Midas Coins

Theme and Design

Slick Quickspin Production Style In This Clean and Simple Slot

The theme of Midas Coins is a good one for slots and cleverly woven into the gameplay – you need Midas to turn the coins that land into gold in your pocket! The game is created with Quickspin’s distinct color palette and design style so it will be immediately recognisable to anyone who has played other games from this studio.

The backdrop looks like an Ancient Greek temple whilst the symbols themselves are carved into stone tablets or illustrated in a clean, sophisticated style. Meanwhile, a cinematic orchestral soundtrack accompanies your spins. Overall, it’s a neat and tidy game, though perhaps not as interesting as some of Quickspin’s other slots.

RTP and Variance

Midas Coins has a fixed RTP of 96.02%. There are no alternative settings so it will be 96.02% wherever you choose to play. That is a decent RTP and about average for an online slot game.

Midas Coins is also a high variance slot, so expect an uneven win distribution. Much of that RTP may well be saved back for the free spins round with its cash collect feature described below. It's also prone, as I found out in testing, to lots of near misses and dry spins.

Maximum Win

The top payout in Midas Coins is 5,000x which is a little underwhelming for a modern high variance slot. I have certainly reviewed many from Quickspin with a much bigger potential like Beastwood (29,541x) or Sticky Bandits 3 Most Wanted (22,468x). And if you like chasing down big wins I recommend you read our article on the slots with the highest maximum win.

Symbols and Paytable

This is a 5-reel game with 3 rows on each reel and 25 fixed paylines where wins are triggered by landing 3 or more identical symbols across a payline from left to right.

The paytable has good value in it, as high as 32x for 5 top premiums. The low payers are the 4 cards, Jack, Queen, King and Ace. These are valued at from 0.2x for 3 Jacks up to 5x for 5 Kings. There are 4 ‘medium’ valued symbols which are the pendant, ring, bracelet and necklace. These are valued at from 0.8x for 3 pendants up to 32x for 5 necklaces.

Then there are 2 special symbols – a Marigold Wild and a Satyr Scatter.  The Wild pays out 1.6x, 4.7x or 32x for 3, 4 or 5 on a payline, as well as substituting for other pay symbol to complete a payline. The scatter will unlock the free spins as I explain below.

Features and Gameplay

Midas Coins is a really simple game with a basic coin collection feature that runs in the base game and is enhanced in the bonus round.

Midas Coin Collect – Up To 500x Wins

What you need to look out for at all times is the Midas Coin. This can land on reels 1 through 4 with a prize value attached. A 5x means 5 times your stake.

The coin comes in 5 sizes and has a range of values between 1x and 500x your total bet. But it needs King Midas to land on reel 5 with his touch to make the coins active. This is called the Midas Coin Collect feature. All coin values on the reels are added together and then paid out. 

All is Golden Free Spins With Progressive Collect Feature

I love the simplicity of this bonus round where Midas is critical once again.

Before you get there you need to land 3 or more of the Satyr Scatter symbol on reels 1, 3 and 5. As well as unlocking the round with 12 spins this will also deliver 2x your stake.

The game is simple. There is a stack of coins displayed to the left of the reels, starting with a 3x value. Every time a coin lands on the reels its value is added to the stack. And every time Midas lands on reel 5, the current value of the stack is collected. But the action doesn’t stop because the stack continues throughout the feature.

So, the stack keeps going even after you collect its value. And there is no limit to how many times it can be collected. In addition, if you hit 3 scatter symbols again, you will re-trigger the free spins round to keep things ticking along.

That is a really nice progressive feature and you can easily see its potential.