Rabid Randy – Dark Trails Overview
Last year, around the same time, NetEnt released Rabid Randy, which was almost the same game as Rome The Golden Age. And now they have released another version of that game called Rabid Randy – Dark Trails. Which is almost the exact same game, but now with bonus buy option and more focus on the bonus games, but also a lower maximum payout.
You will find the exact same theme and symbols as earlier. A theme that seems to revolve around a crazy hunter named Randy that is catching, or slaughtering, rabid animals. Fitting for Halloween.
The game uses 5 reels that are 3, 4, 5, 4 and 3 symbols high and it comes with 20 paylines.
Besides low paying card symbols and medium to high paying animal symbols, you will also find scatter symbols on reels 2, 3 and 4. Animal traps can also be found, which are used to create frames and wilds, more on that below.
Rabid Randy – Dark Trails comes with a maximum payout of 1.259 times bet, which is much lower than the original 19.000 times bet.
Features
The Paw, Hot Paw, Wild Symbols and Frames
Whenever a paw symbol appears anywhere on the reels, it will leave an animal trap around the spot (a frame). At random a paw symbol can become a Hot Paw, which will turn into a wild symbol on the next spin, but will also make all adjacent traps wild and all adjacent to any wilds, also become wild.
Increasing Multiplier
On the top left of the reels is a special meter which will fill up to 200. Each paw symbol appearing will award between 1 and 4 increments on this meter.
When this meter is full the multiplier on the right will increase. The multiplier will increase up to a maximum of x10. Instead of the earlier x1000.
This multiplier isn’t active during normal spins, but will become active during free spins feature.
Free Spins Feature
If you get all three scatter symbols on reels 2, 3 and 4 you will trigger the free spins feature. With the multiplier that you have accumulated from the feature above.
All traps that are still on the reels will change into trophy symbols.
You will receive 3 free spins. Only trophy symbols and blank spots appear during these free spins. And each time one or more of these trophies appear, the spins are reset to 3.
Each trophy comes with a random cash value of between 0,5 and 50 times bet.
The feature ends when no more free spins are left or when you fill the entire screen. If you manage to fill the entire screen, all values are multiplied by x2.
And after this the total winning are multiplied with the multiplier you collected so far during normal play. This multiplier will reset back to x1 after the free spins feature.
Bonus Buy
What new on this version is the bonus buy option. You can buy free spins for 25 times your bet. Or pay 75 times your bet and play free spins with a random multiplier of between x2 and x10.
Verdict
Rabid Randy – Dark Trails is so similar to the original that I really don’t get why this was released. The theme and symbols of the game is exactly the same and you can’t even differentiate between the two, except the name.
But overall everything has been brought down quite a bit. From a maximum multiplier of x1.000 to x10 and from a maximum win of 19.000x to only 1.259x bet. But now with a addition of bonus buy options.
I would call this the budget version of Rabid Randy. And I am not sure if players where waiting for a budget version?
What do you think? How do you feel about this release? Let me know!
Check out Rabid Randy- Dark Trails at any trusted NetEnt casino and try the demo version below.
