Tahiti Gold

An immediate successor of Ecuador Gold, Tahiti Gold managed to live up to the success of its predecessor. Introducing 2 new bonus features and increasing the wins up to 5,000 times the stake on each spin…

…Tahiti Gold is bound for even greater praise from the players!

Theme

The game is set on a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, and you follow our brave protagonist, Adventurer Kane. Now the king of the island, Adventurer Kane is set on getting more loot for himself. The whole interface has a tribal feel to it and the reels have totems on both sides…

…the high-paying and low-paying symbols include animals and primal markings and totems.

The graphics are pretty good and the background of the interface features a high-resolution depiction of an island with a shipwreck and an entrance into a cove. The reels have the similar symbol drop mechanic and animation as Ecuador Gold and it was amazingly done.

Betting Options and Functions

Same as Ecuador Gold, ELK Studio made Tahiti Gold into a 6 column, 4 to 8 row game. This number of rows and columns allows for 4096 to 262,144 ways to win!

And that’s not all…

…you will be able to get Mega Symbols which are 4x4 as far as size goes, with the same RTP of 96,1%.

Due to the size of the gameboard, there are a lot of symbols to keep track of. There are 4 low-paying symbols depicted as tribal wood carvings and 4 medium-paying symbols represented by lizards, hammer sharks, turtles and toads.

The higher-paying symbols are the three totem face masks and the highest-paying one out of these three can give you 1.80 times your stake if you land 6 of a kind…

…the highest-paying and most rewarding symbol is Adventurer Kane which, if you land 6, gives 3.50 times your stake. There is also a wild symbol that substitutes all regular symbols.

The game features an AutoPlay button, which will help you control your bets easily. The setting menu is clean and simple and there is also the Game Rules tab, where you can read up on the rules. The bets you can place range from € 0.20 to €100.

Features

Just like Ecuador Gold, Tahiti Gold uses the Avalanche game engine. In this game engine, the matching symbols that form a winning combination are removed, opening the space for new symbols that drop down. If this happens two times in a row, the whole grid expands and you get more paylines.

The default setup is 4 rows with 4,096 ways to win and once the grid starts expanding it looks like this:

• 4 rows – 4,096 paylines
• 5 rows – 15,625 paylines
• 6 rows – 46,656 paylines
• 7 rows – 117,659 paylines
• 8 rows – 262,144 paylines

ELK Studios implemented yet another feature from Ecuador Gold, Big Symbols. Symbols ranging from 2x2 to 4x4 may drop and crush smaller symbols and trigger avalanches one after the other.

The new feature in Tahiti is the Wild Forge feature. It can appear on reels 3, 4, 5 and 6 exclusively. Once landed, the symbols lock for the current avalanche and fill the slots beneath with wilds, in case the slots are empty…

…another new feature is the Eye of Tiki symbol. When 2 or more Eye of Tiki symbols land on the reels they are connected with beams of light, removing all symbols in their way and adds an extra row of symbols on the top.

The Free Drops Bonus feature is triggered once you land the bonus symbol. Two of these symbols can be landed on reels 3, 4, 5 and six and grant you 10, 15, 20, 25 free drops. Once the Free Drops Bonus is triggered, 3 or more bonus symbols will trigger the feature again.

Summary

Tahiti Gold shows more potential than Ecuador Gold since it has more features. Players who enjoyed the popular release from ELK Studios will surely like this one. The publishers added everything the previous game was missing, and made a visually better title, with more potential for substantial winnings.