Journey to Paris

Online slots have already taken us to Paris before, but Journey to Paris, the latest Play’n GO 5×5 Parisian slot, is a real touristy treat for slot enthusiasts with a penchant for travel. Indeed, it’s a game for tourists, and the setting, focus, and star of the game is the very city of Paris. Spread on a 5×5 grid, random Parisian features grace the grid. Your task is to match them in 3+ lines (either horizontally or vertically).

If you succeed, you will be rewarded with a handy payout, cool visuals, and a solid Multiplier that can enhance the experience for you further. Ultimately, it’s all about the Souvenir Shop Bonus Game – a Free Spins type of round where you hunt for 5 matching stamps. Journey to Paris has an 18,566x winning potential you can hit with a lot of luck.

It’s not often that we see French themes in online slots. Sure, there have been certain heist-themed slots taking place in Paris, but I fail to remember ever playing an online slot so clearly created from a tourist’s point of view. And now we have Journey to Paris. And what a journey it is!

Journey to Paris is set in Paris, and it contains all the things you’d expect from a slot focused on Parisian culture. There’s a cobblestone street lined with cafés, with a slew of characters standing beside the grid changing places. When the game starts, the mime artist stands there, but he is often replaced by a magician.

On the other side of the grid is a barrel with a Multiplier count. We’ll discuss Multipliers at length in the next section. Behind it all is the Eiffel Tower, a staple of Paris.

When the game begins, you press the Spin button to move the 5×5 grid. If you happen to land a match of icons in a horizontal or vertical line (at least 3 icons) you get a win. Hence, the game does not have an exact number of paylines, but there are lines that pay. Icons that pay include a French harp, hands holding a balloon, mime gloves, a hat with a magic wand, a pigeon flying out of a hat, and three characters. The characters are the mime artist, the magician, and the harp player.

The game has an RTP of 96.37%, which is paired with high variance. That means the game might seem playful in nature but is not easy to defeat if you want the top prize of 18,566x the stake.

When you start wagering on Journey to Paris, you start with a default bet of $2. However, you can go lower than that – as low as $0.20 per spin. On the other hand, the highest you can bet is $40 per spin.

This betting range might disappoint players with deeper pockets but rest assured: you still get to bag a hefty prize given that the max win cap is at 18,566x the stake.

Game symbols in the game pay when you land matching tiles in lines, from 3 to 5 matching icons in total. Low-rank icons, such as the gloves, balloons, the harp, and the two versions of the hat (with a wand and a pigeon) pay from 5x to 10x for 5 OAK. You can also make combinations using similar icons – balloon and gloves pay up to 2.50x, as well as a combination of pigeon and wand-friendly hats.

The characters such as the mime artist, magician, and the harp player pay from 15x to 25x for 5 matching icons.

The gold coin is the game’s Wild that unlocks cool rewards, and it also pays a hefty sum If you land 3, 4, or 5 matching Wilds. The Wild payouts are 5x-500x for 5 OAK. Ultimately, if you successfully clear the entire grid, you get an extra 1000x on top of the winnings.

Journey to Paris includes Multipliers, Wilds, and the Souvenir Shop Bonus Game of free spins.  There is no Buy Bonus option.

Wilds and Multipliers appear in the base game as well. Wilds pay a good sum and they facilitate wins easier as they can replace any type of icon on the grid. However, when it comes to Multipliers, they are present in every round.

At the start of the round in the base game, winning icons are removed from the grid to make room for additional icons. When this happens, the tumble adds a Multiplier to the tally – it increases by 1x for every tumble. This Multiplier is the win multiplier that applies to all wins within the spin. However, once the spin ends, the Multiplier resets to 1x.

The focus of the game is the Bonus round. The bonus game is a free spins round where you enter a souvenir shop looking for stamps. To get into the round, you first must clear off an entire reel that has BONUS spelled behind it, each letter covering a position on the reel. The word BONUS moves around on every spin, which adds a layer of difficulty to catching the bonus round. However, once you successfully clear off the reel to unveil the BONUS word hidden behind, you get into Free spins.

Now, once you enter the round, the Multiplier will reflect a number of fully cleared BONUS columns (you can have more than one). The special thing about the round is that it does not have the regular paying icons from the base game, and there are no Wilds. Instead, you play with stamps representing a symbol of French cuisine or culture. Your task is to match 5 symbols on the grid, but here’s the thing – the grid uses a scatter pay function, so it does not matter where the icons are. Payouts for 5 matching icons ranges from 1.25x to 5x, while getting 10+  symbols pays from 75x to 175x.

Multipliers apply to all wins in Free Spin.

Ultimately, you can retrigger Free Spins by landing extra Bonus symbols, up to a total of 20 Free Spins. Each Bonus symbol is worth 1 Spin.