Secret City Gold Slot Review

Secret City Gold Slot Overview

I first loaded Secret City Gold and was met by a humid rainforest scene, greenish fog curling around ancient stone. To the left of the reels a golden monkey statue sits with a red gemstone in its head, watching every spin. Fireflies flicker near the waterfall, and a thick, jungly soundtrack with panpipes and drums gives the game a Central or South American feel that works nicely with the totem symbols.

As someone who plays a lot of Pragmatic Play titles, Secret City Gold feels very much on brand. The 5x4 grid and 25 paylines are familiar, and the studio's habit of mixing sharp artwork with one headline mechanic is on show again with the Shape Wins system. It looks solid, runs smoothly on mobile, and gives that high volatility bite I expect, without doing anything wildly out of line.

Secret City Gold Slot Information

Secret City Gold runs on a 5 reel, 4 row layout with 25 fixed paylines paying left to right from the first reel. Stakes start at 0.25 and go up to 125 per spin, with an official RTP of 96.06%, though there are versions at 95.00% and 94.06%. Volatility is high and the max win is 10,000x your bet. You can hold the space bar for turbo spins, which suits quick sessions.

Secret City Gold Symbols and Paytable

The paytable in Secret City Gold is split between low card ranks and carved creatures. The lower paying symbols are 10, J, Q, K, and A, paying between 0.4x and 1x your stake for five of a kind. Premiums are statues of a blue frog, purple monkey, green lizard, and red feline with sharp teeth, plus a gold coin showing a man poking out his tongue, worth 1.2x to 4x.

The wild symbol in Secret City Gold is a green totem face that can land on any reel. It substitutes for all regular pay symbols and is also the best paying symbol on its own, awarding 8x the bet for a full line of five. The scatter is a grinning golden monkey that appears on all reels, pays 2x, 10x, or 50x for 3, 4, or 5, and triggers free spins.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x8
	4	x3.2
	3	x2
	5	x4
	4	x2.4
	3	x1.2
	5	x3.2
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x2.4
	4	x1.6
	3	x0.8
	5	x2
	4	x1.2
	3	x0.6
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.8
	3	x0.4
	5	x1
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.32
	5	x0.8
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.32
	3	x0.16
	5	x0.48
	4	x0.24
	3	x0.12
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.12
	Scatter

Secret City Gold Slot Features

The core mechanic in Secret City Gold is the Shape Wins feature, which behaves like a twist on mystery symbols. On any spin a random shape can appear on the reels, highlighting several positions. After any normal wins are settled, all marked symbols change into one randomly chosen symbol type that is already inside the shape. The new cluster then pays from left to right, and the total win from the shape is multiplied by x1 to x10.

I like how Shape Wins in Secret City Gold do not have to start on the first reel, as long as the matching symbols sit inside the pattern. You can, for example, get a winning combo running from the second to the fourth reel purely inside the highlighted area. In the base game these shapes can drop in waves, sometimes giving surprisingly strong hits when high value creatures or wilds fill most of the pattern.

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters in Secret City Gold pays 2x, 10x, or 50x your stake and always gives 8 free spins. Shape Wins still appear, but now the multiplier from each shape is added to a general multiplier that boosts all Shape Wins in the round and never resets. Every new Shape Win seems to increase it by +1, scatters add +1 spin, and you can buy the bonus for 85x with higher RTP.

Secret City Gold: Slot Verdict

For me, Secret City Gold sits in that typical Pragmatic Play zone of being solid without feeling truly special. The jungle theme, crisp statues, and mystical soundtrack do a good job, and the Shape Wins mechanic keeps the base game from going flat. The free spins with a growing overall multiplier and 10,000x potential can be thrilling, but the high volatility and streaky patches mean I treat this one as an occasional adventure.

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