Western Gold Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Western Gold Review

When you hear about a new slot from Just For The Win, you already know what to expect – exciting gameplay with top-notch quality visuals and a fairy decent math model. Western Gold is no exception and the developers in conjunction with their partner studios Microgaming did a great job of developing this one for the game is really promising as there are interesting features as well as great payouts to be found.

Western Gold – Design and Symbols

Some may have thought that it’s a sequel to the self-titled slot powered by the Big Time Gaming’s engine, however, it has nothing to do with iSoftBet’s Western Gold Megaways. However, it has shades of Just For The Win’s another slot called Aurora Beast hunter, in terms of the game’s appearance at least. The cartoonish visual style is dope and extremely eye-catching indeed. The reels in Western Gold are set in a backdrop of a canyon drenched in sunlight, which looks like a watercolor. A pretty sight indeed.

When it comes to the game’s atmosphere, it’s undoubtedly one of the best in the niche of Wild West-inspired slot, and it’s all thanks to the soundtrack. If you have ever tried Aurora Beast Hunter you know what Just For The Win is capable of. Loading the game will immediately turn you into the right mood.

As we head over to the paytable, it offers a bunch of recognizable symbols that are commonly used in many Old West styled slots. In ascending order the pay symbols include whips, spurred boots, cowboy hats, crossed Stetsons, bars, double bars, triple bars, and sevens. Pretty weird to turn the paytable upside down, anyway, you’ll get as much as 30x of the bet for matching 5 instances of the top-paying symbol on a single line. Helping you to form a winning combination is a W logo symbol, which is Wild, acting as a substitute to any other regular symbols and is worth the same as the sevens on top of everything.

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Western Gold – Technical Info

The actions take place across a 5x3 sized grid with fixed 40 ways to play. True to the developer’s style, the game is powered by a high volatile math model, however, thanks to the fairly generous hit frequency of 38.98%, you’ll get your returns fairly often.

The devs are also helping with the moderate RTP of 96.12%, which is slightly above the average level within the industry.

Players drop in by setting bets from 0.1$ to 25$ per spin. The maximum potential is also decent as you can hope for a whopping win of 10,000x of the bet here, which is 250,000$ on a single spin when playing with the max bet option available.

Western Gold – Bonus Features

You’ll feel yourself like a real cowboy, not the one from the movies, but hard-working horseshoe collector, who is probably selling them to make ends meet. Not a very promising fate, though, it seems to be a highly profitable business.

On any spin during the base game horseshoe symbols may appear on any position on the reel set. Should 4 or more instances land in view on the same spin, you’ll be awarded a tasty instant cash prize. The more symbols you manage to land, the higher will be the prize, with 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12 horseshoes award 1x, 5x, 15x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x, 1000x, or 10,000x of the stake.

The second place where you can collect horseshoes is the Free Spins round. Sheriff badge symbols are Scatters here, though, they can only land onto the three middle reels. Once 3 appear in view, the Free Spins feature is activated.

You’ll proceed to the bonus game with 3 spins to start. Whenever a horseshoe symbol lands during the feature, it’s collected and the number of spins is reset back to 3.

The values remain the same as in the base game, so collecting 12 instances grant you a whopping jackpot of 10,000 times the stake.

Western Gold – Verdict

Playing Western Gold is like chasing a massive jackpot really. You see it far in the distance but never lose hope of catching it like a hound that catches a scent. However, the outcomes are frequently disappointing, and you’ll also hardly hit a two-digit number of horseshoes on a single spin and end up with approximately 5 of 6.

Anyway, it doesn’t fail to be a decent slot. Even though the feature set leaves much to be desired, Western Gold is a playable and enjoyable slot. Thanks to a generous math model you’ll get returns pretty often, and in-game extras will only contribute to increasing your bankroll.

In terms of the visuals, Western Gold is almost a masterpiece. It offers perfect aesthetics when it comes to the background and symbols for Just For The Win skillfully mixes up watercolor-looking backdrop with cartoonish-styled symbols.

However, the outstanding soundtrack plays the most important role in the overall atmosphere, and thanks to it Western Gold easily stands out from the niche.

All said and done, it could have been better in terms of the features, however, the fact remains, you won’t find anything here to get super fired in case you seek saturated gameplay. Otherwise, if you’re OK with the potentially uneventful gameplay, Western Gold might be worth a couple of spins.