Goldstorm Ultra

Goldstorm Ultra: Slot Overview

At the time of writing, the number of visitors to the infamous gambling Mecca, Las Vegas, had, for various reasons, dropped. Perhaps, and this is a poetic guess here, it is due to the availability of Vegas-style online slots that gamblers have access to in the palm of their hand. That could actually be quite valid, as it's been said younger generations prefer online gambling to traditional casinos. Widening the scope, it sometimes seems like we as a species prefer online anything to the less convenient physical counterparts. Anyhoo, it's a Vegas-style slot we've got on our plate today in the form of Yggdrasil Gaming's release Goldstorm Ultra.

Goldstorm Ultra really is the full Vegas-style shebang. It's glitzy, it's glam, electrifying might be the word we're grasping for. It is pretty clichéd too, though, can't deny that. The pay symbols are 'iconic', the lights are bright, and the soundtrack is a sweet head nodding 80s-ish electronic soundscape. It's not as visually loud as 4ThePlayer's 8K Ultra Gold Ultimate, or as extravagantly titled, but Goldstorm Ultra makes its intention crystal clear as to what sort of player mood it's catering for.

In the base game and regular free spins, Goldstorm Ultra is played on a single 5x3 gaming area, while in super free spins, it is played on two sets. Each matrix has 20 paylines, creating winning combinations of 3 OAK or more starting from the leftmost reel onwards. This is a highly volatile slot, with 96% as the highest RTP from three possible configurations. Two bonus buys are included, as well as a stake range of 20c to $/€70.

Goldstorm Ultra's pay symbols are clubs, diamonds, spades, hearts, a dollar sign, green bars, blue bars, sevens, bells, stars and the game's logo. Payout values, when hitting 5 OAK combinations are 1.25x to 25x the bet.

Goldstorm Ultra: Slot Features

In Goldstorm Ultra, we find multiplier wilds, free spins and super free spins where wilds are sticky and feature buys.

Wilds

Wilds hit on the middle three reels in the base game and in bonus rounds. They substitute for all symbols except scatters. Wilds also have a random multiplier of x2, x3, x4, or x5. The wild multiplier applies to the win of each payline it is part of. When more than one wild is part of the same win, all wilds in the win are combined, and the total is used to multiply the win.

Free Spins Charge Level

Goldstorm Ultra has two meters, a Green Free Spins meter and a Pink Super Free Spins meter. Both are active in the base game. Green gem scatters are collected by the green meter, while pink gem scatters are collected by the pink meter. It requires 50 symbols to fill either meter. Any extra collected symbols remain in the meter after free spins end. Scatters hit on all reels, and up to 5 of them can land at once. Meter progress is saved to the bet level.

Free Spins

Filling the green meter in the base game awards 10 free spins. In this mode, 2 gaming areas are displayed, but only one is active; the other is locked. Both meters are active during this feature, and collecting 14 pink or 14 green scatters fills their respective meters. Filling the green meter retriggers 5 free spins, while filling the pink meter upgrades the round to super free spins and retriggers 5 spins. In both free spins and super free spins, wilds are sticky when they land.

Super Free Spins

Filling the pink meter in the base game awards 10 super free spins, or +5 from regular free spins mode. For this feature, 2 gaming areas are available, and only the pink meter is active. Filling the meter with 40 pink scatters triggers an extra +5 super free spins.

Feature Buys

Goldstorm Ultra makes it possible to buy free spins for 53x the bet or super free spins for 87x the bet.

Goldstorm Ultra: Slot Verdict

Goldstorm Ultra is probably quite alright if you like this sort of thing. It's been put together well enough, ensuring high energy levels ooze out of the game at all times, and it is eye-catching. These kinds of jazzy, Vegasy slots continually roll off software providers' production lines, pointing to the fact that demand for this style is still alive and kicking. Goldstorm Ultra is a semi-compelling option. It's far from being a real hair blowing back, what the fudge was that experience, but if you like the skin, then parts of the gameplay should attract as well.

Goldstorm Ultra certainly isn't a complicated game if ease of use is what you're looking for. The base game mission can be boiled down to collecting scatters and super scatters, as well as landing wild multipliers to hopefully keep the balance ticking along until the bonus round finally triggers. Collecting 50 scatters makes a change from the usual trigger method, and in some ways, you can better track progress rather than just blindly hitting, or not, three or more scatters completely out of the blue. Sticky wild multipliers are able to light up any game they're a part of, and they manage to shift Goldstorm Ultra into a higher gear when they're present. As do super free spins if you can get them, since they double the play area, and one presumes, increasing the chance of hitting the game's 4,000x full potential.

Or not, as bonus rounds, whether super or not, could be oddly fruitless. The opposite is possible, of course, no denying that, so if this style suits, then Goldstorm Ultra might be of interest. Otherwise, meh, the universal shrug of the spirit, was hard to deny.