Queen of Ice - Winter Kingdom

Queen of Ice – Winter Kingdom Overview

Queen of Ice – Winter Kingdom is a frozen-fantasy slot from Spinomenal, released on 18 December 2023. It belongs to the studio’s Queens of Elements series and uses the same frame as Queen of Water and Queen of Shadows: five reels, four rows, 25 fixed paylines, an expanding Queen wild and a free spins round you can gamble before it starts. It is a separate release from Spinomenal’s plain Queen of Ice, which casinos list as its own title.

The Reels and the Ice Queen

The reels float over a snowy palace of ice towers and falling snowflakes. The premium symbols are an ice crown set in a green-jewelled frame, a snowy owl, a white wolf and a cluster of blue ice crystals, and the lower tier is a set of card royals from 10 to A.

The Queen is the wild – a white-haired sorceress in silver armour. When she lands she stretches over her whole reel, and in our screenshots she covers two neighbouring reels at once, turning a large part of the grid into one block of WILD.

Our Wins

Three screens from the demo show how the payouts build:

• 750 – a screen almost full of 10s, stacked across the first four reels.
• 625 – two full Queen reels on reels 1 and 2 with a column of Js next to them, plus a Bonus symbol on reel 4.
• A Big Win in the free spins, with the Queen on reel 1 and blue ice crystals piled over reels 2 and 3.

The Bonus Symbol

The free spins are triggered by the Bonus symbol – a silver snowflake star on a dark blue tile, marked BONUS. It shows up on reel 4 in our 625 screenshot, on the same spin where the two Queen reels paid out.

Because the Queen can cover whole reels in the base game as well, one spin can pay a solid line win and still move you closer to the bonus. Stacks of the same symbol are common too: one of our screens shows gold Qs filling almost the whole grid, with only a few Js, two Ks and a wolf breaking the pattern.

Bet Settings

All 25 lines are always active, so the only choice is the stake per line. The total bet is 25 times that figure, and SlotCatalog lists a range of 0.25 to 250 per spin. The buy screen in our session was set to a bet of 50.

Free Spins: Collect or Gamble

The feature starts with a choice. The “Gamble to get” panel offers two buttons:

• Collect 10 Free Spins – take the standard award and start.
• Gamble – flip a coin. The silver side, stamped with a wolf, drops you to 5 free spins; the gold crown side lifts you to 15.

The ladder at the top runs 15, 20, 30 and 50 free spins, with 5 printed under the first rung and 10 under the others – the award you fall back to if a flip fails. We collected, and two glowing crystal orbs framed the message “Congratulations! You have won 10 Free Spins”.

Sticky Wilds in the Free Spins

This is where Winter Kingdom differs from its sisters. SlotCatalog lists sticky wilds for the free spins, and our bonus screenshots match: the Queen stands on reels 2 and 3 side by side in one spin, and on reel 1 in another, while the free spins counter runs at the bottom.

Every Queen reel that stays in place makes the following spins easier to win, because any symbol on the reels next to her connects across more lines. That is why this round can climb much faster than the base game.

Buying the Feature

The Buy Feature triggers 10 free spins directly. At a bet of 50 the price was 1,550 = 31x the bet – the same multiple as the rest of the series. The maximum win is capped at 2,000x.

Reading the Gamble Ladder

The ladder lets you decide how risky the bonus should be. Collecting guarantees 10 spins with sticky Queens. Climbing to 50 gives her five times as many chances to lock onto the reels, while a miss on the first flip leaves only 5 spins.

The Queens of Elements Family

Spinomenal reuses this engine across the series, and the key numbers line up exactly. Queen of Water, Queen of the Forest: Night Whispers and Queen of Shadows all show the same 31x buy price, the same 5 / 15 coin, the same 15-20-30-50 ladder and the same 2,000x cap.

What changes is the theme, the RTP version and the free spins twist. Winter Kingdom shares the 91.72% RTP of Queen of Water, and it is the one where SlotCatalog adds sticky wilds to the bonus, which gives its free spins a different rhythm from the others.

Theme and Presentation

Everything is drawn in ice blue and silver: frosted reel frames, crystal shards around the pop-up panels and snowflakes drifting across the screen. Wins flash with a burst of white light from the middle of the grid.

Controls

A small Features tab hangs from the top-left corner of the reels and opens the game’s feature overview. The bottom bar holds the per-line stake, the BUY button next to the spin button, and the win meter, while the number of paylines – 25 – is shown in a badge at the top right.

The pop-up panels share the same icy styling: frosted frames, crystal shards along the edges and large green or red buttons, so the gamble, buy and bonus screens are easy to tell apart at a glance.

RTP and Numbers

The listed RTP is 91.72%, and SlotCatalog notes that the game has several RTP versions, so your casino may run a different one. No volatility rating is published.

Who It Is For

Queen of Ice – Winter Kingdom suits players who like stacked wilds and a bonus that can snowball. The gamble ladder and the sticky Queen reels in the free spins are the two things that make it worth a try.

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