Western Gold 2 Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Western Gold 2 Review

The original Western Gold is still hanging on for dare life within the top 10 range in the popular scatter jackpot genre, but we have a feeling Western Gold 2: Double Barrel is going to dethrone it. Fans of the original wild west adventure can still look forward to instant scatter prizes up to 10,000x, which keeps tension up in the base game.

However, there is far more to the bonus round this time, or should be say bonus rounds. That’s right, JFTW has added a new tier to the feature, as well as a Feature Barrel packed with modifiers and upgrade possibilities. The audiovisual presentation hasn’t changed all that much perhaps, but the super bonus round pays your achieved scatter prize persistently on each spin instead of just at the end of the feature.

Western Gold 2 Slot - Reels Screen

Western Gold 2 Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 3 and 30 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the Wild symbol pays the same as the top-tier triple 7 symbol. The Wild also steps in for regular pay symbols to help complete wins, and wilds can appear on any reel.

The red barrel on the left-hand side consists of different scatter prizes, and it’s called the Cash Barrel. You need at least 4 golden horseshoe scatters in view to win a Cash Barrel instant scatter prize. More precisely, you win 1x, 5x, 15x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x, 1,000x or 10,000x your stake when 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 scatters land on the same spin, respectively.

The sheriff star bonus symbols can land on the 3 middle reels only, and you need 3 in view to trigger the Bonus Round.

You start with 3 free spins, and the tally resets every time you land a scatter or Mustang symbol. The latter is a special white horse symbol that only appears in the bonus rounds, and it can land on reel 5 only.

Scatters are collected in the bonus round, and this is how you climb the Cash Barrel prize levels. At the end of the feature you win the corresponding scatter prize, as listed up above. The Feature Barrel is triggered each time you land a Mustang symbol on reel 5, and it awards the following:

• Cash Collect - gives you the current Cash Barrel prize added to your total win.
• Barrel Upgrade - boosts the prizes on the Cash Barrel.
• Multiplier Boost - adds +1 to the win multiplier that starts at x1.
• Reset Extra - adds +1 to the spin reset count tally.
• Super Free Spins - upgrades you to the Super version of the bonus round.

The Super Free Spins feature can also be triggered from the base game, and this requires 3 bonus symbols on reels 2, 3 and 4, as well as the wrangler symbol on reels 1 and 5. The super version plays out just as the regular bonus round, with the important exception that your current Cash Barrel prize is collected and added to your total win on each spin.

Finally, non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can purchase both tiers of the bonus round directly from the in-game menu.

You can pay 85x your stake for the regular bonus round, or you can cough up 500x your stake for the super free spins feature.

The 200 Spins Western Gold 2 Slot Experience

You get a decent taste of the base game, before we purchase the regular bonus round at 1:21 into the 9:43-minute highlights video. It went on for quite a while, and the same can be said about the Super version we buy at 4:11 into the video. You can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

We’re happy to see that Just For The Win is willing to further develop the instant scatter prize concept that was popularized by Gameburger’s 9 Masks Of Fire. So many developers simply churn out copycats, while you can immediately sense that there is real thought and effort poured into Western Gold 2. Audiovisually, this follow-up is pretty similar to the popular original, but fans will hardly be disappointed by the upgrades in the feature and math model department.

The bonus round is enhanced by the added Feature Barrel. The super version seems inspired by NoLimit City, but there’s hardly any shame in that, and it’s a highly entertaining feature where potentially very solid scatter payouts can come your way on each spin. The win cap is a generous 25,000x your stake, which is more than double the original game, and Western Gold 2 has the potential to climb high in the scatter jackpot genre.

Pros

• Instant scatter prizes up to 10,000x
• FS w/ 4 Feature Barrel modifiers + level up
• Super FS w/ persistent scatter prizes
• FS and Super FS Buy feature (not UK)
• Win up to 25,000x your stake

Cons

• Beware of customizable RTP ranges

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This awards extra spins, and it’s also how you climb the scatter prize ladder.

The Bandit and the Baron - is another wild west installment from JFTW, and expanding wilds and near-miss bandit scatter respins help you out in the base game. The streak respin style Bandit Bonus comes with multiplier modifiers, unlockable positions and a 25,000x potential.

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