The Golden Sail

The Golden Sail slot REVIEW

The Golden Sail ReviewThe 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 Reel Screen

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. You will always win at least 100x your stake when the Pick’em bonus is triggered.

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. Then the bonus round starts with 10 free spins, and the progressive spin multiplier that starts at 1x. The multiplier increases with +1 for each spin, and landing a scatter gives you 2 extra free spins added to your tally.

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. A Multiplier Trail with cash prizes up to 10,000x is also somewhat of a rarity.

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.

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Jolly Roger 2 - is a Play’n Go pirate slot bursting with bonus features. The compass feature comes with multipliers up to 10x, and you have 4 bonus quest features here too, as well as a bonus round. In the latter you take on the government armadas, and you’ll benefit from wilds, synced reels and multipliers that can lead to 5,000x payouts.

Rage of the Seas - is a powerful NetEnt buccaneer slot, and it comes with 5 reels and 1,024 win ways. There are plenty of features to look forward to here too, including stacked wilds, spreading wilds, multipliers and free spins. You can even expand the reels for wins up to 27,440x your stake.

Pirates Bounty Megaways - is a Blueprint pirate adventure with up to 117,649 ways to win. You will benefit from cascading reels, as well as mystery symbols in the base game. A Bounty Wheel offers multiplier prizes, and the bonus round comes with payouts up to 10,000x.

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The Golden Sail Slot FAQs

What is the RTP of The Golden Sail?

The game’s Return to Player of 95 % is below average, but it increases to 95.25 % if you buy the bonus wheel feature (not for UK players).

How volatile is The Golden Sail?

The volatility is high in this game, and you’re definitely in for a bumpy sea voyage.

What is the biggest win possible?

You can win up to 10,000x in the Multiplier Trail, and this is also the game’s max win potential. Payouts up to that amount is also possible in the bonus round, while the Pick’em Game offers a 5,000x max win. The no-multiplier single spin max win is 400x your stake.

How does the Big Wheel feature work?

You trigger it by landing 3 wheel scatters, and this gives you a spin on a Wheel of Fortune. Here you can trigger a 50x instant win, a Pick’em Game, a Multiplier Trail or the Free Spins Round.

Is there a free spins mode in The Golden Sail?

Yes, it comes with 10 free spins for starters, and the multiplier increases with +1 for each spin. Indefinite extra spins can be added via the +2 scatters.

Can I play The Golden Sail slot for free?

Yes, you can always test the free The Golden Sail demo game at the very top of this page (UK players must verify age first). You’ll also find casinos that carry this game up there, something our daily scan has confirmed.