Gold Cherry Slot – Free Demo

792.70 from a thousand

The initial impression of Inspired Gaming's Gold Cherry is pleasant. But it doesn't provide anything to get enormously thrilled about. I played 410 spins on it at 1.00 a spin, starting from a balance of 1,000.00.

Choose wagers from 0.10 up to 20.00 credits per spin, while behind the curtain a moderate volatility maths framework controls the game. Across my 410 spins, 109 paid something, and 62 of those paid less than the stake. It has a theoretical RTP of 95.00%. Against that figure, my 410.00 wagered brought back 202.70, a session return of 49.4% that left the balance on 792.70.

Dark Cherries waiting for a gold segment

Players receive 5 reels with 3 symbols on them. The grid holds 15 symbol positions at a time. A wheel above the reels rotates every spin, and this arrangement delivers 10 fixed paylines. They award both left to right and right to left. Wins are paid for 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols on a payline.

For one, the Golden Cherry is wild. Five of them on a payline pay 100x the stake. A gold segment on the wheel at the top converts every Dark Cherry in sight into one, and the Golden Cherry can deputise for any other symbol in the game except the Bonus scatter. The more Dark Cherries showing when the gold segment lands, the more wilds it creates. The remainder of the paytable is divided into 4 minor and 5 premium pay symbols. The Bell and the Golden Casino Chip pay the same, 6x the stake for five. The minor pays are Oranges, Lemons, Watermelons and Grapes, while on the premium side, I get Lucky 7s, BARs, Dark Cherries, Bells, and Golden Casino Chips. Five BARs pay 25x the stake, and five Dark Cherries pay 10x. Amounts vary widely from 2.5 times the stake for five fruits up to 50 times the stake for five of the Lucky 7s, and so far everything is fairly conventional. Three Lucky 7s return 1x the stake, and three of any fruit return 0.1x. How about the mechanics?

A scatter round I never met

Well, you can't accuse Gold Cherry of being a feature-packed slot, and the core is the Bonus scatter symbol. When 3 land on reels 1, 3 and 5, they activate 10 free spins. In my 410 spins the round never triggered.

Now, during the round the wheel acquires additional gold Wild segments. Plus, it acquires 2x win multiplier segments. The round cannot be retriggered, so it runs for its 10 spins.

Players may also receive one further feature named the Gamble option, and after a win, players can choose a wheel. The left one boosts the win by x1.33, x2 or x3. The right one grants free spins, and failing sacrifices the win. I never used the Gamble option during my session.

Final Minty Score: As well as being thin on features, Gold Cherry is also fairly thin on originality, and no one is claiming it's not a working slot. My biggest win came on spin 3, paying 37.50, or 37.5x the stake. But from a freshness viewpoint, there is nothing here to send pulses racing, or people chatting. The next best was 23.00 on spin 71, and nothing after spin 71 paid more than 9.40.

Seventeen dead spins before spin 400

Still, it functions in the manner any fruit slot does, and for uncomplicated fruit slot play, it supplies the goods. My longest run without a win lasted 17 spins, ending on spin 400.

At the end of the day, Gold Cherry is strictly capable of supplying some decent play. Inspired Gaming's other slots include Super Hot Fruits and Scarab Gold. There's nothing excessively amiss with it as such.