If there is one conquistador who needs little introduction is the morion hatted explorer Gonzo. This cheerful chap burst on🌜 the scene in 2013 in Gonzo's Quest, one of the finest combinations of features, charm, and playability NetEnt has ever🌜 produced and is still popular to this very day. It is dated, of course, as most eight-year-old games on any🌜 platform are. However, a Megaways reboot in 2024 by Red Tiger was like a modernising adrenal shot right in the🌜 heart of the franchise which was also followed up by a live casino game titled Gonzo's Treasure Hunt. Now we🌜 have Gonzo's Gold from NetEnt themselves, which breaks with tradition. Gonzo's Gold is a cluster pays slot, without a cascade/reaction🌜 mechanic, that climaxes in a symbol expansion feature during free spins.

Gonzo's Gold may be played on tablets, mobile devices, or🌜 desktops and provides a wide range of stakes from 10 p/c toR$/€200 per spin. It's not as volatile as you🌜 might think, the math model garnering a medium rating. Winning clusters are formed when three premium or four low pay🌜 symbols land adjacent to each other, vertically or horizontally. 10 to ace card ranks are the lower value symbols, while🌜 the high pays are three mask icons and Gonzo as the top paying symbol. When landing clusters of 20 matching🌜 symbols or more, things start to get interesting, maxing out at 750 to 5,000 times the stake for a full🌜 grid of 25 premium symbols. Interestingly, Gonzo's Gold makes do without wild symbols or cascading pay systems.

The best chance of🌜 striking gold in the game is when at least 3 temple scatter symbols land to trigger the bonus round. Landing🌜 3, 4, or 5 of them in the base game awards 10 free spins plus a payout of 2, 20,🌜 or 200 times the bet.

Like Play'n GO's Dr Toonz slot, players are sure to fire up Gonzo's Gold because, hey,🌜 it's Gonzo, right? Yet, without the word 'Gonzo' in the title, it would be easy to scroll past Gonzo's Gold🌜 in a line-up. The rest of the game, for the most part, doesn't live up to expectations or do the🌜 series justice. It was always a bit of a risk turning Gonzo into a cluster pays slot, so NetEnt deserves🌜 a few cool points for being brave. The removal of the cascading win system, which features so large in previous🌜 Gonzo slots, is either brave or a misstep, though. Without cascades, it does feel a bit wrong. So does, pushing🌜 Gonzo so far into the background as to be almost non-existent. Like we said, without the name (and the familiar🌜 face on the top premium), it would be hard to differentiate this as a Gonzo slot from the mass of🌜 other Aztec themed games. The idea here was likely to turn classic 'book of' style gaming into a cluster pays🌜 slot.