Steamin’ Reels Slot

A slot from Pragmatic Play; it has a train theme, in particular a steam engine type, and the slot has 5 reels, 3 rows, and 10 fixed paylines, but the amazing part is that the min bet is just a tiny 0.02 per spin. The max win cap is 5000x, which is still good these days for sure.

The slot has a free spins feature; would you believe it? You get it by getting 3 or more scatters, which actually award more spins the more scatters you trigger the feature with. Good design: 3 scatters give 10 spins, 4 scatters give 15 spins, and 5 scatters award 20 spins. My session didn’t result in a free spins feature this time, but there were some base wins along the way, the best being the 20x. But the great thing about the slot is that, because of the low min bet, the damage to the balance wasn’t as much as it would have been on higher min bet slots.

Graphically, the slot is going with a simple look: somewhere at a train station, slow-moving clouds in a blue sky, and the symbols get animated when there is a win on a payline, which I have to say I like.

The music tells me that it has some country music with drums and guitar, and it is very laid-back, with some harmonica in there too. The reel sound effects are also something I have not heard before when the reels stop at each spin. The start sound sounds familiar, but the stopping sound is new to me for sure.

Bonus buy is 100x, and that is the only bonus buy option no super bonuses but there are a couple of special bets to try out, and one is the ante bet, which costs 2x the normal stake, and the other is the ante bet 2, which costs a whopping 500x, but that guarantees 4 scatters.

I played the 94.53% RTP version of this slot during my session, and while that was not the max RTP version, which would have been the 96.53% that is the reality these days because casinos are choosing to offer Pragmatic Play slots in the lower 94% range, you can still win on these too, which is why I still play in the 94% range.

The super special bet of 500x cost is so overpriced I don’t know how one can even consider that as a viable option. Because if you think about it, say you play on 1 EUR stake and use the super bet of 500x, then you're paying 500 EUR, and the most you can win is 5000 EUR.. so only 10x your investment.