The Godfather 3: Pillars of Power Slot Review
You can sit through all 3 hours of The Godfather 🎬 and never once hear the word Mafia. Not a single time.
That’s because a real Mafia boss put pressure on the producer until he agreed to sit down with the man. In simple terms, he'd let them make the picture if the word came out of the script. 🤌
The Godfather 3: Pillars of Power slot from BGAMING keeps its mouth shut, too. It sits you down in a sumptuous study with a whiskey 🥃 on the desk, and 3 chilling words hang above the reels: Loyalty, Honor, Vengeance.
Gameplay
BGaming has outfitted the study properly: wood paneling, bookshelves, a leather wingback chair, a potted plant, and venetian blinds letting in a strip of golden light. You can almost hear Brando mumbling under his breath.
The 5x3 grid has 20 paylines, the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. is 96.57%, volatility is medium/high, and the max multiplier is 5,000x. The max win is $290,000, with bets running from $0.20 to $58.
Hit frequency sits at 1 in 2.96, so something lands roughly every 3 spins. Most of those are small, and the statistic that actually shapes your session is this one: Free Spins arrive about once every 105 spins - not great.
At the bottom of the paytable, the A, K, Q, J and 10 card symbols pay 0.8x for 5 of a kind, 0.3x for 4 and 0.1x for 3. The Olive Oil Tin, Whiskey and Cigar sit a whisker above them on 1.2x, 0.5x and 0.2x for the same runs.
Above those, the Vintage Car pays 2x, 0.8x and 0.3x, the Horse Head pays 2.5x, 1x and 0.4x, and Marlon Brando tops the regular symbols at 3x for a full line of 5, 1.2x for 4 and 0.5x for 3. Bit cheap for Don Corleone, if you ask me.
The Wild lands on all reels and stands in for everything except the Mystery symbols, the Instant Win symbols, the Collector symbols and the Bonus, Jackpot and Extra Spin tokens.
The Wild also pays better than the boss does: 15x for 5 of a kind, 5x for 4, 1x for 3.
The Mystery symbol lands on all reels and pays nothing by itself.
Every Mystery position on a spin flips to the same paying symbol, and that can also be the Wild. A Mystery symbol can furthermore reveal a bonus token, which is the only door into any of the 3 bonus rounds.
Five fixed jackpots run along the ticker below the reels. Mini pays 10x, Minor 25x, Major 75x, Mega 1,000x, and Max is the big one at 5,000x.
Features
FREE SPINS:
A Bronze bonus token hiding behind a Mystery symbol in the base game opens the Loyalty round and hands you 12 Free Spins.
Any Mystery symbol that lands nudges out to fill its whole reel and stays put for the rest of the round, so that reel keeps turning over fresh symbols on every spin you have left.
The round ends when the 12 spins are gone. There's no retrigger, and your bet is locked to whatever it was when the token showed up.
HOLD AND WIN:
A Silver bonus token behind a Mystery symbol opens the Honor round, worth 12 re-spins.
Every grid position spins on its own from there, and only 2 things can land: Instant Win symbols and Collector symbols.
Instant Win symbols carry 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 20x, 50x, 100x, 250x, 500x or 1,000x and stick where they land. A Collector sweeps up everything on screen and adds 1, 2 or 3 extra spins.
Fill all 15 positions and the last Instant Win symbol to land turns into a Collector, keeps its own value, takes the whole grid and adds another 3 spins. There's no cap on how many times you can fill it.
JACKPOT BONUS:
A Gold bonus token behind a Mystery symbol opens the Vengeance round and gives you 12 spins. Inside, Mystery symbols reveal jackpot tokens, and every color collects into its own pot.
Three Mini tokens pay the Mini, 4 pay the Minor, 5 pay the Major, 6 pay the Mega and 7 pay the Max, respectively. Once a jackpot pays, its token count resets and you can win that jackpot again in the same round.
COMBINED BONUSES:
Land 2 or 3 bonus tokens on the same base-game spin and they stack into a single round. You still get 12 spins whichever combination shows up.
Bronze plus Silver runs the Loyalty round, except that Mystery symbols can now reveal Instant Win coins as well. Bronze plus Gold runs Vengeance with the reel-filling sticky Mystery symbols bolted on.
Silver plus Gold runs Vengeance with Instant Win coins in the mix, and all 3 together runs Vengeance with both changes at once.
BUY BONUS:
The Bonus Buy costs 100x your bet and returns 93.57%, and it hands you a random single, double or triple bonus. The Super Bonus Buy costs 200x, returns 93.52%, and guarantees the triple.
Performance
I sat down with this game and made it a deal it couldn't refuse, namely that I'd play until something went wrong. Yeah, so now my wallet is empty but at least I can verify that the software works great.
Maximum Win
The max multiplier of 5,000x on the top bet of $58 delivers the max win of $290,000. The minimum bet is $0.20.
Conclusion
The game's money is all hiding behind a Mystery symbol, waiting to turn into a bonus token.
There are 2 roads to the top. The Max jackpot gets there on its own, and it wants 7 Max tokens pulled inside a single 12-spin Vengeance round.
The other is the Hold and WinThis feature plays out on a new screen. Typically, you get 3 re-spins (which could be re-triggered), and the triggering symbols usually stick to the position on which they land. Your objective is to land as many symbols as possible on the grid (you could land blank tiles, too)., where a grid packed with the biggest Instant Win values clears the top number several times over. Both are long odds, so the jackpot is the cleaner of the 2.
Now the buys, and this is where the math matters. Free Spins arrive about once every 105 spins, and the cheaper buy costs less than sitting there waiting for one.
The real cost shows up in the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.. The base game gives back 96.57%, the cheaper buy gives back 93.57%, so that's 3 percentage points gone.
The more expensive buy gives back 93.52%. You pay double for a slightly worse return, and all it gets you is certainty about which bonus turns up.
Mid-bet players who can absorb the cheaper buy without flinching are the ones the game is built around, and that buy is the right lever for y’all.
Slot Details
Game Provider: BGAMING
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: 20
RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 96.57%
Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).
The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk you’re taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a game’s RTP.: Medium/High
Bonus Round: Yes
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Free Spins, Re-spins
Max Multiplier: 5,000x
Max Win: $290,000
Published by
BitStarz, award-winning Bitcoin Casino
