Gold Rush, nuggets the size of your fist! Not the real title but we are certain that’s what you’d be shouting if you won big on Gold Rush Showdown. This wild west themed slot packs in 20 lines across its 5 reels which include expanding wilds, wilds, free spins and a showdown inspired bonus round.

Gold Rush Showdown Slot Theme

The reels are set between a stereotypical wild west saloon bar, complete with rope, skulls and branded woodwork. This brown color scheme is brought to life by bright reel icons which fill all five reels. The designers have placed a large logo above the slot and a multipurpose rotating display beneath, this shows useful information and a variety of phrases including ‘rede em’ cowboy’ and Honkey Tonk.

Reel icons include sacks full of gold, horses, cowboy hats, six shooters, spurs, sheriff badges, cowboys, banditos, prospectors and damsels in distress. Many of these icons animate when involved in a win with the angry bull being our personal favourite.

The variety on the reels and features is also reflected within the bets available. They range from 0.10 to £/$/€20 with plenty of other options besides.

Any win can be further increased with a card based gamble game. If you guess the correct card color all winnings will be doubled, guess the correct suit and it will be quadrupled. If you get it wrong then you’ll lose all winnings - it’s up to you when to collect, and whether you want to risk it all in the first place.

Gold Rush Slot Features

The Wild Bull Symbol will complete more wins by substituting for all symbols excluding scatters.

The Showdown Bonus game is awarded when a cowboy symbol appears in the first reel and a bandit appears on any other reel. You are asked whether you’d like to manually fire or auto fire in a bid to gun down as many bandits as you can. We find the result is largely the same, although shooting manually is more fun. You seemingly receive unlimited bullets and bad guys pop up everywhere, awarding instant wins for every successful shot.

Another in-reel gunfight bonus game is awarded when 1 to 4 banditos appear. You’ll receive 50 coins for each bandito shot if 4 trigger the game, 15 coins if three trigger the game, 8 if two trigger the game and 4 if 1 triggers the game.

The Prospector awards yet another bonus round where you dig for gold in various locations. Three of these icons will award 5 to 15 coins, four will award 10 to 50 coins and five will award 40 to 200 coins. This round is equally attractive and addictive as the others, WagerWorks has created one cracking slot here.