Northern Sky Demo: The Polar-Light Original of Blue Fortune
Northern Sky · Quickspin · RTP 96.57% · max win 3,111.5x · checked on the demo server
Crystal animals and gems fill the 5x3 reels of Northern Sky, a Quickspin game of February 2018 with 9 fixed bet lines, and the window below runs the studio's own demo in the browser, free, with no registration form and no deposit. A win stays in place while the other squares spin again. The chain goes on until nothing new joins a line, and 3 Bonus Scatters collected inside one such round give 10 free spins played with the four animals alone. The game sheet puts volatility at 4.83 of 5 and RTP at 96.57% and gives the odds of a 100x win as about once in 1,214 spins, while the demo server's simulations put the largest win at 3,111.5x.
Which parts of Northern Sky did Quickspin carry into Blue Fortune?
All of the game except the art. Quickspin's Blue Fortune page calls it a refresh of Northern Sky, based on that game's proven design, and the two sheets print the same figures: 96.57% RTP split 71.33% and 25.24%, volatility 4.83, a 100x win once in 1,214 spins. Both run 5x3 with 9 lines, respin every win, and give 10 free spins for 3 Bonus Scatters in one round. The crystal deer, bear, wolf and owl became four pirates.
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Three grey mountain outlines fill the BONUS column left of reel 1 before the first spin, one for each Bonus Scatter a round still needs. The client opens at €2.00, the stake on every frame here, while our 500-spin log ran at €1.00, so the captions divide each WIN by 2.00.
- Studio
- Quickspin
- Released
- February 2018
- Grid and wins
- 5x3, 9 lines
- Volatility
- 4.83 of 5 (game sheet)
- RTP
- 96.57% default. One model published
- Max win
- 3,111.5x the bet, largest win in 10 billion simulated spins, demo server data (the sheet reads 3,111x in 1 billion spins); the same as Blue Fortune
- Where the RTP comes from
- Base game 71.33% · Free spins 25.24%
- Win of 100x or more
- 1 in 1,214 spins
- Demo bets
- €0.10 to €100.00
- Bonus buy
- None in this game
- Respins
- After every win, until a respin adds nothing; each step pays every winning line
- Free spins
- 10 for 3 Bonus Scatters collected in one round; animal symbols only
- Twin game
- Blue Fortune (May 2021), the same maths in a pirate setting
A golden deer worth 40x the bet a line, and no Wild at all
The paytable lists eight symbols and none of them substitutes. Four crystal animals pay most: five golden deer on a line return 40x the bet, five bears 10x, five wolves 5x and five owls 4x. Three gems in red, green and purple pay 2x or less for five, and a snowy mountain card marked BONUS is the Scatter.
A line pays from the leftmost reel and needs the same animal or gem on reels 1, 2 and 3 at least. Only 16.6% of our spins paid anything. The deer filled 463 squares of our first screens, yet paid no line in 500 spins, respins and free spins included.
Chains of one to four respins, and what each length paid
Once a line wins, it locks with every other winning line while the remaining squares are redrawn. A new symbol that completes or extends a line locks too, and every line on the board is paid again before the next respin. When a respin adds nothing, the rules have it "pay a last time", so the unchanged board pays once more.
Among our 83 base chains, 43 ended with a single respin, 24 with two, 10 with three and 6 with four. Paid once on their first screen, they would have returned €43.30; the respins made it €262.80, and the 6 longest chains alone brought €109.60. The best, spin 86, opened with 4 bear lines for €4.00 and finished with bears on all 9 lines, 56x in total.
Two Bonus cards on a spin that pays nothing are lost
The meter only counts within one game round, and a round without a win has no respin to add a third card. Our log had 11 first screens with two Bonus Scatters, all 11 of them without a win, so every pair vanished. One card showed on 101 screens.
Every trigger in our log grew out of a respin chain. Spin 9 showed one card on its first screen and one on each of its two respins. On spin 380 there were none at first, then two on the first respin and the third on the second, and spin 463 collected its three across the opening screen and the first two of four respins.
Gems leave the reels for the 10 free spins
The free spins keep the respin rule but swap the board: no gems and no Bonus cards, only deer, bears, wolves and owls. Even so, 18 of our 30 free spins paid nothing. The round on spin 380 paid on seven of its spins for €77.50, the one on spin 463 just once, €8.50.
No paytable screen mentions a retrigger. With no Bonus card on any of our free spin screens, none of the three rounds ran past 10 spins.
That owl screen, from the bonus our media session reached on spin 68, paid more than any free spin in our log. Our best was €28.50 at €1.00, on the eighth spin of the spin 9 round.
Our 500 spins next to the 500 we logged on Blue Fortune
We logged them on 3 Nov 2026 at €1.00, and they returned 80.1% of the stake. A spin paid 16.6% of the time, and the longest dry spell lasted 28 spins. The balance touched its low on spin 499, one from the end.
- 500paid demo spins at €1.00
- 16.6%of them paid something
- 81.9xbest spin, free spins round included
- 3free spins bonuses triggered
Respin chains brought back €262.80, 52.6% of the stake, and three bonuses €137.50, or 27.5%. The sheet books 71.33% to the base game, respins included, and 25.24% to free spins. The top win is one figure in two roundings: 3,111x on the sheet from 1 billion simulated spins, 3,111.5x on the demo server from 10 billion. That server runs the only RTP model Quickspin publishes for the game.
Our Blue Fortune log, on identical maths, returned 76.8% with a 17.4% hit rate, two bonuses and a 31-spin dry spell, close to the figures above. Its best result was 36.6x against 81.9x here; with the maths shared, a gap like that belongs to the two samples of 500 spins.
Choose between the twins by setting alone. Northern Sky's base game is sparse and high in volatility, with more than four spins in five paying nothing, and one long chain can make a session.
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Every reply below rests on the paytable screens, Quickspin's sheet, two listings or our log.
Was Northern Sky a LeoVegas exclusive?
For a few weeks, by SlotCatalog's record: it lists the game at LeoVegas from 17 January 2018 and a wide release on 13 February 2018, the date casinos.com also gives. Quickspin's page and sheet print no date. We use February 2018, the wide release, as the release month.
How much is a full line of golden deer worth?
40x the bet: the paytable shows €80.00 for five at the €2.00 opening stake. A respin chain can lock deer on several of the 9 lines and pay them on every step, but the deer paid no line in our log.
Can a Bonus card show up during the free spins?
Not in our log, where the 30 free spin screens and their respins held only deer, bears, wolves and owls and no round passed 10 spins. This game's paytable says nothing about it. The rules of Blue Fortune, its twin, put Bonus Scatters in the base game only and rule out a retrigger.
How many simulated spins stand behind the 3,111.5x figure?
Ten billion, on Quickspin's demo server. The game sheet prints 3,111x from 1 billion spins, the same win rounded down. It is the highest result of those simulations, not a cap written into the rules.
How dry can Northern Sky get between wins?
Our longest run without a win was 28 spins, and 417 of 500 spins paid nothing. A line needs three matching symbols from reel 1 with no Wild to help, and the sheet rates volatility 4.83 of 5.