Black Gold Rush

Black Gold Rush is a video slot game from SkillOnNet and it is an interesting game with a unique theme. I believe that this game has everything a player needs. It has all the necessary features that make this slot a fun game to play. When I played this game I found that it is easy to trigger the features and there are constant wins during the base game, nothing big though. I do not think that I have won anything higher than 10 x bet, but the wins were coming on regular basis so it was good for my balance.

This is a 5 reels and 50 pay lines game with two special features, the free spins round and the bonus game. To trigger the free spins you need 2 free spins symbols, which are scatters in this game and you get 2 free spins with x 2 multiplier. If you get 3 scatters you get 5 free spins, for 4 scatters you get 10 free spins and for 5 scatters you get 20 free spins. No matter how many free spins you get all the wins are multiplied by 2. I was always getting 2 free spins, which was funny for me at first, but later I realized that this is good too. It is better to get 2 free spins with x 2 multiplier, which is at least something. I got 10 free spins only once and a win of 20 x bet.

When it comes to the bonus game, you need to collect 1000 points to trigger it. Those points are collected during the base game every time a bonus symbol appears. I did not have a very long session when I played the Black Gold Rush video slot game so I did not manage to activate this bonus. The game play is not very exciting and the wins are really small.

Black Gold Rush chose an interesting theme – Oil work– to try to seduce players and for an uncommon subject the creators designed a very fitting and imaginative interface to it. We can see pipes and other mechanics in the background but to illustrate the reel area’s background image, scaffolding panels were picked that look very good and give a great support to the symbols in front of it. The figures represent some symbolic oil related signs like oil well, oil drops, drill and others. Because the symbols are colourful the visual effects can’t become one-dimensional or rigid and in my opinion this whole inventive solution deserves nothing but praise.

At this 50-payline slot the best 5 of a kind type win award 5000 coins. The Wild here only just substitutes for other figures while Scatter can start free games already with just two appearing symbols (in that case and only then the free spins have an x2 multiplier value attached). More Scatters anywhere on the reels of course provide more than these 2 spins concretely they can be between 5-20 spins but special multiplier isn’t assigned there.

Bonus system is in use here so every appearing Bonus symbol on the screen increases the bonus balance with 100 points and 1000 such credits must be reached to get an entry to Bonus Fuel game. There, we have to select an oil derrick that may reach the oil reserve to give back bonus credits but if the wrong one is chosen the side game ends. But unfortunately, this extra’s rewarding system is the ordinary at SkillOnNet, namely, very poor.

Eventually, I like the original idea to choose this theme and even more appreciate how they realized it but sadly all of the things, qualities that I dislike at this platform show up at Black Gold Rush, too. I still think it’s a good game but very strictly just in this platform measuring with SkillOnNet norm, but if we’re looking further it’s not a competitive product out there on the market.