The Walking Dead Slot Review

The Walking Dead Slot RTP, Details and Wager Limits

The Walking Dead slot comes with 5 reels, 3 rows and 50 fixed paylines. Winning combinations are formed with 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols starting from the leftmost reel and have to appear on consecutive wins and on the same payline.

When it comes to bet levels, you can spin away in this zombie thriller from 10p to £500 a spin. There’s a Bet coins icon to the side of the reels. Click on this and then click on the plus and minus buttons to adjust accordingly. In some countries, there’s a Turbo Mode for faster spins and Autoplay function for autospins.

The Walking Dead RTP is 95.73%, just below the 96% slots average. For a branded slot, the return rate is pretty good. The variance is in the medium range, with big wins available in the base game and various bonus features.

The hit frequency rate is 28.81%, meaning over a quarter of spins will result in a winning combination.

The maximum win is 2,198 x your total stake. This can be won from The Tower feature, which contains coins with cash values and fixed jackpots. It will take approximately 272,331 spins to win over 1,000 x stakes.

Theme – survive the apocalypse in this officially branded slot

With a zombie apocalypse theme, The Walking Dead slot is the official game for The Walking Dead television series. Created by Playtech in cooperation with series producer AMC, the award-winning series comes to life in online slot form. Set in Alexandria, the soundtrack is eerie and intense, adding to the atmosphere. It depicts the nature of the TV show.

Symbols on the reels include A, K, Q and J royals which all have weapons on them. Then you have 5 character symbols: Negan, Michonne, Daryl, Carol and Rick Grimes. Rick Grimes is the best paying symbol giving you 0.2, 1 or 3 x your total stake for 3, 4 or 5 across any of the 50 paylines.

The hand is the wild symbol. It substitutes for all symbols bar the scatter and coin symbols, it pays like Rick Grimes (up to 3 x stake). With the 2 or 3 wilds appearing on the same reel, it transforms into a zombie wild. The 3 shields symbol is the scatter. Coin symbols appear on the reels to display a cash value, key or Biohazard Sign (more details below). Here’s what each symbol pays:

Symbol	Payouts/Info
J	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.2 or 1 x stake
Q	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.2 or 1 x stake
K	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.2 or 1 x stake
A	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.3 or 1.5 x stake
Negan	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.4 or 2 x stake
Michonne	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.4 or 2 x stake
Daryl	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.4 or 2 x stake
Carol	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.4 or 2 x stake
Rick Grimes	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 1 or 3 x stake
Hand Wild	Substitutes for all symbols + pays up to 3 x stake
3 Shields Scatter	3+ triggers Free Games feature
Coin	6+ triggers The Tower feature
Key Coin	Adds more rows in The Tower feature
Biohazard Sign Coin	Gives you jackpots in The Tower feature
Wild Walkers Wild Reel	Appears in Wild Walkers Free Games feature

The Walking Dead Mobile

Playtech has created The Walking Dead with the latest HTML5 technology. This means you can play the game on laptop, PC, mobile and tablet devices. The game has been optimised for iOS, Android and Windows-operated devices. The 5×3 setup works well on mobiles, too.

The Walking Dead Bonus Features

The Walking Dead slot has 6 bonus features. With The Tower feature giving you cash prizes and 4 fixed jackpots, there are 5 free spins features with wild reels, multipliers, shifting stacks of coins, Wild Walkers wild reels, respins and coins, which can lead to more cash prizes.

The Tower feature

The Tower feature is activated by 6 or more coin symbols that land simultaneously anywhere on the reels. The triggering coins lock in position with 3 respins awarded. Each unlocked position on the reels spins independently. After every respin, new coin symbols will lock in position and the number of respins resets to 3. So far, so standard.

You can unlock additional rows by collecting 2 coin symbols with a key. The values of locked coins on the 7^th row are multiplied by 2, except for those with a Biohazard Sign. If you unlock the 8^th row, the values of the coins are multiplied by 5 (except for those with a Biohazard Sign). All coins on the 9^th row will transform into coins with a Biohazard Sign (so no multiplier).

The respins continue until they run out or you’ve filled the grid with coins. Finally, there are 4 fixed jackpots to be won within The Tower feature. Each Biohazard Sign coin will award 1 of the 4 following jackpots. Here’s what they’ll award:

Free Games features

3 or more shields scatters landing anywhere on the reels will activate the Free Games features. 3, 4 or 5 will pay 1, 10 or 50 x stake respectively.

With 6 free spins awarded, a wheel appears, which will randomly select 1 of the 5 free spins features. During any of the features, 3 or more scatters will give you 6 additional free spins. Here’s what each of the features offers:

The Horde Free Games feature: each wild and coin symbol landing on reels 2, 3 and 4 will expand to fill the reel. Getting coin symbols will lead to The Tower feature.

Saviors Free Games feature: each wild and coin symbol landing on the 3 middle reels will get a random multiplier. Each position on those reels gets its own multiplier. These multiplies are additive, meaning their values are added together. Biohazard Sign coins are not multiplied, though.

Alexandria Free Games feature: when a full stack of coins land on the reels, respins begin. With the free spins counter frozen, the stack shifts 1 position to the left on each respin. 3 or more coins appearing in addition to the stack of coins will trigger The Tower feature. The respins end when the coin stack leaves the reels or after The Tower feature is played.

The Whisperers Free Games feature: up to 3 reels can appear as special reels with unique graphics. These special reels will contain only wild and coin symbols. Landing 6 or more coins simultaneously will activate the The Tower feature.

Wild Walkers Free Games feature: when a stack of wilds lands anywhere, they become Wild Walkers and respins commence. With the free spins counter frozen, the Wild Walkers stack shifts 1 position left on each respin. The respins continue until all Wild Walkers stacks shift off the reels. Furthermore, coins landing transform into wilds. If a stack of coins lands, they transform into Wild Walkers. Also, landing 6 or more coins will trigger The Tower feature.

The Walking Dead Review Summary – Great if you love the TV series

The television series has been hugely successful, and The Walking Dead slot will appeal to fans and lovers of the zombie/apocalypse theme. Graphically, it features all the main characters (Negan, Michonne, Daryl, Carol and Rick Grimes), with the imagery being spot on, in my opinion.

When it comes to gameplay, there is plenty of variety, with a total of 6 bonus features. The best extra is The Tower feature, which can lead to big cash prizes, especially if you win any of the 4 fixed jackpots.

Of the free spins features, I particularly like the Saviors Free Games feature, where positions on the 3 middle reels will get additive multipliers. Many of them aim to trigger the all-important The Tower feature, where the biggest possible payouts can be won.

The max win potential lets The Walking Dead down as 2,198 x stake isn’t exactly big compared to the best online slots. Other branded slots do combine excellent source material and big wins. Playtech’s The Mummy: Book of Amun Ra comes with 10,000 x stake max wins, and Play ‘n GO’s KISS Reels of Rock offers 50,000 x stake max payouts.

If you like TV slots, there are lots to choose from. You have Vikings, Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen and Narcos from NetEnt. There are also Game of Thrones and Game of Thrones Power Stacks by Games Global, amongst others.