mid roller players and high rollers when on low budgets.