Roman Emperors

Saddle up your horses, I mean your chariots, and be prepared to take a historical journey to Roman times courtesy of Red Tiger in their latest slot release titled Roman Emperors.

Officially debuting in September 2024, this Roman-themed slot is set to join the ranks of many other Roman-themed casino games that came before it, such as Rome Fight For Gold Deluxe by Foxium (just one of many random examples).

Boasting a reasonable 95.76% RTP, this medium-high volatility slot is equipped with a maximum payout multiplier of 8,940x bet, which means it has the potential to generate some seriously epic payouts.

Roman Emperors Base Game

Roman Emperors Base Features

Set across a backdrop depicting a gathering in ancient Rome, this casino game is played on a 5×3 slot grid featuring a total of 25 paylines. Like the majority of slots with fixed paylines, winning combinations occur whenever enough matching symbols appear on the same payline, beginning with the leftmost reel.

As for the symbols that are used on Roman Emperors, they can be broken down into two main groups, which are the low-paying symbols and the higher-paying symbols.

The low-paying symbols are the 10, J, Q, K, and A symbols. All of these symbols have the same payouts associated with them, which are .4x bet for 3 matching symbols, 1x bet for 4 matching symbols, and 4x bet for 5 matching symbols.

The higher-paying symbols in Roman Emperors are represented by traditional Roman symbols. Their payouts range from 5x bet for matching 5 grape symbols to 20x bet for matching 5 chariot symbols.

The best symbol on Roman Emperors is the wild symbol, which substitutes for all other paying symbols and awards payouts of 1x, 4x, 20x, or 40x for matching 2, 3, 4, or 5 symbols respectively.

Roman Emperors Offers Players 25 Fixed Win Lines

Power Bars

While playing Roman Emperors, one of the first things you’re likely to notice is that this game features 3 different emperors that sit above the middle 3 reels.

You’ll also likely notice that each of these emperors has a power bar associated with it. Each time any of these power bars are filled, one of three different Roman Emperors’ features will be activated.

It’s also possible to fill multiple power bars at once, which in turn makes it possible to activate multiple features at once.

Power bars are filled by landing Scatter symbols:

• Silver SPQR Scatter – these only appear on reels 2-3, adding 1 power bar point to the power bar of the emperor that sits directly above the reel it landed on.
• GOLD SPQR Scatter – these only appear on reel 3, adding 1 power bar point to all three of the power bars that sit above the reels. Gold SQPR Scatters cannot land with a silver SPQR Scatter.

Pompey The Great

Pompey sits above the second reel and when his power bar is filled, you’ll be awarded a respin where royal symbols cannot land on the reels. If you do not create a winning combination, you’ll continue to be awarded respins until a win occurs.

Caesar

Caesar sits above the third reel and when his power bar is filled, you’ll be awarded a respin with 3-6 wilds on the reels. Just like in the Pompey The Great feature, you’ll be awarded as many respins as necessary until a winning combination occurs.

Crassus

Crassus sits above the fourth reel and when his power bar is filled, you’ll be awarded a respin with a total win multiplier of 3x, 5x, 10x, or 20x. Just like the other two features, you’ll be awarded as many respins as necessary until a winning combination occurs. Once this happens, the winning amount will be multiplied by the total win multiplier.

Roman Emperors Free Spins

Roman Emperors Bonus

In addition to the three Roman Emperors’ features described above, this slot also has a free spins feature, which is triggered whenever the free spins symbol lands on the first and last reels in the same spin.

When this happens, you’ll be awarded 12 initial free spins, with the possibility of triggering 12 additional free spins by landing the free spins symbol on the first and last reels again.

When the free spins are activated, there are no power bars associated with the emperors that sit above the middle reels. Instead, each SPQR symbol that lands on the reels will immediately activate the emperor feature associated with the emperor directly above it.

Should you be fortunate enough to land the gold SPQR symbol, all three emperor features will be simultaneously activated.

Feature Buy

In order to speed things up a bit, you can utilize this game’s feature buy option, which allows you to buy directly into the free spins for a cost of 50x bet.

During this feature, the RTP will be set at 95.67% and just like in the base game, the maximum payout will be capped at 8,940x bet.

Roman Emperors Pompey The Great Feature

First Impression

Roman Emperors is an intriguing game to say the least. At first glance, it’s not all that impressive, but the features in this game more than make up for that. The three different Roman Emperors’ features hit frequently enough to keep you entertained while you patiently wait to trigger the free spins.

Again, the appearance of the game itself isn’t overly impressive, but it’s not all that bad either. Red Tiger has been around long enough to know a thing or two about making slot games that appeal to the masses, so it’s best to trust that the game looks the way it does for a reason and leave it at that.

The main things to remember about Roman Emperors is that it’s a medium-high volatility slot game with a 95.76% RTP and an 8,940x bet maximum payout multiplier.

If you’ve been searching for a new slot game that’s got all of the bells and whistles, but won’t overwhelm you with complicated features and animations, then Roman Emperors just may be the right slot for you.

*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.