The Aztecs didn’t mess around when it came to human sacrifice. These guys made The Hunger Games look like a primary school play. One minute you’re chilling in the village, the next you’re halfway up a pyramid with some guy in feathers ready to yank your heart out for the sun god. And the wild part? People actually volunteered. Imagine being so into your religion, or just catastrophically bad at saying no, that you’re like, “Sure, slice me open, let’s keep that corn coming.” That’s not faith. That’s performance art with a body count.

Fortunately, when you’re betting on the new Amazon City of Gold slot from Popiplay, you won’t need to worry about losing one of your organs. Just a few cents at a time instead of your still-beating heart. Fair trade, really.

Just don’t lie down for a nap on the alter

The Amazon City of Gold slot from Popiplay features 16 paylines across five reels. Betting starts at just $0.10, with a maximum limit of $25. If you’re spinning at the top end, you could win up to $250,000, thanks to the 10,000x maximum multiplier. The slot has medium to high volatility, so wins might not land often, but when they do, they can hit hard. The RTP is 96.04%.

The slot features three different wild multipliers, each with a progressively larger bracket of possible values. The lower-value green wild multipliers appear significantly more often than the red wild multipliers, which carry the highest potential values.

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When three or more wild multiplier symbols land at once, the Warrior’s Path feature is triggered. You’ll receive three spins, and the triggering wilds will lock in place. Each spin gives you a chance to land additional multiplier wilds—do so, and your spins reset to three. Go three spins without landing a new multiplier wild, and the feature ends with any winnings awarded.

Three or more scatter symbols trigger the Ritual Free Spins round. During this bonus, any scatter symbols landing on the reels are transformed into stacked wild multiplier symbols. Three different characters offer progressively larger multiplier brackets, with the Priest offering the smallest and the Golden Idol the largest.

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If you’re not keen on waiting around to be a ritual sacrifice, you can choose to buy into the Warrior’s Path or Ritual Free Spins features at any time.

Is the Amazon City of Gold slot Shangri-La?

I was really unsure when Popiplay started releasing slots with forced additions of “pop” in the title. There was definitely potential there, but it felt unrealised at the time. However, the company has dropped some absolute bangers as of late and the Amazon City of Gold slot is another one to add to that growing list. The graphics are sensational, the bonus features are both interesting and plentiful, and the whole slot just feels like a place I actually want to spend time in. Honestly, I’ve got very little, if anything, bad to say about it. I’m giving this one a solid ten out of ten.

If you’re looking for a few other bangers from Popiplay, I recommend checking out Master of Lightning and Cultist.