Versailles Gold Slot

"Versailles Gold" is another of the slots created by "Euro Games Technology - EGT" that despite being something simple, shows some facet interesting enough to generate strong attraction for some groups of gamblers, in this case, this attraction is concentrated in the qualities of its free spins round and the high potential for generating big profits you have because of them.

As in the vast majority of EGT slots, this slot has an elegant design and progressive jackpot feature located above the reels. The layout is 5 x 3 reels and it has only 10 paylines, which tacitly implies that hitting average tends to be rather low. The paytable also shows not so decent rates, mainly for combinations equal or less than 4 of a kind, the exception here would be symbols of the king and maybe the queen.

For me, one of the greatest successes of EGT at the time of the creation of the concept of this slot is to have united the functions of wild and scatter in just a single symbol, identified with the image of a gold medallion, that is substitute for standard symbols and 3+ of them trigger 12 free spins round set for this game, so you will not see scatters symbols hindering the formation of lines, which would contribute to lowering hitting average even more.

During the aforementioned free round, we will have the opportunity to have an expandable symbol, which will be designated randomly before the start of free spins; the dynamics of this symbol is that each time it appears on the reels first normal combinations are paid and then, if they are the minimum number of horizontal symbols to match a combination, the symbol expands throughout the reel where it occurred and thus payouts are generated regardless of whether the reels are adjacent or not, and considering that symbols are currently stacked, the potential of this feature is huge. Once I got a combination of symbols of the clergy dressed in red, which I guess is the Pope of the time, one for each reel and the result was a grid of 5 x 3 all covered with the same symbol and the payout was just a tremendous big win; other sessions have not been so lucky and my results have been appalling, in any case, I think it is worth to test it and try luck on this slot.

With this very beautiful slot we can take a little time travelling back to the 17. century when Louis XIV reigned. The slot perfectly illustrates the atmosphere of then period and the well-known famous characters like the Sun King, Cardinal Richelieu or Queen and fortunately the game does it with very high quality graphics. The symbols are decorated in very classy way and even the deck elements got attractive and stylish pictorial elements so the overall effect of the appearance is very impressive and even though there are lot of motives on the screen the slot can save its simplicity and doesn't turn an over-done product.

For such royal and elegant appearance, great game functions and features would be very well fitting and I think the creators would have thought it the same way even if we’re speaking of just a 10-payline slot. Versailles Gold has some very decent quality but none of them are eye-popping. First of all the maximum that can be won here by the help of a 5 of a kind win is a solid 5.000 times of line bet prize which can be considered a real average top prize of a game like this. Strangely, the Sun emblem is the only one that has secondary function and this figure even got 2 of them and basically it acts as a Wild and a Scatter at the same time. It also has paying functionality which maximum potential is 2500 coins but when it’s substituting it doesn't do anything with the wins as it hasn't got any win multiplying ability.

3 or more of them anywhere on the screen reward 12 free spins but before that extra session starts a randomly chosen symbol is determined to be an Expanding Wild during the bonus. Fortunately the ‘normal’ Wild is still intact there so we play that spins with great chance to get many Wilds on the table. Perhaps, it’s needless to say that there’s no any win multiplier involved there so the success of the free spins really depends on the frequency of the appearance of the substituting symbols. The slot also offers a traditionally working Gambling features that players may or may not love to use often but I think this is a solid feature at Euro Games and seems that it works by correct rules.

All in all, Versailles Gold is a rock solid video slot in every detail and even if it doesn’t possess all the caliber which are needed to be considered as a real good game but it definitely can offer in respectable quality what is needed to be a reliable partner where not just the pleasant environment is guaranteed but a correct rewarding system and a simple but working feature series wait for us. In my book this game is a fine example of a mediocre game which I don’t mind if I play with and if the luck on my side spend an extended time occasionally.