Elements: The Awakening

In a nutshell

Elements: The Awakening is a slot with serious bragging rights. It brings together the best of avatar and game graphics design with the latest in video animation.

This beautiful slot features plenty of thrilling extras, including the already famous NetEnt Avalanche and Free Fall features, a whole range of wilds, and the Avalanche Meter, which works in place of a scatter symbol and will give you plenty of fun.

A Closer Look

Against the backdrop of a remote and deserted mountain valley, the symbols of this slot cascade across 5 columns and 3 lines, giving a total of 20 paylines. The Elements video slot is fully animated, which means it isn’t divided into static images and sequences: rather, there’s a continuous flow of graphics throughout. The elemental avatars have been designed with great care for detail, and all of the game’s effects are visually stunning and accompanied by a spectacular soundtrack.

In addition to the four element avatars and their sub-symbols, there are four different wilds. The chest symbol the player sees can randomly turn into a wild linked to any one of the four elements, each with a different effect on the game. The Fire Storm wild appears in columns 2, 3 and 4, and in Fire Storm mode expands to columns 1 and 5 as well. The storm can spread in any direction, transforming any two symbols right next to it into wilds.

The Air Storm wild works differently. Two wilds fall randomly into any column in the first-triggered Free Fall mode. They stay where they are for the duration of the Air Storm, and change position with every fall or Avalanche. Because they represent wind, their movements are erratic, and they can trigger any kind of combination.

The Earth Storm wild appears in columns 2, 3 and 4 and while it lasts, it remains there until it’s been part of at least one winning betline, in three Avalanches, or until no more winning combinations appear.

The Water Storm wild is the most traditional: It’s a simple expanding wild that appears on columns 2, 3 and 4, moves vertically and transforms everything it hits into a Water Storm wild.

Bonus Features

The trigger button of the Elements slot machine has what NetEnt call the Energy Meter. Depending on the value of the combination hit, it lights up in sections. Once the whole button lights up, the bonus wilds above are triggered.

Free Spins Feature

Free spins in Elements: The Awakening slot are called Free Falls. Instead of a scatter symbol, Elements features the so-called Avalanche Meter, namely four diamond-shaped symbols lined up alongside the trigger button. Every winning combination activates one diamond, going from left to right. If enough Avalanches occur in sequence to light up all four diamonds, the Free Falls feature is triggered.

Special Features

Elements: The Awakening features NetEnt’s trademark Avalanche feature. This feature immediately replaces all symbols that are part of a combination, making more combinations possible. This continues until there are no more winning combinations available.

NetEnt’s popular and quick auto-play mode is part of the Elements slot. It can be set to 10, 25, 50 or 75 spins. Its advanced settings let players adjust the auto-play’s timing as well, for example if it should be stopped after hitting free falls, winning or something of the like.