Secret City Gold

Secret City Gold Review

We have to say that Secret City Gold is not the most imaginative title we have seen in the world of online slots, but the developer has done a good job with the visual presentation as usual. The 5x4 grid is placed somewhere in the Mesoamerican jungle, with Inca or Mayan inspired totem symbols all over the place. You can hold down the space bar for turbo spins, and the core feature is somewhat innovative.

It’s called Shape Wins, and it’s basically a mystery symbol feature that triggers randomly as random shapes highlight different positions. However, the Shape Wins are also boosted by a multiplier up to x10, which makes them more interesting than a regular mystery symbol feature. In addition, the multiplier only keeps building in the bonus round, and this can lead to payouts up to 10,000x your stake.

Secret City Gold Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 1.2 and 4 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and you can land Wild symbols on all 5 reels. The wilds step in for pay symbols to help complete wins, and they also pay 8x your stake should 5 wilds land on a payline.

A random shape or pattern may appear at any given time, and it highlights a random amount of positions. After the initial win, if there is any, all marked symbols turn into the same randomly chosen symbol. They can only transform into a symbol that is one of the marked symbols, however, and this may lead to a win. If so, the win is boosted by a random multiplier between x1 and x10.

You need 3, 4, or 5 scatters in view to trigger the Bonus Round, and this also pays 2x, 10x, or 50x your stake up front. You are granted 8 free spins no matter the number of triggering scatters, and the Shape Wins feature is active also in the bonus round. The random Shape Wins multiplier is collected by an overall multiplier though, and the overall multiplier will boost any Shape Wins.

The overall multiplier never resets during the feature, which means it can build to unknown heights as long as the bonus round lasts. The multiplier increases by +1 per Shape Win, and you get +1 extra spin per scatter that lands during the bonus round. Non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can buy the bonus round for 85x the stake, and this increases the RTP to 96.22 %.

The 200 Spins Secret City Gold Slot Experience

You get to see a few decent Shape Wins in the base game, before we purchase the bonus round at 0:52 into the 3:16-minute highlights video. We landed the minimum of 3 triggering scatters, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The developer never delivers low quality slots no matter what, and they churn out new releases more often than most other developers. They are a bit like the fast food of online slots though, and Secret City Gold is a very typical installment in that regard. The Shape Win feature is somewhat innovative, but in reality it’s basically a twist on the common mystery symbol feature. It keeps the base game interesting though, and it can lead to decent wins on occasions.

It’s not really engaging enough to make you wanna come back for a second filling, so Secret City Gold is basically a shelf filler release that will most likely be forgotten in a few months. That’s the case with many slots, however, and not every release can be a timeless classic. Things are taken up a notch in the bonus round, as the multiplier keeps building, and we have no complaints about the 10,000x potential. The volatility is high though, so this one is hardly for casual punters and low risk players.