Wanted Unusual Suspects Slot Review
In November 1900, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and 3 more of the Wild Bunch walked into John Swartz's photography studio đˇ in Fort Worth, Texas. New suits, new derby hats đŠ, one formal group portrait.
Swartz liked the picture enough to put it in his shop window. A Wells Fargo detective đľď¸ walked past, recognized a face, and the Pinkertons blew that portrait up into wanted posters across the West.
So 5 wanted men paid a stranger to line them up and take their mugshot, then tipped him for the trouble.
Games Global has built Wanted Unusual Suspects slot around another lineup of 5 outlaws, except this time you're the one doing the picking.
Gameplay
The studio has painted a frontier street at midday, with weathered green and pale-blue clapboard storefronts, a BANK sign on the left, a windmill and a hanging oil lamp on the right, and cactus and a wagon wheel propped in the foreground corners.
Orange dirt, pale blue sky, nothing you haven't seen in a Western before, but it's tidy work.
The reel window sits in a scratched steel bezel. Four jackpot planks are nailed up the left edge and a Bonus Perk Bar of hanging Bells runs across the top.
The 5x4 grid has 20 paylines, the RTPRTP stands for âReturn to Player.â The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a gameâs volatility rate. is 96.05%, volatility is high, and the max multiplier is 10,025x. The max win is $200,500, with bets running from $0.20 to $20.
At the bottom of the paytable, the A, K, Q, J and 10 symbols all pay 1x for 5 of a kind, 0.3x for 4 and 0.1x for 3. Not one of them pays a fraction more than any other.
Handcuffs step up to 2x for 5, 0.3x for 4 and 0.1x for 3. Crossed Guns pay 3x, 0.5x and 0.2x, and Dynamite pays 5x, 1x and 0.5x for the same runs.
The Loot Bag is the best of them at 10x for 5 of a kind, 2.5x for 4 and 1x for 3. Hold that number, because it matters later.
The Wild pays on its own account and matches the Loot Bag exactly, 10x for 5, 2.5x for 4 and 1x for 3. It lands in the base game and in Free Spins, and it substitutes for everything except the Sheriff, the Coins and the Scatter.
There are also 4 separate Outlaw Wilds in the base game, and each one spawns more Wilds onto the reels. The rules text calls this the Exploding Wild feature.
One turns 1 random reel Wild, one turns 2 random reels Wild, one turns the top and bottom symbols of 2 random reels Wild, and the last turns 4 to 7 random symbols Wild.
Every Coin that lands reveals a cash prize or a jackpot, and the cash values run 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 20x, 25x, 30x, 50x and 100x. Coins show up in the base game and in Free Spins.
Each Coin also leaves a Sticky Frame behind on the position it landed in, and a Sticky Frame's multiplier can climb as high as 5x.
Those 4 planks on the left are the jackpots. Grand pays 5,000x, Major 1,000x, Minor 50x and Mini 20x, and only 1 jackpot can be awarded.
Features
NUDGING RE-SPINS:
Land 2 Scatters on the top 3 rows and the re-spins kick in. Every reel holding a Scatter is held and nudged down 1 row while the other reels spin again.
That repeats until a Scatter reaches the bottom row or until 5 Scatters have landed. Each re-spin also adds tokens to the Bonus Perk Bar, so even a dud sequence leaves you further along than you started.
SHERIFF BACKUP BONUS:
The Sheriff symbol landing sets this off, in the base game and in Free Spins alike. He drops Coins onto any Sticky Frames that don't have one yet, and he can call for backup up to 2 times for extra wins.
Each Sheriff is awarded the Coin values, and the Sticky Frame multipliers apply to those Coins while the Sheriff works. The Sheriff himself never lands in a Sticky Frame.
In the base game every Sticky Frame is cleared out when the Sheriff finishes. In Free Spins they stay put until the round is over.
FREE SPINS:
Three, 4 or 5 Scatters award 10, 15 or 20 Free Spins, respectively. The Scatter has no payout of its own, so its entire job is opening these rounds and feeding the Bonus Perk Bar.
The Bonus Perk Pick runs first, and then the Free Spins begin with whatever perks came out of it.
Bonus Perk Pick
Triggering Free Spins puts you in the jailhouse with 5 outlaws in a line, and you pick 1 to see what he's holding.
Free Spins Boost unlocks the first bandit on the Bonus Trail, which is 5 extra spins at 2x. More Spins is 2 extra spins, and More Frames puts 3 more Frames on the reels at the start.
More Wilds and More Sheriff add more of each with no count printed anywhere. Then there's No Perk, which ends the pick on the spot.
The Bonus Perk Bar is the consolation prize for all this. Two Scatters landing anywhere adds a token, and 50 tokens fills the bar.
A filled bar buys you 1 extra perk pick at the start of Free Spins before resetting. Bar progress is saved per bet, so hopping between bet levels starts a fresh collection.
Bonus Trail
Every Sheriff symbol that lands during Free Spins highlights 1 position up the trail. Bandit 1 awards 5 extra spins at 2x, Bandit 2 awards 5 at 3x, Bandit 3 awards 5 at 5x, and Bandit 4 awards 5 extra spins at 10x.
The trail resets at the end of Free Spins, so nothing carries into your next round.
Getaway Spin
After your last Free Spin, the Getaway Bonus Spin can award 1 more spin. A Sheriff symbol lands on it.
BUY BONUS:
Free Spins cost 100x the bet. Super Free Spins cost 200x and hand you the same round with more Frames, more Sheriffs and more wins.
The game can't keep its story straight on what that extra 100x actually buys. The rules screen says more Frames, more Sheriffs and more wins. The buy popup on the reels says more Coins, more Frames and more wins.
Worth noting before you reach for the button: saved Bonus Perk Bar tokens are not used when you buy Free Spins, so a bar you've spent a long session filling just sits there while you pay your way in.
Performance
The slot ran cleanly through every spin I threw at it.
Maximum Win
Take the top bet of $20, put the max multiplier of 10,025x against it, and the max win of $200,500 comes out the other side. The smallest bet you can place is $0.20.
Conclusion
The slot's money lives in the Coins and the Sticky Frames underneath them, swept up by the Sheriff Backup Bonus. The line-pay side is thin, because the best 5 of a kind on the board is 10x and the card symbols pay 1x.
The road to the max multiplier runs through Free Spins, where the Sticky Frames stay for the whole round instead of getting wiped.
Coins carry their biggest values there, the frame multipliers underneath them stack on top, and the Bonus Trail adds its own multiplier over a batch of spins. Line those 3 things up in the same round and the arithmetic gets interesting fast.
Volatility is high and the max multiplier is 10,025x. High volatility usually gets benchmarked at 5,000x and up, so the slot pays double the going rate for the swings you sit through, and that's a trade I'd take.
The slot suits a patient coin-collect player with enough bankroll to ride out the dry stretches, or to buy in when the patience runs out.
Anyone who wants steady line pays keeping them company between features should walk, because 1x for 5 matching card symbols won't keep a balance breathing.
Slot Details
Game Provider: Games Global
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: 20
RTPRTP stands for âReturn to Player.â The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a gameâs volatility rate.: 96.05%
Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).
The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk youâre taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a gameâs RTP.: High
Bonus Round: Yes
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Free Spins, Re-spins
Max Multiplier: 10,025x
Max Win: $200,500
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