Golden Temple (Jili Games) Slot Demo & Review

Given the opportunity, I would have loved to have been an explorer. Imagine delving through mysterious ancient ruins constructed by a long-forgotten civilisation and unearthing treasures that have been laid untouched for thousands of years. However, it’s probably not a job role that you can just walk into unless you happen to be mates with Indiana Jones, so we’ll just have to make do with this free Jili Games explorer themed slot instead. It’s titled Golden Temple, and it’s a medium volatility, six-reel, six-row game with an RTP of 97% and a potential maximum win of 5,000x.

Our adventure starts aboard a camel that will take us through a winding, sandy passage to the mouth of a mysterious stone temple built into a rockface. As we venture inside, we’ll discover the game’s 6×6 grid, which features up to 46,656 payways. A mixture of paytable symbols and greyed-out squares can be seen within the row positions on these reels, and matching winning combinations of symbols will clear the blockers around them, increasing the number of ways and creating more space for additional symbols to cascade down. If you’re lucky enough to clear the entire grid of these grey squares, then the free spins bonus will be triggered.

All sorts of terrible pitfalls can await those that are daring enough to explore ancient ruins, from booby traps to curses and even the occasional zombie-like mummy if you’re really unlucky. With that in mind, it would probably make much more sense to conduct your intrepid mission from the safety of modern civilisation, and you can do just that by firing up the Golden Temple demo slot, which is completely free to play below!

Golden Temple Slot
ProviderJili Games
Reels6
Rows6
Paylines46,656
Bonus Rounds1
Bet Range0.10 - 100
VolatilityMedium
Max Win5,000x
Bonus BuyNo
RTP97.00%
Our Rating6.7

Golden Temple Casino Bonus


Golden Temple Slot Demo


Golden Temple Slot Theme, Stakes, Pays & Symbols

Golden Temple Slot Paytable
Golden Temple slot paytable

There is certainly no shortage of explorer-themed games out there in the slots universe, with practically every hidden corner of the world and ancient civilisation having been depicted on the reels at some point. If you want to explore this niche of slot further, then Temple of Treasure Megaways from provider Blueprint Gaming is a great place to start, with the game offering you the chance to gamble before the free spins feature to increase the number of starting spins and minimum Megaways. Another popular game on our site is the Temple Tumble demo, which also includes the Megaways mechanic, is developed by Relax Gaming, and features a similar block-clearing mechanism to that seen in the game described in today’s review. Next up, we’ll be moving deeper into the unknown and casting our torches over the features of Golden Temple, starting with the paytable.

The way to achieve the top payout value for each symbol on Golden Temple is to match a winning combination of six. The Red Amulet features at the top of the paytable, returning just 1x the total stake for each way of six. It doesn’t get any better from there, with the Purple Vase coming in next at 0.6x, followed by the Coins at 0.5x, the Green Ring at 0.4x, the Blue Earrings at 0.3x, and the final premium symbol, the Sword, weighing in at 0.25x. The non-premiums featured are the A, K, and Q, all of which will pay 0.2x for each lot of six. There are disappointing symbol values here, then, but I guess that is mitigated to some degree by the high number of potential payways and the multiplier aspect of the game.

Finishing up this section of our review on Golden Temple, we come to the stake selection, where there are 15 different bet options to choose from, ranging from a low of €0.10 to a high of €100.00.


Golden Temple Slot Base Game

Golden Temple Slot Base Game
Golden Temple slot base game

Golden Temple uses a six-reel grid, with six row positions on each. Not all of these grid positions are available during every spin, as greyed out blockers will occupy some of them at random, with their positions randomly selected at the start of each spin. These blockers can be cleared by matching winning combinations next to them, opening up the position they occupied for paytable symbols to cascade into. Once the entire grid is unlocked, the maximum 46,656 payways will be active. All winning combinations are formed by matching a minimum of three corresponding symbols from left to right, commencing on the leftmost reel.


Golden Frame & Wild Symbols

At random, some symbols that land on reels 2, 3, 4, and 5 may have a golden border surrounding them. If any of these symbols are involved in a win, they will be transformed into wild symbols before the next cascade. These wilds will either be standard, single use wilds that replace any other paytable symbol in a win or will have a 2, 3, or 4 annotated on them, which signifies how many times they can be utilised during that spin before being eliminated from the grid.


Golden Temple Slot Bonus Features

Golden Temple Slot Free Spins Feature
Golden Temple slot free spins feature

Completely clearing the grid of grey blocker positions during any spin will trigger the free spins feature on Golden Temple, which begins with six spins.


Free Spins Feature

The Golden Frame to wild mechanic is still present during this feature, and an additional special symbol is also added, which will award +1 spin or +1 to a persistent multiplier value if activated by a nearby winning combination. If the grid is fully cleared during this bonus round, the Golden Treasure feature will be triggered, which will see all of the randomly selected symbol types on the screen transformed into a different symbol.


Pros

  • It's an interesting game mechanic that keeps you engaged.
  • There are lots of winning cascades in the base game.
  • High RTP of 97%

Cons

  • Low symbol values.
  • Golden Treasure feature during the bonus is a bit of an anti-climax

Golden Temple Slot Review Final Thoughts

Golden Temple is another solid release from Jili Games. Having to eliminate the grey squares through winning combinations keeps you interested, and there are lots of small to medium sized wins during the base game thanks to its willingness to throw out multiple cascades, and its lucky that’s the case as the values of paytable symbols are lower than ideal. The free spins feature builds slightly on the action seen in the main game by introducing multipliers, but its Golden Treasure feature, which is activated by clearing the entire screen, is very underwhelming as all it does is transform a few symbols. A few tweaks could have made this a really good game, but it's not quite up there as it stands.

6.7

Reasonable


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