Silverback Gold Slot Machine – Free Play & Review

We’re taking a trip into the middle of the jungle with NetEnt’s latest slot machine, Silverback Gold. It’s considered a sequel to another game of theirs, Gorilla Kingdom. We’re seeing the jungle in the background image, filled with vines and crowded trees, just the sort of place where you’d expect predators to come out from.

And you do see a number of predators on its reels, though not always. The symbols shown range from the image of the Silverback Gorilla, regular or golden variants included, along with Crocodiles, Cougars, Snakes, and Birds. They do make use of several Royals as well, 9 to A, but even those tend to look good. A Golden Shield serves as its scatter, while the Sunset is the wild.

Developer

A top 3 developer in the online gaming industry, NetEnt has a long history of creating excellent slot machines, going back to the mid 90s. They’ve been around since the early days of the online gambling industry, and they’ve built their reputation with some of the best games around. You pretty much always find great designs in their slots, and this is true even today, in games like Silverback Gold.

How To Play It

Use the Bet button, to open up a list of available wagers. The range that they have is between $0.10 and $100.

5×4 reels are available, a large enough game area that you end up with 1024 ways to win. All potential combinations are covered, provided that you land matching symbols on 3 or more reels, going left to right.

Special Features

The Sunset Wild is going to be the substitute that you get to use during paid spins. A multiplier version of it will be used for the free spins, but more on that below. All versions of the wild will be used in the formation of new combinations, since they act as replacements for the regular symbols. You can’t get them to do the same for scatters.

Randomly, while playing the game, you may get a Silverback Attack. This feature will add up to 60 symbols with the Silverback on the slot’s reels. During free games, this can add Golden Silverbacks instead.

Shield Scatters will take you into the free spins mode. 3 to 5 Shields will trigger 10 to 20 free spins, along with a respin feature.

Before you can try our luck during the free spins, there is a respin feature that goes first. It’s borrowing from the Hold & Win genre, so you get 3 respins to go through, in an attempt to land more money symbols. If that happens, you reset the respins and you have 3 more rounds. When you run out of tokens, or when you have 300 tokens, you get into a bonus game that allows you to use tokens in order to upgrade animal symbols to top paying symbols (Silverbacks). These upgraded symbols will be used during free spins.

You get 2x and 3x multiplier wilds during the free spins, along with the higher paying Golden Silverbacks (8x the stake per line).

Maximum Payouts

The potential of Silverback Gold is impressive, and you will find that the slot can pay up to 45,000x the stake. That’s quite a bit better than the average top prize you see even today, with all these other high volatility slots that keep launching.

The slot’s RTP varies, but the top value available is 96.10%.

Summary

Silverback Gold should be a pretty good option for any experienced player, as a high volatility slot that can prove punishing, but which also has excellent potential to pay the player well.