Midas Coins

Overview Midas Coins

This online slot created by the Quickspin Studio is based on the story of King Midas, the mythological Greek ruler who is notably remembered for this ability to turn everything that he touched into gold. The desire to turn things to gold and an online slot game has plenty of overlapping thematic cues. However, Quickspin hasn’t just leant on the game’s gimmick to draw players in. Midas Coins also comes with a range of top bonus features and an expertly finished design.

The features for this slot include the All is Gold free spins feature, which awards players 12 free spins. However, as the name suggests this game is mostly about collecting gold coins, plenty of which fall on reels 1 to 4. To collect these shimmering tokens, look out for the King Midas symbol landing on reel 5. This is how you harvest all your good work, collecting all the gold coins on the board. Ancient Greece, the riches of a King and a top payout of 5,000 x your stake awaits all players of this game.

Theme and Symbols

As mentioned in the introduction, this slot is based on the ancient story of King Midas and his gift of being able to turn anything that he touches into gold. If you are interested, he acquired this skill as a gift from the God of pleasure and wine – Dionysus, as a reward for helping the god in a matter concerning the best friend of Dionysus.
Considering the background of this slot, we are greeted with a classical Greek city centre. To the left of the playing window is a columned building which is probably the forum, where members of the public come to debate subjects such as mathematics and philosophy. To the right of the playing window, there is a line of poplar trees which are typical of the Greek region. They lend a splash of colour to an otherwise bland looking background.

The board looks to have been hewn from pure dark grey slate, mirroring the writing tablets of the time in which the game takes place. The detail from the chips and imperfections in the slate to the way the colour dances off the surface, lend it a very realistic quality.

When it comes to symbols for this game the lower-paying symbols are a collection of card royals from A to K, styled to look like Greek lettering. The more valuable symbols comprise a golden pendant, a ring and a bejewelled bracelet. However, the best paying regular symbol is the necklace. This symbol pays 32x your stake for 5 of them on a pay line. The golden relief of a women’s head is the wild symbols for this game. The scatter that triggers the free spins is the Satyr- the joyful bearded man with the golden headgear.

Game Play

Midas Coins is played on a 5-reel, 3-row playing window with 25 pay lines. To score wins in this game, players must land 3 or more matching symbols or special symbols on the reels in a paying formation from left to right. The betting range for Midas Coins is 25p to £100 per spin. To change your current bet level, you can use the tool at the bottom right-hand side of the screen. The spins and auto spins buttons for this game are located on the right-hand side of the reels. For the full menu, including the paytable, players need to click on the three stripes logo on the right-hand side of the screen.

The return to payer percentage for Midas Coins is 96.02%, about average for an online slot game. The volatility for this slot is rated at around the medium level. The top payout for Midas Coins is 5,000 x your total stake.

Features

The first feature you’ll notice for this game concerns the coin symbols that you can see on the board throughout the game. These can land on reels 1 to 4. Some coin symbols come with their own multiplier prize attached to it. These multiplier values range anywhere from 1x to 500x your total stake and can help to improve your take-home rate. However, a lot of the time coins do not have this added value. Landing King Midas on reel 5 collects all the coins on the board and totals their worth and gives you a pay-out equal to this calculation.

The second and more complex feature is the free spins round. For this game it is called the All is Golden Free Spins round. To activate this bonus, players must land 3 of the Satyr symbols on the reels simultaneously on reels 1, 3 and 5. Before the free spins even starts you will be given a payout of 2x your stake.

The free spins round start with 12 free spins. This bonus round comes with an accompanying multiplier. The current multiplier is displayed on a stack of coins to the left of the reels. The base multiplier is 3x your stake. Every time that you land a coin, its numerical value is added to the multiplier. When the King Midas symbol lands on reel 5, this collects all the coins on the reels as it does in the base game.

However, unlike the base game, the coin value doesn’t reset after they are collected, instead, they keep increasing with every collection. Landing additional scatters in the free spins round on the appropriate reels adds more free spins to your total.
There is also a buy feature for this game, but it is not available in the UK.

Conclusion

Like King Midas, it is hoped that players will be overjoyed by their collection of gold throughout this game. Quickspin makes it easy to do this too, with plenty of features and modifiers that help you get to those higher payouts. However, it is the free spins that set this game alight, as things can get a bit flat in the base game.