Golden Goose Megaways – Overview
It’s time for a new Big Time Gaming release and it’s another Megaways slot. This time it’s Golden Goose Megaways, which of course is a Jack and the Beanstalk inspired slot game.
A theme that seems to be one of the more popular fairy tales for slot games. I mean, one of my favorite NetEnt slots is even called Jack and the Beanstalk.
You will find exactly what you expect. The reels are held in place by the golden harps, a big beanstalk, the giant’s castle and everything set in the clouds.
The game has 6 reels that are between 2 and 7 symbols high during each spin. And also has a top row of symbols above reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. This setup can give a maximum of 117.649 ways per spin.
You will find low paying card symbols and high paying golden symbols like for instance a harp. Then there are scatter symbols, which is the golden goose, on all reels.
Wild symbols, which are the magic beans, can appear on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 only. As is the same for special golden eggs, which are explained below.
Golden Goose Megaways comes with a extremely high maximum payout of 150.335 times your bet and is a high volatile slot game.
Max Megaways 2 Features
Cloud Prizes and Bonus Boy
Reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 have a cloud floating above them. Which will start with a cash prize of 2x bet. Golden Eggs appear on the same 4 reels and when one or more of these symbols hit, they will increase the value of the cloud with up to 500x.
During any spin, Bonus Boy, which is of course Jack, can appear and run across the top of the reels. He then can also randomly collect a cloud and its value and can even multiply this by up to x10 (this multiplier can only appear during the base spins).
Once a cloud is collected it’s value is set back to zero.
Free Spins Feature
3 scatter symbols will award 10 free spins. Any extra scatter above the initial three will add 5 more free spins.
Cloud Prizes are carried over to the free spins feature.
During free spins a general multiplier is now active. Each time the Bonus Buy runs across the screen, if he collects clouds or not, it will increase the multiplier by x1.
Any clouds collected are now multiplied by the general multiplier. During free spins more than one cloud can be collected when he appears.
3 scatter symbols during free spins will add 5 more free spins and 5 extra for any scatter above the initial 3.
Bonus Buy
Some casinos will offer the option to buy the free spins feature for 80x bet. This will award 10 free spins.
Win Exchange
The game also comes with something they all Win Exchange. If you win 80x or more your bet during a base spin, you can trade this for 10 free spins. If you win between 25x and 80x your bet, you can gamble the win for a chance to win 10 free spins or lose it.
Verdict
To be honest, Golden Goose Megaways feels a lot like other slots they have released, like for instance Gifts of Fortune or Over the Moon. Sure the way added prizes are collected or accumulated is a little different, the basics are pretty much the same.
The mechanisms work very well and make sense with the theme. I do however find these games very random. The Bonus Boy comes and collects when he wants, at random. And sometimes, especially during free spins, it can become very frustrating when he just keeps running across, increasing the multiplier, but never collect a cloud.
But then, on the other hand, the game can pay out huge. I have already seen a 500 times bet cloud be collected during free spins. And you could have a big multiplier ready. No wonder this game can pay over 150.000 times bet.
Overall it’s just another solid Big Time Gaming which huge win potential. But not the most innovating one.
Let me know what you think about Golden Goose Megaways in the comments below.
