Catrina’s Coins

Catrina's Coins: Slot Overview

Who's up for a trip to Mexico, this time courtesy of developer Quickspin, to sample some of the local culture? More specifically, we're heading to a place called Pueblo del Cielo (People of Heaven, according to an online translation), where the spirit of Día de los Muertos apparently 'thrives all year long'. Yes, Pueblo del Cielo is a Day of the Dead style slot starring a lady called Catrina, who is said to guard a treasure trove of coins that players, with luck, may be able to load up on.

Pueblo del Cielo doesn't exactly seem like the most happening town in all of Mexico, at least, the corner of it where Catrina's Coins' base game is held, anyway. Behind the cabinet housing the gaming grid is a tiled street, a few buildings, and those flags on strings which are literally everywhere in Mexican-themed slots. Not the most festive spot, but trigger free spins, and the camera pans upwards to a mariachi-drenched realm in the sky. That's not something you see every day while spinning reels. The underworld, sure, yet not so much the other side. Catrina's Coins isn't the most festively energetic Day of the Dead style slot, but it's got more than enough of a positive vibe to keep on bouncing along.

Sitting inside the red skull-patterned cabinet is a 5-reel gaming panel with 3 rows of symbols and 20 paylines. Getting a 5 out of 5 rating, Catrina's Coins is a highly volatile game, available in a trio of RTP configurations with a default value of 96.06%. Players select stakes of 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin and may click the play button for individual spin betting or buy instant access to the bonus round.

While taking a moment to decide how you might approach Catrina's Coins, let's take a look over its pay symbols. There are 8 regulars, all creating wins when at least 3 matching symbols land along a payline left to right from the leftmost side. Its lows are dotty J-A card ranks, worth up to 1.25 to 3.75 times the bet, while its mediums are a chilli, a bottle of tequila, a hat, and a lady paying 10 to 37.5 times the bet for 5 OAK. Wilds are presumably the high pay symbol since they are worth up to 75 times the bet for a 5 wild win. They appear on all reels and can be used to substitute for any regular pay symbols.

Catrina's Coins: Slot Features

Features are up next, where the things to look out for are Pi?atas, Stars, Catrina Coins, the Pueblo del Cielo Bonus, and the bonus buy feature.

Pi?atas

Landing a Pi?ata symbol reveals a random multiplier of x2, x3, x4, or x5. In the base game, Pi?ata Multipliers are applied to Stars and line wins, and multiple Pi?atas have their values added together first. In the Pueblo del Cielo Bonus game, Pi?ata Multipliers are applied to Stars and Catrina Coins.

Stars

Landing a Star awards a fixed Starpot prize of 20x, 100x 500x, or 2,000x the bet. Stars land on the rightmost reel in the base game or on any reel in the Pueblo del Cielo Bonus round.

Catrina Coins

Hitting at least 3 Catrina Coins in the base game means the Pueblo Del Cielo Bonus round triggers. The triggering Catrina Coins are transferred over to the bonus round, and Catrina Coins have values of 1x to 5x in the bonus.

Pueblo Del Cielo Bonus

In The Pueblo Del Cielo Bonus, Stars, Catrina Coins, or Pi?atas may land. The round starts with 3 lives, and whenever a symbol lands, the lives reset to 3. Star symbols and Catrina Coins possess a multiplier value. Pi?ata Multipliers multiple all Stars and Catrina Coins currently on the reels. When the round ends, all multipliers on the reels are awarded.

Buy Feature

The Pueblo Del Cielo Bonus can be bought for the cost of 60 times the bet. When bought, the feature is triggered with 3+ Catrina Coins. The RTP for buying the bonus is 96.48%.

Catrina's Coins: Slot Verdict

Just as the Day of the Dead celebration is popular in Mexico, it is also super popular amongst casino game makers who just don't seem able to get enough of it in their games. Catrina's Coins is another one for enthusiasts of the celebration to consider having a go at. Like many of its contemporaries, Catrina's Coins depicts Mexico as a colourful wonderland full of festivals and mariachi music. It's no fluke that this theme is so popular, and Quickspin has made good use of it here without going overboard, and the Pueblo del Cielo Bonus round in the sky gives Catrina's Coins a unique angle.

For the most part, Catrina's Coins is a vivid, inventive, personable addition to the Day of the Dead slot selection. Yet, it's not the most energetic nor the most vibrant slot to use this style. Games like Muertos Multiplier Megaways or Money Mariachi Infinity Reels pip it in that department, but Catrina's Coins isn't without its charm. It isn't without solid winning potential either, tipping the scales at 10,000 times the bet. How it goes about attempting to drum up decent results is less exciting in some ways since it's basically a fairly straightforward hold 'n win game – trigger the feature, attempt to hit Stars, Catrina Coins, and Pi?atas. Or just hit big Stars in the base game. Simple, in theory.

In other words, Catrina's Coins is no Cash Truck, not that it is trying to be. Quickspin has bashed out a lot of games over the years, but this appears to be its first full Day of the Dead-style release, though Wild Luchador might be considered distantly related. It makes sense the studio would turn to this style eventually; a lot of studios do, and what the team has produced is a solid, if not exactly an extraordinary, performer.