Gunpowder Slot Review
Thanks to the entourage of this game, talented slot makers from the Peter & Sons company take us back to those glorified times of the Caribbean pirates when only luck and high naval combat skill were decisive factors in the safety of your trading fleet on the oceans. So, if you consider yourself lucky enough, all that remains is to challenge your mastery in naval warfare against pirates, hoping to trophy their chests with untold looted gold and jewelry. Respins, Sticky Wilds with Win Multipliers, and Free Spins are to help you with this. Read further for getting more details about this masterfully designed game.
Gunpowder General Characteristics
- 10 pay lines
- 5 reels and 3 rows
- High Volatility
- RTP: 96.2%, 94%, 90.5%, 86%
- Hit Frequency: 18.87%, 18.82%, 18,74%, 20.92%
- Bet amount: 0.1 EUR - 50 EUR
- Maximum win multiplier: x10,000
- Maximum win value: 500,000 EUR
- 10 main symbols
- Additional symbols: Wild, Scatter
Gunpowder Bonus Features
There are not so many bonus features in this slot. Therefore, it won't take much time to tell you thoroughly about all those functions.
Wild
The Wild (the Golden Ship) replaces any paying symbol, allowing this way to increase the potentially possible number of wins. In the Base game, each time one respin triggers when the Wild lands on the reel. Also, be aware that this symbol does not bring payments by itself and can not substitute the Scatter.
Phantom Power
The Wild can randomly start a battle with the neighborly positioned high-paying symbol depicting some ship, which gives a chance to transform an adjacent ordinary picture into yet another Wild, though only if the Wild eventually wins in the naval combat it started.
Scatter
There are at least 3 Scatters (the Chest) you need to start Free Spins, yet the more Scatters, the better:
Free Spins
Despite no additional bonus features in the Bonus FS Game, Wilds play by slightly different rules here.
Sticky Wild
In Free Spins, there are no respins, yet each Wild that appears on the reels becomes sticky, including those turned from the high-paying symbols depicted as different ships. Moreover, each Wild turned from the regular paying picture gets a random multiplier up to x3 (x1 - x3).
Retriggering
If all the reels have at least one Wild landed, the player gets 5 additional Free Spins. When the play grid is filled with Wilds only, playing lasts until the previously provided Free Spins finish.
Buy Feature
Also, at any moment, you can buy Free Spins activation. That will cost you the sum of x170 to the stake. In this case, you’ll be awarded a random number of Free Spins, from 7 to 12.
Golden Bet
Activating this feature allows you to increase the Wild landing frequency in the Base FS Game, as the chances of the Bonus Game triggering. Making it on will cost you x0.5 to the bet, yet the wins calculate as if the stake is still x1, not the x1.5.
Our Experience Playing Gunpowder
Also, we played this slot using the €200 balance and €1 stake per spin. This experiment took us precisely 300 spins. It was a slot version with an RTP of 96.2%.
During the 1st hundred spins, we gathered 14 wins, varying from €0.6 to €24. And just two of those turned lower than the bet. The Wild landed on the reels just twice. The most elongated pause between two consecutive wins was 13 spins. After the 100th spin, we had €150.9.
Within the 2nd hundred spins, we have had 19 Base Game prizes, the biggest of which totaled €12. Seven prizes turned lower than the bet. This time, Wild appeared as many as three times. The most elongated non-wins period was 14 wins. Upon the end of the 200th spin, there was €99.8 on the balance.
The 3rd hundred spins presented us with the Free Spins feature triggering, earning €63.7. Also, there were 19 wins, with the biggest of €10. Seven wins occurred less than the stake. This time, the pause between two prize spins totaled a record 25 spins. As a result, after the 300th spin, we had just €110. Hence, we lost €90.
Here are all the statistics:
So, in conclusion, there are a few words concerning gameplay. Here are relatively infrequent small prizes lower than the current stake, yet wins are sufficiently rare, whereas non-wins pauses sometimes reach tens of spins. The Wild isn’t very profitable during the Base Game due to rare appearances on the playfield — average once in every 50 spins. Within the Bonus FS Game, Wilds land much more frequently. Unfortunately, Free Spins activations didn’t delight us with the high triggering frequency, which eventually affected the result. Two other cons about Free Spins are the absence of respins, which seriously decreases your potential earnings, and only five extra Free Spins. Yet, if you were lucky enough to get the maximum number of starting Free Spins, their number could reach, including five extra FS, up to 20.
Gunpowder Verdict
So, it’s a beautifully animated video game with a mesmerizing piratical ambiance and adorable cartoon symbols and characters. There are not a lot of features in here, yet you can still count on Free Spins, which provide Sticky Wilds, Win Multipliers up to x3, and 5 extra Free Spins. In the Bonus FS Game, Wilds land much more frequently than during the Base one, so it is possible to get a relatively big win here.
Yet, the Base Game seems too straightforward and didn’t bring us at least one big prize. The best we got was just €24, and just once. Given rare FS triggering, all that doesn’t add optimism concerning outstandingly huge income through playing this game. But, if you are fancy with piratical ambiance and naval battles, this gamble will be a well-suitable choice, especially given a solid max win of x10,000 to the stake.
