It’s been interesting to follow the development of Quickspin’s Sticky BanditsWild Westseries, as the math model has become more and more hard-hitting per installment thus far. It peaked in the previous femme-fatale bank heist slot,Sticky Bandits 3: Most Wanted, at least for now, as Quickspin has dialled the max win down a few notches to a still respectable 17,279x in Sticky Bandits: Trail of Blood.
The game revolves around Tex Tallonis, a former sheriff in a dusty goldrush town. His enemies killed his family, and left him for dead, but he’s now returned to his old stomping grounds to make sure justice is served in cold blood. You get excellent audiovisuals with great attention to detail, and fast-paced action with engaging sound effects and story elements. The sticky wilds bonus round is the big highlight, and the payback is sweet when 5 sticky wilds line up.
The premium symbols, consisting of different weapons, pay between 20 and 75 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins. The 5 characterWild symbolsall work the same way, namely by substituting for regular pay symbols to help complete wins. Wilds are also the highest value symbols in the game, awarding 300x your stake for 5 wilds of any kind on a payline.
TheRevenge Bonus Roundtriggers when you land3, 4 or 5 wilds in view, and this awards10, 12 or 15 free spins, respectively. Thetriggering wilds become sticky, and the same goes for any new wilds that land during the feature. Anynew wildalso awards+1 extra spin, and you can thus get repeat back-to-back wins of 300x for a full sticky wild line (referred to as a ‘trail of blood’ in this game).
Depending on your jurisdiction, theBonus Buy featuremay be available, but it’s not available in the UK for sure. If eligible, you can pay100x your stakefor 3+ triggering wilds (96.36 % RTP), and400x your stakefor 4+ triggering wilds (96.68 % RTP).
You get to see the spooked characters being put in the crosshairs a few times in the base game, before we pay a fistful of dollars to get our revenge in the top-tier bonus round. The feature starts around 1:30 into the 4:13-minute highlights video, and you can see for yourself how it all went down by hitting the play button below.
Visually, Sticky Bandits: Trail of Blood is in a league of its own compared to the 3 previous installments in the Quickspin series, and the excellent game pace meshes perfectly with the hard-hitting sound effects and the atmospheric soundtrack. It’s a joy to spin the reels in other words, although nothing too exciting happens in terms of features in the base game.
The character wilds are always teasing you though, and their scared expressions are kind of fun to watch. It all boils down to the Dead or Alive-inspired bonus round in other words, and it’s a hard-boiled revenge round worthy of a spaghetti western. The17,279x potentialwas achieved once in 100 million simulated spins, and we highly recommend Sticky Bandits Trail of Blood as an alternative to the Dead or Alive saga.
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Sticky Bandits 3: Most Wanted- is the 3rd installment in Quickspin’s western range, and it too is very similar to Dead or Alive. You get to join a gang of 5 female bank robbers, and they become sticky wilds in the bonus round where all wins are multiplied by x2. The max win is a solid 22,468x your stake.
Tombstone RIP- is a tad grimmer and more realistic than the game at hand perhaps, as this NoLimit City release famously revolves around public hanging. You get plenty of grotesque visuals in other words, as well as the usual mayhem of xMechanic modifiers. The 2 FS rounds can lead to a record-breaking 300,000x payout (already cracked 2 times).
Dead or Alive 2- is NetEnt’s highly volatile follow-up to their iconic wild west original, and you get the sticky wilds bonus round from the first game as 1 of 3 options when the feature triggers. The atmosphere is menacing like the quiet before a violent storm, and you can win up to a solid 111,111x your stake.
