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Avalon Gold Slot Game Review

Avalon Gold is the latest adventure featuring the popular explorer Kane from ELK Studios. This time, Kane travels back in time, joining King Arthur's legendary knights. The game retains the exciting grid-expanding Cascading wins mechanic seen in previous 'Gold' series titles, offering up to 262,144 ways to win. Players can benefit from cascading wins, expanding wilds, and mystery boxes that can trigger valuable cash coin features. The maximum win potential is a notable 25,000 times your stake.

Avalon Gold Slot Features Explained

The game grid expands with each Cascading win, as winning symbols are removed and replaced by new ones dropping from above. Each successful cascade adds a row, potentially increasing the ways to win from 4,096 to 262,144 on a fully expanded 6x8 grid. Premium symbols award between 2 and 5 times your stake for six of a kind wins. The Golden Wild symbol substitutes for pay symbols, helping to form winning combinations. Cascading wins continue as long as winning streaks persist, resetting after each base game spin.

Players can land Big Symbols in sizes of 2x2, 3x3, and 4x4. These can be regular pay symbols or Mystery Boxes. Big Symbols count as multiple 1x1 symbols, and any empty positions beneath them will transform into the same symbol type. Additionally, symbols landing with a golden frame trigger the Expanding Wilds feature, filling empty positions above with wild symbols.

Landing at least 5 Mystery Boxes on the screen activates the mystery feature. Unactivated mystery boxes act as blockers, but when activated, they reveal a random pay symbol, wilds, or trigger the Avalon feature. The Avalon feature can award the following:

• Coin: A cash prize coin of random value.
• Multiplier: Boosts all currently visible coin prizes.
• Swiper: Upgrades a coin prize by adding 1 to its value (e.g., 8 becomes 18).
• Collect: Gathers all visible coin prizes and reactivates all mystery boxes.
• Redrop: Grants another symbol drop and reactivates mystery boxes.

Bonus Round and Free Spins

Triggering the Bonus Round requires landing 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters, awarding 10, 15, 20, or 25 free spins, respectively. Mystery Boxes accumulate between free spins and remain persistent until activated. Activation still requires 5 or more boxes on screen, and they are removed after the Avalon feature concludes. The game starts with a default 6x4 grid, and the 'safety level' increases by one row after winning spins. This means your achieved grid size is saved between spins, with the grid maxing out at 6x8. The bonus round can be retriggered by landing 3 to 6 scatters, granting an additional 10 to 25 free spins.

X-iter Feature Buy Options

The X-iter menu, available in select jurisdictions, offers five distinct options, with the Return to Player (RTP) remaining constant across all choices:

• Big Symbol: Pay 5x stake for a spin with a guaranteed big symbol.
• Expanding Wild: Pay 10x stake for a spin with a guaranteed expanding wild.
• Mystery Boxes: Pay 50x stake for a spin with 5 guaranteed mystery boxes.
• Bonus: Pay 100x stake to enter the regular bonus round.
• Super Bonus: Pay 500x stake for a bonus round where mystery boxes remain persistent even after activation.

200 Spins Avalon Gold Slot Experience

The review includes a demonstration of base game wins before purchasing the Super Bonus Round. The gameplay shows the grid maxing out early and accumulating a significant number of mystery boxes, illustrating how these features play out.

Review Summary and Verdict

Avalon Gold continues Kane's successful journey with engaging gameplay and innovative features. The mystery boxes, reminiscent of Push Gaming's Big Bamboo, and the expanding wilds are particularly effective, especially in the Super Bonus round. While the inability to trigger the Super Bonus organically is a drawback, the core mechanics are highly entertaining. However, the stated RTP of 94% is a significant concern and may deter many players. It is hoped that ELK Studios will implement RTP ranges in future releases.

Pros and Cons

• Avalanche wins and up to 4x4 sized big symbols.
• Expanding Wilds and Mystery Boxes features.
• Free Spins with mystery boxes that persist until activated.
• X-iter Bonus Buy Menu with Super Free Spins (not available in the UK).
• Potential to win up to 25,000x your stake.
• The 94% RTP is a significant disadvantage.

Recommended Similar Slots

If you enjoy Avalon Gold, you might also like these titles:

• Big Bamboo: From Push Gaming, featuring Asian nature themes and mystery bamboo symbols that can award cash prizes and multipliers up to 50,000x stake.
• The Green Knight: A volatile Arthurian-themed slot from Play'n Go with multiplier wilds up to x100 and a guaranteed multiplier wild per free spin.
• Katmandu Gold: Another installment in ELK's Kane/Gold series, offering grid expansion, Ice Climbers, Expanding Wins, and a progressive multiplier in the bonus round.