Rome: The Golden Age slot is 5 reels and 20 paylines, powered by Net Entertainment software that is taking you on a trip through the history lessons all the way over to one of the greatest empires and biggest civilizations of all times – the age of ancient Rome. This is one of the civilizations that had the biggest impact on the humankind evolution and has left the legacy present even nowadays. Should you decide you want to see what the golden age of this ancient civilization looks like, you can do that here for free or visit any of the NetEnt Casinos to play for real.
How to Play Rome: The Golden Age Slot
Set your bets and travel back in time where you will get to enjoy the beauty of Roman Empire.
- Choose Coin Stack button to set your bet level.
- Reels will start moving the moment you hit Spin button.
- Stop can get reels to a halt when you choose to make them stop instead of waiting them to reach the stopping point themselves.
- Autoplay opens up a panel where you can choose the number of automated spins.
- Fast Forward will spin the reels way faster than usual.
Slot Features
It’s all about the Gold, and according to that, the Golden Age symbol, Rome, Wild are your key symbols in the game, so let’s disassemble this in bits to get a better picture.
Wild
Wild symbol can sub in for all the symbols in the game except the Scatter, the Golden Age and the Rome symbols. The Wild will sub in the symbols when there is a chance to form a win combo of course.
Frames
When the Golden Age symbol hits the reels, its position will be marked with a Frame, and you might sometimes see that symbol randomly turn into a Rome symbol. If a Rome symbols is framed, then it will turn into Wild on the next spin, and all the adjacent positions with Frames will also turn Wild as well as the positions next to them. This can go on up to 5 times. All Frames and Active Frames do not disappear until they either turn Wild or trigger the Free Spins round.
Free Spins
Hit 3 Scatter symbols that can land on reels 2, 3 and 4, and you will get yourself into the Free Spins round with initiating number of spins totalling 3. During the Free Spins round, each position except the locked ones, will spin individually, and only Rome symbols are expected to land the grid.
All positions with Frames and Active Frames that did not turn Wild during the Free Spins triggering round will become locked and stick the reels awarding a random prize between x0.5 and x50 the bet at the end of Free Spins round.
During the round, Rome symbol can land on any unlocked position awarding a prize between x0.5 and x50 the bet, which will then reset the Spins counter back to 3. Once the round ends, all prizes will get multiplied by the Free Spins Multiplier that has been collected in the main game. The round ends when the spins counter reaches 0.
Free Spins Multiplier
During the base game, each Golden Age symbol that lands on a position without a Frame or an Active Frame, you will get 1 point credited to the progress bar. Every time the symbol lands on a position with Frame or Active Frame a random number of points ranging between 1 and 4 will get credited to the bar. When you reach 200 point the Free Spins Multiplier will get upgraded progressively, and it can reach up to x1000. With each upgrade, the point bar will reset to 0, and if the Multiplier reaches x1000, no more points will get added to the bar until the Free Spins round is triggered and ended so that the current multiplier can be spent. When the Multiplier gets applied, after the round ends, it will be reset back to x1.
Summary
Rome: The Golden Age has great artwork and design with somewhat unusual reel setup and looks. When it comes to the gameplay, we must say that this slot leaves us with a very different experience, and we loved it. It is put as highly volatile on the scale with maximum wins reaching up to x100000 the bet which makes this one of the heaviest NetEnt slots around. Take the journey and make the best of it.
I think Netent has seen its days. They had their time in the iGaming market where they were very popular. Thinking of the old school slots such as Gonzo Quest, Creature from the black lagoon. Those were the days Netent designed and developed great slots with over x1000 winning potentials, however in today's life, you hardly see anyone play Netent, or post a winner from Netent slots on any of the latest releases.
They recently released Rome: The Golden Age slot, with amazing winning potential of up to x1000 multiplier and winning over 100 000x your total bet. We have seen those winning potentials in Dead or Alive 2, but that is the only slot that is still trending. Just to realize to reach a 1000x multiplier in this new slot Rome – One has to give this slot well over 10 000 – 20 000 spins without any bonus feature in between. Now is that even possible? I don’t think so unless this theory was tested over billions of spins to make this 1000x multiplier conclusion even remotely possible, I don’t know.
Rome: The Golden age is based on a war-type theme set in a battle arena. The game has a base game feature of landing coins to reach different levels and increasing multipliers, which are applied to your next feature. When you collect 200 coins, you get an x2 multiplier, when you reach another 200, you get an x3 multiplier, and so on up to 1000x multiplier.
I took almost 400 spins alone to get to x2 multipliers. The coins land on the reels and make a tile glow with a circle, on any random spin, the feature is active and all those tiles and adjacent tiles become wild provided they connect for biggish wins. I say biggish as the paytable is not so great, as the free spins have nothing to do with the paytable.
Landing 3 scatter symbols on reels 2, 3, and 4 will enter the bonus feature. The bonus feature is pretty straightforward. It plays like Money train without the extra features. Just a coin re-spin and values are awarded. The counter resets, every time a new coin lands on the reels. Once no more coins land, the feature ends.
The multiplier accumulated through the base game multiplies the total win, now I can understand how lucrative that 1000x multiplier would be. However, you need to bring a lot of cash to the table first and at least enjoy 2 days of spinning to reach that multiplier level.
Not a fan, and not convinced with winning potential! Play at your own risk.