Foxium are an Estonian provider cooperating with Microgaming for quite some time now. Their portfolio has been growing and March 2022 is when one more title, The Great Albini 2 became part of it. This online slot is a sequel to their 2019 game and arrives with a polished-up design and a boosted win potential going up to 20,000x the stake. The great illusionist brings Wild Substitutions, a Boost Feature, a Free Spins Round and a Collect Game.
This 5-reel, 4-row slot has 40 fixed paylines with wagers spanning from $0.20 to $24.00 on every spin. The game pays out for combinations of at least 3 matching symbols landing on consecutive winline positions, starting from the leftmost reel. As for additional features, the Autoplay mode grants a number of automatic rounds while Turbo mode makes the reels spin faster. The Boost feature doubles your bet and puts more Money Gems, Collect icons, Albini Multipliers and Lily symbols on the grid.
More modest prizes of 1x and 2x the bet are awarded by Playing card symbols 10-A, while Premiums grant from 3x to 10x your stake for 5 of a kind. High-win symbols are represented with Lucky Cups, Knives, assistant Lily and Albini himself. The most rewarding symbol is Wild, granting 1x, 5x and 25x the wager if 3, 4 or 5 land. Wild substitutes all symbols but Scatter, Collect and Money Gems.
Money Gems appear on all reels but the 5th to help boost your balance. Blue Gem issues up to 9x the bet, Violet Gem grants between 10x and 20x the stake, while the Red Gem delivers from 25x to 50x the wager. However, in order to obtain Gem values, the Collect icon must hit reel 5. Moreover, this symbol can carry a 2x – 5x Multiplier. For Free Spins to commence you need 3 Scatters on three central reels. During this feature, Bonus symbols appear to increase your gains. Look out for Money Gems, Albini Multipliers and Lily Extra Spins icons. Each of these icons resets the spin counter back to 3 and brings a benefit of its own. Money Gems grant prizes as high as 50x the bet and remain on the grid. The Albini Multiplier can arrive with values from 1x to 5x the stake, added to the Feature Multiplier that starts off at 1x. As for the Lily symbol, it will add an extra spin to the counter when it lands. To top it all off, should 20 Money Gems hit, a Grand Prize of 20,000x the bet will end up in your hands.
The Great Albini 2 is a mobile-friendly video slot, so you can choose to play it while on the move or when you are at home.