Let It Slide

Let It Slide Overview

Created by the Yggdrasil studio, this new slot transports players to the frozen north, where the landscape is dominated by massive glaciers, conifers and snow-capped mountains. This is one of the most complicated and rewarding slots currently on the market, offering a rich and varied playing experience. Mechanically, this game is played on a 6-reel 5-row gameboard with 20 active pay lines. Let It Slide is available to play on all platforms, including mobile, laptop and desktop.

The features of this game are incredibly numerous. To start with, you have the regular wild symbol, which substitutes for other regular symbols to help score more wins. However, there are four different variations of the wild, each with its abilities and benefits. These will be explained in more detail later on in the review. The features include an Ice Frame bonus, a stacked wild symbol feature, the Let It Slide bonus, and a free spins and bonus buy feature.

Theme and Symbols

The theme for this game is the beautiful snowy north, perhaps Norway or Sweden or even Greenland. The screen has all the classic visual tropes of a peaceful wintery forest wherever the setting. This game also has a kind of magic element with special animals and symbols that look like they may harbour mystical abilities.

The background for this game is a snowy forest seen at dusk as the sun is setting on the horizon. The darkening skies are just starting to show the first glints of stars. What's more, a section of the aurora borealis or northern lights can be seen dancing in a turquoise hue directly above the playing board. The scene is a beautiful one that powerfully captures the imagination.
The playing board for this game has been designed to look like a massive ice cube, with all of the symbols frozen within its walls.

The symbols for this game are split into low-value, high-value and special symbols. The low-value symbols are the diamond, club, spade, and heart pressed into the cross-section of logs. The most valuable of these symbols is the heart, paying out at 1x the stake for the top combination. The more valuable symbols are the various totem animals. These are the rabbit, the dog, the wolf, the bear and the moose. The moose is the most valuable of these, worth 10x the stake for the top combination. The only special here is the wild, which, as mentioned, comes in various shapes and sizes. However, it will always look somewhat like an acorn.

Game Play

Let It Slide is played on a 6-reel, 5-row machine with 20 fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right or right to left, as this is a pay both way slot.
The betting range for Let It Slide is 10p to £100 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.

Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.
Volatility for this slot is rated in the high range. The return to player percentage for Let It Slide is 96.39%, which is above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 17,874x your stake.

Features

The first feature here is the wild feature. The wild icon in this game, as mentioned, is the acorn. The acorn can substitute for any other symbol to help score more wins. However, there are many variations of the icon.
These include the sliding wild. This type of wild also substitutes for other symbols but can only land in the Let It Slide feature. It starts with a 1x multiplier sometimes, but if more than one of these symbols lands on the same space, then the multiplier will grow.

The other three types of wild are the sliding multiplier wild, the sticky wild and the sticky multiplier wild. These, as their names suggest, either come with multipliers or are sticky or slide or some combination of the three. You will only see these more varied symbols in the Ice Frame and free spins features.

The next feature is the Ice Frame feature. When the Let It Slide feature is activated, 1-2 ice frames will appear. When a sliding wild lands on one of these frames, they are transformed into sticky wilds or sticky multiplier wilds, both of which help to score more wins and boost win sizes, respectively.

Landing stacked wilds, however, is how to trigger the Let It Slide and Free spins games. These are fully stacked wilds that take over entire reels to help score more wins. Landing one stacked wild will activate the Let It Slide feature, which introduces sliding wilds that 'slide' one position for every spin. When these wilds either land on an ice frame or bounce on the extremities of the board, they become sticky. The Let It Slide feature lasts for as long as the sliding wilds do, keeping you re-spinning until all have fallen off the board. The sliding wilds will only bounce if they hit a stacked wild on the board's edge. This theoretically could mean endless re-spins; however, it never actually works out that way.

Finally, this game also has a free spins game. This is activated when two fully stacked wilds land on reels 1 and 6. This feature begins with two sliding wilds on either side of the board. As with the Let It Slide feature, the free spins continue until no more sliding wilds are on the board.

In addition, there is a bonus buy option that allows you to purchase access to the free spins. However, this is not available in the UK.

Conclusion

With so much going on and features aplenty, you'll certainly never be bored playing this game. If you are into intense feature-heavy slots, you'll love this game. Winning potential wise, things aren't bad either. With a respectable RTP, a tempting top prize and some great features, Let It Slide offers a lot. That being said, the volatility is very high.