Baron Lord of Saturday Slots
Play'n GO's slot game Baron Lord of Saturday is an odd one at first, with its title not making the most sense before the player knows its backstory. Baron Saturday is an English version of Baron Samedi, the spirit of the dead in Haitian Vodou. He is represented as a skeleton in a tuxedo and top hat, or what might be a funeral outfit for the dearly departed. But play with these pieces for a while and combine them with other features on the board. You get a mix that is meant to relate somehow to the underworld, with a bunch of theme-related icons and features that push the player toward getting full reel wilds icons that have reel-stopping power, are on the same row across all three middle reels, and which are boosted by multipliers during the base game and bonus round.
What is it about?
Baron Lord of Saturday is a horror and fantasy-themed slot for players who love spookiness. Play’N Go develops it. Baron Samedi throws a party in the afterlife, and he takes his players with him for an adventure. The game has a spooky background and a similarly terrifying soundtrack. Baron Lord of Saturday's gaming grid has 5 reels and 20 pay lines covered in skulls and candles dripping wax. Making line wins is a straightforward, left-to-right process, starting from the leftmost reel. While dank things go on in the background, Baron Lord of Saturday has a fairly friendly mood, considering its subject matter, and comes across like an old cartoon. In fact, the old-school cartoons at that serve as a mood setter before leaping into Baron Lord of Saturday.
Game Theme
Playful 'safe' Voodoo accompanied by horn-led ska is the day's order; Baron Lord of Saturday puts on a fun show in this regard. It does not have masses of varied features, yet everything it has to offer triggers quite regularly, such as the random wild effect and expanding wilds. The base game wasn't very fruitful, though, as wins tended to be meager even with a whole reel wild. One expanded wild can exist on a base game spin, so multipliers would have been a great addition to that phase. But no, free spins are where you need to be for the multiplier to go into action, and the bonus round's progression feature provided some much-needed depth.
Payoffs and Significant Symbols
Four potion-filled bottles with symbols for clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades are the low figures that can pay off, giving players 3 to 5 times the bet if they land just one. Following them in the pecking order are cigars, dolls, a feline femme, and a dapper dude as reminders of the high pay scales in this game. Hitting 5 of these figures pays off at about 3 to 8 times the bet. The think and do, do and think central win central thing of Baron Lord of Saturday is to get into its free spins bonus round. Then, you up the ante by collecting bonus symbols to at least double down on the real wilds with the maximum mostly multiplier attached.
Bonus Features: Wild Reels
Wilds can replace your payout symbols and appear on the three middle reels. When activated, random wilds may trigger on any spin to add 3 to 6 wild symbols. The reels may randomly activate a Wild Reel effect. Only one Wild Reel may be activated in the base game, whereas 1 to 3 Wild Reels may activate during free spins. Any wild symbols that land on an activated Wild Reel expand to fill the whole reel, replacing all other symbols.
Free Spins Bonus
Free spins scatter symbols are present on the leftmost and rightmost reels. Landing 2 scatter symbols triggers 8 free spins, where wilds begin with 2 multipliers. Scatter symbols are collected in free spins when they hit. Collecting 4 scatters awards 3 free spins and increases the wild multiplier. Three upgrades and up to 9 more free spins are the limit, as scatter symbols are removed when reaching the x10. Multiple multipliers in the same win have their values added.
In the free spins, you must also reach the full 3,500x the bet potential that the game can give. This is not a mountain of possible dough compared to most slots. But that's what Baron Lord of Saturday is: a playful flirt with the side of life that's a little mysterious, not one to make a deep dive into existential nonsense, like participating in a séance one knows isn't working but goes along with any way to say one has done it.
Voodoo might have pop culture associations with something scary and forbidden, but if Baron Lord of Saturday is any guide, it can be playful and friendly. Some may consider Play'n GO to be a studio that caters to something very close to 'general consumption,' offering a product that is not quite conservative but certainly not controversial enough to attract significant attention from either side of the critical divide. Play'n GO's product is like the unflavored ice cream of slot themes: Tepid enough for middling gamblers and safe enough to serve as well-intentioned family entertainment. Baron Lord of Saturday is an interesting slot with its spooky Halloween theme and nail-biting soundtrack. It offers a high RTP and medium volatility, so there are decent-sized wins to be had with it.