Happily Ever After

In life, we can all agree that not all fairytales really do come true, but they most certainly do when it comes to online casino games; and slots in particular.

Thanks to the folks at Light & Wonder, with the assistance of the game provider Rogue and the distributor Playzido, there’s a new game titled Happily Ever After that aims to ensure all of your fairytales will come true with each and every spin of the reels.

Offering RTP options up to 95.50%, Happily Ever After features a maximum payout of 10,000x bet and is considered to be a medium volatility release that’s loaded with a plethora of unique and intriguing features.

Happily Ever After Base Game

Happily Ever After Base Features

Taking place across 5 reels, wins are formed on Happily Ever After by matching at least 3 symbols on adjacent reels, beginning with the leftmost reel, across 1 of 20 fixed win lines.

Several different types of symbols are utilised while playing Happily Ever After and they all have different payouts or functions assigned to them.

For starters, there are arrow symbols that don’t pay out a cash value, but instead allow you to progress on the Happy Return Trail, which is discussed in more detail below.

Next up are the 10, J, Q, K, and A symbols, which are the lower paying symbols, offering payouts ranging from 0.2 to 2x bet for matches between 3 and 5 of a kind. That leaves us with the higher paying symbols, represented by different fairytale characters and offering the following payouts:

• Maid Marian – 0.7x, 2x and 3x bet for matching 3, 4 or 5 symbols.
• Rapunzel – 1x, 3x and 5x bet for matching 3, 4 or 5 symbols.
• Snow White’s Magic Mirror – 2x, 4x and 7x bet for matching 3, 4 or 5 symbols.
• Hansel & Gretel – 3x, 5x and 10x bet for matching 3, 4 or 5 symbols.
• Little Red – 5x, 10x and 50x bet for matching 3, 4 or 5 symbols.

Lastly, there is a Wild symbol that awards payouts of 5x, 10x or 50x bet for landing 3, 4 or 5 symbols respectively.

Happily Ever After Offers Players 20 Fixed Win Lines

Happy Return Trail

Happily Ever After includes a feature called the Happy Return Trail, which sits just beneath the game’s reel grid.

It’s a multi-directional trail that features a total of 10 positions in each direction.

In order to move along the trail, you’ll need to land arrow symbols anywhere on the reels during each spin (the arrows will move you along the trail in the direction they are pointing).

The primary goal of moving along the trail is to trigger one of the bonus features that sit in positions 8, 9 and 10 on either end of the trail.

Along the way, there is a special boost position in the fourth section of the trail that will provide you with one of the following random boosts:

• Trail Boost – this will boost you along the trail towards the nearest bonus.
• Number Arrow – this will move you along the trail up to a total of 4 positions.
• Add Again – this will add the number of arrows in view again.
• Trail Stopper – this will move you to a random position along the trail.

Happily Ever After Cash Climb Bonus Game

Happy Return Multiplier

In addition to the Happy Return Trail sitting beneath the reel grid, there is also a Happy Return Multiplier that sits above the reel grid on Happily Ever After.

With this feature, a random win threshold and multiplier will be selected during each and every spin.

If you hit a line win equal or greater than the win threshold, you’ll be awarded the random multiplier for that spin.

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Happily Ever After Bonus

In total, there are five different bonus round possibilities while playing Happily Ever After, which are triggered by reaching positions 8, 9 or 10 on the Happy Return Trail as explained above.

The five different bonus round possibilities are as follows:

• Magic Mirrors
• Cash Climb
• Witch Hunt
• Wolf Hunt
• Free Spins

Snow White’s Magic Mirror

This feature is triggered by reaching position 8 on the right hand side of the Happy Return Trail.

Once triggered, you must select mirror symbols, which will award cash prizes and reveal fabulous makeovers.

You must continue picking mirrors until you reveal the fairest of them all.

Along the way, all cash symbols will of course award cash prizes, but you can also reveal multipliers and character symbols, which will move you up to the next level for a chance at higher prizes.

Rapunzel’s Cash Climb

This feature is triggered by reaching position 8 on the left hand side of the Happy Return Trail.

It is essentially the same feature as Snow White’s Magic Mirror, but instead of picking mirrors, you’ll need to select bricks to collect cash on the way to the top.

You’ll keep picking until you rescue the prince and you’ll have a chance to collect cash prizes, multipliers, and arrows that will move you higher up for better prizes.

Happily Ever After Magic Mirrors Bonus Game

Hansel and Gretel’s Witch Hunt

This feature is triggered by reaching position 9 on the right hand side of the Happy Return Trail.

Once triggered, you’ll need to select arrows in order to move around the forest.

In doing so, you’ll have a chance to reveal any of the following symbols:

• Coins – awards a cash prize.
• Bag of Coins – awards a big cash prize.
• Chest of Coins – awards a massive cash prize.
• House – multiplies all wins and ends the feature.
• Creature – ends the feature.

Big Red’s Wolf Hunt

This feature is triggered by reaching position 9 on the left hand side of the Happy Return Trail.

The rules of this feature are identical to the rules of the Hansel and Gretel’s Witch Hunt as described above.

Happily Ever After Witch Hunt Bonus Game

Happily Ever After Free Spins

This feature is triggered by reaching position 10 on either side of the Happy Return Trail.

Once triggered, you’ll be awarded a total of 10 spins.

During Free Spins, the Happy Return Multiplier increases with each spin and is applied to all winning combinations.

The multiplier value can range from 2x to 100x bet.

During Free Spins, it’s possible to win additional free spins by landing arrows and moving along the trail.

If you trigger the bonus organically, the maximum payout multiplier on a single win line is 465x during the bonus round.

Alternatively, if you buy into the bonus directly, the maximum payout multiplier on a single win line is 525x during the bonus round.

Buy Pass

For a cost of 100x bet, you can utilise the Buy Pass option, which allows you to instantly trigger the bonus round.

Once triggered, you’ll be awarded 1 of the 5 possible bonus round features at random.

When using Buy Pass, RTP decreases slightly to 94.0%.

The maximum win available in Happily Ever After is 10,000x bet. If the sum of a single game round exceeds this, the game round will end and 10,000x bet will be awarded.

Happily Ever After Free Spins Bonus Game

First Impression

All of the other fairytale-themed slots out there that come to mind are centred around a single character, but Happily Ever After does a great job of incorporating multiple characters into the same game.

Admittedly, this game can be a bit intimidating at first given that it’s loaded with numerous different features, but it doesn’t take long at all to fully grasp all that this game has to offer.

What’s especially nice about Happily Ever After is that in addition to a lot of different features, the Happy Return Trail and Happy Return Multiplier mechanics give you something to cheer for on each and every spin while you’re waiting to trigger a bonus feature.

The game’s RTP options up to 95.50% are a tad on the low side, but the game’s maximum payout multiplier of 10,000x bet more than makes up for it. Both of these numbers align nicely for a medium volatility release that’s sure to appeal to a wide range of players.

We can’t promise you that you’ll win a life changing amount of money while playing Happily Ever After, but we can promise you that the potential is there, and there’s plenty of fun features to look out for on the way.

*The screenshots taken of games reviewed on this site are taken from Demo Play, as reviews are often written before games are released for real play.