Trees of Treasure

We know money doesn’t grow on trees; parents or guardians repeat that message enough for it to sink in, but in the made-up world of Trees of Treasure from developer Pragmatic Play, who knows? Maybe it will. Not really, of course, but Trees of Treasure is an Asian-themed slot involving trees, coins, and sizable winning potential. It triggered an internet search that uncovered a phenomenon known as ‘wish trees’. These are special trees where people make an offering by, say, hammering a coin into the bark and making a wish. Do these wishes come true? Tough to say without further research, but let’s keep our minds open, shall we.

In Trees of Treasure, coins hang from the branches of trees, those coins with squares cut into the middle of them Asian style. Asian style is indeed how Trees of Treasure has been presented, and it’s a subject Pragmatic Play knows well. While proudly wearing its theme, Trees of Treasure is not a slot Pragmatic Play has gone totally overboard with a ton of the usual Asian slot imagery. Maybe the outdoor rural location at dusk is to thank for that. However, dragons, turtles, and phoenixes are here, so don’t worry culture fans. In the spirit of simplicity, Trees of Treasure’s gameplay is completely straightforward as well, offering a dry base game and a hold ‘n win round where nothing more strenuous than trying to land Money symbols is required.

Trees of Treasure’s base game is played on a 5-reel, 3-row matrix with 20 paylines built in for evaluating wins. It did come across as something of an all-or-nothing slot, packing massive prizes at the upper end of the Money symbol spectrum with a highly volatile math model to match. Players can choose a stake of 20 c to $/€240 per spin and get a default RTP of 96.1% or 96.02% when using the ante bet.

The regular pay symbols are indeed rather regular for this sort of game. They include 9 to A card rank low pays, then a turtle, a tiger, a phoenix, and a dragon as the highs. Winning combinations of 5-of-a-kind are worth 2 to 8 times the bet if made up of royals or 12 to 100 times the bet for hitting 5 matching high pays. Wilds pay even more at 250x the bet for a 5 wild winning line. Wilds may also be used to help connect winning lines by substituting for any regular pay symbol.

Trees of Treasure: Slot Features

Trees of Treasure’s main event is its Money Respin feature, plus it’s got an ante bet function for players looking to try to cut quicker to it.

Money Respin Feature

Landing 3 or more scatter symbols on the reels in the base game triggers the Money Respin feature. Only Bronze, Silver, and Gold Money symbols or blanks appear in the bonus round, and Money symbols lock in position when they hit.

• Bronze coins have possible values of 1x to 100x, or 1.5x to 500x, or 2x to 1,000x the bet if the feature was triggered by 3, 4, or 5 scatters, respectively.
• Silver coins have possible values of 2x to 500x, or 3x to 2,500x, or 4x to 5,000x the bet if the feature was triggered by 3, 4, or 5 scatters, respectively.
• Bronze coins have possible values of 4x to 1,000x, or 6x to 5,000x, or 8x to 10,000 the bet if the feature was triggered by 3, 4, or 5 scatters, respectively.

The feature starts with 3 respins, which reset to 3 whenever a new Money symbol lands and locks. The round ends when respins run out or all positions are filled by Money symbols.

Ante Bet

Activating the ante bet increases the stake by 50%. When active, the chance of triggering the respins round is higher due to more scatters being present on the reels.

Trees of Treasure: Slot Verdict

If you’ve made it this far, you won’t need us to tell you Trees of Treasure is a rather basic online slot. Basic doesn’t necessarily mean bad by any means, and there is likely to be value here for the right punter. Maybe, someone who doesn’t want to study an extensive paytable to gain a smidgen of insight as to what is going on. Quite the opposite. All there is to Trees of Treasure is smashing through the base game (making offerings in order to try to gain luck is totally optional), then landing the biggest, juiciest, goldenest Money symbol in a rudimentary Money Respin feature. Try to anyway.

That’s it, so if basic is good, then Trees of Treasure might be a fit. What may help hold interest while gamblers are cycling through the empty base game and bare bones hold ‘n win bonus round is the value on some of those symbols. Some of the regular high pays aren’t bad for one. Well, the dragon’s pretty hefty, but it’s the big Money symbols that are more likely to have participants slavering. No less than 8 Money symbols have values of 500x or higher, maxing out at 10,000x for the top Gold one. For the numbers people, Trees of Treasure’s win cap is actually 15,000x, by the way. Of course, the biggies are not going to come around very often, especially with a max win frequency of 1 in 120,000,000, so hopefully, you’re happy making do with the 1x to 10x coins or so in the meantime.

Trees of Treasure is not the most sophisticated hold ‘n win in the box. Sorry for stating the obvious. It’s actually utterly rudimentary, and flipping back and forth from a no-frills base game to low-value bonus rounds can lose its sheen after a while. But if chasing large Money symbols in a game that’s closer to a Bowie knife than a Swiss Army Knife, in an Asian setting sounds cool, then here’s Trees of Treasure for you.