Cash Carts Western Wagons

Cash Carts Western Wagons: Slot Overview

Immerse yourself in the online slot scene long enough, and you start seeing tropes continually reappear again and again like a persistent jock itch. Games Global studio Snowborn Games has picked a few popular ideas for use in its online slot Cash Carts Western Wagons. These are a Western theme colouring the screen, a cash symbol collection dynamic, and static jackpot prizes. If this sounds a little stale already, yeah, Cash Carts Western Wagons is a bit like that, but it also has features going by the names of Lucky Loser and Cash Cart, which might surprise, might not, let's see.

As for the theme, Cash Carts Western Wagons isn't one of those Western slots like, say, Deadwood, that drops players into a gritty anything-goes part of the frontier where gold and bullets are the de facto laws makers. Cash Carts Western Wagons offers a brighter, more sanitised version; arcady was a word which came to mind for some reason. The game's 5-reel, 4-row grid sits next to a wooden wall and piles of gold coins. Above it is where carts appear, as if part of a migrating wagon train taking settlers on a Western expansion. An evocative idea in some ways, but Snowborn Games hasn't pushed the theme past the surface much.

Along Cash Carts Western Wagons' game grid are 20 paylines, creating wins of 3 to 5-of-a-kind starting from the leftmost reel onwards. For this medium volatile slot, Snowborn Games has designed several RTP configurations, with the highest being 96%. On all configurations, players may select a stake of 20 c up to $/€60 per spin.

The game's paytable lists 10-A card royals as its low pays, worth 2 to 2.8 times the bet for 5 OAK, then horseshoes, a lantern, cash, a skull, and a bag of money as the highs, paying 4.4 to 7 times the bet for a line of 5 identical premium symbols. Cash Carts Western Wagons' wild symbol is present on all reels and pays 30x for a 5 wild winning combination. Wilds can also replace any regular paying symbol.

Cash Carts Western Wagons: Slot Features

Cash Carts Western Wagons, in a nutshell, is a cash symbol collection game with a base game and free spins round component. One of the newer-ish bits is the Cash Carts feature, which is like a line of collectable carts possessing cash values. And there's jackpots.

Lucky Loser

The Lucky Loser can trigger in the base game and during free spins. To trigger the Lucky Loser, you need to land the Bandit Collect symbol on the leftmost or rightmost reel or both. Also, the feature only activates if there are no Cart or Cash symbols on the reels. When triggered, Lucky Loser drops 1 to 12 Cash symbols onto the reels that get collected by Bandits. Cash symbols have values of 0.2x to 50x the bet.

Bandit Collect

This feature is available in the base game. It is triggered by landing Bandit Collect symbols on the leftmost or rightmost reels and Cash symbols on any reel. All values from Cash symbols are collected by each Bandit Collect symbol. Up to 2 Bandit Collects may land.

Cash Carts

This feature is available in the base game as well as in free spins. It is triggered by landing Cart and Bandit Collect symbols on the same spin. Cart symbols appear on reels 2, 3, and 4. Each Cart symbol triggers its own Cash Carts feature, which happens one after the other. During the feature, 5 to 10 carts on top of the reels move and award cash prizes. Cash prizes from the carts are collected by the Cart symbol. From the last Cash Cart, players may get:

• A x2-x5 multiplier applied to the total value collected in the Cart symbol.
• A Jackpot value is added to the total collected amount.
• +1 Cash Cart retriggering the Cash Carts feature.

Jackpot

Available in the base game only, landing a Jackpot symbol on the middle reel presents a wheel of fortune which determines the Jackpot to be paid out. The maximum prize values are the 15x Mini, 50x Minor, 200x Major, or 2,000x Mega.

Free Spins

Scatter symbols are present on reels 1, 3, and 5. Landing all 3 scatter symbols in the base game awards 10 free spins. The feature starts with a progress bar at 0 steps. Each Bandit symbol landing in the round increases the progress bar by +1 step. If the progress bar reaches 4 steps, players get +5 free spins, at 7 steps, players get another +5 free spins, and if it reaches 10 steps, where it ends, players get an extra +10 free spins.

Cash Carts Western Wagons: Slot Verdict

Cash Carts Western Wagons wasn't Snowborn Games' most impressive piece of work. For one, as a Western slot, it didn't have a deep, dense Westerny atmosphere. A wooden wall's been propped up in the middle of nowhere, fronted by piles of gold coins, while tumbleweeds blow past the carts up the top. Um, okay. The soundtrack is pretty good, but it's hard to go totally wrong when creating a Western desperado tune. Chuck a twangy guitar and some yeehaws in there, and you're done. The audio adds to the atmosphere, which is lacking in strong originality. It doesn't seem like Snowborn Games had the same creative interest when exploring the topic as it did in something like the Cat Clans slots, for example. Cash Carts Western Wagons was like a quick-fire arcade game by comparison.

Could be totally wrong, of course, but this was the impression Cash Carts Western Wagons made. Reaching for positives, fans of cash symbol collect games might like the way Cash Carts race past and drop their prizes onto the reels. The neatly named Lucky Loser feature could be of interest as well since, as the name says, it turns a loser into a more favourable outcome. The max win of 'over 4,000x' isn't hugely motivating, though it feels like an appropriate number, all things considered.

Cash Carts Western Wagons might fit the bill for a mid-range Western-flavoured cash symbol collect game, with one or two minor innovations. It is by far and away not the biggest, baddest, meanest hombre to strut around the slot West, but the familiar features shouldn't have much trouble entertaining certain members of the mainstream gambling audience.