Beat the Beast: Griffin's Gold

Another new online slot called beat the beast: griffins gold, by thunderkick was launched early in the 2020. The game seems nice with beautiful colours and graphics. I really like the theme and the whole mechanics system. The minimum bet is only 0.10 cents which is nice if you are a low roller. Now, when it comes to the game, the things are pretty much simple. There is only a free spins bonus game feature which can be triggered with 3 wild scatters. You are given free spins and the whole point of it is to bring a wild in the start. The max wilds that can be given are 3 wilds which will be walking wilds around the reels and everytime you will be connecting winning lines the wilds will turn into multiplying wilds as well and 1 additional free spin everytime. So as you can imagine, the bonus game is pretty amazing if you manage to bring all the 3 wilds. But to be honest even with the 2 wilds, you can get big wins. From my personal experience while playing this particular slot, I have some good positive feedback. First of all, usually the bonus game gives average to good overall wins. So no zero winnings from my personal experience. Also, I would like to point out that I feel like the game plays way better an autoplay mode.

Of course while playing this particular game, I observed some negatives things. Now, the first thing I encountered was the raw empty rounds phenomenon which can appear pretty easily in this game. Another thing I would like to mention is the fact that if this game is cold from the start, triggering the bonus would require hundreds of spins or even thousands and honestly it can demolish your balance in a very extreme and fast way. So to sum it upbeat the beast: griffins gold, is a great game to play but with some precautions.

I should probably rate this Game of Griffin a little higher, considering the sheer 22,000x potential of the slot - on paper that is. But I've had a serious fallout with this one, as it has given me bonus after bonus with really shitty payouts.

So I consider this one pretty nerfed already, like Thunderkick slots have a nasty tendency to get a short while after introduction. Honeymoon is definitely over, and it was a pretty short one too...

I've seen streamers hit big on this slot time and time again, getting the bonus easy and landing those juicy 700x-1200x wins, while droning "OMG, OMG, OMFG" ad lib like an annoying broken record. Hideous scenes, considering the sad reality for most normal punters.

No more of this Griffin's Mold for a loooong time, I reckon. I like Mighty Sphinx or Quetzalcoatl´s Trial a lot more, if we're talking Beat The Beast-themed slots.

Bonus is hard or even impossible to get, and payouts are usually somewhat poor. My best bonus 'til now was a staggering 62x, latest 3 were 9x, 13x and 43x respectively.

Beat the Beast: Griffin’s Gold has the biggest winning potential of any of the slots in this series. Offering players a top win of 22,222x, what's more, roaming wilds offer an extra level of excitement during the free spins round. It’s also pretty easy to retrigger the free spins bonus since your roaming wilds come around often enough that you’re very likely to have two or more involved in a win. Paired with high volatility, this can make the base game a little bit of a drag since the big wins are reserved for the free spins round.

Beat The Beast: Griffin’s Gold features a unique art style that features fierce characters from mythological tales. The reels are set in a decaying ruin amidst blue stakes with various motifs representing the beast’s tale like harps, feathers, and bows. Like all of the other games in the series, this too is a beautifully designed slot.

The pay symbols start at the low end with the card royals from 10 to A, awarding 10x to 15x your bet for a single five of a kind. They are followed by crossbows, eagle feathers, harps, griffin statuettes, and the mighty griffin itself. Hit five on a line to win 20x to 150x your stake. The griffin emblem serves in a dual function as a wild and scatters symbol, substituting for all pay symbols and also yielding 150x stakes when five land across the reels.

Landing three of the Griffin symbols on the reels triggers the free spins round. You’ll get 10 free spins where a roaming wild is added to the reels. Whenever the roaming wild appears on the reels, it not only substitutes for other symbols but remains on the screen for the entire round, but it moves position on each spin. Whenever a roaming wild is included in a winning combination, its multiplier will increase and extra free spins will be awarded. The wild multiplier values are also added together if more than one appears on the reels. You can get up to x125 multiplier if you managed to get 3 wilds with x5 multipliers assigned to them.

I simply love this slot and had some good hits, to be honest. I however get frustrated at times where this machine pays x5 during the feature when it took almost 500 spins to trigger the feature in the first place. I think this slot is best of all of the Beat the Beast series.