Online slots are always going through changes. As well as interesting and new stories and themes, they need to have enhanced features. Fun bonus rounds are great. But what really stands out for iGaming fans and ensures slots last the test of time is the idea of actually progressing through the game. Slots do this with level-based gameplay, which Microgaming delivers superbly in its Beautiful Bones slot.

Take It To The Next Level

Beautiful Bones is a five reel, 243 Ways to Win slot, that focuses on the Mexican Day of the Dead. So expect a series of Baron Samedi-type characters appearing as the main symbols. The Wild Spin Again feature gives us a held Wild and a Respin, but it’s the Skull Scatters which take this slot to the next level. Literally. We collect them as they land and add up to give us free spins with multipliers. For instance if we get 10 Skulls we get 10 free spins with trebled wins.

This reminds us a little of Microgaming’s Castle Builder slots. On these (so good there’s a sequel – Castle Builder II), our aim is to construct castles by landing the Building Materials on the paylines. The more we get, the better value building blocks we win and the further we advance in the game – from building castles to marrying off family members and moving to new kingdoms!

Loving Level Progression

It’s not that alien to have level progression in slots games. Even releases like Immortal Romance had it – we progress through the bonus rounds to unlock more of the story. Beautiful Bones gives us new levels in the form of higher bonuses each time and, while this is exciting, torches still burn brightly for the Castle Builder slots. I mean, who doesn’t want to own their own castle?