Dead Man's Trail

Our recorded Dead Man's Trail bonuses

We have opened Dead Man's Trail 4 times between 4 Aug 2026 and 11 Sep 2026 on stream and logged the result. The best of those paid 76× the bet. That is too few opens to say anything about how the game behaves — it is a record of what happened on those occasions, nothing more.

Relax Gaming set Dead Man's Trail in a pirate world that leans grim rather than swashbuckling — a ship easing into a fog-bound harbour ringed by mountains, with other galleons rocking in rough water nearby, and a shantytown of disreputable characters waiting on shore. The art direction and audio favour atmosphere over spectacle, giving the game a darker tone than a typical high-seas theme.

The reels run on a 5x4 grid with 40 fixed paylines, and stakes range from 0.10 up to 20 per spin. Volatility is rated high, and the RTP is listed at 98%, with an alternate 96.29% configuration tied to the bonus-buy version.

Four character symbols form the premium tier — an eyepatched hero, a world-weary piratess, a shifty-looking governor figure, and a bald, tattooed crewman — each capable of five-of-a-kind payouts between 5x and 30x the stake. Royal-style J-to-A symbols fill out the remaining four positions as low pays. A wild substitutes for any paying symbol and pays double the top premium value when five appear on a line.

Two extras run alongside the base paytable. The Coin feature drops special coin symbols carrying a bet-multiplier value onto the reels; when three or more land on separate reels at once, their combined value pays out. Landing three or more bonus symbols instead triggers the Dead Man's Trail Bonus, which clears the reels and moves to a map-style trail. Each turn reveals a number from 1 to 9 that advances a pawn that many spaces. Previously visited tiles turn into end tiles, marked with a skull and crossbones, and landing on one closes out the round, paying the running total collected so far. Chest tiles instead trigger one of eleven possible bonus actions, ranging from adding flat value to a random tile, multiplying a tile's worth, boosting every normal tile at once, or collecting everything already on the board into the total — several of these effects are persistent and keep firing on every later turn rather than just once. A Start tile resets any cleared end tiles back into play, and a rarer version turns them into fresh chests instead.

Where permitted, the bonus can be bought outright for 100 times the stake, which guarantees three or more bonus symbols land on the following spin; the buy carries its own theoretical return of 98%.