Gonzo's Quest

How Gonzo’s Quest plays

Gonzo’s Quest is a five-reel, three-row NetEnt slot with 20 lines, set on a conquistador’s hunt for Eldorado, and the game that made NetEnt’s Avalanche mechanic famous. When a payline wins, the winning symbols explode and new ones cascade down into the empty spaces, so a single spin can pay several times. Each Avalanche raises the win multiplier by 1, up to 5x in the main game, and a non-winning spin resets it.

Wilds land as stone blocks and substitute for any paying symbol; they can also fill in for the Free Fall scatters. Three Free Fall scatters on reels 1, 2 and 3 start the Free Fall feature with 10 free spins, where the multiplier can climb to 15x, and further scatters during the round retrigger it.

Volatility in practice

NetEnt gives a hit frequency of 41%, so about two spins in five pay something, and leaves volatility blank; listings call it medium-high. The base game is busy with small wins, and the value sits in long Avalanche chains inside Free Falls, where the multiplier is highest. The ceiling is 2,200x.

RTP settings

NetEnt’s game page gives 95.97%. Casinos can run lower settings, so the info panel is the figure that counts.