Moon Goddess Pokie Review
Moon Goddess is a 5-reel 30-payline video pokie developed courtesy of Bally. Being a non-progressive game, it features a $15,000 fixed jackpot that brackets Moon Goddess with many progressive titles from prominent software vendors. Dark, gloomy and grey, the pokie has a mystic-themed design added with a couple of exciting features like a bonus wheel and free spins. Expanding Wilds is another attractive bonus in the pokie and a very alluring one, since it can result in extremely high winnings.
Moon Goddess has a space-inspired design with impressive stars, planets, comets and nebulas behind the reels. The reel layout has 5 standard columns with 3 rows and a user-friendly interface under the reels. The pokie is designed to all major mobile devices and features sleek buttons that are customized well for small mobile screens. Winning combinations in the game are completed in a traditional way that is typical of all payline-based pokies. You will receive a relevant reward, once three or more of the same images occur on any given payline, beginning with the first column. For player’s convenience, the affected lines are highlighted for a few seconds after a win.
The reels are populated by theme-related images. Actually, not all the symbols are made to reflect the theme claimed by the title because lower-paying pics are represented by J, Q, K and A, which are not styled after the theme. Apart from these playing card pics, other symbols include three different items that resemble jewelry, posh military orders or some religious things – they are richly encrusted with gems and are made of silver and gold. These three symbols pay out up to $4500 if you wager the maximum stake. You will also see an elegant white temple, five of which grant you $6000 at max. Finally, a full moon symbol visible through a stone gate pays out the pokie’s highest prize of $15,000. Moon Goddess is a medium-volatile pokie that caters for the needs of everyone, from first-timers to frugal gamblers to seasoned heavy punters.
Bet options
This pokie from Bally has a single customizable option, this is a line bet. By clicking on the “plus” and “minus” triangles near the line bet indicator, you can change this value between $0.01 and $15. Therefore, a spin bet can be anywhere between $0.30 and $450, with all lines in play. Note that all the thirty lines are active all the time and you cannot deactivate any of them. The bet size options are the same for all pokie formats, both desktop and mobile.
Expanding wilds
The beautiful Goddess acts as a wild picture, meaning it substitutes for any other regular (non-feature) symbol. It is restricted to reels 2, 3 and 4 only but it has an undeniable advantage that can lead to very big payouts. As soon as the Goddess lands on any of the three reels, it will grow larger to expand on the entire reel. A wild reel enhances your winning chances dramatically, as you might know. Besides, a scatter symbol (if landed on the same reels as the wild) is not replaced but it still continues to be a scatter and a bonus trigger (see below for detail). Naturally, occupying only three reels out of five, wilds cannot create combos on their own.
Bonus Wheel
Now meet a bonus wheel, Bally’s branded feature used in some other of its pokies as well. The feature gets started when three Full Moon symbols become visible on the second, third and fourth reels. The bonus wheel of fortune, which consists of numerous wedge-shaped sections, provides two kinds of winnings: instant cash and free spins. And the values of these winnings vary. You are prompted to click on the Spin button to set the wheel in motion. It stops in a few seconds and shows the prize you have won.
Money awards range between x5 and x50 the total wager, or $22,500 at the maximum stake. The number of free spins is also different – there are sectors on the wheel that read 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15 free spins (number 13 is likely not used because of superstitions). When the wheel determined the prize, you either return to base screen or proceed to a free spins feature.
Free spins
Free games are activated from within the bonus wheel. Before they start, you receive an instant reward of x2 times the total bet. During free spins, every Full Moon symbol adds to the counter and there is no payout associated with the Full Moon. As soon as free spins continue, you collect progressively more of these feature symbols. On the final free spin, each moon accumulated during the feature gives one wild symbol that is randomly placed in any place on reels 2 to 5. Just picture to yourself some 5 or 10 wild symbols scattered in a random way all over the board. This will inevitably culminate in a huge winning on the last free spin.
Bottom line on Moon Goddess
The 5-reel 30-line video pokie is inspired by a mythological theme. It features wild symbols, expanding wilds and Bally’s trademark Cash Spin feature with a wheel of fortune that is set to release up to $22,500 in winnings. Coming with a profitable twist, a free spin feature generates wild symbol for every Moon collected therein.
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