Real Time Gaming, long a titan of online slot gaming, chooses as simple Asian animal theme for its latest release, Panda’s Gold.
Bright creatures of every color appear here, with panda wild symbols combining in the bonus feature for win multipliers as high as 40x.
Theme
Despite the full menagerie on display on the reels, this slot is set not in a busy zoo, but in a serene outdoor space. A koi pond with calm green waters moves gently below the reels, while pagoda rooftops and a blue sky reign above. Plucked strings and wooden flute tones invoke a traditional Asian sound aesthetic that complements the visual design quite well.
Gaming symbols include multicolored ducks, peacocks, koi, pagodas, and lotus blossoms, as well as the playing card values ace through nine. Pandas act as wild, appearing on the middle three lines only, while a “fortune” symbol acts as scatter.
Betting Options and Functions
RTG’s experienced design team keeps things simple and clean in Panda’s Gold. There are 88 fixed paylines (88 being an auspicious number in the Chinese tradition) for a 50 line bet. Line bet is adjustable from 0.01– 5.00 for an overall per-spin betting range of 0.50–250.00 times the betting currency. Autoplay is available for exactly 50 spins at a time, while detailed payline information, game rules, options, and sound controls are available on separate menus. Some sources claim this slot has an RTP above 96%, but the designer’s do not offer this information up of their own accord.
Features
The appearance of three or more scatters on the reels triggers the bonus feature. In fact, if three or four scatters appear, one free re-spin is awarded (with those scatters remaining in place) to try to improve to a total of five scatters on the reels.
There are three varieties of bonus features here, all of which offer eight free spins. Three scatter symbols trigger the prosperity free game, where a 3x multiplier is applied to all wild wins; Four scatters award the wealth free game, where wild wins receive an 8x win multiplier; while five scatter symbols begin fortune free games, where all wins receive a 5x win multiplier and wild wins receive a further 8x multiplier, for a total of 40x win multiplier in wild wins.
Our Take
A gaming behemoth like RTG does more than release big, flashy, innovative titles: they also offer simple, reliable gaming. Panda’s Gold falls into this latter category… it’s not likely to be any player’s all-time favorite slot, but its pleasures are plenty and gameplay is smooth.
T-Rex, an excellent, dinosaur-themed slot from this designer, shows this company’s broad range.
Video Slot game data and features
- 5Reels
- 88Pay lines
- $888.00Max cash jackpot
- YesWild Symbol
- YesMultiplier
- $0.5 - $50Betting Range
- 0.01 - 1.0Coin bet range
- 1Coins per line
- NoProgressive
- 888Max coins jackpot
- 88Max coins
- YesScatter Symbol
- YesFree spins available
- NoBonus Game
- NoBuy feature
- Asian Game theme
