Overview Spirit of Mustang
Before the Mustang was synonymous with Ford and their iconic muscle car, Mustang exclusively referred to a type of horse found in the West of the United States. To be a true Mustang, a horse must be able to trace its lineage back to the first horses brought to the country by the Spanish. These animals are typically incredibly powerful, difficult to tame and a symbol of the freedom of the West. It is these majestic animals that Pairplay has decided to create a slot game around.
When it comes to features for this wild and exciting slot, Pairplay has built-in plenty. For starters, there is a coin collection feature. This means if you land coins with values on them at the same time as the coin collect symbol, the values are added directly to your total. This feature is randomly active both in the base game and the free spins round. Speaking of the free spins round, you may play this bonus by collecting 3 of the bonus spins scatters on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th reels. Lastly, there is a bonus jackpot feature that gives you a chance of winning 1 of 4 jackpots which is triggered randomly sometimes when you land a coin and collect symbol together.
Theme and Symbols
With a high-quality Wild West theme centred on the stunning and majestic mustangs, this is a slot that players are unlikely to forget in a hurry. Pairplay takes us to a picturesque valley somewhere out west in the USA, where cacti grow impressively high and beautiful beats roam the horizons. The theme has a feeling of space and light, perhaps thanks to its many symbols with wide-open skies and landscapes stretching into the distance. The theme is reminiscent of any good Spaghetti Western worth watching.
The background as we have mentioned is a great and open desert landscape somewhere deep into the American West. The screen is dominated by towering sandstone pillars, the colour of sweet potato in the cool morning sunshine. The sky is flecked with purple and orange clouds that look like the first of the day. At ground level, there is scrubland broken up by tall slim cacti whose green colouring provides relief to the eye in a mostly arid and dusty plateau. The scene when all brought together is one of desert dawn somewhere like Arizona or Utah.
The board for this game has been designed to look like the back of an old wooden wagon, like those used by the first pioneers who travelled to the West looking for fortune and new land. Its simple wooden design fits superbly with its dramatic atmospheric surroundings.
The symbols for this game are split into low-paying, high-paying and special types. The low-paying symbols for Spirit of Mustang are the card suit symbols that have been intricately designed to fit the theme of the game. Up from these are the high paying animal symbols, including 4 mustang horses and a bald eagle. The bald eagle is the least lucrative of these symbols, paying 50x your stake for five of a kind. The most lucrative symbol from this bunch is the white mustang. Land five of these symbols are players will win 225x their bet. In terms of specials, this game has a wild which is a horseshoe, a coin that represents the cash value symbols and the coin purse which is the coin collect symbol.
Game Play
Spirit of Mustang is played on a 5-reel, 3-row board with 25 pay lines. To achieve wins on this slot, players must match 3 of a kind on a pay line or use the special symbols to make combinations. Each combination made must start on reel 1. The betting range for Spirit of Mustang is 20p to £200 per spin.
To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the bet adjuster located to the right of the reels. Information about the slot, including the paytable and the auto spins options, can be found via the menu button just underneath this tool.
The volatility rating for Spirit of Mustang is in the medium to high range. The return to player percentage for Spirit of Mustang is 96.23%, which is just a touch above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 1,000x your bet thanks to the grand jackpot prize.
Features
Spirit of Mustang comes with 3 main features plus a wild bonus symbol that can substitute for other symbols barring the specials.
The first feature in this game is the coins collection feature. Collecting any of the coins on any random spin will trigger this feature. It works by landing coins with values displayed on them whilst simultaneously landing a coin collect symbol. Doing so will collect the values on the coins and add them directly to your rolling total amount. The values displayed on the coins change depending on the size of your bet. The feature can be triggered in both the free spins round and the base game but is more likely in the former.
The next feature for Spirit of Mustang is the free spins round. To activate this feature, players must collect at least 3 bonus free spin scatters on reels 2, 3 or 4. Doing so will give you 8 free spins.
The best feature for this game however is the Mustang Jackpot feature. In this feature, players are given a chance of winning 4 jackpots, with the grand jackpot being the most lucrative. To activate this feature, players must land at least one coin and one collect symbol on the same spin. If the bonus is triggered, the game will display a screen of 15 coins. Reveal+ 3 matching symbols underneath the coins and you will be awarded the jackpot defined by the symbol set that you manage to pick. The jackpots include the mini, minor, major and grand jackpots. The grand jackpot is worth 1,000x your stake.
Conclusion
As stunning to look at and as fun to play as Mustang Spirit is, the stats just do not bear out that this is a game worth your time in terms of winning potential. The chief statistic that lets this game down is the woefully small top payout potential, which is not only small but also incredibly difficult to achieve. As such, if you are just in this game for fun then this might be a decent shout, however, if you’re interested in winning money, you had better look elsewhere.