Blazin’ Rails

Blazin' Rails: Slot Overview

If the clickety-clack of the rails rocking you in your seat as a train steams from one romantic destination to another appeals, then Blazin' Rails from Foxium may do too. More so if your favoured style of online slot gambling is collecting cash symbols. Cash symbol collecting is the mechanic raging at the heart of Blazin' Rails like coal in a firebox and is augmented by things like special symbols, free spins, and super free spins.

Board the choo choo in Blazin' Rails, and players are hosted in an elegant first-class cabin, a little art deco, with plush green seats, intimate lighting, and high-quality trim. As for destination, this isn't mentioned, so if you'd like to pretend you're heading to Venice, Innsbruck, Jasper, Alice Springs, San Francisco or somewhere else, feel free to take your pick. Luxury train journeys aren't exactly cheap, but Blazin' Rails boasts significant winning numbers, so who knows? Get lucky, and it might be able to stump up the cost of a train ticket or two.

Other numbers include the game's RTP, which defaults at 96.16% but is available in two lower configurations. Its math model is medium volatile, though volatility increases to high when buying the super free spins feature from the shop. With a hit rate of 24.41% on the default model, 20 symbols drop onto a 5-reel, 4-row game screen, where there are 25 paylines to land regular wins along. Bets, tickets, whatever you'd like to call them range from 20 c to $/€25 per spin, and be aware that progress on the Train Booster multiplier is saved per bet level.

Ostentation is the name of the game on the paytable, which is made up of bejewelled clubs, diamonds, spades, and hearts as the high pays, then bundles of cash, a cash-bloated wallet, bars of gold, a gold dollar sign, and diamonds as the high pays. Hitting a 5-of-a-kind low pay win awards 1.6 to 2 times the bet, or 6 to 16 times the bet for a 5 premium symbol win. Wilds are present on all reels as well. Wilds replace any regular pay symbol and have the same value as the diamonds when making their own wins.

Blazin' Rails: Slot Features

Blazin' Rails is, in short, a cash-collect style game with numerous special symbols, a Train Booster multiplier, free spins, super free spins, and a bonus buy option.

Cash Collect

Train symbols land, showing values of 1x to 500x the bet (this includes the 4 jackpots) on all reels, while the Collect symbol lands only on the rightmost reel in the base game. Collect symbols collect the values of all Train symbols when both types of symbols are in view at the same time.

Train Booster

The Train Booster starts on x1 and has a maximum value of x10. Landing a Multiplier Upgrade symbol on the rightmost reel in the base game increases the Train Booster by +1. When Train symbols are collected, their value is multiplied by the Train Booster before being awarded. After a Cash Collect event, the Train Booster resets to 1.

Free Spins

Landing at least 1 Train symbol on each reel in the base game triggers 5 free spins. During free spins, each reel has its own Money Vault. Landing Trains or multiplier symbols increases the corresponding vault values. Money collected from the vault does not reset its value. These special symbols may appear during free spins:

• Reel Collect – awards the value contained in the vault above it.
• All Collect – awards all vault values.
• Extra Spins – awards up to 5 extra free spins.
• Train – increases the value of the Money Vault above them by 1x to 500x.
• All – increases all vault values by 1x to 500x the bet.
• x Reel – multiplies the value of the vault above it by x2 to x5.
• x All – multiplies all vault values by x2 to x5.

Super Free Spins

Super free spins may be bought from the Game Shop. Bigger rewards are available in super free spins, all Money Vaults have a better chance of increasing, there are greater chances to multiply the value of all Money Vaults, and it gives the best chance to collect awards from all vaults.

Buy Feature

Players may buy regular free spins for 100x the bet (default RTP 96.16%) or super free spins for 300x the bet (default RTP 96.11%). Free spins must be triggered organically first from the base game before players are able to buy them.

Blazin' Rails: Slot Verdict

It's funny, Blazin' Rails didn't produce a heck of a lot of romance for train travel per se, but it may produce a bit of cash-collecting romance for players who are that way inclined. Like pulling out of some ugly urban station before heading somewhere more picturesque, it's a slot which got better as the session went along. It might take a bit of effort for impatient players to get to the better parts since you can't buy either free spins round before naturally triggering them first. FYI, free spins have a trigger frequency of 1 in 214, so not a huge amount of time will need to pass before activating them, theoretically, at least. In the meantime, Cash Collects fire at a rate of 1 in 22 spins, so that's a bit of scenery to keep users ogling at before the bonus hits.

Not only can you buy regular free spins after the first natural trigger, but super free spins become an option as well. Worth pondering, too, since during the test session, super free spins were by far the most exciting of the two. The 5 initially awarded free spins might not seem like much, and it's not, but it wasn't a major task to extend rounds by landing Extra Spins symbols. The longer a round can chug along, the more chances there are of adding additional dosh to the reel Money Vaults, as well as hitting other symbols like the Reel Collect or All Collect. It got quite manic at points, and with a 10,000x the bet max win, Blazin' Rails still had plenty of room for extra mayhem.

Cash collect slots are one of the biggies in the online gambling scene, with the mind automatically drawn to examples such as Big Bass Bonanza and its ilk or Fishin' Frenzy and its offshoots. Foxium has appreciably forgone fish for a change and used a less common theme to coat a slot that offers fans of this type of gaming a varied and, at times, a fairly exciting way to do a bit of cash collecting.