Pirate Gold

Pragmatic Play invite us on another daring sea adventure in Pirate Gold, a gripping 5x4, 40-payline slot with shades of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Your prize for joining the developer’s band of pillaging buccaneers on the high seas? Abundant multipliers, Free Spins, big jackpots, and even bigger wins!

Design

Graphically, Pirate Gold is one of the better looking Pirate-themed games we’ve come across.

Behind the reel setup is a photorealistic harbour shrouded in mist, where pirate ships bob about and the sun tries its hardest to break through the clouds.

Pragmatic Play have wrapped the slot in an epic cinematic soundtrack, which serves to amplify the drama while drawing further parallels with the smash hit movie franchise.

A total of 10 bright-coloured symbols make up the paytable - all things you would expect to find lying around any stereotypical pirate ship. They consist of a hand formed of a hook - Captain Hook style, a telescope, treasure map, ship, parrot, coins in bronze, silver and gold, and finally, a male and female pirate. Land 5 of either to bank 12.5 times your wager - the most offered in the game except for the wild.

One other thing: did we mention the one-eyed pirate’s uncanny likeness to Captain Jack Sparrow? Yet another nod to the worldwide phenomenon on which this game is styled.

Gameplay and Features

Speaking of the wild, this is represented by the treasure chest, and replaces all regular symbols whenever it appears on reels 2-5.

Catching 3 or more identical symbols adjacently from reel #1 is enough to trigger a payout in Pirate Gold. The big bucks, though, lie behind the game’s pair of lucrative bonus extras explained below.

Free Spins

Catch a trio of compasses in a given spin to earn 10 Free Spins, on top of a payout equal to your stake.

You’ll then be whisked to a separate screen housing a brand new reel set where both pirates sexes turn wild if they show up anywhere between reel #2 and #5. It’s also possible to retrigger Free Spins by landing 3 more scatters, with no upper limit to the number of spins making this a high-potential addition.

Lucky Bag Feature

Money bags may also land on the reels, equipped with either cash values or enticing jackpot prizes. Should you land 8 of these symbols in any one spin, a hold-and-win style feature is unlocked that begins with 3 lives.

All triggering money bags then remain in place, allowing others to land in vacant cells on subsequent spins. Each time you catch a new symbol your tally resets back to 3, but register 3 blanks in a row, and the feature suddenly terminates. Before taking you back to the base game, your eventual prize is totted up and paid out. If multipliers are included in your final haul, these get applied to your win amount and can spell some impressive rewards.

What’s more, Pirate Gold also packs a trio of jackpots up its sleeve. During the round you may land the Minor or Major jackpot, worth 50x or 200x your bet respectively, while filling all 20 positions on the grid will see you rewarded with the Grand Jackpot of 1,000x your stake.

While the three jackpots don’t offer Pirate Gold’s biggest prizes, they nevertheless add a layer of excitement and serve as additional incentive for anyone eyeing up the game.

Volatility

Treading these pirate-infested waters can be a perilous affair given the game’s sky-high volatility. Players should therefore approach the slot with caution and armed with suitable starting bankroll in their quest for riches.

Moreover, its variance score makes the game better suited to players able to withstand the wild swings inherent in these types of games.

One of the game’s undoubted highlights is its max win, which clocks in at a mountainous 32,270x the stake for the luckiest of buccaneers.

The Verdict

Pragmatic Play are a “jack of all trades” kind of developer - one that executes various themes well, without honing in on one specific area. Pirate Gold is a game that continues that trend - sporting excellent visuals and an atmospheric soundtrack that could have been borrowed straight from Hollywood.

Another high point is the game’s huge potential which, at 32,270x your bet, sits among the upper echelons for games in this category. Added to its trio of jackpot prizes in a popular hold-and-win format, Pirate Gold possesses all the ingredients of a classic pirate slot.

Pirate Gold at Wildz Casino

Pirate Gold is among a host of pirate-themed games on offer at Wildz Casino. NetEnt’s exciting 2020 release Rage of the Seas puts a fresh stamp on the theme, while Pirate Kingdom Megaways, a collaboration between Big Time Gaming and Iron Dog Studios, injects a large dose of MegaWays into proceedings.

FAQs

How does a hold-and-win feature work?

Hold-and-win features are a popular bonus extra that typically see you begin with 3 lives. Each time you land a symbol this tally resets back to 3, only concluding once all lives have been used up.

What is the maximum payout in Pirate Gold?

Pirate Gold comes with a max win worth 32,270 times your stake.

Is it possible to try out Pirate Gold for free?

Absolutely. Pirate Gold, along with all other games developed by Pragmatic Play, are offered in free-play demo mode at Wildz Casino.