Avalon Gold Slot Review

Avalon Gold Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Avalon Gold slot has 6 reels, 4-8 rows, and between 4,096 and 262,144 ways to win. The ways to win increase because the columns can expand upwards to form a maximum of 8 rows. Wins pay from left to right on consecutive reels, beginning from reel 1.

Stakes range from 20p up to £50 per spin, thus catering to players who prefer low and high stakes. Use the coins icon in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen to change your total bet. You have 12 pre-defined values to pick from.

The Avalon Gold RTP is 94%, which is low compared to a lot of other slots on the market. The online slot average is around 96%, so it’s a little disappointing to see this set below this figure by quite a way.

The maximum win is 50,000 x your stake, which goes some way to explaining the lower return to player rate. ELK Studios slots rarely disappoint when it comes to huge win potential. Highly volatile, the Free Drops feature is arguably your best chance of landing the top prize as it can be retriggered.

Theme – a Celtic adventure to Avalon

The theme in the Avalon Gold slot game is all around Arthurian Mythology. Avalon is a mythical island that first appeared in the1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur’s sword Excalibur was made.

The reels are set in an ancient ruin, with an eerie feel to the surroundings. The soundtrack is Celtic-like, and it is quite reflective. It’s intense, but the mellow sounds of the instruments give it a nice feel. Overall, the visuals and the audio are pretty good here and not over the top. Everything ties into the theme well.

On the reels, the A-J Royals are the lower-paying symbols, with symbols of birds, snakes, wolves, and deer acting as the medium-paying symbols. The higher-paying ones are 3 different coloured armour masks, with Adventurer Kane being the most lucrative symbol of them all. It pays 1, 2, 3 or 6 x for 3, 4, 5 or 6 in combination respectively.

The game’s Wild substitutes for all symbols except the Bonus and Mystery Box symbols. There’s also an Expanding Wild that could lead to bigger wins.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
J	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.2, 0.4 or 0.8 x stake
Q	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.2, 0.4 or 0.8 x stake
K	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.2, 0.4 or 0.8 x stake
A	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.3, 0.6 or 1.2 x stake
Bird	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.3, 0.6 or 1.2 x stake
Snake	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.3, 0.4, 0.8 or 1.6 x stake
Wolf	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.3, 0.4, 0.8 or 1.6 x stake
Deer	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.4, 0.8, 1.2 or 2.4 x stake
Blue Mask	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.4, 0.8, 1.2 or 2.4 x stake
Green Mask	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.5, 1, 1.5 or 3 x stake
Purple Mask	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.5, 1, 1.5 or 3 x stake
Kane	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 1, 2, 3 or 6 x stake
Wild	Substitutes for all except Bonus and Mystery + can expand
Bonus	3+ triggers Free Drops feature
Mystery	Activates to reveal a reward when 5 or more are in view
Coin Win	Value shown is multiplied by the placed bet
Collect	Collects all coin values in view
Multilpier	Multiplies all revlealed coin values
Redrop	Awards an additional symbol drop
Swiper	Adds a 1 in front of the previously revealed coin value

Avalon Gold Mobile

ELK Studios is a mobile-first provider. With all their slots produced with HTML5 technology, Avalon Gold is playable on mobile, tablet, PC and laptop devices. Compatible with iOS and Android smartphones, I recommend a desktop device for a better visual experience as the reel setup can become rather large at times when it expands to 8 rows.

Avalon Gold Bonus Features

There are 11 bonus features in this Avalon Gold slot game. A lot of those are modifiers that can affect the action, but arguably the best bonus is the Free Drops feature. With retriggers possible, you can land numerous free drops as you work your way towards max wins of 50,000 x your stake. Let’s run you through how the bonus features work, starting with the Avalanches.

Avalanche feature

When a winner lands, those symbols are removed from the reels and new ones fall into the empty positions. When this happens, an extra row is added, and this continues until it hits a maximum of 8 rows in height. In the base game, once no new winner lands, the row height resets back to 4.

Here’s a useful calculation on how many ways to win there are based on the row height as it increases:

Big Symbols

Big symbols can appear as normal symbols or as Mystery Boxes and they land in 2×2, 3×3, or 4×4 sizes. If there are any empty spaces below the big symbols, they’re filled with the same symbol type as that big symbol.

Expanding Wilds

You will notice that some symbols will land with a gold frame on top of them. If there are spaces above these symbols, the gaps will be filled with Expanding Wilds expanding upwards.

Mystery Boxes feature

These can appear anywhere on the reels. If there are 5 or more of them on the reels, it will activate the Mystery Boxes feature and will either reveal a payout, or a Wild or trigger the Avalon features.

If the Mystery Box reveals a payout or a Wild symbol that leads to a win, a new chain of Avalanches will begin. All Mystery Boxes will then go back to a blocking state. Mystery Boxes will activate again once there are more winners from the Avalanches.

If the Mystery Boxes reveal the Avalon features, it’ll either be a Coin Win or a feature. Here are the features that could land for you:

• Coin Win – The value of this Coin Win symbol is multiplied by the placed bet.
• Multiplier – This multiplies all of the revealed coin values.
• +1 Swiper – If there is a Coin Win symbol or an already revealed Collect feature that has a value of 5x that was revealed before this +1 Swiper, it turns into 15x. It essentially sticks as 1 before the value.
• Collect – Collect all coin values from the revealed Mystery Boxes. All opened Mystery Boxes are then reactivated to reveal new coin wins or features.
• Redrop – Awards a new symbol drop and guaranteed reactivation of the Mystery Boxes currently on the reels. This feature executes when all other Mystery Box features have been played through.

Free Drops feature

3 or more Bonus symbols will trigger the Free Drops feature. Here’s how many Free Drops you can get initially based on the number of Bonus symbols that trigger the feature for you:

The Mystery Boxes are persistent here until they’re activated. It works in the same way as explained above. The feature begins 4 rows high, and the safety level will increase by 1 row after winning spins up to a maximum of 8 rows.

X-iter feature

Lastly, the Avalon Gold slot comes with an X-iter feature. Not available to UK slot players, you can choose from 5 modes which range from 2 to 500 x your total bet. Here’s what they offer:

Avalon Gold Review Summary – another solid adventure for Kane to enjoy

Overall, the Avalon Gold slot is a solid addition to the Gold series of games from ELK Studios that will appeal to many. The 50,000 x stake max wins alone make for an eye-catching slot. Then add in the 11 bonus features and you’ve got a fantastic game as a whole. The RTP rate is the only thing that lets it down being at 94%, but it’s the price we, unfortunately, have to pay here for huge max win potential.

Mystery Boxes play a big part in the gameplay here, and we’ve seen them work very well in other slots from other providers such as Big Bamboo from Push Gaming. There you’ve got the Mystery Bamboo symbols that transformed into Wilds or Golden Bamboo symbols.

This slot gets a thumbs up from me. Give our free demo a try to understand why we rate it so highly.

If you want to experience more adventures from Kane, check out the previous slots from the Gold series that are still popular to this day:

Slot	Max Win	RTP %
	10,000 x bet	96.2%
	10,000 x bet	95%
	5,000 x bet	96.1%
	5,000 x bet	96.1%
	5,000 x bet	96.1%
	2,500 x bet	95.1%