Medusa’s Stone

Medusa’s Stone Slot Review

Cracked marble, cold stonework and a queen watching from the sidelines: Pragmatic Play‘s Medusa’s Stone commits to its Gorgon lair properly. The interesting thing about it isn’t the dressing, though. It’s the maths: a low volatility mythology game in a genre that almost always runs brutal, built for players who want the Greek gods without the punishment.

It plays on a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines, returns 96.46% RTP, and caps the round at 7,000x the bet. Stakes run from 0.20 to 240 per spin. The mythology crowd is well served at this studio, from Forge of Olympus to Wisdom of Athena, but the calm version of it is rarer.

How the Base Game Pays

Wins pay left to right across the 20 paylines, starting from the leftmost reel, and only the highest combination on each line counts. Wins on multiple lines are added together. Free spins and bonus wins are added to the payline win.

The grid is 5×4 overall but not evenly: it’s arranged as three symbols on the outer reels and four on the three middle ones. The character symbols sit at the top of the paytable, with a bearded man in a red robe leading it, and the values below cover every symbol in the game.

• Bearded man (red robe): 2.5x, 5x and 25x the total bet for three, four and five
• Young man (brown hair, red robe): 1.25x, 3.75x and 12.5x
• Warrior (armour and helmet): 1.25x, 2.5x and 10x
• Blonde woman (floral crown): 1x, 2x and 5x
• Sword or helmet: 0.5x, 1x and 2x
• A, K and Q: 0.25x, 0.5x and 1x

All of those values are multiples of the total bet rather than the line bet, which is worth knowing on a 20-line game. The gaps between tiers are wide, so the top symbol carries the paytable and the royals are pocket change by comparison.

The BONUS and SUPER BONUS symbols appear only on reels 1, 3 and 5, and they don’t pay anything themselves. Three BONUS symbols anywhere on those reels trigger the free spins. The wild arrives through the Medusa Spin rather than landing naturally, and it substitutes for everything except the two bonus symbols.

The Medusa Spin

On any base game spin, the Medusa Spin can trigger without warning. When it does, every character symbol on reels 2, 3 and 4 turns wild for that spin. Those are the four highest-paying symbols in the game, so a full transformation can put wilds across the three middle reels at once.

Because the outer reels hold three symbols each and the middle ones hold four, the transformation covers up to twelve positions in the middle of the grid. In the base game the wilds last for that spin only. It’s also the only route to the top bonus: SUPER BONUS symbols trigger their feature only when they land during a Medusa Spin, which makes the modifier doubly important.

Free Spins and Super Free Spins

Free Spins

Three BONUS symbols award 10 free spins. Inside the round, the Medusa Spin works differently: transformed wilds each carry a random multiplier of x2, x3, x4, x5 or x6, and any wild not used on the spin it lands stays on screen until it forms part of a win.

Every time a wild’s multiplier contributes to a winning combination, it’s collected into a meter. All wins are then multiplied by that running total. The meter is where the round’s real potential sits, since late spins inherit everything collected before them.

The order of events matters. A multiplier only reaches the meter once its wild has actually paid, so a board full of idle wilds builds nothing on its own. The spins that land wins early are the ones that make the later ones count.

There’s a compounding effect at work as the round goes on. A wild that lands on the first spin and pays twice banks two multipliers; a wild that lands on the ninth has far fewer chances to contribute before the round closes. Free spins wins are awarded once the round completes.

Super Free Spins

Three SUPER BONUS symbols during a Medusa Spin award 12 free spins on special reels. The Medusa Spin triggers more often in this round, and the wild multipliers climb to x4, x5, x6, x7 or x8. The feature can’t be retriggered, so 12 spins is the ceiling.

Everything else works as in the standard round: multipliers collect into the meter, wilds stick until they pay, and all winning combinations are multiplied by the running total. The floor of x4 matches the standard round’s top multiplier. Hitting the super version is genuinely awkward, though, because it needs the modifier to fire and the three symbols to land within it. That’s the price of the better multipliers, and the bonus buy sidesteps it entirely.

Bonus Buy

Both free spins rounds can be bought from the base game, at two very different prices. The standard round runs at 96.50% RTP and the super round at 96.53%, both marginally above the base game’s 96.46%.

• FREE SPINS: 75x the total bet, triggering the standard 10-spin round
• SUPER FREE SPINS: 200x the total bet, triggering the 12-spin super round

The pricing gap between the two is close to the value of the extra multipliers. Two hundred times the bet buys the higher multiplier floor and the more frequent modifier, but it doesn’t buy more than two extra spins over the standard round.

If a round’s total win ever reaches the 7,000x cap, the round ends immediately, the win is awarded and any remaining features are forfeited.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 6.5/10

This is the rare mythology slot you can actually settle into. The wins come steadier than the genre’s usual famine-and-feast rhythm, and the Gorgon’s lair looks good while you wait, which is the whole reason to pick it over the louder Greek games.

The free spins meter is the best thing here: a round that grows instead of flatlining after spin three. The worst is the route to the super round, a narrow door that all but forces the buy option if you want the x8 wilds, and neither round extends once it starts.

It’s a comfortable home for the mythology fan who’d rather not bleed out waiting for Olympus to pay, and the steadier drip will suit a longer session at modest stakes. Anyone hunting a single ceiling-buster should look at the studio’s hotter titles instead. For everyone else, the lair is warm enough.

Medusa’s Stone FAQs

• What is the RTP of Medusa’s Stone?

  Medusa’s Stone runs at 96.46% RTP. The bonus buy options carry slightly higher figures: 96.50% for Free Spins and 96.53% for Super Free Spins.
• Is Medusa’s Stone high volatility?

  No, it’s a low volatility game. That means payouts tend to come more often in smaller amounts, though the chance of a bigger win is still there.
• How do you trigger free spins in Medusa’s Stone?

  Hit three BONUS symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 to win 10 free spins. Three SUPER BONUS symbols landing during a Medusa Spin trigger the Super Free Spins feature instead, awarding 12 free spins.
• Can you buy the bonus on Medusa’s Stone?

  Yes. You can pay 75x the total bet to trigger Free Spins, or 200x the total bet to trigger Super Free Spins directly from the base game.
• What does the Medusa Spin do?

  It can trigger on any base game spin, transforming all character symbols on reels 2, 3 and 4 into wilds. During free spins, those wilds carry random multipliers that are collected into a meter and applied to all winning combinations.
• Can free spins be retriggered in Medusa’s Stone?

  No. The Super Free Spins feature can’t be retriggered, so 12 spins is the most the super round can run for.
• How many paylines does Medusa’s Stone have?

  Medusa’s Stone has 20 paylines on a 5×4 grid, with wins paying left to right from the leftmost reel.
• What is the maximum win on Medusa’s Stone?

  The maximum win is capped at 7,000x the bet. If a round’s total win reaches that cap, the round ends immediately and the win is awarded.