Zulu Gold Slot Review

Zulu Gold Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

Each new spin in the Zulu Gold slot starts on 6 reels, 4 rows and 4,096 ways to win. Winning combinations are created by landing 3 or more matching symbols or wilds on adjacent reels, starting from reel 1.

Click on the coins alongside the reels to adjust your stake. Bet sizes here range from 20p to £100 per spin. From the settings, click on the trophy icon to open up the paytable. Payout amounts are shown in cash and relate to your current stake level.

The Zulu Gold RTP is 95% which is rather below the 96% slots average. Medium to high variance, the bigger wins will come when you expand the rows and number of ways to win.

The maximum win is 10,000 x your total stake per spin. The best chances of winning big come in the free spins where more rows can be added to give you up to 262,144 ways to win.

Theme – join adventurer Kane in Africa

The Zulu Gold slot is based on the Zulu people, a nation of over 9 million Nguni-speaking people in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. With a tribal theme, it’s another adventure for explorer Kane who has already visited the Himalayas, the Wild West, mangrove swamps in Louisiana, Tahiti and Ecuador.

A traditional tribal soundtrack plays in the background while you spin. I found it a little intrusive but there are options to play with just the game sounds active. You’ll still have some atmosphere without the full musical score.

The reels are made up of lower value cave carving-style symbols which appear alongside 4 coloured paintings. You will also see a wildebeest, rhino and elephant. The most rewarding symbol is adventurer Kane who appears to have been modelled on Nicholaj Coster-Waldau, best known for playing Jamie Lannister in the TV drama ‘Game of Thrones’. Land 6 in combination for an award of 5 x your total stake.

There are also wild and colossal symbols that I’ll look at in more detail below. The symbols appear on stone blocks and there’s a resounding thump each time they drop onto the reels. Find a list of symbols and payouts below:

Symbol	Payouts/Info
Crocodile Carving	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.15, 0.2 or 0.3 x stake
Snake Carving	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.15, 0.2 or 0.3 x stake
Antelope Carving	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.15, 0.2 or 0.3 x stake
Zebra Carving	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.15, 0.2 or 0.3 x stake
Painting 1	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.15, 0.25, 0.4 or 0.8 x stake
Painting 2	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.15, 0.25, 0.4 or 0.8 x stake
Painting 3	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.3, 0.5 or 1 x stake
Painting 4	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.3, 0.5 or 1 x stake
Wildebeest	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.5, 1, 1.5 or 2 x stake
Rhino	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.75, 1.5, 2 or 2.5 x stake
Elephant	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 1, 2, 2.5 or 3 x stake
Adventurer Kane	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 1.5, 3, 4 or 5 x stake
Wild	Substitutes for symbols above
Wild Walker	Triggers Wild Walker feature
Sunset Bonus	3+ triggers free spins

Zulu Gold Mobile

Zulu Gold is available to play on all devices including desktop and laptop computers as well as tablets and mobiles. ELK Studios is a mobile-first provider meaning they focus their efforts on handheld devices first and foremost.

Zulu Gold Bonus Features

There’s plenty of variety when it comes to the gameplay in Zulu Gold. With 7 bonus features, wilds are central to much of the best action here. These can move positions, turn sticky and award multipliers. You’ll also see stacked and colossal symbols. The main feature is a free spins round, complete with dynamic multiplier.

Avalanche feature

When a winning combination is formed, the Avalanche feature follows. The successful symbols are blasted off the reels and new ones drop in and replace them. More importantly, each avalanche also adds another row to the game engine as well as more ways to win:

Following a winless avalanche, the reels return to their original 4 row, 4,096 ways to win state.

Zulu Stacks feature

On any spin you could benefit from the Zulu Stacks feature. These are stacks that are 2, 3 or 4 symbols high that can add extra symbols onto a row and boost the number of ways to win. Zulu Stacks can be anything apart from the wild and bonus symbol.

Wild Walker feature

When the Wild Walker symbol lands, the Wild Walker feature applies. It moves to new positions on the reels and leaves a trail of wilds as it goes. These wilds are sticky for the duration of the current set of avalanches.

Big Symbols feature

Known as the Big Symbols feature, symbols can appear in a variety of sizes from standard 1×1 up to 2×2, 3×3 and even 4×4. An epic 4×4 block is the equivalent of 16 standard symbols. Big symbols clear out the smaller standard symbols below them during avalanches and can drop to the bottom of the grid.

Charged Wilds feature

In the Zulu Gold slot, there’s a Charged Wilds feature. A charged wild is a 1×1 wild that can come with up to 3 lives. When one of these lands, it locks in position. If it forms part of a winning combination, 1 of those lives is used up. When out of lives, the Charged Wilds drops off the screen like a standard wild.

Multiplier Free Drops feature

Land 3, 4, 5 or 6 Sunset Bonus symbols anywhere on the reels on the same spin to trigger the Multiplier Free Drops feature. You’ll then go on to play 10, 15, 20 or 25 free spins respectively.

These free spins come with a progressive multiplier. Land 3 multiplier symbols on the same free spin and their values are combined and added to the overall multiplier.

The free spins starts on a 4 row machine with 4,096 ways to win. Each win adds a new row, up to a maximum of 8. This can take the number of ways to win up to 262,144. Finally, unlimited retriggers are possible here too.

Zulu Gold Review Summary – the best of the ‘Gold’ series so far

The Zulu Gold slot follows a long line of games in the ‘Gold’ series. As mentioned, adventurer Kane has been to some pretty exotic locations. You’re guaranteed lots of bonus features courtesy of the Avalanches, expanding rows/ways to win, Zulu Stacks, Big Symbols, Charged Wilds and Wild Walker symbols.

I particularly like the Wild Walker feature which gives you roaming wilds that leave a trail of wilds in its wake. This is a nice little addition from ELK Studios that can lead to plenty of avalanches and extra rows/ways to win.

The biggest wins will come from the free spins where a progressive multiplier is in play. Each win also gives you more ways to win. With unlimited free spins to be won too, Zulu Gold can pack quite the punch once it gets going.

The design is excellent and this is the best of the ‘Gold’ series to date. If you want to join Kane on his other expeditions, Katmandu Gold offers up to 531,144 ways to win as well as Multiplier free spins and 10,000 x stake wins. Like ELK Studios slots? Nitropolis 2 comes with over 191 million ways to win and lots of bonus features.