Lucky Chessmate

Apollo Games is a studio that hardly delivers any innovations, but its Lucky Chessmate slot is a different kind of beast. As the title implies, the game is strongly inspired by chess, and it comes with a gorgeous design and pretty interesting gameplay packed with a number of various features aka chess moves.
The company has never been famous for its design skills, and yet Apollo Games outdid itself this time. Lucky Chessmate offers perfect aesthetics when it comes to the game’s outer look, featuring high-end cartoonish graphics, smooth animations, and a top-notch soundtrack, making for a fantastic gaming experience.
The slot plays out on a5x4 chessboard with 10 fixed win lines, and players drop in by setting bets from€0.1 to €35 per spin. Thevolatilityis in themediumrange, while theRTPvaries from85% to 99%depending on where you play. The hit rate is officially unknown, but it’s noticeably low, so don’t expect to get your returns too often. As for the top prize, the highest possible payout from a single spin is1,000x the stake.
The symbol collection includes twelve different black and white chess pieces, including in ascending order pawns, knights, bishops, rooks, queens, and kings. Winning combinations are created when at least 3 matching symbols land adjacently on the reels starting from the leftmost position, and five-of-a-kind wins are worth from5x to 100x your bet. Each of the higher-ranked pieces also has its own special function, covered below.
After the reels stop, each of the game symbols except for pawns can randomly perform their moves to create winning combos, after which wins are evaluated once again.
Theknightcan move in any direction by three positions in an L shape. A duplicate knight symbol is created in the initial position, while the original symbol moves to its designated position and substitutes a symbol placed there.
Thebishopcan move in any direction diagonally, replacing all symbols it has passed through with bishop symbols.
Therookcan move in any direction either vertically or horizontally, substituting for all symbols in its path.
Thequeencan move in any direction either diagonally, vertically, or horizontally, replacing all symbols in its path. More than that, queen symbols also act asWilds, substituting for any other symbols of their color.
Thekingcan move in any direction by one position diagonally, vertically, or horizontally, creating a copy of itself in a new position it goes to.
All up, Lucky Chessmate is certainly one of the most exciting slots made by Apollo Games, if not the most. With an exceptional design and such a number of features on board, you won’t have a dull moment during the gameplay, so it definitely leans towards unmissable for players into the chess thing.
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