Payday Express Slot by Fantasma Games 🎰 Free Demo and Review

Payday Express Review

This is only the second time Fantasma Games takes you on a tour de force to the old western frontier, and Payday Express is definitely a different animal than their wild west debut; Bounty Showdown. The cartoonish visuals are more of a parody than the previous game, or at least most of the characters are, and the feature department is totally different as well. The latter is a good thing in our view, and Payday Express is also a more well-balanced installment.

While the previous wild west release came with a barebones base game, you get high-value symbols, and especially the wild, as well as a nerve-racking Payday Wild feature to look forward to here. The bonus round is prolonged by the sticky winning symbols streak respins feature, and each respin sequence can be topped off by the Payday Wild feature. The 6,254x potential is solid as well, and fans of the wild west genre should definitely give this one a closer look.

Payday Express Slot - Reels Screen

Payday Express Slot Features

The premium character symbols pay between 25 and 500 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the royals pay a decent 4 to 10 x your stake for the same. Wild symbols can appear anywhere to step in for any pay symbol, and this helps complete and/or improve wins. Wilds also pay 5x, 30x, 100x, or 2,000x your stake for 2, 3, 4, or 5 wilds on the same payline in Payday Express, respectively.

The Payday Wild Feature triggers when you land at least 3 wilds anywhere in view, and you will then see that each wild symbol creates a new wild symbol in random positions on the grid. Given how much the wild and the top-tier symbols pay in this game, this can certainly lead to solid base game payouts.

The Bonus Round triggers when you land 3 train scatters on reels 2, 3, and 4 on the same base game spin, and this gives you 15 free spins. All wins trigger the sticky winning symbols Respin feature during the bonus round, and winning symbols and/or wilds are held in place as the remaining positions respin.

The respins continue as long as you improve the initial win, or land new winning combos, and 3+ sticky wilds awards the Payday Feature at the end of the respins. This adds extra wilds to the mix, which can significantly improve your win if you’re lucky.

Non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can purchase the bonus round for 70x the stake, and you get a bonus buy RTP of 94.55 %. This is slightly higher than the overall RTP of Payday Express slot, and the organic bonus round hit rate is 1 in 240 spins.

The 200 Spins Payday Express Slot Experience

You get a brief taste of the base game, before we purchase and trigger the bonus round at 0:30 into the 4:21-minute highlights video. We landed several solid payouts thanks to the sticky winning symbol respins feature, and you can check it all out for yourself by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

It’s kind of like Payday Express can’t really decide if it wants to be taken seriously or seen as a humorous parody wild west slot, and it sits somewhere in-between in our view. Some of the characters look like caricatures, while others look more realistic. It’s a strange mix, but the cartoonish visuals are neatly done nonetheless. Payday Express comes with fun and engaging gameplay that’s also well-balanced between the base game and the bonus round.

The premium symbols, and not least the wild symbol, can provide solid payouts even for 5 of a kind, and the Payday Feature can do serious damage on a lucky day. It doubles the amount of wilds on the screen, and your heart will skip a beat or two each time it triggers. The sticky winning symbols respin feature you get in the bonus round takes everything up several notches, and it also prolongs the already generous 15-FS bonus round. The Payday feature adds a climactic finish to many of the respins sequences as well, and we have no complaints about the 6,254x potential either.