Mustang Gold Slot Review

01/04/2021 | Categories: Pragmatic Play Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

If you are a regular BTCGOSU visitor, you know our position on Pragmatic Play. In our opinion, they are one of the most reliable providers in the interactive gaming space. While their titles do not feature much novelty, you always know what you are getting with a Pragmatic product. Cool visuals and decent gameplay mechanics. The combo of these two, plus their vast library of products spanning a diverse set of themes, seem to appeal to spinners, given that many of their products rank very highly.

Mustang Gold is one such example. It attempts to ride the coattails of Wolf Gold that came out two years before it and does so successfully. It hit online casinos in January of 2019 and has maintained its popularity throughout its existence, even ranking in the top ten at one point. It had a few up and down since but remains a super-played slot.

Theme & Design

Ah, the mustang. The free-roaming horse of the Western United States. A mythical symbol of heroism, freedom, and the vanishing West. According to some estimates, before the 20^th century, over two million wild horses roamed the American West. Today, the number has gone down to 30,000, limited to public lands in ten US states. The original mustang was a Colonial Spanish horse. However, due to mixed breeding, the modern one has different features while still boasting the same quality endurance. Going by our estimates, there are over a hundred horse-themed games, with nine featuring the word mustang in their title. Another popular Pragmatic horse product is Bronco Spirit, which came out in April of 2020.

The visuals here are similar to Wolf Gold and Buffalo King. Painterly graphics with excellent use of color. We’ve talked about this before. Pragmatic likes to stick to what they are good at, as most of their releases feature the same visual style. Their games get a bit repetitive due to it, but overall, they all look good and incorporate engaging soundtracks. This one is no exception. The backdrop here is an Arizona-like desert landscape at dusk. The reels here spin inside a wooden frame with metal decorations in front of it. The grid features four jackpot amounts at the top of it, and you will find the game’s button configuration below it.

We’ve talked to death about the standard Pragmatic button setup. You get the same panel here as in all of their games. Technically, there is no panel, as all the buttons float on the screen, not encased in anything. The spin, auto-spin, and bet-adjuster options are on your right, while the info, mute, and settings buttons are on your left. The credit and bet info is in the middle.

Specs & Gameplay

Mustang Gold is a five-reel, three-row reel-spinner with twenty-five paylines. It is a medium to high variance title with a default RTP of 96.53%. Note that the payback percentage of this game can differ, depending on your operator. There are seven variants. The max exposure here is a whopping x12,000 your stake, and the bet sizes range from $0.25 to $125, which is terrific. Wins here get formed when you land three to five matching symbols on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost one.

The low-paying symbols of Mustang Gold are the letters A, K, Q, and J. For five-of-a-kind on a spin, they will pay out a prize worth x4 your bet. The high-paying ones are two mustangs and two characters, a male and a female. Hitting five identical symbols from this batch will get you a reward that ranges from x8 to x20 your wager. The white mustang is the most valuable token of these four.

The Wild here is the Mustang Gold logo. It appears only on the second, third, fourth, and fifth reel, and it substitutes all other tokens except for the Scatter, Money, and Collect Symbols. A campfire is the Scatter here, while a horseshoe is the Money symbol, and a sheriff badge is the Collect one.

Bonus Features

The horseshoe symbols only land on reels one, two, three, and four. The sheriff badge one only falls on reel five. Horseshoes carry a cash value, and if they land on the same spin as a badge, the latter collects their amount and adds it to your balance. If a horseshoe carries a jackpot symbol, it will activate the Jackpot Reveal Game. That mode guarantees one win from the set of four amounts, mini, minor, major, and grand. These bring with them prizes of x50, x100, x200, and x1,000 your stake, respectively. The Jackpot Reveal is a pick’em bonus game, and you win a prize that corresponds to the three matching symbols you reveal in it.

Landing three or more Scatters on the grid triggers the Free Spins Bonus Round. When this happens, you get eight complimentary reel rotations. You can reactivate this mode indefinitely, and in it, the Money Collect feature is active, with more horseshoes and badges falling in view here than in the base game.