Western Gold 2 Double Barrel

RTP, Stakes and Variance

There are several possible variations for the RTP of Western Gold 2 Double Barrel. The most favorable option is a payout percentage of 96.15%, but if you’re unlucky you’ll hit an RTP of only 92.2%.

The stakes remain relatively low with a minimum of $0.20 and a maximum of $20 per spin.
The variance of payouts, however, is high with a nice potential win of 25,000 times your bet.

The playing field consists of 5 reels and 4 rows of symbols. On these, there are 40 paylines where you need to land 3 or more of the same symbols to win.

Western Gold 2 vs. 3 other Western themed slots

Features

Wild symbols

The wild symbols have a big golden W on them and can replace any regular symbol to form winning combinations. In addition, you can also make a winning combination with wild symbols alone.

Cash Barrel

There are of course 2 types of Barrels. The first barrel is active during the base game, while the second only comes into action during the free spins round.

During the base game, you need to land at least 4 scatters with a horseshoe on them. If you succeed in doing so, then you will receive the cash prize depicted on the barrel. How high the prize is depends on the number of scatters on the playing field.

4 scatters give a prize of 1x your bet being the minimum win but you can land up to 12 Scatters and a prize of 10,000x your bet.

Free Spins

The scatters for activating the free spins round have a sheriff’s badge on the symbol. These only appear on reels 2, 3 and 4 and only during the base game. If you land 3 of these scatters, you get 3 free spins. Each time a new scatter or Mustang symbol lands, then the number of spins is reset to 3.

The Cash Barrel feature, which we described above, works differently during the free spins than it does during the base game. This is because the scatters do not immediately give you the prize on the barrel, but are collected. At the end of the free spins round, you then get the Cash Barrel prize that corresponds to the number of scatters you collected.

Every horseshoe awards a prize from the barrel.

During the free spins round, a win multiplier is also active. This starts at x1 and can be increased by the Feature Barrel. This is the second barrel. If you land a Mustang symbol, you may spin the Feature Barrel 1 time. The Mustang symbols only appear on the fifth reel. When spinning the Feature Barrel you have a chance to win 1 of the following modifications:

• Cash Collect – pays once for the value of the Cash Barrel associated with the number of scatters you have collected so far.
• Barrel Upgrade – increases the prizes associated with the numbers of scatters on the Cash Barrel.
• Multiplier Boost – increases the win multiplier by +1.
• Reset Extra – increases the number of spins you get when you land a scatter or Mustang symbol.
• Super Free Spins Upgrade – upgrades the free spins round to the Super free spins round.

Super Free Spins

You can trigger the Super free spins round by landing 2 more symbols with wranglers, in addition to the usual 3 sheriff badges. The wranglers appear on reels 1 and 5. In addition, the round can also be activated via the Feature Barrel above.

The difference from the regular free spins round is in the Cash Barrel feature. In the Super free spins round, the scatters are still collected, but you do get a prize paid out at the end of each spin. The prize you get each spin is equal to the amount belonging to the number of scatters collected so far.

Bonus Buy

For 85x your stake, you are guaranteed to get the regular free spins round and a chance at the Super free spins round. For 500x your stake you get instant access to the Super free spins round.

Overall

Western Gold 2 Double Barrel is a nice successor of Western Gold. Basically this slot machine does the same as its predecessor, with the same kind of design to it. But in addition, Western Gold 2 Double Barrel does a whole bunch of other things. The Feature Barrel and the Super Free Spins round ensure that there are plenty of new things to discover.