Mustang Gold

Mustang Gold Overview

Pragmatic Play is a leading content provider who, like a range of other studios, has recently favoured high variance, high reward games. This particular slot takes us to the wild and exciting world of the American West. Indeed, players will join cowboys and cowgirls as well as mighty stallions and six-shooters in this high-intensity slot. Mechanically, this game is pretty straightforward, running a five by three playing window with 25 pay lines available. The more interesting play comes when players gain entry to one or more of the bonus features.

These features include a money collect feature, which can be triggered randomly either in the free spins or base game. When triggered, a new playing window moves onto the screen. Your job then is to collect horseshoe icons with values on them and then collect a sheriff’s badge. Collect a range of horseshoes and a badge, and you’ll win the sum of all the horseshoes on the screen.

The next feature is the jackpot reveal bonus game. This is an extension of the money collect feature, but instead of landing regular horseshoes, you try to land jackpot ones to come home with bigger prizes. There is also a free spins round. All features will be explained in more detail later on in the review.

Theme and Symbols

This game’s theme is as classic as they come. Few themes are used more than the Wild West in the world of slots. One is Ancient Egypt, the other Gems. There are absolutely no surprises here. The reels are full of grinning airbrushed gunslingers and wild stallions. Our fascination with this period in time is something that never seems to wane. Maybe it’s the dangerous and thrilling idea of a world living on the edge of civility or the romantic notion of sunsets and riding into the distance having robbed a bank full of hard cash.
The background for this game is a good old fashioned American ranch, looking out into a sunset over the great plains. A few items give you a clue that this is a proper old-school ranch with a lasso and a Stetson hanging on the fence posts. The lighting used is rather powerful. There are undoubtedly some amazingly coloured sunsets out in that part of the world, but nothing we don’t think is quite as saturated as the orange and purple vista portrayed in this game. Still, it makes a pleasant and interesting backdrop to the fun on the reels.
The playing board for this game has been styled to look like a period mirror with silver decorations lining its edges.
The symbols for this game are split into low-value, high-value and special symbols. The low-value symbols for Mustang Gold are the J, Q, K and A in playing card royals. These payout at a maximum of 4x your stake for the top combination. These are then followed by the cowgirl, the cowboy, the black stallion and the white stallion. The white stallion is the most valuable of the high-value icons, paying out at 20x the stake for the top combination. Finally, the specials are the log fire scatter, the horseshoe icons, and the sheriff’s badge collect symbol.

Game Play

Mustang Gold is played on a 5-reel, 3-row machine with 25 fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel.

The betting range for Mustang Gold is 25p to £125 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.
Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.
Volatility for this slot is rated in the high range. The return to player percentage for Mustang Gold is 96.53%, which is above average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 12,000x your stake.

Features

The first feature in this game is the Money Collect feature which can be triggered at any time in either the base or free spins game. When it is, a new playing window will arrive on the screen. The goal of this game is to land as many horseshoes as possible and then land a sheriff’s badge in order to collect the values displayed on the horseshoes. If a badge doesn’t show up, you can’t collect the values on the specials.

What makes this bonus more exciting is that jackpot horseshoes can also fall onto the reels, which like regular ones, if collected in multiples, could mean big prizes. You have to land three of the same jackpot symbol and then a collect badge to win a jackpot. The biggest jackpot available is the Grand jackpot, worth 1,000x your stake.

The other main feature in this game is the Mustang Gold free spins feature. To trigger this feature, players must land three or more scatters across reels 2, 3 and 4. This will grant you eight free spins. You can also retrigger the bonus by landing additional scatters from within the game.

Conclusion

Pragmatic Play has kept things fun and straightforward here with a great top prize and a few fun features to keep gameplay interesting. The RTP also indicates that payouts could be fairly regular. However, do be aware that this is a high variance slot, so features may not trigger as often as you might want them to.