Stadium of Riches Slot Review

The bonus features on offer from the Stadium of Riches game are a simple affair, including a scatter/wild, free spins, and a gamble feature.

Scatter/Wild

The trophy is both the scatter and the wild. In this role, it can stand in for all other special symbols to form a winning combination, while three or more of its likeness in any position will activate the free spins bonus round.

Free Spins With Expanding Symbol

Activated by three scatters, players get 10 free spins, during which one regular symbol is picked at random to become an expanding symbol. Whenever this symbol forms a winning combination, it will expand to cover the entire column and can pay out on all 10 paylines regardless of its related location on other reels. The Wild/Scatter is not removed from the reels during the feature, meaning that the bonus can be retriggered, and a new expanding symbol will be chosen. This can happen up to 9 times.   

Gamble Feature

An optional Gamble function can be employed following any win. Accurately predicting either of two colours or one of four suits will result in a doubling or quadrupling of the winnings, accordingly. If you guess wrong, however, you lose the amount originally won.

Stadium of Riches is essentially a football reskin of Play’n Go’s classic slot formula. Most commonly seen in their many ‘Book of’ slots, when you have reviewed as many slots as I have, the combination of 96.5% RTP, 5,000x top prize, and a free spins bonus with expanding symbol sticks out like a sore thumb. Still, if these slots are profitable to make and are popular with punters, why fix something that is not broken? 

In my opinion, as it is clear Play’n Go have established their winning formula, I would love to see some of the attention turned to adding more storytelling aspects to games of this type. With the World Cup around the corner, Stadium of Riches is already perfectly poised to gain mass appeal from players, especially within a theme that has mostly been underutilised. However, I would have loved to see the devs push this envelope a little further. Maybe the base game could represent a team hoping to qualify, and the bonus round the same team playing in the final? Just a little something to reduce the rigidity of a cut-and-paste formula.

Overall, the Stadium of Riches slot ticks all the boxes required for a successful slot, but does not strive to gain any extra credit or take any experimental risks. Therefore, I rate the Stadium of Riches game a perfectly acceptable but not exceptional score of 7.5/10; still on the national team, but not quite the next Messi.

Rating: 7.5