Thunderstruck Gold Blitz Extreme Slot Review

Thor woke up one morning and his hammer 🔨 was gone. The giant who took it wanted the goddess Freya as his bride for the return. She said no, so Thor put on the dress and the veil himself and walked into the giant's hall.

At the feast he ate a whole ox, eight salmon, and drank three barrels of mead 🍺. When the giant squinted at that, Loki said the poor bride was just nervous and hadn't eaten in a week.

The giant bought it, and laid the hammer in her lap as a gift. So the thunder god got his beloved hammer back by sitting through a wedding in a dress.

In Thunderstruck Gold Blitz Extreme slot, from Games Global, that same hammer is the Bonus symbol.

Gameplay

Typically, any game that has Thor or the Vikings as its theme tends to be based in Valhalla, or you'll see Vikings in the woods or on dragon ships or something similar, but that's not the case here.

This time, we have some weird blue vortex thing behind the grid, and that's about as good as it gets in terms of the aesthetics.

The 6x4 grid pays across 4,096 ways. 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% **and the volatility is very high. The max multiplier is 5,500x, which gives a max win of $247,500. Bets run from $0.20 to $45 in fiat currencies only, but the Japanese yen and Russian ruble are excluded.

Four jackpots - Mini (5x), Minor (10x), Major (100x) and Mega (1,000x) - sit beside the reels, so this is the hoard you wanna get your hands on.

Mini and Minor can swell to 5 times their starting value, while the Major and Mega can bump up to 2.5 times.

Up top of the paytable, the Thor symbol pays 5x for 6-of-a-kind. The lava-lit Forge and the green Forest thing pay 2.6x, and the blue Crystal and the purple Orb pay 2x.

The low-paying symbols are 6 carved rune stones. The A and K rune stone symbols pay 1.4x for 6-of-a-kind, the Q and J pay 1.2x, and the 10 and the purple rune stone pay 1x.

The Wild symbol strikes reels 2 to 6 in the base game, standing in for every symbol except the Cash, Collect and Bonus symbols.

The Bonus symbol is Thor's hammer with a blue gem set in its head, and it pays wherever it lands: 3, 4, 5 or 6 pay 1x, 2x, 3x or 5x, respectively, and 3 or more also swing open the Bonus Choice.

Cash symbols carry a bet value on a blue banner, and the Collect symbol is a lightning bolt on a glowing disc.

The Bonus Multiplier meter starts at 1x and climbs 0.5x every time 2 Bonus symbols land on reels 1 to 5, up to a 5x cap. The Meter drops back to 1x the second that round ends.

Features

COLLECT FEATURE:

You need a Collect symbol and at least 1 Cash symbol on the grid at the same time. That's the trigger, and it's the main way the base game pays you anything.

Cash symbols can land on any of the 6 reels. The Collect symbol only shows up on reel 1 and reel 6, so those 2 reels decide whether the Cash symbols are worth anything on that spin.

When both are there, each Collect symbol pays you the value written on every single Cash symbol on the grid, so 2 Collect symbols pay all of it twice.

The more Cash symbols sitting there when a Collect symbol turns up, the bigger the pay.

RE-SPINS:

Sometimes a Collect symbol lands on reel 1 and another one lands on reel 6, but there's no Cash symbol anywhere on the grid, and you haven't triggered the Bonus Choice either.

There’s nothing for them to collect but it still gets you 1 re-spin. Reels 1 and 6 hold still with both Collect symbols in place, and reels 2 to 5 spin again.

At least 1 Cash symbol is guaranteed to land on that spin, so both Collect symbols always end up paying something. You can't come away empty from a re-spin.

JACKPOT FEATURE:

Now, if a Cash symbol lands and there's no Collect symbol with it, that Cash symbol doesn't pay you. It gets banked as a Token instead. Your money goes on the pile beside the reels instead of into your pocket.

Every spin that banks Tokens raises at least 1 of the 4 jackpots by up to 1x. The more Tokens land on a single spin, the more jackpots go up, and 4 at once is the most it'll do.

Banking Tokens also gives you a shot at the Jackpot Feature itself. That one reveals cash prizes and jackpots and pays you everything it reveals, and at least 1 jackpot is guaranteed to be in there.

When a jackpot gets awarded, it drops back to its starting value and the Tokens start building it up again. So the Mega you just walked off with is now a small Mega for whoever sits down next.

FREE SPINS:

Land 3, 4, 5 or 6 Bonus symbols and the Bonus Choice opens. You pick either Free Spins or Gold Blitz.

Take Free Spins and you get 8, 12, 20 or 30 spins, depending on how many Bonus symbols got you in. Land 2 to 6 Bonus symbols during the round and you get 5, 8, 12, 20 or 30 more.

The Wild symbol only strikes reels 2 to 4 instead of 2 to 6. But every Wild symbol that helps make a winning way gets a random 2x, 3x or 5x multiplier stuck on it.

Then the Bonus Multiplier you brought in from the base game multiplies the whole spin total on top of that.

So each Wild multiplier boosts only the winning combination it sits in, the game adds up every combo on that spin, and then the Meter multiplies the total. Stack a 5x wild under a full Meter, and that's where the big bucks come from.

One more thing. The Forge, the Forest, the Crystal and the purple Orb all get pulled off the reels for the round. That leaves Thor and the 6 rune stones filling the ways, and Thor is the 5x symbol, so you want fewer things in his way.

GOLD BLITZ:

Pick Gold Blitz instead and you get 2, 3, 5 or 7 spins off a 3-, 4-, 5- or 6-symbol trigger. Fewer spins than Free Spins gives you, so the round has to earn it another way. And it does.

The reels get stripped down to Cash symbols, Collect symbols and re-trigger symbols only. Every other position on the grid is blank. Nothing lands in here that isn't money or another spin.

A Collect symbol is guaranteed on reel 1 every single spin, so every spin in Gold Blitz pays you something. And the Cash symbols in this round include Extreme values worth 100x.

Reel 6 does the re-triggering: a Collect Re-trigger symbol is a lightning bolt with a +1 on it, and it pays every Cash symbol on the grid and adds 1 spin. A plain Re-trigger symbol just adds the spin.

The Bonus Multiplier multiplies each spin's total in here as well, so if your meter was hot when you triggered, every one of these guaranteed pays comes out bigger.

BUY BONUS:

You can buy the Bonus Choice straight out for 30x, 50x, 80x or 120x. That gets you the 3-, 4-, 5- or 6-symbol version, respectively, and then you pick Free Spins or Gold Blitz same as always.

One thing to watch. The buy takes your Bonus Multiplier Meter at whatever it happens to be sitting at right then. Buy with the Meter at 1x and you paid the same scratch for thinner thunder.

Performance

I put a long session through Thunderstruck Gold Blitz Extreme slot and nothing so much as flickered, storm and all. The Gold Blitz re-spins loaded as quick as the base game did.

Maximum Win

The max win is $247,500, which is the max multiplier of 5,500x at the top bet of $45. The smallest bet you can place is $0.20.

Conclusion

The slot's money comes off Gold Blitz, and that's the whole story.

The Collect Feature and the jackpots hand you smaller sums along the way, and they're enough to keep the stool warm, but they're not what you're here for.

Three things make Gold Blitz an actual payday instead of a light show. The Extreme Cash symbols, the Collect symbol guaranteed on reel 1 so every spin pays, and the Bonus Multiplier working on each spin's total.

Getting to that max multiplier means you'd need to walk into Gold Blitz with the meter near its cap, then hit a run of re-triggers, then fill the grid with top Cash values - all at once.

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. supports longer sessions, but the max multiplier sits a tier below where a very high volatility slot usually tops out.

Big-bet players who want a collect round with a growing multiplier are who the studio built this game for. Cautious low-bet grinders should walk, 'cause the base game gives you next to nothin' until a Collect symbol meets a Cash symbol.

Slot Details

Game Provider: Games Global
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.: 4,096 ways
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%
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.: Very High
Bonus Round: Yes
Progressive: Yes
Free Rounds: Free Spins, Re-spins
Max Multiplier: 5,500x
Max Win: $247,500
Published by
BitStarz, award-winning Bitcoin Casino