Arena of Gold Online Slot Machine – Free Play & Review

Getting back to Ancient Rome, and taking the action to the Colosseum and its gladiator battles, Arena of Gold is a very well designed slot machine. It features the arena and the crowds of Romans in the background image, while the reels in the front have a simple purple background and the various symbols.

Some symbols are looking better than others, with the basic colored Royals being the ones less appealing. High value symbols will include the Colosseum scatter, Emperor wilds, Gold Coin scatters and four gladiators (in red, green, blue or brown).

Developer

The company that designed Arena of Gold is All41 Studios, a young partner studio that has created several exclusive titles for Microgaming in the past. Microgaming has several such companies under its wing, which create exclusive content for their platform, and the quality is generally quite high.

How To Play It

Though it presents you with 25 active lines on its 5 reels, Arena of Gold will have very small wagering requirements, going as low as $0.10 to get the reels spinning with all lines used. There is the possibility of taking the wager up a notch or two, with a cap being set at $50 per spin.

As you’re forming your winning combinations with the help of 25 active lines, the game introduces big symbols, free spins or re-spins, but none of these are entirely unique. They are interesting however, and once you’ve clicked on the Spin button, you’re likely to enjoy the gorgeous graphics and the features which were added to the game.

Special Features

A Roman emperor will be the game’s wild element. As a substitute, this symbol will help out with all types of combinations, assisting in their formation. On its own, the wild can pay you as much as the jackpot symbol, if several such icons form a combo directly.

Should the Colosseum scatter appear three times on the reels, you get 5 free spins. In this mode, the reels 2, 3 and 4 are united into a single giant one, which has only 3×3 symbols showing up on it. There is a possibility to retrigger the free spins as well, provided that you get the same set of three scatters again (one of them will be a giant symbol).

A feature called Golden Re-Spins, can trigger if the player gets 6 or more coins to show up in view. Fairly common as a feature these days, it will keep the triggering coins sticky, while during the upcoming re-spins you get on the reels only coins or blank spaces. The aim is to keep getting new coins, so that they too can be locked. Re-spins keep resetting if you continue to get new coins. Once no new coins come, and the re-spins are consumed, you get paid. Fill all 15 positions to receive the Maxi Jackpot (1,000x the stake), or get various other payouts, including the Mega and Mini fixed jackpots.

Maximum Payouts

Expect to find a slot machine with payouts of up to 2,400x the stake, which has Medium volatility. Rewards of 120,000 are going to be the highest that this slot will deliver.

As for the kind of return that the player can expect, the long-term figures are calculated with a 96.20% RTP. At the same time, a hit frequency of 28.28% is announced, which is acceptable for a game with this kind of volatility.

Summary

Arena of Gold is not proposing any new and terribly interesting features, but looking at its RTP, volatility and rewards, it does well enough to be a middle of the road kind of slot machine. It should be enjoyable enough if you gave it a chance, though I expect it will be soon forgotten.