Totem Guardians Dream Drop: Slot Overview

Wouldn't it be great if each one of us was assigned a spirit animal, a guardian, a guide that we could commune with, who could offer advice, teach us the ways, reveal hidden knowledge as we traverse the perils, pitfalls, and joys of life, before shuffling off to continue the journey in a new physical form? Maybe reality is actually like this, but the constant demands of modern life, too much TV or getting lost in the social media black hole have gummed up our third eyes. Who knows. For now, we can celebrate any potential connection to the spirit realm while spinning for the chance to win sizable piles of cash in software provider Relax Gaming's slot Totem Guardians Dream Drop – as well as a non-jackpot variant.

Totem Guardians Dream Drop is a slot that gets away from it all, fleeing the city to connect with nature, possibly on a physical as well as mental and spiritual level. Or something along those lines. A teepee has been erected on one side of the screen in a wooded area not far from the mountains, while a totem device sits on the other side of the reels, displaying multiplier values which can be increased. Mix the components together, and Totem Guardians Dream Drop offers a mix of the mundane physical dimension with other realities that lie beyond the ken of our five bodily senses.

Stakes from 20 c to €/$100 may be placed in what is a highly volatile slot, possessing an RTP of 94%, or 96.1%, when playing the non-jackpot version. Both games take place on a 6-reel grid, with 4 to 7 active rows of symbols – the bottom 3 rows are locked at the start of each base game spin. Utilising a connected payways system means there are 466 to 1,193 ways to win, depending on how many rows are active.

The connected ways system creates a win when matching symbols land from the leftmost reel, across adjacent reels, connected horizontally, or on one row up or down from the matching symbol on the previous reel. Diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades are the low-pay symbols found in the game, awarding a win of 0.25 to 0.4 times the bet for a 6 OAK combination. Hitting 6 premium symbols, of which there are 4 totem-styled animals, pays 0.8 to 3 times the stake. Wild symbols are able to help connect wins by substituting for any regular pay symbol, and wilds land on all reels except the leftmost one. Wilds do not contribute to Totem Multipliers.

Totem Guardians Dream Drop: Slot Features

Naturally, Dream Drop is the main event around here, but milling about in the wings are rising Totem Multipliers working with a cascade-type feature and a free spins round.

Totem Multiplier

Each symbol has a multiplier value associated with it, displayed on the totem pole next to the grid. Winning symbols and all matching symbols in view are removed from the reels, and the respective multiplier is increased by +1 for each symbol removed. Multipliers apply to all wins of the same symbol type and can be as high as x100. Each bonus scatter symbol landing in view boosts the rate that the symbol multiplier increases by, displayed as a multiplier value on top of the Totem Multiplier meter. In addition, one locked row is revealed for each scatter symbol that lands. Symbol multipliers can randomly increase at the start of any spin.

Free Spins

When landing 3 scatter symbols, players are awarded 5 free spins. All values on the Totem Multiplier meter are transferred from the base game to the free spin round, and the values do not reset between free spins. All rows on the gaming grid are revealed during the free spins round, and +1 additional free spin is awarded for each scatter that lands. In the non-JP Totem Guardians, players may buy free spins for 60 times the bet. When buying free spins, the RTP is 96.87%.

Dream Drop

The Dream Drop feature may randomly trigger at the start of any regular spin. Make it to the jackpot game, where filling a column with DD symbols awards its corresponding jackpot prize. This could be the Rapid, Midi, Maxi, Major, or Mega, where the starting values of the progressive jackpots are €1, €5, €100, €25,000, or €500,000, respectively.

Totem Guardians Dream Drop: Slot Verdict

While reviewing Totem Guardians Dream Drop, a few prior Relax Gaming slots bubbled up as reminders. The game was like a mix of Volatile Vikings/Volatile Vikings 2, a bit of Wild Hike, and sprinklings of Banana Town. Only in some ways, as Totem Guardians Dream Drop is by no means a copy of them or anything like that. There was just something about the look of the Volatile Vikings slots and a familiar Wild Hike vibe crossover, not to mention a connection to the multipliers linked to the winning symbol action of the Banana Town games. Here, Relax Gaming has deviated from the scatter pays system of Banana Town by using a connected ways pay system instead. However, one of the main goals remains collecting winning symbol types to increment the respective multiplier in the hopes of getting further wins with the same kind of symbols in order to trigger a snowballing sequence of events.

Not a super common occurrence, perhaps, but it can happen, and the max multipliers in Totem Guardians Dream Drop are potentially higher than they are able to get in Banana Town. Overall winning potential is not higher, though, as it maxes out at 5,000x here compared to 10,000x in the banana-related slots. Does it matter in the Dream Drop version? Probably not so much, as the big deal there is the Mega Jackpot, which has a maximum growth value of €3 million. That'd buy a lot of woodland retreats.

As for gamblers who don't win the big one, which means the vast majority, Totem Guardians Dream Drop offers some decent action to accompany any DD-induced anticipation. Linking multiplier values to wins can be fun, and the leaving the rat race behind theme adds a blanket of chill to the chase. Totem Guardians Dream Drop isn't one of Relax Gaming's biggies, but it evolves the symbol multiplier feature, this time with connected ways, and the totem, spirit, guardian angle has been presented quite nicely.