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ICE – BetSoft getting into the ICE spirit with Yak, Yeti and Roll
By Phil - 17 January 2019
Betsoft Gaming will be at this year’s ICE with a host of games including the aptly themed winter warmer, Yak, Yeti and Roll, a 5×3 cascading slot game where the next win is just a snowdrift away.
Built around Betsoft’s proprietary ‘trail system,’ Yak, Yeti and Roll sees an eccentric Inuit inventor and his faithful yeti sidekick forging a steady path across the icy plains of the Arctic. But while the reels are packed with standard seasonal symbols – like igloos and yetis, Yak the Eskimo has redesigned the traditional reindeer-driven sled to traverse the snow in style. From his perch he points the way, while his Yeti pal uses pedal power to propel them forwards.
Every time a cascade triggers, the spiked wheels of the snowmobile gain traction, and the unlikely pair advance even further along the trail, unearthing frozen treasures as they go. These range from instant payouts to cumulative multipliers that apply to the next cascade win.
Free spins is where the payouts really start to snowball; players can pile up huge reserves of free spins, add free-spin-specific multipliers to these, and then also apply cascade multipliers to quickly turn a small win into an earth-shaking avalanche.
Betsoft Gaming will also be showing Chillipop – a cluster-based carnival where an expanding grid creates explosive new ways to win – and the brand-new Faerie’s Spells, which marries a darker take on traditional fairytales with exclusive innovations like tiered, shared jackpots and Betsoft’s signature feature-buy-in mechanic.
Faerie’s Spells sees players forge their way through deep undergrowth to discover a world of uncharted wealth and wonder alongside the darker face of traditional fairytales. Woodland spirits lurk in the shade, will o’ the wisps flit between shafts of light, and wild, green-bearded tree guardians stand watch over a secret kingdom shielded from the world by magic. In this shadowy realm, Faeries are royalty. Alongside symbols like glowing, magical trees, every reel is packed with pixie princesses of different orders, as well as their crowns and sceptres.
Above them all sits the Faerie Queen, who wields absolute power over all the flora and fauna, turning over toadstools to reveal long-hidden hexes that can multiply your current stake for sudden wins.
The Faerie Queen also holds the keys to the hidden workshop where new spells are forever being concocted to fulfil people’s wildest desires.
When three or more Queens appear on-screen at once, playres will be ushered through the leaves and into the royal laboratory, where tubes and vials have been set up to collect ingredients as they cascade down from the top of the screen.
Powered by Betsoft’s exclusive Trail System, the micro-scale world of FAERIE SPELLS is home to potentially massive jackpots.
Seated at the Faerie Queen’s workbench for up to 25 free spins, you’ll collect droplets that contribute to one of four potion recipes: Riches, Wealth, Luxury, and Plenty. When a drop falls into the right container it counts towards completion of that spell, its symbol is removed from the reels, and others cascade down in a magical shower.
Betsoft’s marquee title for 2018 Max Quest: Wrath of Ra will also be on the company’s ICE stand. Max Quest: Wrath of Ra is a reinvention of the principles of RNG gaming, designed to bring the thrill of real-money gaming roaring to life for a wider audience that reel-based slots have been unable to reach. Incorporating carefully-curated elements from social gaming, mobile gaming, and videogames, Max Quest is an interactive, all-action shooting experience that has already begun to redefine iGaming.
