Golden Forge

Golden Forge slot by RubyPlay is the new 2022 summer release from one of our favorite Malta iGaming developers. It takes on a Greek or Roman-inspired forge aesthetic with stunning graphics. The visual allusions to mythology are somewhat of a trademark for RubyPlay as with their previous releases like the Book of Riches slot. Golden Forge slot has 5 reels, 50 paylines, and a maximum win potential of 500x your bet with its grand jackpot. It features mechanics such as alternative money symbols called shields and cash activation hammer symbols.

Golden Forge slot RTP is 96.48% which is a worthwhile slightly above average value for contemporary video slots. Furthermore, the volatility of the game is medium to high indicating higher payouts being dependent on triggering the extra features. In this Golden Forge slot review, we shall be taking a look at this RubyPlay release in detail.

Golden Forge slot is a 5-reel by 3-row online video slot. By payline-system standards, it has a larger number of paylines than usual amounting to 50. On these 50 active paylines players can score wins by landing at least 3 identical symbols. Each winning combination on different paylines is combined for the final score. Additionally, only the highest winning combination is paid out per line.

There are 9 regular symbols for the players to score the most common payouts. The 5 low-win symbols are the traditional royal cards with the addition of an Ace and a 10. However, the highest payouts are in the top 4 regular symbols which take the shape of a beautifully-crafted ring, gauntlets, helmet, and the forge master’s anvil.

When you are betting, the paytable will adjust your wins for all symbols accordingly. You can also activate options like turbospins and autospin in the settings menu.

Starting up the Golden Forge slot greets you with much more than just a stunning visual atmosphere of a fiery forge. There are also customizable betting options and the 4 jackpot icons. When playing Golden Forge slot for real money players can bet from €0.5 to €250 for a chance to win the maximum payout of 500x their original bet. The other lesser jackpots are also quite substantial with the mini jackpot being 20x, the minor 50x, and the major being 200x.

Besides the extra features which have the highest payouts in the game, the regular symbol payouts are as follows. Getting a 5-symbol combination with the lower-paying symbols will get you a maximum of 1x your bet. Landing the same winning combination with higher-paying symbols can net you from 1.6x to 3x your bet. These regular symbol payouts are relatively on the lower paying side on average but their payouts are balanced by the extra features which we are about to cover.

Finally, before moving on, the RTP of the Golden Forge slot is a comfortable 96.48%, which is definitely a worthwhile value in the modern video slot world.

Golden Forge slot has the fiery hotter and hottest feature as its crucial aspect of the game. There are also a few more smaller features that accompany or activate these special aspects. Let us review them together in detail.

• Blacksmith Wild – This is your standard wild symbol with a twist. Firstly, it familiarly replaces any regular symbol for a winning combination. It appears on reels 1 through 4. Secondly however, the wild symbol can randomly appear covering the entire reel. This drastically increases the chances of player wins.
• Shield – These are the game’s money symbols that will have random multiplier values attached to them during the base game. Each time they appear they stick on the board for 3 spins and increase their value with each spin. Additionally, the jackpot shield symbols are similar except their values are the four jackpots in the game.
• Hammer – This is the game’s collect symbol that appears on reel 5 only. Landing this symbol with any shield symbols present on the board will collect all the values from the shield symbols and reward the player with the sum. This symbol combination is known as the hotter feature.
• Scatter – Landing three or more scatter symbols triggers 10 free game spins with the hottest feature. This is where all the shield symbols from the triggering spin transform into the hottest shield symbols with higher values and a higher possibility for jackpot shields. All shields are persistent for the remainder of the free game except jackpot shields. At the end of the free spins, all shield symbols will disappear.