Nothing says “great life choices” like swinging a pickaxe in the dark, sweating through your overalls, and getting excited over shiny rocks. And yes, there may be some good in mining, but does that warrant the risk of having a mountain fall on you and your tiny hard hat?
With that threat of hard hat overload in mind, I can’t say a mining theme particularly appeals to me. However, if you give it a vaguely dirty name and slap a confusingly buff, French-looking, shirtless miner on the cover of your game, now you’ve got my attention. And that’s exactly what Gamebeat has done with its Tunnel of Treasure slot. The game is a BitStarz exclusive, meaning you won’t find it anywhere else.
The thirst trap brought me here
The Tunnel of Treasure slot from Gamebeat features 4,096 ways to win instead of traditional paylines. Betting starts at just $0.40, with a maximum limit of $20. If you’re betting at the upper limit, you could win up to $284,340, thanks to the 14,217x maximum multiplier. The slot has high volatility, meaning wins can be rare but potentially massive. The RTP is 96.28%.
The slot’s wild symbol acts as a substitute for other symbols to complete or boost winning combinations. The symbol only appears on reels 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
The gold-laden mine cart is the slot’s scatter symbol, which triggers a round of free spins when three or more appear on the reels at once. The slot awards 8, 15, 25, or 100 free spins when the feature is triggered with 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatter symbols, respectively. During a round of free spins, the appearance of 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatter symbols on the reels at once will award an additional 5, 8, 15, 25, or 100 free spins, respectively.
All wild symbols that appear during a round of free spins will feature a 2x, 3x, or 5x multiplier. If a wild multiplier is involved in a winning combination, the multiplier value will be applied to the winning amount.
In addition to the slot’s standard mechanism for unlocking a round of free spins, it also offers Buy Bonus and Double Chance features. The Buy Bonus feature allows you to purchase a round of free spins for 100x your base bet amount. The Double Chance feature, when activated, doubles your chance of unlocking a round of free spins for 1.25x your bet amount per spin.
Is the Tunnel of Treasures slot worth a booty call?
I love a bit of quirk in a slot game, and the thumbnail for the Tunnel of Treasure slot certainly promised a fair serving of it. That being said, it didn’t deliver quite as much as I’d hoped. The muscle-bulging Frenchman on the thumbnail, for instance, doesn’t really feature in the slot itself, which is disappointing. Still, the swinging rat and the miner with the impressively twirled moustache definitely brought the weird. The slot also offers a solid, if slightly generic, set of bonus features and a healthy max multiplier. All in all, I give Tunnel of Treasure a solid eight out of ten.
If you’re looking for a few other BitStarz-exclusive slots to try out, I recommend giving Alchemy Academy and King of BitStarz a try.
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