Shadow of Dominion Slot Review & Free Play

Shadow of Dominion: Open The Magical Portal of Runes For 10,000x Wins

Shadow of Dominion by Slotmill starts on a six-reel board inscribed with mysterious glowing runes. You've got scatter pays, cascading wins, giant symbols, respins, and free spins with a persistent multiplier that can keep climbing up to 10,000x wins. Here’s a quick overview of what the game brings and how my session went. 

The game uses a 6x6 scatter pays grid, where 8 or more matching symbols anywhere on the reels create wins before triggering cascades. Symbol payouts range from 0.05x to 500x your bet, although you'll need all 36 positions filled with the same symbol to land that massive top symbol payout. 

Most of my wins come in between 0.35x and 2.30x my bet and usually take around 3 to 5 spins to land. Every cascade increases the Win Multiplier by 1x, giving consecutive wins a chance to become much more valuable. Giant symbols can also take up 2x2 or 3x3 spaces, counting as 4 or 9 matching symbols respectively, and they can carry their own multipliers on top of the one already building.

Filling the entire grid still isn't easy, though, which is where dominion respins come in. These lock a chosen symbol onto the grid and keep respinning as long as you continue adding new matching symbols, while upgrade symbols can turn everything already collected into a higher-value symbol. Even with nothing more than some low-paying runes and a 6x multiplier, I managed to get a 15x win from one trigger. 

I landed 3 bonus symbols fairly early on, giving me 6 free spins, which felt a little low considering how much needs to happen during the feature. The main difference here is that the win multiplier becomes persistent. My first trigger was fairly underwhelming, giving me just 3 wins, a 4x multiplier, and a small 7.60x payout. 

I managed to trigger Free Spins again towards the end of my session, getting another 6 spins. Three spins passed without a single win before dominion respins finally came to the rescue. That gave me a 25x win and a 10x multiplier to work with. Then the feature threw another dominion respin at me on the very last spin to push the total payout all the way up to 105x my bet.

Shadow of Dominion doesn't make its huge 500x symbol payouts easy to reach, but the combination of cascades, giant symbols, and dominion respins gives you plenty of ways to build those combinations. If you're willing to put up with the high volatility, the slot definitely has potential for big hits.