Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas: Slot Overview
Ahoy, mateys, developer Red Tiger‘s collection of Pirates’ Plenty slots has been dormant for a wee while, but a puff of wind has blown the next instalment into harbour. The title is Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas, and it is the fourth addition to a series that began in 2018 with the original Pirates’ Plenty. The first three slots attained respectable scores, though some were released a fair while ago, so age might not have been kind to them. No matter, today we’re setting sail with Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas, which boasts the greatest winning potential of them all, revamped gaming, and a map-led treasure hunt.
Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas gives players a real pirate’s eye view of the action. It does this in part by painting a scene chock full of coins, barrels, lanterns, a map, and tentacles, at the back of a boat, but also by making the screen rock side to side as if tossed about by gentle waves. The effect is subtle in regular mode, but much more pronounced to the point of being almost motion sickness-inducing when turbo mode is activated. The early Pirates’ Plenty slots might have been lookers in their time, and Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas is still perfectly fine to lay your eyes on, though it’s perhaps not as stunning as it once might have been.
Having gone through several different mechanics in the series, Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas brings a more conventional gaming grid made up of 5-reels, 3-rows, and 20 paylines. It’s highly volatile and produces a theoretical RTP value of 96.2%. For stakes, the range isn’t vast, with a minimum of $/€0.10 and a maximum of $/€4 able to be wagered.
Casting our non-eye patched eye over the paytable, we find four card suit symbols, bottles, pistols, cannons, pirate hats, and skull and crossbones. A winning combination of 5 matching suits is worth 0.8x to 1.5x the bet, or 3x to 20x for landing 5 matching premium symbols. Wild monkeys are available on the three middle reels. They substitute for all paying symbols.
Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas: Slot Features
On the features menu are Map symbols and Treasure Row, sticky wild respins, sticky wild free spins, Treasure Spins, and feature buys.
Map Symbols and Treasure Row
Map symbols may appear on any spin in the base game while the Treasure Row is locked. Each landed Map symbol moves the ship on the map above the reels by +1 step. The ship stops at 3 locations along its route – Plunder Bay, Port Royal, and Treasure Cove. It takes 10, 15, and 20 map symbols to reach each location, respectively. Upon reaching a location, a Treasure Chest is uncovered that becomes available for the rest of the game. Reaching Treasure Cove also adds a Treasure Spins symbol to the leftmost reel. Each chest requires a certain number of wilds to land on a spin for it to be opened. Opening one or more chest awards a respin with the additional modifier. Wilds on the reels are locked for the respin.
- Chest 1 (3 wilds required) – the 2 lowest paying symbols are removed for the respin.
- Chest 2 (6 wilds required) – all card suit symbols are removed for the respin.
- Chest 3 (9 wilds required) – a multiplier of x2 is applied to all wins on the respin.
Free Spins
Hitting 3 free spins symbols awards 3 free spins. During this bonus, each wild that lands locks and resets the number of spins back to 3. At random, at the end of a free spin, if no new wilds landed, Captain Kidd may turn up to reset the spin count to 3. In this feature and the next, any additional features triggered by opening a Treasure Chest during the bonus are active for the duration.
Treasure Spins
Landing a Treasure Spins symbol on the leftmost reel at the same time as free spins symbols on the middle and rightmost reels awards 3 Treasure Spins. In this feature, wilds are added to the leftmost and rightmost reels. A 5-wild symbol win pays 20x. As in the other bonus, each landed wild locks and resets the spin count to 3. Captain Kidd may also appear to reset the spins count. Also in Treasure Spins, 2 more Treasure Chests are added above the reels, which work the same way as the others:
- Chest 4 (12 wilds required) – a multiplier of x5 applies to all wins till the end of the bonus.
- Chest 5 (15 wilds required) – awards Kidd’s Treasure and ends the bonus round.
The feature ends if no new wild lands in 3 consecutive spins or if all positions are filled with wilds and Kidd’s Treasure is awarded.
Feature Buy
Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas makes it possible to buy its free spins round for 75x or Treasure Spins for 420x the bet.
Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas: Slot Verdict
If you’ve found your sea legs and the constant rocking to and fro of the boat hasn’t caused any vomiting over the side into the sea, then there are some interesting swashbuckling-themed activities going on in Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas to discover. What’s quite neat, for returning players, is that while the game offers a new set of features, there are fun little links with the past, such as wild monkeys, low symbol removals, multipliers, and so on. In a bubble, the gameplay adds up to being overall quite positive, but connecting the dots to the past gives Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas a slightly wistful, nostalgic effect, as well.
Anyway, enough of that, we’re meant to review a slot about blood thirsty pirates and rascally monkeys, not forlornly reading back over old diaries. And for hard-nosed gamblers, Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas has enticements on offer. One is winning potential, as its 22,640.3x the bet figure is by far the biggest in the Pirates’ Plenty collection, though it’s rare to see RT slots come close to those numbers. What will possibly help wannabe buccaneers achieve this amount is by filling the reels with monkey wilds to collect the 20,000x Kidd’s Treasure prize. Technically, that is only possible to do in Treasure Spins, since in all other phases, monkey wilds do not land on the two outermost reels. There’s no upgrade path from regular free spins, so you’ll need to hit the Treasure Spins scatter, or cough up 420x to buy them. Both bonus rounds can be rather intense journeys. Three initial free spins aren’t much to play with and don’t leave a lot of breathing space, so fingers crossed monkey wilds be landing in order to both reset the count and unlock the various chest features. Wilds are also sticky, making them extra useful. It’s a system that might be short, sharp and over, or stack goodies upon goodies to reach a favourable final destination.
Audiovisually, like many Red Tiger slots, Pirates’ Plenty Treasures of the Seas looks fine, but it also feels stuck in the past. The gameplay is serviceable, and the stats are fair enough, but it doesn’t do much to stand out or feel fresh. For a series with such a long legacy, this one sails familiar waters without offering much reason to come aboard again.