Emperor’s Gold Slots
Emperor’s Gold is part of the Big Bet series of slots from Barcrest, with its 5 reels and 10 paylines, you can experience an oriental theme from as little as 0.10 a spin. High rollers can win some serious amounts of cash when they stake up to a maximum of 500.00 a spin. Other slot machines from the Big Bet series include the popular Rainbow Riches Reels of Gold. Players can choose to spin the reels as normal or opt for the bargain packages on offer – these allow you to receive additional benefits at a set cost.
Travel across Asia and take in the popular cultures and traditions as you spin the reels, where you will encounter free spins, wilds, expanding wilds, multipliers, scatters and a non-progressive jackpot of 60x your stake.
Luck Is the Theme
As you’d probably expect from an oriental inspired slot machine, the colour red makes a prominent appearance. Surrounding the reels you will find different shades of reds that look like a glowing sky at night. Red is commonly used as it’s a symbol of luck in Asia and will deter evil spirits away. The five reels are placed centrally and are encased in red and gold – the other colours come from the very vibrant symbols on the reels, these are; card values of J, Q, K and A as well as pandas, tigers, dragon, Asian element, temple, lantern, emperor and empress.
There are a lot of buttons to the lower of the screen – this is the control panel which allows you to view the paytable, adjust your bet, activate the auto play feature, set the Big Bet options and keep track of your bankroll and any wins.
Golden Touch
Your stake can be multiplied by a maximum of 60x – this is awarded when five of a kind of the emperor symbols fall as a payline. Those playing minimum stakes of 0.10 a spin will receive a 6.00 jackpot whilst those playing high rolling stakes of 500.00 a spin will win 30,000 – so it pays to bet per spin.
Aside from the emperor, the other high value symbols include the empress with 40x your stake, tiger with 30x your stake, panda with 25x your stake and the temple with 20x your stake.
Complex Features
You certainly won’t find the biggest selection of slot bonuses on offer via Emperor’s Gold slot machine, but what you do get is a handful of features that give more than you’d expect. Firstly, you have the Big Bet feature – this allows you to choose one of the following packages for better value for money:
- 20.00 will give you 5 Big Bet spins with expands and persists
- 30.00 will give you 5 Big Bet spins with Super Bonus Trail with expands and persists
- 50.00 awards 5 Big Bet spins with Mega Bonus Trail with expands and persists
Two symbols stand out from the rest, these are the dragon (which is a wild) and the Asian element (which is a scatter). Dragon wild can be a standard wild, sticky wild and an expanding wild – depending how and when it falls upon the reels. Wild will replace all other symbols bar scatter as the scatter symbol has its own feature.
Three or more scatters will trigger the following free spins:
- 12 free spins for three scatter symbols
- 14 free spins for four scatter symbols
- 20 free spins for five scatter symbols.
During the Big Bet feature, you will trigger free spins by collecting scatters in every spin. As you progress through the trail, you will unlock additional free spins.
Our Verdict
Emperor’s Gold seems like a slot machine that has way too many features that can be complicated to understand, but in fact, it’s a simple slot with free spins and an option to bet in packages. We found the game to be a medium to high variance with wins falling few and far between on the reels. If you bet big, you will need substantial bankroll that can withstand losses for long periods of times.
The Big Bets feature is designed to get you to bet in packages and allows you to think you have more chance of winning this way, but you don’t. The maximum package is 50.00 a go, so those playing high roller 500.00 stakes would be best to stick to the usual gameplay. When we played, our 50.00 Big Bet package only managed to award us a very miserable 1.50.
