ER COLOSSEO Slot – Free Demo

The Emperor, the Wild and the rest of the arena

ER COLOSSEO is a jackpot slot from the Capecod Gaming production line. Rio is the other Capecod Gaming title covered on the site. It is based on the gladiator contests of the Roman Colosseum.

When it comes to the configuration, ER COLOSSEO is a fairly standard Capecod Gaming slot, and with 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines, you take a place in the arena to meet an assortment of features. These include the Wild, the Bonus Colosseo pick round, the Admiral Jackpot progressive and, most notably, the Bonus Freespin feature. Lines are alterable from 1 to 25. The bar offers 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 as presets, and any other count is set from the line numbers beside the reels. The stake is Lines x Coin x Line x Coin Value, and the theoretical RTP here is 95.26%, with an additional 1.0000% borne by the Admiral Jackpot.

The visual styling is rather fierce here. On the reels you will see the old-fashioned card ranks J, Q, K and A in the low-value slots, and climbing up in the ranking of symbols, the premiums are depicted by the helmeted gladiator, the Centurion and the woman with a rose. The Centurion also gives his name to Centurion Megaways, another slot working the same Roman theme. The Emperor is the most generous, awarding 500 times the line bet for 5 on a payline. The woman with a rose comes next at 250 times the line bet for five, with the Centurion on 200 and the helmeted gladiator on 125. The most generous out of all symbols, however, is the Wild, which stands in for everything except the Scatter and the Bonus symbol. It is also the only symbol that pays for two on a line, at 5 times the line bet. It awards 7,500 times the line bet if you land 5 of it on a payline. Four of them on a line are worth 2,000 times the line bet.

Ten attempts, paid triple

When it comes to features, there's no shortage of ammunition here, and to start with, lines pay 3, 4 or 5 symbols left to right from the first reel, adjacent, with only the largest win per line counted, while Scatters pay from any position. Scatter wins are figured on the total bet rather than the line bet.

It all comes down to the Bonus Freespin, despite the action-packed base game. It is played when you land at least 3 Scatters anywhere on the reels, and you receive 10 attempts. Three Scatters also pay 4 times the total bet, four pay 25 times and five pay 100 times. They cost no credit and every win created during them is paid x3. The attempts draw the normal symbols, so the same line combinations are in play at triple value. You can also retrigger the feature from inside the round.

The Minty Take: Four Bonus Freespin rounds across 360 spins paid 115.75 between them, 31% of everything I won, and the x3 on every win is the reason that share is so lopsided. The base game paid on 81 spins and 47 of those came back under the stake, so the arena does most of its shouting while the reels are quiet.

Picking rooms until one comes back empty

The Bonus Colosseo is the other feature here. Land 3, 4 or 5 Bonus symbols aligned left to right on a staked payline and you unlock a pick round of a variable number of attempts. The alignment has to start on the first reel, as line wins do. You pick Colosseum rooms in turn. Each room holding a gladiator's weapon draws and awards a win, and an empty room finishes the bonus.

Lastly, every staked spin plays for the Admiral Jackpot. It is a progressive fuelled by a 1.00% contribution and divided evenly between concurrent winners.

360 spins at 1.25

With a handful of memorable high points, it's the Bonus Freespin that stands out the most. It is the only feature here that can be won again from inside itself. The x3 on every win can land a solid portion of a session's return. Ten attempts is what every trigger deals, whether three, four or five Scatters brought it in.

Over 360 spins at 1.25 a spin I wagered 450.00 and won back 368.10, a return of 81.8%. The lowest the balance sat was 878.85, after spin 359. The balance finished at 918.10 from an opening 1,000.00. The longest run without a win was 22 spins, ending on spin 357. Only 81 spins paid at all and 47 of those paid less than the stake, while the high point arrived on spin 79 at 1,113.66. That peak came off a 46.25 win, 37 times the stake. Four Bonus Freespin rounds landed, none of them retriggering, and between them they paid 115.75, 31% of everything I won - the best of them 50.00 on spin 62. The other three paid 5.75 on spin 57, 42.50 on spin 59 and 17.50 on spin 242. A lone Bonus Colosseo appeared on the very final spin for 40.50. Three or more Bonus symbols aligned left to right on a staked payline are what open that round. The Admiral Jackpot never dropped.