Bier Fest – Festive Oktoberfest Video Slot by Genesis Gaming Delivered by Quickfire
Bier Fest is a Genesis Gaming 5-reel, 25-fixed-payline slot creation, delivered to online casinos via Microgaming's Quickfire platform. Available to play in both Flash and HTML5 versions, the Oktoberfest- themed video slot can be accessed via web-browser or mobile casino application.
Bier Fest depicts the merry-making traditions of a Bavarian folk festival that originated in Munich, Germany in 1810, as a week long celebration of a royal wedding. Genesis Gaming incorporated festival elements that best represent the time-honored celebration that later evolved as mainly a beer-drinking festival.
Bier Fest has the usual Wild Symbol that can be used as replacement for regular icons. It also has a Scatter Symbol that awards Scatter Pays and triggers the Free-spins Bonus Game. What makes Genesis Gaming's Bier Fest video slot different are the special reel and icon modifiers. Those features transform regular totems and reels into additional Wild Symbols.
Bier Fest Video slot Special Wild Symbol Modifiers
Such modifiers come in the form of customary Oktoberfest activities, with which occurrences tend to increase a player's chances of winning as they result to more Wilds:
The Barrel Wild – This special feature modifies the spin outcome whenever a Barrel icon lands at random in Reel 3. The third reel transforms into a column full of Wild Symbols. Sometimes, the modification expands to the adjacent Reel 2 or Reel 4. This means a spin outcome will then have two columns full of Wild Symbols.
The Bier Drinking Feature – Slot players lookout for a Bier Symbol that Genesis Gaming configured to appear only in Reels 2 and 4. The beer content of the beer mug magically disappears as if drank. The purpose of which is to transform the Bier icon into a high-paying regular symbol. At random instances, the Bier transformation could result to a prize, with values ranging from 1x up to 4x the total bet placed per spin.
Wild Pig Racing – The simultaneous appearance of a Wild Pig on Reel 1 and a Pretzel in Reel 5 triggers this special Wild Pig Racing Wild Symbol modifier. Three Pigs, one on each row appear on the first reel and race across the reels. As they disappear from the screen, each of the three pigs leave a trail of Wild symbols in their respective row.
The Bier Fest “Bier Stein Free Spins Bonus Game”
The Bier Stein image, a more ornate type of beer mug made from stoneware, serves as the Scatter Symbol that triggers the activation of the Bier Stein Free-Spins Bonus Game. Three Bier Stein symbols are enough to set off the bonus game. The number of free spins awarded is determined by way of a Pick Me game.
Bonus players click on the Beer Steins line up presented in the Bier Cart. There is no limit to the number of Bier Steins to click on, for as long as the icon reveals the number of free spins reward including the win value multiplier that comes with the free game. A Beer Stein that reveals a COLLECT prompt ends the selection process.
The round of bet-free spins commences after the game has summed up the number of Free Spins collected including the multipliers revealed. During the free game, the re-appearance of another set of three Beer Steins re-triggers the bonus game. A bonus player can receive up to a maximum of 46 Free Spins and 15x value multiplier in each round.
