Golden Glyph (Quickspin): Overview

Quickspin whisks players back to Ancient Egypt once again with this feature-packed slot. It isn’t the first Egyptian adventure from the studio, though this time the presentation feels especially distinctive and the win potential stacks up well against their earlier Egypt-themed titles. Even from screenshots and thumbnails, Golden Glyph looks striking. Quickspin’s artists have nailed both the symbol set and the impressive backdrop, instantly setting the scene and evoking the mystical atmosphere of the Pharaohs’ realm. It’s the perfect setting to spin a 7×7 grid loaded with engaging mechanics, including power wilds and a set of power-up modifiers, among other additions.

For the first time in a Quickspin slot, wins are created by landing matching symbols in clusters rather than along paylines. Golden Glyph also features tumbling reels: winning clusters disappear, allowing new symbols to drop in, which can produce multiple wins from a single spin—clusters require at least five symbols. It’s a popular style right now, and it suits the 7×7 format perfectly. With medium variance, bets start from 20c/p or set as high as $/€100 per spin. In return, players get an above-average RTP of 96.19% and some solid maximum win potential.

Symbol-wise, the lower paytable is made up of four Egyptian hieroglyphs, paying from 0.1x to 18x the stake for clusters of between 5 and 15+ symbols. The top tier features Tutankhamun, Cleopatra, and Horus the falcon god. Horus is the best payer, awarding 250 times your stake for a 15+ symbol cluster. The gold wild with a “W” is the regular wild, substituting for all standard symbols.

Golden Glyph (Quickspin): Features

Quickspin has matched the 7×7 grid with a strong set of features that fit the format well. Players will often encounter the Power Wild, which appears in one of the empty spaces after a cluster win. Only one can be awarded per tumble, and it can show up in both the base game and free spins. When it contributes to a winning cluster, it also triggers one of the Power-Ups.

There are 4 different Power-Up modifiers in the game. At the beginning of each spin, five Power-Ups are randomly selected and displayed on the golden wheel to the left of the grid. The fifth slot is always the Free Spins Power Up. Whenever a winning cluster includes a Power Wild, it charges the Power-Ups in sequence until Free Spins are triggered or a tumble produces no win. If the chain ends with no win, any charged Power-Ups then activate in the order shown on the wheel.

• Golden Scarab Power Up: randomly places 4 – 10 wilds across the grid.
• Eye of Horus Power Up: selects a low-pay symbol, removes every instance of it from the gird, and triggers an extra tumble. Players are awarded 1/20th of their stake for each symbol removed.
• Blaze of Fire Power Up: lands in a random position and burns all base game pay symbols horizontally and vertically, then triggers another tumble. As with the previous feature, each removed symbol pays 1/20th of the stake.
• Free Spins Bonus Power Up: grants 9 free spins.

Free Spins can’t be re-triggered, but if the Fee Spins Power Up activates during this round, 3 additional spins are added to the total each time it triggers. On the first free spin, the legendary Golden Glyph Wild is placed on the reels in a random position. True to the game’s name, this is the golden route to some huge results. It acts as a wild and also carries a progressive multiplier that increases by 1 whenever it forms part of a winning cluster. It relocates every spin and can climb all the way to a 99x multiplier. Put simply, the Golden Glyph Wild drives the biggest payouts available in the game.

Golden Glyph: Verdict

Quickspin has combined the right ingredients to deliver what may be their strongest Egyptian-themed slot so far. It’s their first outing with a cluster pays system, and it works brilliantly, especially on the 7×7 grid. While tumbling-style gameplay isn’t entirely new for Quickspin—we saw a related idea in Big Bad Wolf with swooping reels—here it feels more refined, contemporary, and polished in Golden Glyph. Beyond the mechanics, the visuals deserve special mention too. It’s a genuinely beautiful slot, and that makes the experience even more enjoyable.

Ultimately, Golden Glyph stands out because of how its features interact and the kinds of sequences they can create. Dropping in Power Wilds after a win is a smart touch, and watching the Power-Ups feed into one another is especially satisfying—particularly when they all go off on the grid. Combine that with a free spins round that can reach a x99 multiplier and deliver wins of up to 13,185 times the stake, and you’ve got one of Quickspin’s top releases of 2019.