Golden Glyph 2

Overview Golden Glyph 2

Quickspin’s sequel to their successful Egyptian-themed slot (Golden Glyph) promises to be even better than the original. Golden Glyph 2 still uses a cluster pay dynamic but comes with a host of new features that enrich the gamer’s experience, as well as their money-making potential. As with the previous game, this sequel is based around the fascinating hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptian world. Apart from uncovering the secrets of an entire ancient civilisation, these language runes also serve as the perfect collection of entertaining symbols that make this game both colourful and visually engaging.

If you count modifiers, Golden Glyph 2 has as many as 10 bonus features. As with many cluster-pay slots, Golden Glyph 2 has chosen to incorporate a tumbling reels feature, meaning that players get multiple chances to create winners from one spin. There are also the Power Glyph Power-Up features which include massive wild symbols, symbol removal and random wild distribution. If this weren’t enough, players also have access to an exciting free spin round that comes with wilds with a progressive multiplier. Lastly, there is a bonus buy feature too, meaning players don’t need to wait around for features to trigger naturally (not available in the UK).

Theme and Symbols

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs are perhaps the most famous ancient language, and certainly the most studied. The meaning of these captivating symbols for many years could not be understood until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone which acted as a key into the language and a catalyst for researchers from across the globe to study it. Players in this game, instead of trying to understand the symbols, simply need to match them in clusters. However, it is riveting to know that behind this game’s symbols is a famous script that unlocked our understanding of the ancient world.

The background for this slot game changes depending on if you are playing the base game or the free spins game. During the base game, the background is the entrance to a tomb in the middle of the desert. On either side of the gameboard, huge obelisks stretch into the sky indicating that this place is of significance to the ancient Egyptian people. However, when you move through into the free spin round, players are taken inside the tomb itself. Here you can see vaulted ceilings, impressive columns and golden sunshine pouring in through the enormous apertures in the walls.

The board is a 7x7 cluster pay board that has been styled to look as though it is one of the ancient tablets on the walls of an ancient Egyptian structure. It is surrounded by sandstone columns and pediments to give it the correct look.
In terms of symbols, Golden Glyph 2 has a range of low-paying, high-paying and special symbols.

The lower paying symbols comprise 4 hieroglyphs that resemble the water, snake, eye and Ankh. The higher paying symbols are the male and female pharaohs. However, the most valuable symbol is the Horus symbol (the Egyptian bird god). The larger the cluster of symbols that you land together, the larger the payout that you will receive. When it comes to specials there is the wild symbol which appears as a golden ‘W’ on the board. Joining the wild is the free spins scatter which is the pyramid symbol. Other bonus symbols will be explained as part of the features section.

Game Play

Golden Glyph 2 is played on a 7x7 cluster pay dynamic playing board. To create winners in this game, players must land clusters of 5 or more aligning symbols together on the reels. The betting range for Golden Glyph 2 is 20p to £100 per spin.
Further information regarding the slot, including a display of the paytable, can be accessed by clicking on the settings menu. The spin button is located on the right-hand side of the reels. You can set up auto spins in the game’s menu.
The volatility for Golden Glyph 2 is rated as remarkably high. The return to player percentage for Golden Glyph 2 is 96.09% which is around average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 26,800 x your total stake. It is worth mentioning that this is almost double the top payout of the previous game.

Features

The first feature players should know about is the tumbling reels feature. This feature is triggered every time that a winner is formed. The winning symbols are removed immediately from the reels and replaced by a new set from above. These new symbols fall into the vacated positions of the old ones and give you another chance at triggering a win. The tumbles will continue to fall until a winning combination is not created.

Next on the features list are the Power Glyph Power-Up bonus modifiers. To trigger one of these bonuses, the player must land a winning cluster that contains within it a Power Glyph symbol which is any symbol with a blue charge on it. The type of power-up bonus that is awarded to you is determined by the symbols in the strip underneath the main playing board grid. These symbols change with every new spin. If multiple power-up symbols are part of a combination, each one is played out in turn. Each of the power-up modifiers is explained below:

Gigantic Wild Power-Up feature: A huge wild is deposited in a random position on the grid.
Golden Scarab Power-Up feature: Between 4 and 11 wilds are added to random positions on the grid.
Patterns of Horus Power-Up features: Symbols are removed in a specific pattern. There are special Cross, Ankh, Bird, Eye, Hourglass and Snake shapes. A new tumble then follows when the symbols have been removed.

Next on the features list for this game is the Golden Free Spin bonus game. To activate this feature players must land 3 of the pyramid scatter symbols on the reel on the same spin. Players are then rewarded with 7 free spins. On the first of these spins, a Golden Glyph wild is placed onto the grid. This symbol remains in play for the duration of the feature but will change position with every fresh spin.

The Golden Glyph symbol is important as not only is it wild, meaning it can help create combinations, it also has an attached progressive multiplier. Its multiplier starts at a value of 1x but it increases by 1x for every winning combination that it is part of. The largest size it can grow to is 50x.

It is also possible to land more than one of these symbols in the feature. A maximum of 4 can be at play at any time. If you manage to land a Golden Glyph power-up with all 4 of these symbols in play, you will be awarded an extra free spin to add to your tally.
Golden Glyph multipliers when part of the same combination have their values added together. For example, if one symbol has a 2x multiplier attached to it and another has a 5x attached, when part of the same combination, the multiplier applied to that win would be 7x. Landing an additional 3 scatters in the free spins round will grant you another 5 free spins.
Lastly, this game has a buy feature, which gives you access to various bonus feature levels in exchange for a one-off payment. Sadly, this feature is not available in the UK.

Conclusion

Golden Glyph 2 is one of those rare games that has succeeded in overshadowing its predecessor. It not only has a wider range of features but a top payout that makes the previous game’s maximum reward seem paltry in comparison. The only slight concession is that the RTP isn’t quite as good as the previous game. Yet the margin is so small it should not make too much difference when comparing how the games pay out.