Mermaid Riches Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Mermaid Riches Review

Mermaid Riches is a medium volatile underwater slot from PG Soft, and it plays out on a 1-2-3-4-5 reel set with 120 win ways. A special wild moves around to new positions between each cascading win sequence, while count-down wilds can be part of up to 3 wins per wild. A win multiplier trail up to x5 is doubled in the bonus round, and you can, realistically, win up to 3,513x your stake.

Pocket Games Soft (or PG Soft in short) creates video slots tailor-suited for the mobile experience, and Mermaid Riches is no exception in that regard. Set in a blurred-out underwater world, the 1-2-3-4-5 reel set is accompanied by an animated mermaid commenting on all the action. She shakes her fists in anticipation whenever something is brewing, and she’s also more than happy to join you in celebrating wins.

You will see plenty of Cascading Reels action in this game, not least thanks to the sticky golden oyster wild that leaps to a new position for every paid spin. The Gonzo mechanic allows for payouts boosted by up to x5 in the base game, and the mirrored reel set in the bonus round comes with doubled multiplier trail values. The announced 20,000x potential is hardly realistic, which sadly is a common drawback with this developer.

Mermaid Riches Slot - Reels Screen

Mermaid Riches Slot Features

A golden oyster pearl wild keeps roaming around the reels, and it moves to a random position for every paid spin.

The special wild remains frozen in place for each cascading wins sequence, meaning that it does not move if you land several cascading wins in a row.

The Cascading feature is triggered on every win, removing all winning symbols from the reels. New or existing symbols will then drop down to fill the gaps. Each cascading win increases the win multiplier, from x1 to x2, x3 and x5, respectively. Everything resets between spins.

In addition, you have another kind of sticky wilds that can land to help you out at random times. These come with a number inside the shell from 1 to 3, and this indicates how many times the wild can be used in a win before it disappears. These wilds are not sticky on a specific position however, and they will thus drop down as winning symbols are removed.

Landing at least 3 mermaid scatters anywhere in view triggers the Bonus Round.

This awards at least 8 free spins, with +2 spins added on top of that for every extra scatter above the minimum of 3 you land. The reels are mirrored in the bonus round, giving you a 5-4-3-2-1 setup. This makes it easier to land winning combos, as you now have 5 rows on reel 1, instead of just 1.

The win multiplier range is not mirrored exactly, but instead all 4 values are doubled compared to the base game. This means that you start with an x2 multiplier by default, and it increases to x4, x6 and x10 per consecutive cascade, respectively. You can retrigger the bonus round by landing 3+ scatters anywhere on the same free spin.

The 200 Spins Mermaid Riches Slot Experience

Our 2-minute highlights video starts out when we trigger the bonus round, as nothing too exciting happened for us in the base game before that. We managed to reach the x10 multiplier towards the end of the feature, and you can see it all play out by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

Some will probably find the chatty mermaid to be charming, but her limited-vocabulary action commentary got a bit annoying after a while, at least in our humble opinion. There is also something a bit fishy about announcing a massive max win on “every” release, while the reality is that only a fraction of the touted potential was ever achieved during testing.

In Mermaid Riches' case, 3,513x was landed once in 1 billion spins(!), but this has not stopped PG Soft from going with an official 20,000x potential.The game itself is decent enough, utilizing the Gonzo mechanic to build tension both in the base game and during the bonus round. For killing some time on the go, this mobile-friendly release gets the job done, without being anything too special.

Pros

• Cascading wins multiplier trail up to x5
• Sticky wild roams per paid spin
• Count-down sticky wilds
• FS w/ doubled multiplier trail values
• Win up to 3,513x your stake

Cons

• “Misleading” announced 20,000x max win

If you enjoy Mermaid Riches Slot you should also try:

Queen of Bounty - is another sea adventure from PG Soft, but this one takes place above the surface.

You’ll join the female pirate in cascading symbols action with increasing multiplier, and you get 3 choices of spins and multipliers up to x40 in the bonus round.

Heist Stakes - is another PG Soft installment with a female lead, and this is a bank robber thriller you don’t wanna miss. You get to play with wilds that expand if they land on the middle reel, and the bonus round comes with a progressive cascading win multiplier.

Guardians Of Ice And Fire - is PG Soft installment with a somewhat unusual 2-3-4-4-3-2 reel setup. All wild wins are subject to an x2 multiplier, and the bonus round comes with an extra reel, 2,304 win ways and a unique multiplier system that can boost your winnings with up to x10.

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