Golden Mouse - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Introduction 

Enter the Orient-inspired world of the Golden Mouse and enjoy 243 ways to win across a five-reel, three-row grid. This slot has an above-average return to player and bonus features including free spins, wilds, and scatters.

Golden Mouse theme, graphics & soundtrack 

This is a simple slot that will never win awards for its graphics but could offer an entertaining experience if you enjoy an Oriental theme and a jaunty soundtrack that adds to the atmosphere of the slot. If you like this theme, you may also want to give the Money Mouse slot a try.

Golden Mouse RTP and variance

This choice of Manna Play slots has a return to player of 96.88 per cent and is a medium variance game. This means it adopts fairly middle ground in the world of online slots and may be a good fit for all sorts of playing styles.

How to play Golden Mouse

There is nothing tricky about the Golden Mouse slot. All the tabs and buttons look like you would expect, with perhaps the odd twist here and there. If you like some prior knowledge before you play an online slot, here are a few tips:

1. The spinning circle is the start button - you can’t miss this one!
2. Clicking the flaming clock lets you speed up the action.
3. Tap the right-pointing arrow in the circle to choose autoplay and decide how many spins you want the game to make. You can choose 5, 10, 50, 100, 250 or the infinity option. Press ‘confirm’ to select your choice.
4. The circular coin tab under the reels enables you to change your bet size. Stake from 0.2 to 90.00 on the equivalent of 20 fixed paylines.
5. The three-line tab enables you to access settings such as your soundtrack choice and the paytable.

Bet sizes & paytable wins

This is a 243 ways to win slot with mainly playing card symbols. There are also four theme-specific icons, including the golden mouse scatter. To give you an idea of the prizes on offer, let’s take a look at what you could win for landing five matching symbols:

• Golden pot = 2.4
• Lotus flower = 1.00
• Golden triangle = 0.64
• Golden circle = 0.48
• Ace = 0.32
• King = 0.24
• Queen, jack = 0.2
• Ten, nine = 0.1

Bets start at 0.2 for the equivalent of 20 paylines, with the maximum stake 90.00 per spin.

Golden Mouse bonus features

Wild

The yin and yang wild can replace any symbol except the scatter to help build wins. 

Scatter/free spins bonus

The golden mouse scatter holds the key to the free spins bonus. Land at least two of these to trigger the following spins:

Two mice scatters = 1 free spin
Three mice scatters = 8 free spins
Four mice scatters = 13 free spins
Five mice scatters = 18 free spins

Golden Mouse review: our verdict

There is nothing particularly exciting about this slot, but it does offer a bumper package of ways to win. There are also free spins to enjoy, along with a typical wild symbol. Golden Mouse may well appeal if you like a simple slot that relies on basic spinning for entertainment rather than offering flashy graphics or animations. 

This will not be everyone’s choice of slot and there is no doubt that it can feel very repetitive after a fairly short amount of time. This may be because it is not particularly exciting to look at, largely due to the lack of thought that seems to have been given to the symbols; after all, any game that makes use of mainly playing card symbols is never going to come out as a forerunner in the race for innovation.

Whilst offering all the basics that you might expect from an online slot, it does feel like a game that has been thrown together with the minimum amount of thought. There is nothing to set it apart from the crowd, with quite a few aspects of the game leaving it lacking when compared with other online slot options.

Even the mouse appears to have been hastily drawn by an eight-year-old - albeit one who is fairly good at art - and the soundtrack is nothing short of annoying. It says something that the first control we searched for was the one that turned the soundtrack off.

There will undoubtedly be players who enjoy this slot, not least because it feels like the wins and bonus features roll in quite regularly, but it is not a good choice if you want an entertaining or particularly exciting option. It seems to have been designed to appeal to the masses, whilst not really appealing to anyone in particular. This means that many players might choose to give it a go, tempted by a popular theme and a few chinks of gold, but it is doubtful that many will be able to stick with it for very long.
 

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