The Gunman of Goldwood

Thunderkick swaps its usual saturated art style for a gritty, sepia-toned frontier in The Gunman of Goldwood, setting the reels against a lawless main street of timber storefronts, tolling church bells and shifting storm clouds. The tone lands closer to a spaghetti western than the studio's brighter earlier titles, giving the game an uneasy, watchful atmosphere.

Five reels and three rows hold ten fixed paylines, reading left to right for a win. Playing-card values ten through ace fill out the lower pay tier, worth 2 to 2.5 times the stake for a full run of five, while the premium row belongs to a cast of outlaw props — a gravestone, a bottle of liquor, a hunting knife, a pistol and the gunman himself — climbing from 5x up to 50x for five matching symbols.

A wild covers every position except the scatter, and its value depends on how many land together on a line: one wild doubles the payout, a pair multiplies it fourfold, three push it to eight times, and four together return sixteen times the win. Wins can also spark the Duel feature purely by chance — any base-game symbol involved in a payout may suddenly stretch to fill its whole reel, with several symbols expanding one after another when more than one contributed to the win, and a wild appearing in multiple combinations is able to grow more than once.

Scatters gather in threes, fours or fives to open the free-spin round, handing out 8, 12 or 16 spins accordingly. A fresh wild drops onto reels two, three or four before every spin plays out, and the Duel expansion mechanic stays switched on throughout, so any winning symbol grows automatically for the length of the bonus.

Four ante-style wagers sit alongside the standard stake for anyone happy to pay more per spin. Bonus Boost costs an extra 1.5 times the bet for double the chance of reaching the free-spin round, Bonus Boost Plus raises that to 3x the bet for a fivefold chance, Duel Deal charges 5x to make every win expand even outside the bonus, and combining Duel Deal with Bonus Boost Plus costs 7.5x for both benefits at once.

Across The Gunman of Goldwood's high-volatility math model, betting runs from 0.10 to 100 per spin and the game tops out at 7,500 times the stake. Standard play returns 94.31%, a figure that drops to 87% once any BET+ wager is active.