Snake’s Gold Dream Drop

Snake's Gold Dream Drop: Slot Overview

Jackpot hunters, here's an odd story to set the scene. When taking on Snake's Gold Dream Drop from developer Relax Gaming, the metaphorical goal is to rally the tribe and take back a bunch of fortune that's been stolen by some light-fingered snakes. Using more down-to-earth vernacular, Snake's Gold Dream Drop gives players a chance to win hefty prizes from Relax Gaming's popular progressive jackpot network, with full reel wilds and free spins on the side. As well as the Dream Drop version, a non-jackpot edition of Snake's Gold is also slithering about the online slot marketplace.

Relax Gaming is handy with the digital paintbrush, and Snake's Gold Dream Drop is an attractive jungle game heavy on serpent imagery. Its sturdy stone-built gaming grid has been placed in a thickly bushed spot with an almost mandatory by now ancient pyramid/temple-like structure in the background. For players hell-bent on spinning for the Dream Drop part of the game, things like set and setting might take slightly more of a backseat than normal, perhaps, but Snake's Gold Dream Drop provides an exotic location to try their luck all the same.

Bet selection is next on the list, where options vary from 20 p/c on the lower end up to $/€100 on the higher end. The RTP when slashing through the Dream Drop game is 94%, including a jackpot contribution of 12%, whereas, on the non-DD slot, the RTP clocks in at 96.20%. The volatility is high, and gaming takes place on a 5-reel, 4-row grid set up with 10 paylines.

Despite the relatively low number of bet lines, Snake's Gold Dream Drop still manages to cough up regular wins with a hit frequency of 21.42% by landing matching symbols from the first reel onwards. Its low pay symbols are 4 theme based objects paying 2.5 to 5 times the bet for a 5 OAK win, rising to 6 to 7.5x the bet for landing 5 lizards, birds, cats, or snakes as the mids, then 3 character symbols worth up to 10 to 30 times the bet as the highs. Wild symbols substitute for any normal pay symbol in the game when they appear on the reels.

Snake's Gold Dream Drop: Slot Features

Naturally, if you're playing a Dream Drop slot, the main focus is busting your way into the jackpot round. As well as this central feature, though, Snake's Gold Dream Drop has wild reels and a free spins round as its other extras.

Wild Reels

When a coin lands on the grid, it is collected and its reel counter increases by +1. When a counter reaches 2, the specific reel becomes wild for the next 2 consecutive spins. After the 2 spins, the collection counter is reset. A line of five wild symbols pays 50 times the bet.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols in the base game awards 7, 12, or 16 free spins, respectively. Any reel that becomes wild in the round remains so until free spins end. Each wild reel also awards +1 free spin when it first appears.

Dream Drop

Jackpot Spins may randomly trigger, and if 5 DD symbols land on one, then the Dream Drop jackpot bonus is activated. During the jackpot, bonus stone blocks or Dream Drop symbols land on the reels. Dream Drop symbols remain on the reels while stone blocks are destroyed. When one of the reels is filled with Dream Drop symbols, its corresponding prize is won. This could be the Rapid, Midi. Maxi, Major, or Mega with starting values of €1, €5, €100, €25,000, or €500,000, respectively.

Snake's Gold Dream Drop: Slot Verdict

If you've ever felt the urge to head somewhere exotic with the tribe and wrestle back treasure from thieving snakes, then Snake's Gold Dream Drop is here to satisfy the itch. It's a handsomely presented game, if a little unoriginal in its choice of subject matter, that should appeal to players partial to South/Central American-styled slots. Whilst the setting is hardly a new one, the Relax Gaming team are not only exceptional artists, but they've also spent time with this sort of subject matter before in slots like Jungle Jamboree and Aztec Ascent, so the studio knows a thing or two about laying out a pretty landscape based on this part of the planet.

Interestingly, the two previously mentioned games aren't exactly the finest examples of the studio's work, and there is a question mark over how well-received the non-DD version of Snake's Gold Dream Drop will be. Take the jackpots out of the equation, and the gameplay is pretty basic. In the base game and free spins, the focus is on hitting coin symbols to create wild reels, which has its moments, but with 10 paylines plus a maximum regular pay symbol value of 30x the bet, full-screen wins aren't exactly the stuff of legend. Full-screen full-reel wilds are nothing to sniff at, though. Either way, this doesn't stop Snake's Gold Dream Drop from possessing respectable non-jackpot winning potential of 5,000x the bet, though. It's a top prize that feels equal to generous with what Snake's Gold Dream Drop has to offer, mechanically speaking.

Still, the main draw is arguably the Dream Drop jackpot aspect, especially considering the Mega has a capped upper limit of €3 million. So when stripping away the progressive jackpot parts of the game, Snake's Gold Dream Drop might not be a Relax Gaming heavy hitter, yet its DD form provides a jungly, vine-covered, snake-infested way to play for some of the biggest payouts in slots.