The Lion Slot Review

How to play

You don’t have to be a lion tamer to get to grips with this slot. Players must first choose their credit value using the arrow buttons underneath the reels. Once that is done, choose the credit bet amount by clicking one of the following buttons: 20, 40, 100, 200, or 400. This will see the reels start moving instantly. The game itself has a standard 5x4 set-up, offering 20 fixed paylines that players can land winning symbol combinations on. 

The Hot Bet feature can be triggered by clicking the red Hot Bet button to the left-hand side of the reels. Players can also buy free spins at any time during the game from the store underneath that. The slot also has an auto-spin feature which players can use to make up to 100 automatic spins.

Symbols and payouts

Gamzix whisks us away into the African Savannah for this game, and the symbols and characters are all as you would expect from that theme. The game has clearly drawn inspiration from the Lion King story, with the symbols being a male and female cub, an adult lion, the card symbols J-A, and a panther. There is a wild symbol which is a cub in the base round with the word wild written underneath that transforms into a lion in the free spins round. The highest paying symbol is the female cub, with five of her paying out 500x the line bet. The game’s scatter symbol is a mischievous snake that is wrapped around a tree.

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Best The Lion bonus feature

There are several bonus features that players will encounter when playing The Lion but the main one is the free spins round. In order to trigger The Lion free spins bonus, players will need to land three or more of the snake scatter symbols in one spin. When this happens, players are rewarded with 25 free spins. Unfortunately, there is no retriggering option for the free spins. 

The free spins fun doesn’t stop there though. During the free spins round, the cub wild symbol will grow into a lion wild. In this The Lion bonus, the wild will also expand to fill the reels. It can appear as an x2 multiplier on the second, third, and fourth reel, and an x3 multiplier on the third reel. When more than one wild appears with different multipliers, these are then multiplied among themselves. 

If you’re not feeling patient and want to get straight into the thick of the action, you can buy your way into the free spins round at any time. Players can purchase either 10, 25, or 50 spins at any time during the game.

As with many Gamzix slots, The Lion is also home to the Hot-Bet feature. This can also be activated at any time. With this special feature, the reels will change and add more scatter and wild symbols - increasing the chance of scoring some free spins or a big payout. In order to activate this, players must double their stake for the chosen spin. 

Whenever players are lucky enough to score a win, they are also given the option to use the gamble feature. This feature is also very common in Gamzix games and can be a great way of doubling your payout - though, of course, you can also lose it all so approach with caution. 

Finally, the game is home to four jackpots - Mini, Minor, Major, and Mega. Players are given a chance to win the jackpot at random intervals. The jackpot mini-game involves choosing three cards with the same jackpot name on them.

RTP & volatility

The Lion Return To Player is a solid 96.5%, which should be enough to attract some players. This fluctuates slightly depending on which mode you are playing the game in. In the Hot Bet mode, it jumps up to an impressive 97%, while in the free spins rounds it is marginally down to 96.4%. The game is a medium volatility title, being given three stars out of five on the Gamzix website.