Golden City Slots
Having already established themselves as a major player in the land-based casino industry, Spielo International are continuing to innovate by expanding their existing gaming portfolio with a number of new video slot titles designed with online play in mind.
Golden City is one such game from the company that is certain to prove a big hit with online casino players thanks to its virtually limitless free spins and the presence of stacked wilds on all five reels. Featuring a Mayan jungle theme and plenty of colourful graphics, the game looks as engaging as you’d expect from a Spielo title and also offers the promise of some truly huge jackpot payouts.
All that glistens
Like a lot of Spielo’s most popular titles, Golden City is a fully adjustable slot machine that enables players to customise the number of active paylines, their bet size per line and the speed at which the game will play. With a maximum of 40 paylines to enable and line bets starting from as little as $0.01, the game can be played for just $0.40 a spin, making it perfect for players on tight bankrolls.
As mentioned above, the speed at which the reels spin can also be adjusted by players to turn Golden City into a more quick-fire gaming experience, allowing users to get more spins in per hour and hopefully improve their bottom lines without compromising the graphical fluidity of the game.
Wins in Golden City are awarded for matching any combination of three or more identical symbols from the left-most reel, with the exception of scatter wins, which pay whenever three or more Golden City icons appear anywhere on the gameboard and also trigger the slot’s free spins feature.
Welcome to the jungle
Golden City features a relatively simple theme, but it is one that is perfectly well executed thanks to a rich palette of greens and gold. The background depicts the titular Golden City – a marvellous Mayan structure assembled exclusively from the precious metal – tucked away in the heart of the jungle, while the game’s five reels themselves feature the range of colourful creatures that inhabit it.
While the ace-through-ten playing card icons are sadly present, unique symbols in Golden City include lizards, turtles, birds, fish, butterflies and monkeys – all of which are illustrated using the traditional artistic style of the time. The game’s logo features as the scatter symbol, while a magical Mayan princess wearing a golden crown is the stacked wild that can occupy up to three rows.
In terms of audio, Golden City utilises a fairly typical bank of slot sound effects to mark its spins and wins, but given the game is primarily a bricks and mortar title, this in itself is not entirely surprising.
Golden ticket
Although relatively basic in terms of its range of features, Golden City does include two unique elements that instantly turn it from a bog-standard land-based casino slot to something a bit more innovative. The first – which we alluded to earlier – is the presence of stacked wild symbols on the game’s five reels, while the second is a free spin feature that can award up to 100 bonus games.
Dealing with the stacked wilds first, these golden princess symbols are not only the highest value icon in the game, they also substitute for all other regular symbols to create winning paylines. This in itself is not uncommon, but when you consider that they occupy up to three spaces each, it’s not hard to imagine how scoring a couple of wilds in a single spin will result in some huge combo wins.
The free spins feature, meanwhile, is activated whenever three or more of the game’s logo scatter symbols appear anywhere on the gameboard. When this happens, players receive 20, 50 or 100 free spins based on the number of symbols that are present, while all winnings during the bonus games are doubled. This feature can be re-activated during the bonus up to a maximum of 600 free spins.
Mayan magic
While Golden City is not a game that is destined to dazzle the slot-playing world with its outstanding levels of innovation, the game is nevertheless a solid addition to the Spielo catalogue. The graphics are crisp, the colours are bold and the bonus rounds can award an incredible number of free spins, making it the perfect game for players who want a simple but rewarding gaming experience.
