Rich Wilde and the Aztec Idols Slot Review
Rich Wilde and the Aztec Idols is a video slot from Play’n GO with 5 reels and 15 paylines. You can play this game at online casinos such as PlayOjo, Maria Casino or CasinoCruise.
Theme and basic information
Whilst “Rich Wilde and the Aztec Idols” is indeed the full title, we’re going to go with the shorter version of Aztec Idols. This is one of several slots that Rich Wilde features in, an Indiana Jones type of characters, who winks at us or gives us a thumbs up when we happen to land a winning combination.
We’re taken to the jungles of Meso America, where the Aztecs used to be at home. The sounds of the jungle surround us when the reels are not spinning. And it gets exciting and adventurous when they are spinning.
On the reels you’ll find Rich Wilde as the wild symbol. He pays out 5,000 coins for a 5-of-a-kind win and he also pays when you only get 2 of him. Indeed, all high-value symbols (the Aztec masks) pay out when you get at least 2 of them. The golden mask is the most valuable symbol, paying out 1,000 coins when you get 5 on a payline.
The playing card symbols from 10 to A pay out between 100 and 150 coins for such a winning combination.
Interestingly, you can set the coin value, the coins and how many lines you want to play in this slot. Thus, you can play from as little as 0.01 per spin to as much as 18.75 per spin, which makes this a slot for the very budget conscious.
Pick a statue in the base game
The main feature we want to assign to the base game is the Pick-Me Bonus. Here you need to land three golden pyramids on the reels. When that happens, you’re taken to a separate room where you look upon 5 golden statues. Click on them as instructed and coin prizes are revealed. You can win up to 150x your bet here. Often, we clicked on one or two of them, got coin prizes and then ended up with a booby-trapped statue that releases green gas and we’re kicked out.
But once we found no trap and revealed coin prizes behind all five statues. That’s probably pretty rare, but it was pretty cool.
Also, after every winning spin in the base game, you can decide whether to collect your winnings or whether to gamble them. If you want to gamble, you can either choose between the colour of the card revealed or the suit. The colour pays 2x your bet and the suit 4x. But be careful, you could lose all your winnings if you pick wrong. If you get it right, you can continue to gamble multiple times.
Free spins with an extra scatter
You will need to land the sun stone scatter on reels 1, 3 and 5 in order to trigger the free spins in this game. When that happens, the sun stone appears in all its glory and starts spinning. It will reveal how many free spins you will receive (between 10 and 20) and which of the reel symbols becomes an extra scatter.
The extra scatter will expand on the reels whenever you get two of them anywhere on the reels and always pay. A single extra scatter will not pay out, however. In addition to the wild symbol, some pretty amazing wins are possible in the free spins.
Conclusion: A fun adventure that can pay out handsomely
The theoretical RTP (Return to Player) of Aztec Idols is 96.65%, which is well above average and great value. The slot is very volatile, however, and despite handing out what appear to be high coin wins, it all depends on your bet size how good your wins will turn out to be.
The volatility of the slot means you should be careful with your budget. We have had fun playing Aztec Idols and reeled in some great wins. But we’ve also hit dry spells during which we had to watch our funds carefully. Aztec Idols is not the most interesting among the Play’n GO offerings, nor even the best looking. But it is a solid slot for those who like highly volatile games. And it comes with two features, which is always a bonus.