Sea of Tranquility Pokies
Named after the most famous feature on the moon, where the first Apollo landings took place, Sea of Tranquility is a pokie game from WMS Gaming that sees our closest celestial neighbour appearing across the reels, accompanied by such items as a sailing ship, owl, wizards hat and jar of fireflies. This seemingly random collection of symbols may mean that the Sea of Tranquility video pokie has a slightly confusing theme, but it all looks very nice and comes with some pleasing bonus features such as free spins, scatter awards and a Close Enough system that pays out when symbols are not quite lined up.
One look at this 5-reel, 3- payline game, and players will see that it’s arranged in a slightly different style to most others, and has 3 rows of symbols, plus a glimpse of symbols that are above and below them. A picture of the moon, plus some other planets is orbiting behind the reels, with the game title above and control buttons below.
The bet range runs from a low limit of 0.30 to a maximum of 150.00 per spin, meaning that all paylines are permanently active, but anyone who doesn’t want to stake this much on a game that they haven’t tried, can test it out through the free Sea of Tranquility video pokie games that most online casinos can offer.
Playing Sea of Tranquility
In normal play, wins come from 3, 4 or 5 of the same kind of symbol stopping on adjacent reels, across any of the 30 paylines, running from the left side, although the bonus features can affect this in a few ways.
A review of the paytable shows what symbols are worth when they make up a winning line, and like many pokies, the playing card 10, J, Q, K and A will turn up for the smaller payouts.
The wizards’ hat, jar of flies and gold pendant are the middle-ranking icons, and at the top of the table, we have double-height symbols of the owl, ship and a girl, each of which pays out a prize when landing on just 2 or more reels. When they are spinning, the reels expand a little to cover the title and background image, making it a little easier to see what’s happening, and as it’s a mobile-optimised pokie, this can be useful on the smaller screens of smartphones and tablet computers.
Sea of Tranquility
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Bonus Features
The highest-paying symbol, and another that only has to land on reels 1 and 2 to be worth a win, is a green shooting star, which also doubles up as the wild. So anytime players see a line of symbols but there’s a gap in them, and the wild fills that gap, it will act as any other to complete the line. It’s also able to stretch winning combinations across extra reels to create higher-value lines, and if that’s not enough, this is also an expanding wild that will fill any reel that it lands on.
A cartoon crescent moon, having a sleep against a backdrop of pink clouds is a scatter, that can launch a free spin bonus game. The wild won’t be able to substitute for the moon, but any time 2 or more appear, in any positions, players will still win something. Just 2 moons will pay a scatter award of 2x the total bet per spin, and then launch 7 free games, while 3 moons equals a 5x payout followed by 10 extra spins. Anyone landing 4 scatters wins 10x the triggering bet and then 20 free spins, while the top award comes from 5 scatters appearing at once, with a 25x initial win, followed by 50 spins.
Each reel has a little cut out above and below, which reveals the symbols that are just outside the main part, and this Close Enough feature will see the wild symbol expanding across the whole reel if it’s in the cut out, while scatters appearing in them will still count and help to trigger the free spins.
The Verdict
The night time theme is a little unusual, but works very well, creating an atmospheric online casino pokie that has plenty going on to keep players awake. As it’s got a good return to player percentage, they hopefully won’t be worrying about fair play and reliability though, and when the bonus features are triggered, they will certainly be enjoying some decent rewards.
WMS Gaming are well-known for developing high quality real money online pokies, and Sea of Tranquility is sure to enhance that reputation even further.