Enter the Minotaur’s Maze in Divine Fortune Gold from NetEnt

When the first Divine Fortune hit the market, ancient Greek slots were still in their infancy. Meanwhile, NetEnt was at the height of its popularity, and they just released a game with a progressive jackpot. Fans went wild for the game, though it seems the developer wasn’t too keen on the jackpot part. Other follow-ups in the series very visibly excluded the jackpot, leading to frustration and disappointment.

Therefore, you can imagine the sigh of relief we felt when Divine Fortune Gold finally brought back the much-beloved jackpot. On top of that, it offers several in-depth features and striking visuals we’re used to seeing from NetEnt. First impressions are positive, but will they hold up after a thorough review? Keep reading to find out.

Divine Fortune Gold Visuals

In many ways, Divine Fortune Gold feels like the game Divine Fortune Black was supposed to be. Like that game, the background is dark but not a single solid colour. Instead, some lighting reveals detailed marble statues, pots, and pillars. The lack of lighting is done tastefully, leaving you to wonder what lurks just out of view. Triggering bonus rounds can also reveal different backdrops, showing detailed statues of women, minotaurs, and lions.

Symbols are varied, featuring a mix of stylised playing card royals, animals, and mythological creatures. The Pegasus plays the role of Wild, which can substitute for all paying symbols. You can also find bronze, silver, and golden coins, as well as the Fortune Collector icon.

Divine Fortune Gold Gameplay and Features

You play this NetEnt slot on a 5×3 grid with 10 fixed paylines. Forming wins requires at least three matching symbols in adjacent positions, starting with the leftmost reel.

Expanding Wilds

Alongside their usual role, Wilds will expand to cover the entire reel they land on. This increases the odds of forming a win, especially if they land on the second or third reel.

Cash Prize Collection

Three types of coins can appear on the grid, each with a different cash prize range.

• Bronze coins pay between 0.5x and 1.5x your bet
• Silver coins pay between 2x and 4.5x your stake
• Gold coins pay between 5x and 20x your wager

These cash prizes can only be claimed by Fortune Collector icons. These special symbols can appear on the first and fifth reels and will collect all cash prizes on the screen. If multiple Fortune Collector icons are on the screen, each one will individually collect the coin rewards.

Bonus Spins

Six coins appearing simultaneously will award one of three Bonus Spins modes: Bronze, Silver, or Gold. You can also trigger the corresponding bonus round with an individual coin. For example, every bronze coin has a chance to grant Bronze Spins. The same is true for silver and gold coins and their matching features.

All Bonus Spins are played on a 5×5 grid, with each position spinning independently of the others. Only blank spaces and coins can land during this feature. Each coin that appears will stick and extend the bonus round. You start with three spins, and the spins counter resets whenever more coins land on the grid. The feature ends when the counter hits zero or all positions are filled with cash prizes.

Each spin feature comes with a special bonus effect. For Bronze Spins, each coin on the grid doubles in value. Meanwhile, Gold Spins activates the Silver Spins and then the Bronze Spins bonus effects in that order. Silver Spins are more involved, so we’ll explain it in its own section.

Silver Spins

When Silver Spins end, the game upgrades all cash prizes to the next tier. That means bronze coins turn into silver, silver into gold, and gold coins into Mystery symbols. Each Mystery icon can reveal one of three random bonus symbols:

• Fortune Collector – scoops up all visible cash prizes and then turns into a gold coin with the total collected value
• Adder – adds between 3x and 50x your bet to up to 10 random cash prizes, before transforming into a gold coin worth up to 50x your stake.
• Restart – retriggers the current Bonus Spins with all cash prizes remaining on the reels. It then transforms into a golden coin worth up to 10x your wager. Restart can only appear once per feature.

Jackpot Prizes

There are four fixed and one progressive jackpot available in NetEnt’s Divine Fortune Gold slot. However, winning them is no easy feat, as it requires filling rows during the Bonus Spins feature. The more rows that get filled, the better the jackpot you will receive:

• One full row grants a 15x Mini jackpot
• Two full rows award a 50x Midi jackpot
• Three full rows unlock a 100x Maxi jackpot
• Four full rows pay a 250x Major jackpot
• Five full rows reward the Mega progressive jackpot

Elevate

NetEnt’s Elevate bonus buy feature lets players boost their odds of triggering bonus rounds or activate them outright. The more valuable the feature you want, the higher the cost will be.

• Bonus Hunt increases the chance of triggering Bonus Spins for 1.5x your bet.
• Bronze Spins guarantees the corresponding feature will activate for 50x your stake.
• Silver Spins triggers the matching bonus round for 150x your wager.
• Gold Spins ensures the reciprocal feature activates for 300x your bet.

Divine Fortune Gold RTP and Payouts

Divine Fortune Gold has an RTP of 96.63%, which gets a big thumbs up from us. Apart from the progressive jackpot, the game’s top prize is 1,000x your stake. It’s not what we’d usually expect from NetEnt, though it does fit the slot’s low volatility.