Gnaw’n Gold

Gnaw'n Gold: Slot Overview

Beyond offering players a wide range of themes to enjoy, online slots are also designed to evoke a variety of emotional experiences. For example, some games may be upbeat, while others tap into darker, more ominous moods, as well as other emotional tones. If it's happy in the outdoors you're after, then look no further than Play'n GO's slot Gnaw'n Gold. This is a game that features one of the most industrious animals in the animal kingdom, beavers, scurrying about, collecting money symbols, including local jackpot prizes, while various collector symbols are unlocked, in a feel-good, soaking up the beauty of nature sort of game.

While not crazy popular in slots, beavers do appear every so often (e.g., Dam Beavers or Eager Beavers), and it takes but a microsecond to see why. Basically, they're fun wee critters that bring an inherent charm to any game they're inhabiting. In real life, beavers can be found across North America and Eurasia, primarily sticking to freshwater habitats, much like the one depicted in Gnaw'n Gold. Here, players are treated to an arcadia of mountains, trees, water, and wild animals. The main characters have been humanised to a degree, arming themselves with axes, hard hats, and whatnot, as they go about the business of doing beavery things.

One thing beavers are famous for is building stuff, and in Gnaw'n Gold, they've constructed a 10-payline, 5x3 gaming area to host the action. The only way to play the game is by betting on individual spins, with stake options ranging from $/€0.10 to $/€100. The five RTP configurations have a 96.24% value as the highest available return, while the math model volatility is high, having been rated by Play'n GO 10 out of 10.

Gnaw'n Gold's eight pay symbols are J-A low pays, then mugs, food, hats, and axe high pays. Hitting a five-of-a-kind winning line pays 3x-4x for the royals, or 6x-10x the bet for the premium symbols. Wild dynamite symbols substitute for all regular pay symbols. Wilds award 18x when hitting a five wild winning line.

Gnaw'n Gold: Slot Features

Tools in Gnaw'n Gold's feature chest include a Collector Trail with unlockable Collector symbols, two wild features, Beaver Free Spins, and Mega Beaver Free Spins.

Collector Trail

Five different Collector symbols can land during the main game, Beaver Spins, and Mega Beaver Spins. When the session starts, only the Collect symbol may land, and only Beaver Spins may trigger. When Collector symbols hit, they are collected, progressing the Collector Trail, and permanently unlocking new Collector symbols at set points. When the trail is complete, players have access to all Collector symbols, and the Mega Beaver Spins round is able to be triggered. All types of Collector symbols expand when collecting Golden Log money symbols.

• Collect: Gathers all Golden Logs, which have values of 0.2x-50x, the Mini (10x), Minor (25x), Major (100x), and Grand (1,000x) from the reels.
• Lock n' Collect: Spins the reels again until no more Golden Logs appear, then gathers all of them.
• Boost Collect: Increases the value of Golden Logs on the reels, then gathers them.
• Super Boost Collect: Makes all Golden Logs in view as valuable as the highest valued Golden Log on the reel, then gathers them.
• Ultra Collect: Gathers all Golden logs two to five times.

Wild Features

There are two types of wild features, randomly activated in the base game. Bouncing Boom awards 2 respins, and wilds that land during this feature bounce to a different location between spins. Sticky Boom awards 2 respins and all wilds that land become sticky wilds.

Beaver Spins

Beaver Spins are activated by landing 3 scatters on the middle three reels. 10 free spins are awarded. When landing 3 Collectors during the round, players move up a level. For each level advanced, players gain +5 free spins and a win multiplier for Collectors. The first level has no multiplier, then an x2, x5, x7, and an x10 on the final level. When a new level is unlocked, the multiplier takes effect on the next spin. Multipliers are applied to Golden Logs before being collected.

Mega Beaver Spins

Mega Beaver Spins are unlocked when completing the Collector Trail. 5 Mega Beaver Spins are triggered by landing 2 scatters and the Mega Beaver Spins symbol. During this feature, only Golden Logs and Collector symbols may appear. On each spin, a different Collector appears on the reels.

Gnaw'n Gold: Slot Verdict

Gnaw'n Gold is one of those games that takes time and patience to unlock all of its bits. It's like some of the stuff Blueprint Gaming has been releasing for a while, such as the King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas series, for example. Like the games in that range, Gnaw'n Gold has a focus on collecting money symbols with a set of Collector symbols that are unlocked as the game unfolds. Similar to part four in the Kong franchise, Gnaw'n Gold also displays a map above the reels, which unlocks a special bonus feature when making it to the end.

The bonus rounds felt like they'd been inspired by elsewhere, too. In this case, accumulating Collector symbols to level up and win more free spins and a multiplier for Golden Logs is classic Big Bass action. So while Beaver Spins relies on a proven entertainment system, it is one that scores quite lowly on the innovation meter. Low is not a word you would use to describe winning potential, though. Gnaw'n Gold touts a massive max win of 40,000x the bet, though; this does seem a tall order given things like the relatively modest value of the jackpot prizes, by comparison. Witnessing a beaver in a hard hat and overalls, using a hammer and nails to construct a dam, feels more likely to occur than the max exposure, but there you have it.

Since not all of Gnaw'n Gold's features are available up front, it is a game of patience, and given the high volatility, players may end up spending significant stretches of time gnawing on wood before finding any gold, if it happens. Gnaw'n Gold might be a match, though, for gamblers who have enjoyed the sort of collect and progress action Blueprint Gaming and Pragmatic Play have been releasing, with a high, ambitious, some might say unrealistic, win ceiling.