Cash Express

Cash Express Overview

In a new Wild West-themed slot game, Cash Express, Stakelogic invites players to rob a speeding locomotive full of cash and gold bullion. Indeed, this is an adrenaline-pumping game with a great mix of features, an excellent playing experience and a fun range of thematically relevant and exciting icons. Players will find a top win per spin in this game of around 20,000x the stake with an RTP of 95.85%. Mechanically this is a five-reel, three-row game with 25 pay lines and a volatility rating that sits between medium and high. So, get on your mighty steed and ride into the distance, having purloined some huge cash prizes.

The features for this game start with the cash bonus feature. This bonus is triggered when players land six or more of the train scatter symbols on the reels simultaneously. When triggered, this bonus gives players three re-spins on a new board where only blanks or multiplier value icons will fall. Every new symbol that lands also refreshes your re-spins to three. This feature is more or less the same as most hold and win bonuses. The other main bonus in this game is the cash bonus enhancers which introduce new multipliers to the grid. Finally, this game also has a bonus buy and gamble option. All features will be explained in more detail later in the review.

Cash Express Theme and Symbols

The theme for this game is immediately apparent; it is a wild west theme with a more specific focus on the train heist trope. This game's narrative is that a train full of money from the bank is moving from one town to another. In its transit, it is the job of the bandits and yourself to heist the train and relieve the occupants of this vast wealth. This is a central story that runs through many wild west films and always proves popular with audiences thanks to the high-octane chases and dangerous shootouts.

The background for this game is the open wild west countryside characterised by an immense open sky at dusk. The terrain in this setting is dominated by large swathes of orange desert punctuated with tall sandstone stacks. The game could be set in several US states considered part of the wild west, including Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Colorado. In the bonus game, however, the game switches background to a western town where this train has stopped for the night. The playing board has been designed to look like a train carriage or car with wheels that connect with the tracks underneath.

The symbols are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying icons are the J, Q, K and A in playing card royals. The most valuable of these is the A which pays out at 1.42x the stake for the top combination. The four different bandits with blue, green, yellow and red backgrounds are the more valuable symbols. The one with the red background is the most valuable, paying out at 14.2x the stake for the top combination. The special symbols finally are the train bonus scatter and the sheriff's badge wild icon.

Game Play

Cash Express 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 Cash Express is 25p to £12.50 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stakes 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 Cash Express is 95.8%, which is below average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 20,000x your stake.

Cash Express Features

The main feature that you will find in this game is the cash bonus feature. This bonus is triggered when you land six or more train symbols simultaneously on the same spin in the base game. When triggered, the game will take you to a new table, on which only blanks and multiplier values land. You are then given three re-spins to try and land more icons. Whenever a new symbol lands in this new game, the number of re-spins is refreshed to three. Filling the bottom row of this board with symbols awards all of the respective multipliers in the row and then removes these icons from the board. The symbols on top of these at that point will then filter down into the bottom slots. When you run out of re-spins, the feature ends, and the cumulative multiplier is then applied to the stake and rewarded in one larger payout.

The next feature is called the cash enhancers bonus. This bonus depends on players landing the train symbols during the base game. Every time you land one, they help progress you along a bonus meter which at regular intervals unlocks bonus enhancers. These can also be unlocked in the cash bonus game. The four levels of enhancer are explained below:

• Enhancer 1 = 2x to 30x multiplier.
• Enhancer 2 = 2x to 50x multiplier that adds up with any other multipliers on the grid.
• Enhancer 3 = 2x to 50x multiplier, plus an extra row on the grid.
• Enhancer 4 = 2x to 100x multiplier and collects any other multiplier values on symbols on your grid.

The game also carries super stake and bonus buy options. However, these are not available in the UK.

Conclusion

Although this game is fun, exciting and offers an interesting gaming experience, it is not the best example of this type of game. It also doesn't offer the same win potential as previous products, as the RTP is a little low, and the volatility in both base and bonus games keeps things rather inconsistent win frequency-wise. This is a solid product but not something that will start dominating this niche of online slot games.