1429 Uncharted Seas Slot Review
1429 Uncharted Seas is a video slot from Thunderkick with 5 reels and 25 paylines. Released in March 2016, this slot can be played at online casinos such as Mr Green, Guts or LeoVegas.
Theme and basic information
With this slot Thunderkick takes us back to the 15th century when the first explorers sailed the high seas to find new continents, treasures and unknown dangers lurking beneath the sea.
We’re on board of an old wooden ship, looking down at a map, which shows us sea monsters and the sun, the moon and stars. The setting looks great, even though the symbols are relatively simple in design.
The mermaid is the most valuable symbol, paying out 50x your stake for 5 on a payline. The turtle and the kraken are worth 10x your stake for such a winning combination. The other two monsters are worth 6x each for such a win. Sun, moon and stars still pay out 3x your stake.
Our only complaint is that the symbols almost look a little flat and colourless, which is only a problem because you can’t necessarily make the distinction between the symbols when the reels are spinning. Still, the theme is unique and we quite like it.
You can play this game from 0.10 to 100.00, making it suitable for most budgets.
Expanding wilds in the base game
1429 Uncharted Seas is a simple game. There’s one feature in the base game and then you have the free spins. It’s actually not very exciting, to be honest. But it can be very effective, if you’re lucky.
In the base game, you’ll be spinning away, hoping to see the giant sea serpent make an appearance. Whenever she does, she will expand to cover the hole reel, though she only appears on reels 2, 3 and 4. You won’t see the serpent often and mostly you’ll only find her on one reel. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you may land two of them. That can yield pretty good wins.
This is a slot with a fairly low volatility however, which means that wins might be frequent, but they are rarely big.
Free spins to keep you going
You need the compass scatter to trigger the free spins. Three scatters will give you 10 spins, four scatters will give you 20 spins and five scatters will yield 50 free spins. We probably played at least 10 rounds of free spins during our sessions, if not more, but we never once got more than 10 free spins at once. Though, it is possible to re-trigger the free spins once when you get once more 3, 4 or 5 scatters on the reels.
Be that as it may, during the free spins, the ship you’re on sails into a storm, which makes for some neat animations. However many spins you might get, it gets dark and thunderous and the sea serpent might just appear a little more often than usual. Might. We had free spin rounds that won us 3 times our bet. And we had free spin rounds that won us 45x our bet. Like we said, it’s not a volatile slot and big wins are rare.
But the longer we played, after digging fairly deep into our funds, we also managed to get a free spin round where three sea serpents expanded on the reels and we won handsomely. We won everything back that we lost and then some. That was also the moment we decided to stop playing just to be safe.
Conclusion: A simple slot that will pay out eventually
The theoretical RTP (Return to Player) of 1429 Uncharted Seas is a staggering 98.6%. That’s the reason this game is almost always excluded from wagering bonus money when meeting wagering requirements. Despite frequent but small wins, we didn’t always feel like winners. But one big win might be all it takes. In order to get that, though, you will need three sea serpents to expand on the reels and that is a rare occurrence.
This might be a simple slot in many ways, one that is beautifully drawn and comes with cool animations, but it can test your patience as well and you might have to settle in for the long haul for this game to pay out.