In the last 6 months or more, there has been a flood of games whose subject matter revolves around the ancient Chinese culture, with one of the more recent releases being Play’n Go’s Fu Er Dai slot. We happen to love the trend, as we feel that Chinese culture is so vast and beautiful that it certainly deserves all kinds of exposure. Also, its market is enormous, so there's some healthy commercial reasoning behind it, as well.
This time around, however, it's Iron Dog Studio, a 1x2 Gaming subsidiary, that went full Far East and released a game of exotic beauty and charm with Chinese mythology in mind – Si Xiang. The game's official description reads: “In Chinese mythology the skies were divided by four mythological creatures that guarded the world and Iron Dog Studios Si Xiang’ unleashes these tremendous mythological beasts into a spectacular slot.”
This 5-reel game has all the visual cues inherent to Chinese architecture of old, particularly the sacred spots like temples and places of worship. The main game's backdrops are set in a thriving big city. Once the Extra Spins mode is triggered, that changes to a remote landscape with some cool-looking clouds in the shape of a dragon.
Its key features include the expanding symbols of The Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger and Wild Tortoise. A special Yin Yang symbol that sits outside of the reels, to the left, will release multiple features at specific points during the game. When Yin Yang lands on a winning combo, it will give out multipliers and can even unleash some of the wild beasts.
The game is playable on smartphones and tablet devices just as well as on desktop computers.
Here is the neat game preview:
Ivanbet50
5 years ago
Irondog is doing a good job coming up with new colourfull and attractive titles.Its a new ancient chineese culture biased slot so all the ancient culture enthusiasts will enjoy this one.I really love the sounds on yhis one they produce a really nice vibe.Keep up the good work and we will be happy to play your titles.
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Andreas_V
5 years ago
There seems to be a consensus here that China-themed slots are a bit monotonous. Might be that developers aren't fully exploring and exploiting the subject matter as they could, because China has a wealth of cultural trademarks that could span entire careers of game developers. With that said, if they dug too deep and went...
There seems to be a consensus here that China-themed slots are a bit monotonous. Might be that developers aren't fully exploring and exploiting the subject matter as they could, because China has a wealth of cultural trademarks that could span entire careers of game developers. With that said, if they dug too deep and went for some more obscure cultural cues, perhaps they wouldn't be instantly recognizable and understood by the players.
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Vypten
5 years ago
All the slots on the Chinese theme are rather monotonous and this is not an exception. But it's worth trying: D
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raze18
5 years ago
Did you see RTG last days? They throw out one chinese themed slot after another and every one of them is just remake of any old game already available with different "classic" theme... Im wondering if that annoys you as much as me :)
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jaffe888
5 years ago
It seems that the time is perfect for Chinese theme slots. But there is couple of "buts".... one is that these slots are are very similar to each other and the second but is that that why they are easily getting a little bit bored. How do they differ from other Chinese themed slots?
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raze18
5 years ago
It looks dope i cant wait to try it out somewhere already!
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