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Golden Elixir Review

Half Pixel Studio has no trouble conjuring up a decent visual experience, but they’re still playing it very safe in the feature department. This is understandable for a budding developer perhaps, but it’s hard to make waves this way. Golden Elixir is set in a typical alchemist chamber, although somewhat sparsely decorated, and you get magic potions on the grid as well as lit candles and skulls in the foreground.

The gameplay is super simple, and hardly very original, but you can land up to 2,400x your stake from a single base game spin. This is more likely to happen if you trigger the random Enchanted Wild Stacks feature. It comes about on a regular basis in the base game, and you get it on every single bonus round spin. Nothing new to see here perhaps, but still a decent shelf-filler that might intrigue newcomers and casual punters.

Golden Elixir Slot - Reels Screen

Golden Elixir Slot Features

You win by landing 3 to 5 matching symbols anywhere on adjacent reels from the uttermost left to the right, and the 4 premium elixir symbols pay between 4 and 10 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins. The silver ‘W’ wild symbol steps in for all regular pay symbols to help create wins, and wilds are stacked on the 3 middle reels. Wilds hold no value of their own, just to be clear.

The Enchanted Wild Stacks feature can trigger at random times in the base game, and you will then see 1, 2 or 3 of the middle reels be highlighted. So-called Super Stacked Wilds will then appear on the highlighted reels, which means they will most likely fill the entire reel, but not necessarily.

Scatter ‘Free Spins’ symbols land on the 3 middle reels in the base game only, and they come with the numbers 2, 3 or 5 attached. You need 3 in view to trigger the Bonus Round, and you get the summed up number of free spins, as indicated by the triggering scatters. You will thus get between 6 and 15 free spins, and the Enchanted Wild Stacks feature triggers on every bonus round spin.

The 200 Spins Golden Elixir Slot Experience

We weren’t too impressed by Golden Elixir to be brutally honest, but we’ve still taken the time to create a 200 spins highlight video. This gives you a decent overview of what to expect from this game, and can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

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Review Summary

Our sense is that Half Pixel Studio needs to come out of their shell, and start doing something more unique if they want to be noticed. Their initial “warm up” releases are decent enough, but the lack of originality leaves no lasting impression. Golden Elixir is more of a visual cliché than the 2 previous releases from the Microgaming partner, but overall the alchemist/magic audiovisual presentation is decent enough.

The Enchanted Wild Stacks feature was a bit confusing to be honest, as an enchanted reel would not always guarantee a full wild reel. Either way, it’s a very standard stacked wilds feature, which can turn all 3 middle reels wild at best. You get 1-3 enchanted wild reels on each bonus round spin, and you can crack the 2,400x potential from a single spin. The math model is about as mediocre as the rest of the game, so this is hardly breakthrough material.

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The Magic Cauldron: Enchanted Brew - is a cluster pays engine alchemy slot with a 7x7 grid, and this Pragmatic Play release comes with cascading wins that can trigger up to 5 unique modifiers. The final modifier is chosen randomly from 2 different options, and the max win is 5,000x your stake.

Beriched - is a spooky voodoo-inspired slot from Red Tiger, and it comes with 5x4 reels and 20 win ways. Special bottom row recipe symbols can lead to sticky matching symbols and wilds in the base game, and this is all enhanced in the bonus round. You can win up to 2,500x your stake.