Gold of Sirens Bonus Buy Slot Review

This is the buy-button edition of Evoplay's siren slot, and the buy menu is the whole reason it exists. Underneath, it is the same game as Gold of Sirens from four months earlier: 5 reels, 3 rows, 20 fixed lines, free spins that flip a random low-paying symbol to Wild, and a hold-and-win round chasing an EPIC 3,000x. The base review has the mechanics in full. This one is about the shop.

Four things are for sale. Eight free spins for 40x total bet, ten for 50x, twelve for 60x, and the Jackpot game for 34x. The free spins pricing is arithmetic rather than design: exactly 5x total bet per spin across all three tiers, and all three return the same 96.10%. Twelve spins is the eight-spin purchase bought one and a half times, priced to match, with no discount for volume and no premium either. The tiers differ in variance and in nothing else, which is a strange sort of menu.

The prices are fair. What sits behind the cheapest button is not.

The reels hang inside a sunken temple, framed by a carved stone pediment and lit by pale shafts falling from somewhere far above. Two huge siren silhouettes flank the grid, half transparent, tails curling down past broken marble columns and clumps of pink and red coral. Poseidon presides over the whole thing, white bearded and glowering under a trident crown, a blue lightning bolt on his chest and a small orange jellyfish balanced on one open palm.

The symbols split cleanly in two. Four siren portraits sit in dark framed tiles, silver, red, teal and purple haired, all painted in the same soft light and honestly a bit hard to tell apart mid-spin. Below them drift jellyfish in blue, green, pink and orange, and the Jackpot coins are gold discs with an octopus pressed into the face and a value stamped over it. The Scatter is a gilded frame around two sirens tangled together above a bed of coral.

Three meters run across the pediment reading MAJOR 500, EPIC 30000 and MINOR 200. Those are cash figures at the stake you are playing, not multipliers. At the default 10.00 bet the EPIC shows 30000 because it pays 3,000x, and that readout is where the wrong 30,000x max win figure floating around comes from. The ceiling is 6,119x total bet.

The base game is a slow burner, and the tab on the left changes the shape of a session completely. Left alone, spins tick over on small jellyfish lines with the meters glowing overhead and long stretches where nothing lands, which is the usual high-volatility wait. Used, the session stops being a grind and turns into a run of 34x to 60x decisions, one after another. A bankroll that would have lasted two hours is gone in twenty minutes.

The free spins buys hold up better than the price band suggests, because Wild Replace has a high ceiling. Twelve spins at 60x needs 5x total bet per spin just to get level, which sounds brutal until one Replace spin covers a third of the reels and pays four lines at once. The flip side is spins that whiff completely, and in an eight-spin buy a single dead spin is an eighth of what was paid for.

The Jackpot buys are the ones that sting. They are fast, they are cheap, and most of them are over in about ten seconds. The loop that makes this round fun, coin, reset, coin, reset, needs something on that first respin to even begin, and with only one on the clock it usually never gets going. It probably suits someone who wants a quick lottery ticket and knows what they are buying. It does not suit anyone who liked how the natural round feels.

The shop is priced sensibly and the game beneath it is good. 96.18% is a strong base number for 2021, the sirens are nicely painted, and Wild Replace is one of the better free spins ideas Evoplay has put its name to. Someone who wants the Jackpot round without sitting through the wait for six coins has exactly one way to get there, and this is it.

But the one thing this edition adds is also where it falls down. Three free spins tiers that are mathematically the same purchase, a small charge on every button, and a 34x Jackpot buy that hands over a third of the respins the real round starts with. The cheapest option is the one to treat with the most suspicion, and it is dressed up as the bargain. The base version keeps the fractionally better math and loses nothing except the button.