Medusa’s Stone

Medusa's Stone: Slot Overview

The most famous of the three Gorgons to appear in online slots makes a return to headline in Pragmatic Play's mythology-themed release, Medusa's Stone. In the unlikely event that you're unfamiliar with Medusa, she was a snake-haired entity who, it's been said, was so hideous anyone who looked at her would be turned to stone. Even when beheaded by Perseus, Medusa's head could be used as a weapon that stonified people until it was placed on Athena's shield. Fortunately, she won't be turning gamblers into stone when they're playing Medusa's Stone, but in this game, regular symbols can be turned wild, and they help contribute to a global multiplier in the free spins round.

A shattered statue space is where Medusa's Stone's base game calls home. Twinkling objects, murky lighting, and snakes give the space a mythological charm, though Medusa is largely absent a lot of the time. She does appear on the scatter symbols for one thing, however, so she isn't entirely missing. Free spins are held in the same location, but the lighting gets poured through a coloured filter. The artwork is pretty, have to say, and the characters on the pay symbols could star in a daytime TV soap opera based on mythology, so Medusa's Stone does look alright.

A 4.5 out of 5 rating indicates Medusa's Stone's high volatility, while its default RTP is 96.46% when regularly betting one spin at a time. The betting levels go as low as 20 c or as high as $/€240 at max. A total of 20 paylines line the 5-reel gaming matrix, and the game's maker has laid the reels out so they hold 3-4-4-4-3 symbols each.

From low to high, Medusa's Stone's regular pay symbols are Q, K, A, a battle helm, a sword, and four character symbols. A line of 5 non-character symbols pays 1 to 2 times the stake, or 5-25x the bet is awarded for hitting a line of 5 matching character symbols. When wild symbols show their faces, they're able to replace any regular pay symbols.

Medusa's Stone: Slot Features

Medusa's Stone features are a mix of Medusa Spins where symbols transform to wilds, free spin and super free spin rounds where an increasing total multiplier joins the fray.

Medusa Spin

In the base game, the Medusa Spin may trigger on any spin. When it does, all character symbols on the middle three reels transform into wild symbols, substituting for all regular pay symbols.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatter symbols in the base game triggers 10 free spins. During the free spins round, when the Medusa Spin occurs, all character symbols transform into wilds and get a random multiplier assigned to them. If these wilds are not used in the current spin, they stay on the reels until they are used in a later winning combination. Whenever a multiplier of a wild is used in a winning combination, its multiplier is collected by a meter. All winning combinations are multiplied by the total multiplier. Possible wild multiplier values in the free spins round are x2, x3, x4, x5, or x6. Hitting 3 super scatter symbols during a Medusa Spin triggers the super free spins feature and 12 free spins. In super free spins, the chance of triggering the Medusa Spin is higher, and the wild multiplier values increase to x4, x5, x6, x7, or x8. The feature cannot be retriggered.

Buy Free Spins

Players have the chance to either buy the regular free spins round for 75 times the bet or the super free spins feature for 200 times the bet. The RTP when buying free spins is 96.5% or 96.53% for super free spins.

Medusa's Stone: Slot Verdict

As mentioned, Medusa's Stone is unlikely to be turning players into stone statues any time soon, and it feels equally unlikely to end up attaining Prag classic status. It's not a game that evokes bags of fiery vitriolic criticism by any means; it's just not one which inflamed massive amounts of passion either. It looks pretty sweet for a mythology game, rocks the usual Prag pizzazz, boasts snazzy cut scenes, and stars a handsome lineup of characters. A quasi-dreamy quality infuses the artwork, so the impressions formed after a look at Medusa's Stone look were encouraging.

When its parts were moving, the impressions were, for the most part, positive as well. Not off the charts dazzled, but okay. The base game is a tad drab, even though the Medusa Spin is a possible occurrence, yet free spins are far and away the most sought-after phase of play. This is, of course, because symbols do not only transform to wilds in Medusa Spins; they're able to feed the total multiplier, which is a critical component. What's good is the multiplier is always active, so you don't need to land any particular symbol at the same time to activate it or anything like that. As big a multiplier as possible will come in darn useful for players with their eyes set on attempting to hit the game's 7,000x the bet win cap.

And that's about it. Medusa's Stone looks dreamy and should be good for some mythology meets rising multiplier activity if you're in the mood for this sort of combo. Could be wrong, but Medusa's Stone doesn't feel destined for the same glorification slots like Gates of Olympus 1000 or Zeus vs Hades: Gods of War have received (two other high-performing mythology/multiplier releases from Pragmatic Play), but happy to be proven wrong.