Deadwood Review

Deadwood Reviewed May 6 2020 by Casinogamesonnet.com

Deadwood is a five-reel, 576-ways slot from Nolimit City. It’s a true Wild West game that serves as the sequel to Nolimit’s Tombstone.

This slot offers xNudge Wilds, a Shoot Out bonus, and a max win worth up to 13,950x your stake. You can read about these aspects and more in this Deadwood slot review.

Gameplay and Atmosphere

Deadwood offers five reels and 576 ways to win. Its unique grid, 3x4x4x4x3, sees it feature an equally peculiar number of winning possibilities. This game offers quite a few more ways to win than Tombstone (108 ways).

Payouts form when matching symbols land in adjacent reels. They must begin in the first reel and move from left to right.

The atmosphere has definitely changed from Tombstone to Deadwood. The former has a cartoonish and more-lighthearted feeling—or at least as lighthearted as Wild West slots get.

Deadwood carries a more-serious tone that includes realistic graphics and bullet holes following big wins. If you like a grownup Wild West experience, then you should appreciate what’s available here.

Deadwood Max Win, Payouts and Symbols

Regular symbols include royals (A through 10), a gold bar, gold watch, shotgun, safe, and whisky bottle. The gold bar pays the most among this bunch at 3.75x your stake for five symbols. You can win up to 13,950x your bet when accounting for features.

Hunter Wilds, which are represented by a bounty hunter, substitute for every symbol except the sheriff’s badge and cattle skull (scatter) to form payouts.

Deadwood RTP, Volatility and Betting Options

You can wager between €0.10 and €100 per spin. Autoplay lets you keep the reels spinning automatically for up to 1,000 rounds.

It also comes with customizable options, such as the ability to stop autoplay when your balance falls by 50% or increases by 150%.

The default Deadwood slot RTP is 96.02%. However, you can push this amount slightly higher to 96.03% by using the Bonus Bet (covered later).

Nolimit City rates Deadwood’s volatility at 10/10. Despite having such wild volatility, though, this game has a high hit frequency at 40.17%. You should expect lots of small wins through this game with an outside chance at bigger payouts.

Deadwood Features

Appearing in reels 2, 3, and 4 only, the Hunter Wild serves as a stacked wild. If it only lands partially on a reel, the xNudge feature ensures that the Hunter Wild comes fully into view.

This feature also delivers a 1x win multiplier for every position that the Hunter Wild is nudged. If the wild must be nudged two positions, for example, then xNudge will deliver a 3x multiplier.

Two or more multipliers appearing during the same spin will multiply each other. Assuming two 2x multipliers appear, for example, they would become a 4x multiplier.

You trigger the Shoot Out bonus when landing a sheriff’s badge in reels 1 and 5 simultaneously. Shoot Out transforms low-paying icons (a.k.a. royals) that land in reels 2 through 4 into wilds.

You can trigger one of two free spins modes when landing three or more cattle skulls anywhere on the reels. This bonus gives you the ability to choose between 8 Hunter Free Spins and 8 Gunslinger Free Spins.

The Gunslinger Free Spins (higher volatility) see every Hunter Wild that lands on the reels trigger an unlimited multiplier. This win multiplier keeps increasing after every xNudge and never resets throughout the round.

You receive an extra free spin whenever a sheriff’s badge lands in reel 1 or 5. Assuming the badge lands in both reels 1 and 5 simultaneously, then you upgrade to Shoot Out Free Spins (covered later).

The Hunter Free Spins (lower volatility) guarantee that at least one Hunter Wild will land on every spin. The sheriff’s badge also offers extra free spins (reel 1 or 5) and an upgraded bonus (reels 1 and 5) here as well.

Regarding the Shoot Out Free Spins, all sheriff’s badges remain sticky on reels 1 and 5. Additionally, the Shoot Out feature, where all low-paying symbols on reels 2, 3, and 4 transform into wilds, happens on every spin.

You can also trigger the Shoot Out Free Spins by landing the badge in reels 1 and 5 combined with three scatters in reels 2 through 4. In this case, you pick between 10 Hunter Free Spins or 10 Gunslinger Free Spins along with enjoying the Shoot Out feature.

Finally, Deadwood lets you trigger a bonus automatically through the Feature Buy option. You must pay a price worth a multiple of your stake when using Feature Buy.

The price depends upon the exact free games you want. Shoot Out Free Spins cost the most at 750x your stake.

Final Thoughts

The 2019 release Tombstone is definitely a quality game. It actually put Nolimit City on the online gaming map.

However, Deadwood does everything just a little better than Tombstone. The bonuses are superior, the atmosphere is grittier, and the maximum win (13,950x vs 11,456x) is larger.

The only thing that may stop you from playing this game is the high volatility (10/10 rating) combined with high hit frequency (40.17%). This combination ensures that most of your payouts will be rather small.

Personally, we can look past this aspect to a quality overall game. That said, you should definitely consider giving Deadwood a chance if you like Wild West slots.

Release Date

Deadwood was released on May 6 2020.