Money Train (Relax Gaming) Slot Demo & Review

Choo choo! Hold on to your hat, folks, because Relax Gaming’s title Money Train is coming to town! This really is a “money train”, too – there’s so much cash on board that it could easily be the target of the next Great Train Robbery. This Wild West-themed online slot has forty paylines, a 96.20% RTP, and a sizable maximum win of 20,000x the stake. Those are impressive stats, so we’re off to a good start.

The base game doesn’t include much in the way of special features, but that really doesn’t matter when the main bonus round is as good as this one! That headline feature is the Money Cart bonus round, an elaborate three-spin feature with more than half a dozen big-paying special symbols. It’s a whole trainload of fun, so it’s great to see that Relax has included a bonus buy facility allowing you to skip directly to it anytime you like – provided it isn’t prohibited in your jurisdiction, of course.

Now before you run away to plan the next Great Train Robbery, there really isn’t any need – play our free demo slot of Money Train instead, and cut out all the hassle and risk of getting caught in a major heist. It’s available for you to try below.

Money Train Slot
ProviderRelax Gaming
Reels5
Rows4
Paylines40
Bonus Rounds1
Bet Range0.10 - 50
VolatilityHigh
Max Win20,000x
Bonus BuyYes
RTP96.50%
Our Rating8.8

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Money Train Demo Slot


Money Train Slot Theme, Stakes, Pays & Symbols

Money Train Slot Paytable
Money Train slot paytable

Slot machines featuring a Wild West theme have been around since before the days of online casinos, but it was NetEnt’s original Dead or Alive which really set the category alight. It takes a special kind of developer to take on competition as strong as this, but Money Train is every bit as special as anything else out there – so much so that the game has already spawned three sequels; the imaginatively titled Money Train 2, Money Train 3 and Money Train 4 with the latter boasting a maximum win of 150,000x bet, which is quite incredible and has already paid this amount several times already.

Back to Money Train, then, and there are four high-paying character symbols at the top of the paytable, starting with the red gentleman who has a return of 20x your bet for a full payline of five of a kind. The scary-looking yellow guy will pay you 10x for a complete payline, followed by the green soldier at 9x and the blue female at 8x. The four lower-paying symbols are represented by playing card suits, with payouts ranging between 3x and 5x the current bet. Unfortunately, the wild symbol does not have any special reward, so a full payline of those will pay you just as the highest-paying character symbol at 20x the bet for five of a kind. Whilst these are not the most impressive returns, all symbols appear in stacked configurations, making it much easier to win on multiple paylines simultaneously.

Relax Gaming are generally very good regarding the staking structure offered on their games, which is again reflected here. Players can join the action from as little as €0.10 a spin, with the bet sizes increasing steadily before reaching the maximum of €50. Kudos to the developer here for offering such a low minimum bet, as it gives everybody a chance to enjoy this highly volatile game and be in with a chance of scooping that lovely jackpot of 20,000x.


Base Game & Modifiers

Money Train Slot Base Game
Money Train slot base game

The base game of Money Train is very straightforward, as most of the game’s payout potential is tied up in the money cart bonus round. The game uses a slightly extended playfield with five reels of four rows each, and there are 40 fixed paylines on which to score winning line combinations. All wins require at least three or more matching symbols starting from the left to award a prize.


Money Train Slot Bonus Features

Money Train Slot Free Spins Feature
Money Train slot free spins feature

The Money Cart bonus round is triggered by landing three bonus scatter symbols on reels one, three, and five. Before the feature begins, the three triggering symbols will lock in place before revealing three multiples of the current stake, which will be added to your bonus round winnings.


Money Cart Feature

The Money Cart feature is a three-spin feature, meaning you will start with three lives on your counter and need to hit at least one symbol on every spin to restore your lives back to full. If you fail to hit any symbols on three consecutive spins, the feature will end.

During the money cart feature, the reels contain only special symbols:

  • Bonus: Awards a prize as a multiple of the current bet.
  • Persistent Collector: Awards a multiple of the current bet before collecting all other visible prizes and then adding them to its own value. This process will repeat at the end of every remaining spin.
  • Persistent Payer: Awards a multiple of the current bet and then adds that value to all other visible prizes. This process will repeat at the end of every remaining spin.
  • Collector: Awards a multiple of the current bet before collecting all other visible prizes and then adding them to its own value.
  • Payer: Awards a multiple of the current bet and then adds that value to all other visible prizes.
  • Widener: Awards a multiple of the current bet and then opens an additional reel. Only two additional reels can be opened during each bonus round.

Bonus Buy

If permitted within your country or jurisdiction, the bonus buy facility allows you to skip the base game and play the money cart bonus at the cost of 80x the normal price per spin. That seems like a real bargain to me, especially considering that the feature can pay up to 20,000x the current bet!


Pros

  • Innovative bonus round that has remained popular and spawned dozens of clones.
  • A solid max win of 20,000x bet.

Cons

  • The base game could have included a modifier or two.

Final Thoughts

It would have been nice to see a couple more features included in the base game, but the money cart bonus round is so crazy that I suspect there just wasn’t any RTP left to add them! Money Train is a classic online slot, and along with Dead or Alive 2, this game truly is the king of the Wild West genre. Oh, and check out the sequels when you’ve finished playing this one!

8.8

Top-Notch


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