Avalon Gold Slot Review

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Of course, visuals and sound are also immensely important, and we start by looking at the video slot’s theme, assessing how original this is and how it holds up against similar themes in other games. We then look at how the graphics, sound and animations manage to bring the video slot’s setting to life.

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Pros Tips

Volatility in Avalon Gold is capped at a high setting, so it can take a while for special features and big wins to land. However, I did manage to trigger the free spins bonus around once every 100 spins, which isn’t all too bad. Still, I recommend sticking to a low bet level, something that can extend your budget further and create more chances of activating the bonus rounds.

The game comes with a set of X-Iter bonus buy options, which can boost your chances of success. While these can be quite helpful, they do place a strain on your bankroll, so be sure to consider your budget before using any of these options.

Remember that all video slots, including Avalon Gold, run using random number generators, so all outcomes are random and cannot be manipulated. Every spin’s outcome is independent and has no bearing on any future spins. So steer clear of video slot myths and strategies and instead focus on efficiently managing your bankroll for the best experience possible. Always play for fun and never for profit.

Avalon Gold Slot Bonus Features and Free Spins

The magical realm of Avalon Gold presents you with a grid made up of six reels and four initial rows, putting together 4,096 ways to win. However, the game uses a cascading reels mechanic, and with every win you make, the subsequent spin adds more rows to the grid. This caps at a maximum of eight rows and 262,144 ways to win.

To put together a win, you’ll need a minimum of three identical symbols spread out across adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel. The more symbols you have in a combination, the better your payout. 12 payout symbols offer high, medium and low payouts, as you can see below.

• Low Payout Symbols – These are royal card symbols from J to A, offering wins ranging from 0.10x to 0.30x your stake.
• Medium Payout Symbols – These symbols have knight crests displaying a blue eagle, green snake, purple wolf and red stag. They give you rewards between 0.15x to 1x your stake.
• High Payout Symbols – The top symbols show the blue, green and purple knights, as well as King Arthur himself. King Arthur is the highest paying token, awarding wins of up to 5x your stake for six identical symbols.

That covers all of the video slot’s basics, but there are several excellent special features to cover below.

Expanding Grid & Cascading Reels

Whenever you score a winning combination, the winning symbols are removed from the reels, making way for new symbols to tumble from the top of the grid. Whenever this happens, a new row is added to the grid, capping at eight rows in total. The system continues to repeat until there are no new wins on the screen.

Wilds

The game’s wild symbols have no payout value, but they substitute for all pay symbols on the grid, except for mystery symbols. You can also get expanding wild symbols, which expand whenever they form part of a winning combination.

Wild symbols can land across all reels and are available in both the base game and free spins.

Mystery Symbol

The star symbol is a mystery symbol which can land across both the base game and free spins. Whenever mystery symbols land, they will all reveal one of the following:

• Identical payout symbols.
• Wild Symbols.
• The Avalon feature.

The Avalon feature has the mystery symbols that reveal instant cash prizes of up to 10x your stake. You can also get multipliers that enhance the existing cash prizes, the swiper symbol, which adds 1 in front of another instant cash prize, the collect symbol, which collects all instant cash prizes, retriggering the feature and redrop, which adds another mystery symbol to the grid.

Scatter Symbol

Scatter or bonus symbols land across both the base game and free spins. They have no payout value but activate the bonus rounds. Scoring three, four, five or six of these tokens gets you 10, 15, 20 or 25 free spins, respectively. Landing these tokens during free spins will add more bonus rounds to your tally.

Free Spins

During the free spins bonus, gameplay remains largely the same, but you get the addition of safety levels, which lock in any additional rows that you add to the grid. This increases your chances of unlocking the full grid and getting the full ways to win that Avalon Gold has to offer.

You can also access the X-Iter buy bonus, which can add more wilds, mystery symbols or bonus symbols, as well as directly activate the free spins bonus.

Design and Visuals

The theme in Avalon Gold creates a medieval setting straight from the tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. The setting is rather unique, with high-quality graphics and animations which bring the setting to life. Add in a fittingly epic soundtrack, and you have one of the best presentations ELK Studios has ever created.

How to Play Avalon Gold Slot

Before you get started with Avalon Gold, I suggest reading carefully through the pay table, which can be found from the menu button at the top left corner of the screen. You can set the appropriate bet level from the coin button at the bottom left corner of the screen. Once you’re ready, you can hit the spin button at the bottom right corner of the screen to play.

You can also access the autoplay function, which can spin up to 100 consecutive spins automatically from the top right corner of the screen.

Mobile Compatibility

I tried playing Avalon Gold on my Android phone using the Chrome browser to test its mobile capabilities. It turns out the performance is great on mobile devices, with the interface automatically adapting to suit smaller screens and touchscreen controls. Otherwise, the game is identical to the desktop version with all the same features, win potential and graphics.

Ending Thoughts

Avalon Gold is one of the best efforts from ELK Studios, putting together a wide range of excellent features that combine together to create a fun and engaging experience. You also get a huge win potential of up to 25,000x your stake. But while I enjoyed all of these great offerings, paired with wonderful graphics, I was let down by the low RTP setting. Still, if you’re willing to wait a while longer for big wins and special feature triggers, Avalon Gold can be the perfect video slot for you.