Masks of Atlantis

A Closer Look at the Golden Atlantean Mask

The first thing Masks of Atlantis shows you is a drowned city, columns standing in deep water. Everything else on the screen of Masks of Atlantis — reels, buttons, paytable — is arranged around that scene. At the centre of the picture: a golden Atlantean mask lying on the seabed. That motif is both the highest-paying symbol in Masks of Atlantis and the face on the tile.

The rest of the premium symbols are a trident, a seahorse, a column and a pearl; the low-value positions are card ranks. The colour work is deep turquoise, gold and coral, and it is richly staged rather than subtle.

The audio is richly staged and stays out of the way until a bonus starts, at which point it changes register entirely. Vertically on a phone, Masks of Atlantis drops the surrounding scene and keeps the reels with the motif on them: golden Atlantean mask — which is exactly what matters when the symbols are eight millimetres tall.

In a shelf of a hundred and forty tiles that legibility is the whole job: you should be able to tell Masks of Atlantis from its neighbours without reading the caption.

How Masks of Atlantis Is Built

Under the art, Masks of Atlantis is a straightforward 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 paylines machine. Wins are read left to right from the first reel, and only the highest combination on each line counts, so a second mask further along the same line adds nothing. The mask is the top symbol, a trident sits under it, and the card ranks below those are what most Masks of Atlantis spins return.

Wild duty falls to Atlantis Wild: stretches to fill its reel. The Masks of Atlantis ceiling is 5,000× the line bet, which is a feature number, not a base-game one.

Everything else on the grid is ordinary; Mask Bonus is not: masks are turned over one by one for multipliers. That is why the base grid on Masks of Atlantis feels quieter than the numbers suggest: the variance is deliberately parked in the feature.

Bet Size, Volatility and the Top End

Masks of Atlantis is staked per line: pick a line bet, multiply by 20, and that is what a spin costs; every Masks of Atlantis payout is quoted against that same line bet. Note that 5,000× the line bet is a multiplier, not a rand figure. It holds at every stake, which is what makes Masks of Atlantis comparable with the games either side of it in the lobby.

This one runs high volatility — it pays rarely and heavily, so long flat stretches are normal and the bankroll has to survive them. There is no such thing as the RTP of Masks of Atlantis. RTG supplies a configurable return and each operator picks a setting, which makes cross-site comparisons of this number meaningless — check the info panel inside Masks of Atlantis rather than a table on someone else's site.

There is no reason to ladder the stake on Masks of Atlantis: each spin stands alone, and its paytable scales linearly with whatever you set. Autoplay handles the base grid of Masks of Atlantis perfectly well. Set it to stop on Mask Bonus and you get the pace without losing the event.

Mask Bonus and the Rest of the Toolkit

Masks of Atlantis carries three features, and they are where the game earns its place in the lobby rather than on the base grid.

Mask Bonus. The paytable entry reads: masks are turned over one by one for multipliers. Mask Bonus does not fire often on Masks of Atlantis, and the game is built on the assumption that you are waiting for it.

Free Games (up to twenty free spins, with mask still the symbol you want them to land on). On Masks of Atlantis this is the difference between a flat session and one you remember, so it is worth knowing what Free Games looks like before it arrives.

Atlantis Wild: stretches to fill its reel, with mask still the symbol you want them to land on. Atlantis Wild does not fire often on Masks of Atlantis, and the game is built on the assumption that you are waiting for it.

None of these fire on demand, and that is the point: Mask Bonus is worth having a balance left for, and the rest of Masks of Atlantis is the wait.

Practical Notes Before You Spin

On Masks of Atlantis the stake wants to be small relative to the balance: the game can go a long way without paying, and the only protection against that is spin count. Set the limit before the first spin of Masks of Atlantis rather than after a bad run — the deposit and self-exclusion tools are in the account area and take effect immediately.

If you are clearing a bonus on Masks of Atlantis, note that slots contribute 100% of the wagering requirement — the full terms are on our bonus page. Before staking Masks of Atlantis, run it in practice mode until Mask Bonus has landed at least once — that wait tells you more about Masks of Atlantis than the paytable does.

Resist the urge to raise the stake because Mask Bonus has not landed for a while: on Masks of Atlantis it is no closer than it was, and the wait has just become more expensive. Our responsible gaming page has the limits, the self-exclusion options and the contacts for independent help — none of it requires talking to support about Masks of Atlantis or anything else first.

Who Masks of Atlantis Suits

Masks of Atlantis suits a player who wants a game that can do very little for a long time and then do a great deal at once. If it lands well, Sunken Treasures is the next one to try — same family of mechanics, different rhythm.

There is no cost to trying Sunken Treasures first. Masks of Atlantis is the better opening move when you are prepared to sit through the quiet. Full specifications for Masks of Atlantis — the 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 paylines, volatility, the top end (5,000× the line bet), the feature list and the release year — are in the table at the top of this page.

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