Ashoka Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Ashoka Review

Many western players will probably not know too much about Ashoka, so a brief history lesson is necessary to appreciate the mythological backdrop. Ashoka was a legendary Indian emperor in the Maurya Dynasty (268 to 232 BCE), and he was known as a great reformer and a righteous ruler. He helped spread the dharma of Buddhism to the people, and thanks to ELK Studios he now has an online slot dedicated to him as well as countless monuments, movies, books, and buildings.

The exotic visuals are imbued with Hinduism more than Buddhism to be fair, and you get a refreshing Pay Anywhere system that also removes blocker tiles per win. You mega wilds, semi-sticky wilds, and multiplier symbols in all stages, and the latter is how you build the global win multiplier. It only keeps growing in the bonus round, for payouts up to 25,000x your stake. We didn’t know too much about Ashoka from before either, and it’s hardly necessary to have a good time with this game.

Ashoka Slot Features

You win by landing 8 to 15+ matching symbols anywhere in view, and 15+ scatter wins pay between 3 and 100 x your stake. Adjacent blocker tiles are removed together with the winning symbols, and this triggers the Avalanche mechanic.

All wilds step in for pay symbols to help create or improve wins as their core feature, but there are several special wilds in this game in addition to the regular wild symbol. You can land Big Wilds in sizes up to 3x3, as well as Charged Wilds that remain in play for up to 3 wins. If spaces open up beneath a Big Wild, the positions are filled with regular wilds.

If you land a winning combination together with a Multiplier Symbol, the multiplier value is added to the global win multiplier. The multiplier symbol is removed via the avalanche mechanic as well, but this is not the case for the Super Multiplier symbol. It remains in play for the duration of the avalanche sequence, and persistently adds its value to the global win multiplier per cascade.

You can land skull bonus symbols in the form of blocker tiles, and these are activated when adjacent to a winning symbol. You need 3 active skull bonus symbols in the same avalanche sequence to trigger the Bonus Round, and this awards 10 free spins (or free drops, if you wish).

Super Multiplier symbols are carried over into the bonus round, and will last for the whole feature. You win +5 or +10 extra spins from 2 or 3 activated bonus symbols in the bonus round, respectively.

Finally, non-UK players, and anyone eligible, may take advantage of the X-iter Bonus and Feature Buy menu. It comes with the following options this time:

• Bonus Hunt - pay 3x your stake to increase your bonus round chances.
• Charged Wilds - pay 10x your stake to get a round where all wilds are charged.
• Super Multiplier - pay 25x your stake to be guaranteed a super multiplier.
• Bonus - pay 100x the stake to get the bonus round.
• Super Bonus - pay 500x the stake to get a guaranteed super multiplier on the triggering spin, and it remains in play for the duration of the feature.

The 200 Spins Ashoka Slot Experience

You get a decent teste of the base game, with plenty of avalanche win action, before we purchase and trigger the super bonus round at 1:45 into the 5:19-minute highlights video. A 3x3 mega wild, and the x3 super multiplier symbol, got us off to a solid start, and you can see for yourself how it all went by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The scatter pay system has definitely been on a roll lately, and it goes well together with ELK’s highly impressive visuals in Ashoka. The big wilds and charged wilds will help you out on occasions also in the base game, and the exploding stone symbols are satisfying to behold as lengthy avalanche sequences play out. The Indian mythology theme is not something you see too often either, and we certainly had a good time with Ashoka from the get-go.

It’s not the most complicated release we’ve seen from ELK, perhaps, and it walks a golden middle way in that regard. This harmonizes with the Buddhism-inspired theme, and the multiplier symbols take center stage in this game for sure.

Pros

• Pay Anywhere and Avalanche mechanic
• Dynamic grid via blocker tiles removal
• Big Wilds and semi-sticky Charged Wilds
• Multiplier and persistent Super Multiplier symbols
• FS w/ increasing non-resetting global win multiplier
• Win up to 25,000x your stake

Cons

• 94 % RTP is well below the industry average
• X-iter Feature/Bonus Buy not for UK players

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