The Golden Sail Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

The Golden Sail Review

The gently rocking pirate brig has anchored up outside a mysterious island for the night, and the stage is set for powerful and volatile buccaneer action. Silverback Gaming is a promising new developer, and The Golden Sail slot is published on Relax Gaming’s Silver Bullet platform. You get a full deck of extras in this game, and all the features stick out with their unusually high potential.

Players looking for innovation will not find too much of that here, as all the features are well known classics in the industry. You will find varied and unpredictable gameplay however, where all the features come with decent guaranteed minimum payouts. The reels are set on the stern, and up on the helm - below the golden sail - you’ll find the all-important ship’s Wheel of Fortune.

The Golden Sail Slot Features

The cannonball/bomb wild is the most valuable symbol in this game (offering 12.5x for 5 on a payline), and it also steps in for all regular pay symbols. The key to the most important features in this game is the Wheel symbol, and you’ll need 3 on reels 1, 3 and 5 to trigger the Bonus Wheel Spin.

You click the red button in the middle to get it started, and you can win 50x instant cash prizes, free spins, a trail bonus game or a pick’em bonus game. The Pick’em game is the simplest feature, and you will choose from 3 treasure chests to reveal prizes up to 5,000x your stake.

The Trail Bonus plays out on a big treasure map, where you get to pick from a line-up of 6 coins. The coin you pick will reveal a number between 1 and 6, and you then advance the corresponding amount on the multiplier trail. The multiplier values start at 17x on the first step, and there are around 30 steps up to the grand prize of 10,000x your stake.

The multipliers usually increase the further you go, but there are a few exceptions in the middle of the trail. You need a +Again to come up on the coin after the number has been revealed, otherwise your feature ends after the next advancement. You then get the whatever multiplier you ended up on.

If you land on the free spins segment on the Big Wheel, you first get an instant 20x win.

Non-UK players can take advantage of the Bonus Buy feature, and this will set you back 85x your stake. You are then guaranteed 3 wheel symbols on the next spin, which gives you a spin on the Big Bonus Wheel. This also raises the RTP slightly, from 95 % to 95.25 %.

The 200 Spins The Golden Sail Slot Experience

We grinded along for a while in the base game, but landing 3 wheel symbols was not all that easy. We therefore decided to buy the Big Wheel spin, and we got the Trail Bonus first. You can see this at 1:25 into the 5-minute highlights video, and we trigger the bonus round the same way at 3:58.

Review Summary

The Golden Sail is a perfect demonstration of how a solid math model goes a long way. It’s very rare to see a Pick’em Bonus Game where you can win up to 5,000x your stake. In fact, many similar features in other games come with a max payout that’s closer to the minimum of 100x you’ll always get away with here.

The progressive multiplier in the bonus round can deliver solid payouts too, not least if you get some extra spins along the way to further increase the spin multiplier. Visually, The Golden Sail is not super impressive, but the rocking stern of the ship gets the job done. Silverback Gaming has not “reinvented the reel” here by any means, but instead cleverly improved upon feature potentials in a way that’s bound to make some waves.

Pros

• Win between 100x and 5,000x in the Pick’em Bonus
• Win up to 10,000x in the Treasure Map Multiplier Trail
• Bonus round with increasing spin multiplier and extra spins

Cons

• RTP of 95 % is well below the industry average

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