Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine Slot Review

Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine - Game Overview

Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine comes from Fortune Factory Studios, one of those smaller indie outfits trying their luck on Microgamings Quickfire platform. Here they push Amber as their own globe trotting heroine, although she feels like a slightly passive adventurer to me. You get bits of action commentary from her as the reels spin, which gives the game a bit of charm even when the base play is plodding along.

The set up is a standard 5 reel slot with the trademarked Action Reel sitting above the grid between two stone statues. This extra horizontal reel opens now and then to fire off features or to mark positions for later. On top of that you have a jackpot pickem round with four fixed prizes and a high volatility math model with higher than average RTP and 5,000x stake potential.

Symbols and Payouts in Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine

The paytable in Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine leans heavily on the temple theme. The golden medallion wild steps in for all regular pay symbols and pays the same as the highest value buddha statue. Lower down you get a mix of carved icons and card style fillers. Wins do not feel huge in the base game, so for me the real value is when those marked positions turn into multiplier wilds.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x6
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x6
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x5
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x4
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.75
	5	x3
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.75
	5	x2
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	5	x2
	4	x1
	3	x0.5
	5	x1
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	5	x1
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	5	x1
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	Scatter

Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine Features

Central to Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine Features is that randomly triggered Action Reel above the main grid. When it wakes up and shows one, two or three flames, the same number of positions on the regular reels are marked with a glowing frame. Those marked spots can hang around between spins, so you get that sense of building towards something even when nothing big lands straight away.

The more exciting moments for me come from the Blazing Wild Streak respin feature. When the Action Reel lands a 1x, 2x or 3x Respin symbol, you get one free respin with the Action Reel multiplier locked. All previously marked positions then turn into wilds, and each wild can carry its own multiplier up to 5x. If more than one multiplier wild is part of a win, those values multiply with each other.

After that, the Action Reel multiplier applies to the total win from the respin, so you can spike some surprisingly strong hits when everything lines up. Landing three bonus scatter symbols on the middle reels in Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine takes you into the Jackpot Bonus Game. The reels sink away and twelve buddha heads appear on screen. You pick until you match three gemstones of the same colour, each linked to one of four fixed jackpots. Mini, Minor and Major feel like consolation prizes, while the Grand jackpot at 5,000x stake is the real target.

The 200 Spins Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine Experience

I ran roughly 200 spins on Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine for this session. Early on I had a run of smaller line wins, then the three scatters dropped and kicked off the jackpot pickem round quite quickly. When the reels rose back up, my marked positions were still in place and I triggered a Blazing Wild respin almost straight away. The best hit actually landed later, though, with a 2x Action Reel multiplier.

If you love Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine you should also try

If you love Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine you should also try other explorer themed slots that mix fixed jackpots with multiplier action. I tend to gravitate towards games where a single feature can swing the balance of a session, and this slot sits in that camp. Look for titles that use rolling reels, increasing multipliers or pickem style jackpot rounds built around a central character.

Fans of Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine will probably enjoy high variance adventure games where most of the power is packed into one or two features rather than extended free spin rounds. There are plenty of modern slots with cascading wins, marked positions and expanding special symbols that scratch the same itch. As long as you are comfortable with swings, those alternatives can feel a little more dynamic than Ambers shrine.

Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine Review Summary

For me Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine feels like a collection of decent ingredients that never quite turn into a stand out dish. Fortune Factory have put together a solid high volatility package with that Action Reel gimmick, the Blazing Wild respin and a 5,000x top prize backed by higher than average RTP. On paper it looks good, yet during longer sessions I often drift off because the base play is quite repetitive.

I do like the way multipliers stack in Amber Sterlings Mystic Shrine and the pickem jackpot round has a nice bit of theatre with the sinking reels. At the same time, the overall experience lacks the punch you get from a strong free spins mode or a more involved bonus ladder. I still dip back into it now and then, but I would not call it a truly memorable release.

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