Midas Golden Touch Christmas Edition

Midas Golden Touch Christmas Edition: Slot Overview

The man with the golden touch is back in an updated Xmas version of Thunderkick's mythologically themed 2019 release Midas Golden Touch. This one, titled Midas Golden Touch Christmas Edition, supplies almost exactly the same brand of entertainment as the original, with several alterations or new parts. The most obvious is the Christmas Edition part of the bargain, bringing with it a positive uptick in the return value, plus a bonus buy for players who'd prefer to leap right into the free spins round where a respin feature may be utilised.

For those unfamiliar with or have forgotten the infamous story, King Midas was the guy who was given the ability to turn everything he touched into gold. A blessing at first turned into a curse as he turned his daughter into a statue, as well as probably making eating or going to the toilet much harder to accomplish. Anyway, Midas Golden Touch, the original, was already a pretty fine-looking game, heavy on the golden tones, held in a building that looked like King Midas had been on a touching binge. In Midas Golden Touch Christmas Edition, the building has been given an Xmas makeover, so there are Christmas trees about the place, decorations and so forth. Some say King Midas ruled Phrygia in the 8th century BC, so way before the idea of Christmas came along, but hey, creative licence and all that.

As before, Midas Golden Touch Christmas Edition is played on a 5-reel, 3-row gaming panel with 15 paylines. The default RTP has increased a bit this time, though, now noted as 96.17%, plus there's a bonus buy where users can purchase free spins. The cost for this is 80 times the base bet, and when doing so, the return value increases even further to 96.43%. Stake range is 10 c to $/€100 per spin in this highly volatile slot, and one core goal is to land winning combinations made up of at least 3 matching symbols starting from the leftmost reel.

On the less exciting side of the paytable is where the 9 to A card ranks reside, paying out 5 to 7.5 times the bet when 5 matching royals create a win. Then there's a chest, a chalice, a crown, and King Midas as the premiums, paying 15 to 75 times the bet for a 5 OAK hit. King Midas' golden hands are the game's wild symbol, present on all reels. Wilds have the same payout value as the normal Midas pay symbol, and wilds may also be used to substitute for any regular pay symbol. Furthermore, any payline including a wild gets a multiplier depending on the number of wilds in the line. When 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 wilds are used, the multiplier value is x2, x4, x8, x16, or x32, respectively.

Midas Golden Touch Christmas Edition: Slot Features

Additional features in Midas Golden Touch Christmas Edition are a free spins bonus round where a special respin mechanic comes into play. Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols awards 10, 15, or 20 free spins. While free spins are active, collecting 3 scatter symbols during the respin feature grants an extra +10 free spins.

Any win in the free spins round triggers the respin feature. During the respin feature, any winning symbols are locked in place while the remaining symbols respin. The respin feature continues until no additional winning symbols are locked. In addition, a single random wild is placed on the reels at the start of each free spin.

Midas Golden Touch Christmas Edition: Slot Verdict

Kinda weird celebrating the Christmas season with a character who was said to have been around before the special day had even been invented, but oh well, no biggie, this is gambling, not a history lesson. Then again, Midas Golden Touch was released about 4 years before this Christmas version was, and with the speed slots are dropped (not to mention the sheer number of them), does that length of time constitute iGaming Ancient History? Whatever the answer, Midas Golden Touch was a solid, fairly straightforward slot that plays out just as well in the Christmas Edition. Better, really, due to the virtually unnoticeable in practice yet psychologically uplifting increase in RTP (though flexible RTP wasn't really a thing back then, so you knew what you were getting) and, for bonus buyers, the opportunity to dive right into the main feature.

Back when Midas Golden Touch came out, Thunderkick weren't exactly renowned for being feature-buy peeps. This situation has since gone on to totally change, where now, a buy feature in a Thunderkick slot is nothing new. Following on from that, since Midas Golden Touch hit the scene, a bunch of extra winning symbol respin style games have accumulated on the gambling landscape, from the scare fest of Serial to lighter renditions like Hula Balua, for example. What separates Midas Golden Touch Christmas Edition from a lot of them, however, is the way more wilds in a winning line lead to a larger multiplier. A feature so good, Thunderkick has used it not only in the Midas games but also in Phoenix Paradise and Lava Lava.

In other words, reviewing Midas Golden Touch Christmas Edition was a bit of a who's who of the gambling world, potentially influencing and/or being influenced by a number of different sources. Putting aside the name-dropping, Midas Golden Touch Christmas Edition is a solid Christmas slot, in some ways arguably better than the original, with the same 10,100 x the bet max win to play for, set within an Xmas meets Ancient History environment.