The Gunman of Goldwood

The Gunman Of Goldwood: Slot Overview

Six shooters, Stetsons, and spurs, yup, it's Wild West time, folks, courtesy of developer Thunderkick's online slot, The Gunman Of Goldwood. Thunderkick has been out these ways before in the slot The Wildos, but where that game had a bright cartoonish surface, this time, the studio has gone gravelly realistic, exploring a darker side of the frontier. Maybe not True Grit Redemption or Tombstone RIP dark, but The Gunman Of Goldwood is a seriously minded slot with some seriously good features such as wild multipliers, free spins, and expanding winning symbols.

As Western slots often are, The Gunman Of Goldwood is located in a wooden building street-lined, middle-of-nowhere frontier town, oozing lawlessness and danger. Thunderkick, being no slouch with the digital brushes, has designed an attractive Ol' West scene by giving The Gunman Of Goldwood a slight oil painting look that brought Wanted Dead Or A Wild to mind. The Gunman Of Goldwood wasn't as bleak as Hacksaw Gaming's slot, but things like the ominous ringing bell scatters and moody weather produce an atmosphere of anything goes, where all you can rely on are your wits, intuitions, and shooters.

The Gunman Of Goldwood is a 5x3 slot where winning combinations are evaluated on 10 paylines, right to left, from the leftmost reel. It's highly volatile, and not only can players pick a stake of 10 c to $/€100 per spin, there are also four BET+ options to choose from, if desired. The regular max RTP is 94.31%, but this changes depending on whether users buy the feature or activate those BET+ ante bets to change how the game functions.

Ornately designed 10-A card ranks are The Gunman Of Goldwood's low pay symbols, awarding 2 to 2.5 times the bet for a 5 OAK winning payline. For premiums, there are gravestones, liquor bottles, knives, pistols, and gunman symbols, paying 5 to 50 times the stake for a 5-symbol winning line.

The Gunman Of Goldwood: Slot Features

The ammo that The Gunman Of Goldwood is able to unleash includes wild symbol multipliers, an expanding Duel feature, a free spins bonus game, a bonus buy, and BET+ ante bets.

Wild Symbol

The wild symbol substitutes for all other symbols except the scatter. In addition, any payline with a wild in it gets a multiplier determined by the number of wilds in the payline. A single wild grants an x2, 2 wilds grant an x4, 3 wilds grant an x8, and 4 wilds grant an x16.

Duel Feature

The Duel feature may trigger randomly in the base game when there is a win. When triggered, any symbol in a winning combination will expand to cover the entire reel. All highlighted symbols expand sequentially and pay out only in the expanded state. Wild symbols can expand more than once if they are included in multiple wins with different symbols.

Bonus Game

The bonus game is triggered or retriggered by landing 3 or more scatter symbols. Players win 8, 12, or 16 free spins when 3, 4, or 5 scatters, respectively, hit. In the bonus game, a random wild symbol is placed anywhere on reels 2, 3, or 4 at the start of each free spin. Another benefit is that the Duel feature is always active, and any winning combination expands.

BET+

For an increased cost to the stake, the BET+ options add specific boosts to the game:

• Bonus Boost - 1.5x the bet, each spin is 2 times more likely to trigger the bonus game.
• Bonus Boost Plus - 3x the bet, each spin is 5 times more likely to trigger the bonus game.
• Duel Deal - 5x the bet, all wins expand, even in the base game.
• Duel Deal & Bonus Boost Plus - 7.5x the bet, each spin is 5 times more likely to trigger the bonus game, and all wins expand, even in the base game.

The Gunman Of Goldwood: Slot Verdict

On the 2002 album 'Blood Money', American musician Tom Waits sang, 'A man must test his mettle, in a crooked old world', and few places offer the chance to test one's mettle like the Wild Wild West. Perhaps that's one reason why casino game makers return to the theme time and time again to colour their slots. After all, no other scenario lets a gambler pretend they're moseying on into a middle-of-nowhere settlement, taking on the locals, and, if lucky, they might make off with loot. Players certainly get a chance to indulge their Wild West fantasies in The Gunman Of Goldwood, where the subject matter has been nicely dealt with, teeing up the scene for some solid features to potentially do their thing.

The Gunman Of Goldwood hasn't been produced in a bubble. It's worth acknowledging some of the stepping stone slots which paved the way for its existence, such as Midas Golden Touch's wild multiplier effect and, of course, Book of Dead's expanding symbol feature. Thunderkick has sprinkled this sort of wild multiplier feature in a number of its slots before, and the only downer in The Gunman Of Goldwood about it is that the wild symbol has been nerfed, so players don't get the x32 for a 5 wild winning line anymore. Not necessarily a deal breaker since the Duel feature steps in to pick up any slack, and the max win is capped at 7,500x. It's handy that the Duel may randomly trigger in the base game, but the free spin expansion guarantee is a lot more exciting, where the pinnacle event, four expanded wilds and a chunky premium symbol is the dream scenario.

Other than the RTP, The Gunman Of Goldwood raises few major criticisms as it goes about the business of dropping in a handful of exciting features to compliment the core 5x3, 10 payline matrix with wild multiplier system Thunderkick evolves so well. At the end of the day, it doesn't stand out in any particular way but competently delivers a familiar Wild West experience.