Beat the Beast: Griffin’s Gold: Slot Overview

Players, get ready for the concluding chapter in Thunderkick’s Beat the Beast pentalogy. These slots are ‘made for the brave’, built around high volatility and serious upside. Griffin’s Gold serves as the finale and delivers the biggest win potential of the entire run – by a wide margin. Bigger isn’t automatically better, but it’s still satisfying to see the series end on a high note.

Beyond that, Griffin’s Gold immediately looks and feels like a Beat the Beast title. The games share a consistent visual identity, from the polished artwork and bold, chunky symbols to the fonts and the way each beast is presented. In some respects, the Griffin comes across as the least intimidating of the bunch. Still, the theme has plenty to hook players: the eagle-lion guardian of treasure fits perfectly here, and Griffin’s Gold is packed with riches.

The Griffin appears in myths across the globe, from Europe through the Middle East and further afield. For Griffin’s Gold, Thunderkick seems to blend Ancient Greece, Egypt, and other neighbouring old-world influences, setting the familiar 5-reel, 3-row layout inside an ancient temple. The broken pillars, distant mountains, and bright blue sky evoke Delphi, though it could just as easily be another classical setting. A nice detail is that once the bonus game triggers, the temple is rebuilt to its pristine former state. As with the rest of the series, Griffin’s Gold has a strong, distinctive style that’s easy on the eyes.

Griffin’s Gold is built to play smoothly on any device, with stakes ranging from 10 p/c to $/€100 per spin. One of the beast’s claws is a highly volatile math model, paired with an above-average RTP of 96.14%. The series has leaned into a classic approach: straightforward base play using just 9 fixed paylines, then unleashing the beast in the bonus for maximum damage. The finale follows the same blueprint, except this time the creature feels even more ferocious, as if it’s been kept hungry for days before being set loose.

There are 12 symbols altogether: 10 standard symbols plus a scatter and wild. Low pays are the 10-A royals, requiring at least three of a kind to pay, while the higher-paying crossbow, feather, lyre, Griffin statue, and Griffin only need two. The premium symbols are worth chasing too, paying from 20x up to 150x for five on a line.

Beat the Beast: Griffin’s Gold: Slot Features

Don’t go in expecting loads of mechanics in Griffin’s Gold, because that’s never been the point of this series. Instead, the main attraction is a bonus round powered by the excitement of multiplying wild multipliers.

To reach the good stuff, you’ll need the Griffin Emblem symbol. In the base game it appears in one form as the wild, replacing any regular paying symbol. Its second role is as the scatter, where landing 3, 4, or 5 awards 10 free spin along with a payout of 2x, 20x, or 200x, respectively.

During the bonus, an additional roaming wild joins the action, substituting for any other symbol. Roaming wilds stay on the reels for the entire feature. Before each new free spin, the roaming wild shifts to a neighbouring position. Each roaming wild also has a multiplier that begins at x1. After any spin where the roaming wild contributes to one or more wins, its multiplier increases by +1 – up to a maximum of x5.

When a payline win includes more than one roaming wild, their values are multiplied together. That creates a top multiplier of 125x (5x5x5), helping you tap into the game’s Griffin-sized potential. There’s also an extra perk: any spin where one or more roaming wilds help form a win awards 1 additional free spin.

Beat the Beast: Griffin’s Gold: Slot Verdict

And just like that, the Beat the Beast series comes to an end. It kicked off strongly with Kraken’s Lair, but once it became obvious how closely the games mirrored each other, excitement naturally cooled a little. Every entry has been solid, yet the overall punch softened as the releases continued. Without taking away from Thunderkick’s work, Beat the Beast didn’t quite become the unforgettable series some players expected. It’s a dependable set of games, even if it falls short of being a once-in-a-generation standout.

Players who want straightforward, high-impact gameplay will likely value what Thunderkick has delivered, and Griffin Gold’s pushes the formula further. The volatility remains high, and the free spins feature has all the right components for a seriously intense session when you’re in the mood. Multiplying multipliers are always a crowd-pleaser, and here they don’t have a huge grid like Jammin’ Jars to separate and drift away from each other.

That doesn’t guarantee they’ll cling together and stack wins nonstop, but the potential is clearly there. Even more tempting is that wild-triggered wins can add free spins as well as multipliers. When everything clicks and the Griffin really takes off, the game can reach its neatly symmetrical maximum win of 22,222 times the stake. That’s far beyond the earlier Beast titles.

Still, be cautious: monster payouts will be hard to come by in a brutal game like this. Long-time fans of the series may feel a tug at the heart now that it’s finished. The upside is that Thunderkick have already started another series, beginning with Crystal Quest: Deep Jungle, bringing the same notable volatility and win potential found in Beat the Beast, but in a slightly more adventurous style.