Dead Man’s Trail Slot Review

Dead Man’s Trail Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Dead Man’s Trail slot comes with 5 reels, 4 rows and 40 fixed paylines. Create winning combinations by landing 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols or wilds from left to right in a payline, starting from the leftmost reel.

You can set sail with this pirate crew at bet levels of between 20p and £20 per spin. Use the + and – buttons next to the Bet box to adjust your stake size. The Paytable shows the payouts for each symbol in stakes making it easy to understand. There’s also a Turbo Spins mode for faster spins and an Autoplay function. These 2 extras may not be available in your country.

The Dead Man’s Trail RTP is 96.29% which is slightly above the 96% average. If you buy the Trail Bonus feature (which is not available in the UK, the RTP is 98%).

Highly volatile, expect a win every 5 spins as the hit frequency rate is 19.15%. In the Trail Bonus feature, the maximum that each tile can pay is 10,000 x stake. The maximum overall win is 50,000 x your total stake.

Theme – join pirates on a quest for gold

With a pirate theme, the design in the Dead Man’s Trail slot is excellent. Set against a backdrop of a port in a storm, there’s a very gritty feel to the imagery here. Captain Pugwash it most certainly isn’t. It has the look of the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales film. Overall, this is a very stylish looking slot.

On the reels, you’ll see lower value A to J royals and 4 rather fearsome looking members of the pirate crew. The best paying symbol is the bald pirate with the scars, tattoos and cutlasses. He pays 1, 5 or 30 x your total stake if you land 3, 4 or 5 across a payline.

Better still is the golden W which is the wild. This replaces all the standard symbols when it makes up part of a winning combination. It also pays 2, 10 or 60 x your total stake if you land 3, 4 or 5 in combination.

There are also coin symbols which can deliver instant wins if you land enough of them on the same spin. Finally, there’s the pirate ship scatter which can trigger the Trail Bonus feature. Here’s a list of payouts by symbol:

Symbol	Payouts/Info
J	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.5 or 3 x stake
Q	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.5 or 3 x stake
K	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.5 or 3 x stake
A	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.5 or 3 x stake
Pirate 1	3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 1.2 or 5 x stake
Pirate 2	3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 1.2 or 5 x stake
Pirate 3	3, 4 or 5 = 0.7, 2.5 or 15 x stake
Pirate 4	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 5 or 30 x stake
Wild	Substitutes for symbols above + pays up to 60 x stake
Pirate Ship Scatter	3+ triggers Trail Bonus feature
Coin	3+ triggers Coin feature

Dead Man’s Trail Mobile

Dead Man’s Trail has been fully optimised for play on mobile and tablet devices as well as on desktop computers. Produced using HTML5 devices, the high definition graphics, animations and sounds work on all devices. For the optimum experience, play on a laptop or PC.

Dead Man’s Trail Bonus Features

With 3 bonus features, the 2 main extras in Dead Man’s Trail are slightly unusual. There’s a Coin feature which can deliver instant win prizes. Potentially more rewarding is the Trail Bonus feature where 11 different modifiers can really get the doubloons flowing.

Coin feature

Look out for special coin symbols which comes with a cash value attached. These, and the Coin feature, become active if you manage to land a coin on 3 or more reels on the same spin. The values attached to the coins are added together to give you an instant win prize.

Trail Bonus feature

Hope to see 3 or more Bonus symbols sail into view as this marks the arrival of the Trail Bonus feature. In this round, work the pawn around the 37 positions on the board. If you land on a Normal Tile, you’ll win the coin value attached to it. There’s also a Start Tile which resets the action.

Perhaps most interesting are the Mystery Chests. Land on 1 of these and you’ll win 1 of 11 potential modifiers (see what these award below). When a Normal or Mystery Tile has been played, it turns into an End Tile. Land on 1 of the End Tiles and the feature ends. Here is what the modifiers offer:

In some territories, players will have the chance to buy the Trail Bonus feature for a fee of 100 x your total stake. Known as the Bonus Buy feature, it’s not available in the UK due to regulations from the Gambling Commission. The RTP increases to 98% if you use it though.

Dead Man’s Trail Review Summary – a cracking pirate adventure

The Dead Man’s Trail slot is superbly designed first and foremost. The gritty design delivers plenty of atmosphere and could come straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster movie.

When it comes to the gameplay, this pirate adventure is all about the Trail Bonus feature. Get on a decent run with the Mystery Chest modifiers and there could be treasure lurking. I like the One-Eye and Persistent One-Eye modifiers as multipliers up to 5x will be applied to up to 4 tiles.

However, the Scout can give you 1,000 x stake add-ons to a randomly chosen tile. Combine this with One-Eye multipliers and each Normal Tile could be worth 10,000 x your total stake. This is the key to winning the 50,000 x stake max prize from the Trail Bonus feature.

If you enjoy a seafaring swashbuckler, Relax Gaming has excelled themselves and created a superb slot in Dead Man’s Trail. You should also try Push Gaming’s Booty Bay which offers a Cluster Pays engine, 6 bonus features and 20,000 x stake max wins. Rage of the Seas from NetEnt is my pick with 5,488 ways to win, lots of bonus features and 27,440 x stake max payouts.