The Golden Realms slot is set on a hexagonal 3-4-5-4-3 reel set, where on any spin, you may get up to 9 random wilds, up to 5x multipliers or expanding symbols on multiple reels. The free spins give you a better chance to win up to 2,241x your bet.
This beautiful-looking Ancient Greek slot game is set high above the earth as the gods battle over these 5 reels and 36 paylines to provide you with the kind of wins you’re used to seeing from this provider. Which isn’t 10,000 times your bet, as with Midas King of Gold or Jack Hammer 3.
The Golden Realms mobile slot is more comfortable with a top win of over 2,000x your bet, wins you might see from Twin Spin or Who’s the Bride.
It’s not that NetEnt doesn’t have big win slots (looking at you, Rome the Golden Age); it’s just that it creates a more playable slot game when it doesn’t try to reach crazy numbers.
Why? Golden Realms has three random features that hit often and free spins, allowing you to see all three features within 10. This makes it far more playable and easy to cater to all budgets, especially when you can bet 0.20 a spin all the way to a huge 2,000 a spin. High-limit gamblers everywhere pay attention.
Random features can be frustrating, especially if you read about them but never experience them. It’s one thing to tell us there is a jackpot game; it’s another never to see it.
That’s not the case in the Golden Realms online slot. You can’t spin 20 spins without hitting one of the features. They don’t always pay or pay big, but they generally bring a big enough thrill that you want to see them again.
The hammer will add 1x to 5x multipliers across the reels, the meteor will spread a single symbol over the 36 paylines, and the lightning strike adds up to 9 wilds on the reels. They can’t show up together, but any of them can bring you over 1,000x your wins. Only the Multipliers could see you win over 2,000x your bet.
Considering that this Golden Realm online slot is such a high-variance machine, you’d think the free spins would be hard to catch, but you generally hit them in 100 spins or less. Technically, you can buy them for 100x your bet, but we rarely felt we had to. Not to mention that we didn’t win much over that amount during our bonus games.
Ultimately, you must accept that this Golden Realm mobile slot has a top win of only 2,241x your bet. We say this only because it feels low compared to more recent NetEnt slot releases; look at Big Bang Boom or Lost Relics 2.
But the nice thing about the low-top win is that the game can afford to give you more features and free spins bonuses, and you can easily see how you get the bigger wins. You need to catch multipliers over multiple symbol wins. Simple as that.
The Golden Realms slot is a nice addition to anyone who liked their NetEnt slots. They are beautiful with lots of fun features, all still with the hope of some reasonably big wins.
Mobile Slot released | 23rd April 2024 |
Slot type | Video Slot |
Software | NetEnt |
Slot reels / paylines | 5 Reels / 35 Paylines |
House edge / RTP | 3.95% / 96.05% |
Slot volatility | High |
Min/Max bet | 0.20 / 2000 |
Max win | 2,241x your bet |
Free spins | 10 to 20 Free spins | Richer Reels |
Bonus rounds | Wild, Added Wilds, Multipliers, Free Spins, Scatters, Richer Reels, Expanding Symbol, Buy Bonus |
Slot Themes | Ancient Greece |
Random Wilds: Anything from 5 to 9 wilds can pop into the reels at any spin.
Fire Multiplier: If a hammer lands on the reels, it unleashes a blaze of multipliers on the symbols, up to 5x their worth in the paytable. One random symbol initiates a blast in 1 of 4 directions, increasing multipliers by x1 s as it spreads. 5 to 13 symbols on the reels are assigned multipliers from x1 to x5. Once the blast ends, all multipliers are set, and wins are calculated. The multipliers add each other.
Meteor Splash: A random symbol on the reels is chosen to expand and cover all adjacent symbols (up to 6) and those adjacent to these (up to 12). Wild symbols will not be replaced.
Free Spins: 3, 4 or 5 scatter symbols will trigger 10, 15, or 20 free spins. The chances to trigger random wilds, fire multipliers or meteor splash trigger more often.
Feature Buy: for 100x your bet, you buy entry into the free spins.
We know this Golden Realms slot's top win doesn't match the likes of recently released high-variance slot games, such as Tombstone No Mercy or Shaolin Panda Chaos Reels. However, we would argue that this NetEnt slot does what NetEntertainment does best: give you hope of achieving the top win clearly and easily while entertaining you in the process.
Three random features hit often: one gives you random wilds, the other gives you multipliers on the wins, and the third expands the symbol across the reels.
Visually, it's effective. You get excited when the hammer, lightning strike, or meteor hits, and you know the wins are coming. This is all more exciting in the free spins, as every other spin feels like a new feature will pop along to give you wins.
Did we win anything close to 2,241x our bet? No. But every time we got into the free spins, we got a few 100x our bet top wins, keeping our budget flowing.
Just make sure you play on the Golden Realm slot with an RTP of 96.05%, not lower. How can you tell? Simple. Only the version with the highest RTP has the buy feature available. If you can't buy the bonus, don't play. Also, don't buy the bonus. For 100x your bet, you mostly get your bet back or a little under.
Better to be patient and hope these gods feel generous at your favourite online casinos.
Review by Lucky Mobile Slots, last updated: May 5, 2024 - Rating