Katmandu Gold

Katmandu Gold is ELK Studio’s fifth game in their Gold series, launched on December 1, 2020. It was an enormous step forward for the Swedish company as this was their first-ever slot with a bonus buy option.

Design & Theme

Katmandu joins the list of other out-of-the-ordinary venues like Tahiti and Ecuador used by ELK to stage Gold Series games.

Katmandu Gold slot machine’s 6×4 reel grid is placed in a mountain valley, with authentic and realistic snow-capped peaking in the background, creating a dramatic and visually appealing atmosphere.

The elements of earth, fire, water, and air, as well as the traditional playing card symbols, are predominantly featured. There are also the dragon, tiger, and turtle statues that handsomely pay when crossed, but it’s the Explorer-type character (Ice Climber) you’re hoping to see.

Three different RTP values are generated depending on whether or not the bonus buy is used. It has a default rating of 96.2%, increasing to 96.3% with the entry-level feature buy, and reaches 96.4% with the buy super bonus.

Intending to silence its skeptics, ELK has significantly increased its potential, and its seven out of ten volatility is strong, although not extreme, with a hit frequency of 22.4%. Katmandu Gold demo version is available on desktop and mobile devices throughout the web.

How to Play Katmandu Gold Slot Game

The base game has six reels and 4,096 ways to win, but the Ice Climber feature unlocks high-value symbols, wilds, and the number of rows rises to nine, increasing the total ways to win to 531,441.

• In the bottom-left corner, you can choose your bet value — there are 12 options, and the minimum is €/$0.20, while the maximum bet is set at €/$100.
• The maximum win is 10,000x of your stake.
• If you use the buy bonus function, you can guarantee between three and six bonus symbols at the cost of 100 times your stake. However, if you’d rather participate in the buy super bonus feature, you can do so for 500X your stake and still be certain that you’ll receive 3–6 bonus symbols. The key distinction is a 10x multiplier.
• The gold lotus symbol signifies the wild — this icon appears on all reels and stands for all other icons, excluding the bonus and ice climber icons.
• You can ease and accelerate your play using the auto spin option found in the top-right corner. You’ll have an option to choose between 10, 25, 50, or 100 automated spins.

Katmandu Gold Slot – Free Spins and Bonuses

• Cascading symbols generate several consecutive wins, hence the term avalanches. All winning symbols vanish from the reels and are replaced by new ones, and it’s possible to expand this up to the 9th row.
• A big symbol function is practically self-explanatory — to facilitate a win and subsequent avalanche, each symbol can appear in any of the three possible sizes: 2×2, 3×3, and 4×4.
• If you get three, four, five, or six of the gold bonus symbols, you’ll trigger Katmandu Gold free play: 10, 15, 20, or 25 multiplier free drops. Additional bonus symbols during these free spins raise multipliers by 1x, with no upper limit. This bonus game can be retriggered multiple times, resulting in many additional drops.