Golden Shower

Golden Shower: Slot Overview

The words 'golden shower', depending on one's mindset, might conjure up images of a refreshing wash, perhaps in the tropics, in an outdoor shower at sunrise where the air is wonderfully warm and exotic birds chirp in the trees, or… it might mean something else entirely. Since we're dealing with an online slot from jokesters Nolimit City, let's go for the latter in this instance as we lather up to review Golden Shower. While making sure not to pick up the soap, this is a game where players should keep their eyes peeled for increasing position multipliers, aka Sugar Rush 1000 and Duck Hunters Happy Hour, with various supporting features enhancing the experience.

Generally speaking, when you step out of the shower, you want to feel clean and refreshed, right? Golden Shower looks like the sort of place you'd leave dirtier than when you went in. Something like shared facilities at a cheap, dingy hostel used by countless people, and yet rarely, if ever, cleaned thoroughly. The walls are cracked, faded, and tagged, the foam looks dubious, and the pink flamingo has likely seen better days. It's probably not the best place to wash grime and weariness off in order to emerge sparkling new to take on the day. But, as the game docs say, 'you're here now...Time to get wet!' The audio fits the seedy visuals like a charm too.

The showering occurs on a 6x5 game grid using a cluster pays win system. When 6 or more matching symbols are connected to each other horizontally and/or vertically, a win is formed. Winning symbols are removed and replaced by a symbol drop that repeats as long as new wins appear. Volatility is rated 10 out of 10, or extreme, while the highest of the three RTP variations is 96.04%. As well as boosters and bonus buys, base bet options range from $/€0.20 to $/€100.

Pay symbols in the game are bottles, brushes, frowny faces, paper rolls, urinal cakes, rubber duckies, and bars of soap. Landing winning combinations of 14+ OAK awards players 1x to 6x their stake.

Golden Shower: Slot Features

Flowing around the drain are position multipliers, wild generations, wild bursts, several special symbols, three free spins rounds, Nolimit Boosters, and Nolimit Bonus buys.

Position Multipliers, Wild Generation & Wild Burst

After winning symbols are destroyed, an x2 multiplier is added to each position where a symbol was removed. If a position already has a multiplier, its value gets doubled up to a maximum of x999. Symbols on the grid matching winning cluster symbols but not part of a win convert to wilds. Wilds substitute all paying symbols. If there is no win, and wild symbols are present on the reels, the wild destroys itself as well as orthogonally adjacent positions. An x2 multiplier is added to each position where a symbol was removed.

Special Symbols

The special symbols are the Steam, Floater, and Drain:

• Steam - Activates when it lands by randomly choosing a symbol, then converts all instances of it and itself into a higher paying one.
• Floater - Activates when there is no win and no wild. Randomly chooses a symbol, then removes all other symbols except scatters and Drain. A multiplier of x2 is added to the removed positions, or existing multipliers are doubled.
• Drain - Activates when there is no win, wilds, and no Floater. Removes itself and all symbols except scatters, upgrading the multiplier randomly on all removed positions.

Gold Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters triggers 6, 8, or 10 Gold Spins, respectively.

• 6 Gold Spins - Position multipliers are persistent during free spins. Landing a scatter symbol awards +1 spin. The Steam feature always selects the two highest occurring symbols on the grid and converts the low-paying one to the other one. If multiple symbols share the highest occurrence, the two highest paying symbols from them are selected.
• 8 Gold Spins - The same as 6 Gold Spins, plus the Floater feature always picks the highest paying symbol with the highest occurrence on the reels.
• 10 Gold Spins - The same as 8 Gold Spins, plus the Drain always upgrades its position multiplier to x999.

Extra Spin

At the end of a round, players may be given the chance to buy an Extra Spin, which keeps the position multipliers of the previous spin. The cost depends on the position multipliers. The Extra Spin is only offered if the cost is less than or equal to the win on the previous spin. Scatters do not land on Extra Spins.

Nolimit Boosters & Bonus Buys

At 2x the bet, the Bonus Hunt makes it 3 times more likely to trigger Gold Spins. At 20x, 80x or 1,969x the bet, the Steamy Spin, Steamier Spin, or Steamiest Spin make the starting multiplier of all positions x16, x64, or x999, respectively. To buy free spins, the options are 6, 8, 10 or Lucky Draw Gold Spins for 90x, 200x, 500x, or 257x the bet, respectively.

Golden Shower: Slot Verdict

Nolimit City has taken its expertise in toilet humour and flushed it all into the dingy, communal washroom grit that is Golden Shower. The game follows in the seedy footsteps of slots like Seamen, Punk Toilet, and Kenneth Must Die in terms of sensibility-upsetting, though all in jest, surely. The studio has also taken what it has learned from Duck Hunters and Duck Hunters Happy Hour before turning out another cracking positional multiplier slot. Like a bar of wet soap, Golden Shower might be hard to hold on to and may slip out of your grasp, but when it's flowing, it's a prime example of what these sorts of slots are made to do. Namely, hit consecutive winners, bulk up position multipliers, work with various side features on different areas of the board, and bring it all together in a warm, golden froth.

What is cool is the way non-winning symbols of the same winning type convert to wilds. That can be a real help in maintaining momentum and sparking other parts of the grid. The three special symbols are helpful for this as well. Momentum is critical in a game like this, where position multipliers double after consecutive wins on the same spot. Higher bonus rounds bring benefits of their own, too. The 10 Gold Spins Drain, for example, was instrumental in bringing about substantial results, on account of it directly adding an x999 to its position, bypassing the buildup. Should players manage to rub Golden Shower up to full lather, It's Luke Warm, the name for achieving the max win, is 19,999x the bet.

Obviously, the toilet humour in Golden Shower is a million miles away from the saccharine sweet skin coating Pragmatic Play's Sugar Rush, the slot that really kicked off the positional multiplier movement. Since then, Nolimit City has really made the mechanic its own, so if players are ready to embrace a bit of grime, Golden Shower is an entertainingly sordid alternative that takes the mechanic and rinses it in NLC chaos.