Finns Golden Tavern review

The sequel to NetEnt’s swirling, cluster-pays Irish slot from 2017, comes with cascading wins, free spins and wilds. A unique game format with a low variance and modest potential.

RATING:  8.2

GAME PROFILE

Supplier

NetEnt

Release Date

12/2019

RTP

96.1%

Variance

Low

Payout Potential

1,000x +

Stakes

10p to £500

Reels

5

Rows

5

Features

Cluster Pays, Cascading Wins, Free Spins, Fist Slam, Random Coin

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OUR RATINGS

Design

9

Gameplay

8

Features & Bonus

8

Value

8

Overall Score

8.2

WHAT WE LIKE

Cluster pays mechanic with avalanches
Unique swirling spins format
Casual, low variance fun
Cool features

WHAT WE DON'T LIKE

ABOUT THIS SLOT

In 2017 NetEnt released that rarest of things, a new slot with a genuinely unique game format. They also introduced us to Finn, an Irish flautist with a cheeky grin – a new take on the oft-seen slot leprechaun! In the Swirly spin, all the symbols moved clockwise around a central point of a 5×5 grid. It also came as a cluster pays slot with cascading wins.

Two years on and Finn has de-camped to the nearest drinking establishment, but his head is still spinning and the game mechanics of Golden Tavern work in a very similar way. The objective is to release the free spins mechanic by moving the treasure chest to the center of the grid in one sequence of cascading wins.

Like its sister slot, Tavern has the kind of appeal that will satisfy casual slotters – a clever gimmick that sets the free spins round up and a low-ish variance to produce frequent small wins without much chance of a big win moment. For high variance fans, the search for the ultimate slot hit will have to continue elsewhere.

SYMBOLS AND GRAPHICS

The action takes place on a 5×5 grid reel-set on top of Finn’s drinking table, surrounded by beer mats, his discarded flute and compass and some dice. There are four coins in the game, valued at 5, 10, 20 and 50 each. If you land three or more coins in one cluster then you’ll win the sum of their values. Elsewhere on the reels are flagons of ale, spirit bottles and bells. Look out as well for the golden star (complete with random eye-patch) that represents the wild.

GAMEPLAY AND FEATURES

Cluster Pays and Cascading Wins

Cluster Pays games crop up infrequently in slots – NetEnt’s Aloha! being one of the best examples. The objective is to land groups of matching symbols. Here, horizontal or vertical lines of three or more matching symbols pay out. The clusters combine with Cascading Wins, and after each winning swirl, winning symbols are removed to be replaced by new ones. If more win clusters appear, so the process repeats.

In Golden Tavern when a cluster win happens without a wild, you are GUARANTEED to get one from the symbols that come in to replace the winning ones.

Fist Slam

Our boisterous hero gets a bit raucous when non-winning swirls take place. And sometimes his fist slams down on the table. This randomly moves a coin into a winning position.

Random Coin

Low value symbols are ALWAYS transformed into coins if the Treasure Chest has made it into the final swirl before it reaches the central point of the grid.

Free Spins

At the start of each spin the Treasure Chest begins in the bottom right position of the grid. The objective is to move it round and round the grid until it reaches the central position to trigger the free spins. This has to be done in one sequence of wins and avalanche wins, or the Chest re-sets back to the bottom right corner.

You get 5 spins here with a multiplier meter that increases by 1 place with each wild that appears in an avalanche win. Every 5 places on the meter equates to 1x extra on your multiplier value.

Coin Bonus

And finally …. If you can move the Treasure Chest to the central position during a free spins round then the game climaxes with a Coin Bonus in which coins with random values are dropped onto the reels to create more wins.

OUR VERDICT

Golden Tavern has built upon the original Finn game to create something more exciting and with a better potential (at 1,000x, at least twice that of the original). If you fancy trying something a bit different this winter, load Finn up and try not to get too dizzy with all his swirliness. It’s a fun game to pass the time, and a good low-risk bet for casual slots players.

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