Mustang Gold Megaways
Mustang Gold Megaways Stats
RTP & Maths
- RTP by Mode
- Ante Bet 96.47% · Buy Free Spins 96.51%
- RTP Versions
- 96.46% here · Other versions 95.56%, 94.48%
- Max Win Rule
- Applies in base and feature
- Jackpots
- Mini 20x · Minor 50x · Major 100x · Grand 2500x
Free Spins & Bonus
- Free Spins
- Collect Scatter symbols with a Collect symbol on the same spin; each scatter reveals 1–5 free spins · 1–5 free spins revealed per scatter; gamble can raise the total up to 100 free spins · Retrigger: Scatters landing with a Collect or Golden Collect symbol add their revealed free spins for each collect symbol on screen
- Bonus Buy
- Buy Free Spins 120x (96.51% RTP)
- Ante Bet
- 1.5x stake · Bet multiplier 30x instead of the 20x normal play: chance to win the Free Spins round naturally is doubled and more Scatter symbols are present on the reels; BUY Free Spins is disabled · Disables the buy
Symbols & Pays
- Money Symbols
- 2x/3x/4x/5x/8x/10x/15x total bet, plus Mini 20x, Minor 50x, Major 100x and Grand 2500x jackpot money symbols
- Wild
- Base and feature · Reels 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
- Ways Pays
- Top symbol 5x · Lowest 0.05x
Mustang Gold Megaways Demo Overview
The white horse, the dark horse, the cowboy, and the cowgirl are the same four premiums Pragmatic Play drew for Mustang Gold in 2019, and the four horseshoe jackpots beside the reels carry the same values they always did.
The 2024 Megaways build keeps every bit of that and then rewrites the one rule that decides whether you ever reach free spins. Campfire scatters count for nothing by themselves. A silver COLLECT star has to arrive alongside them, collect them, and turn each campfire into the spins it reveals. Three campfires and no star is a blank in this slot, however good the screen looks.
Free Play Features
The Collect Star
Wins pay, the winning symbols clear, and fresh ones drop in from above until nothing more connects. Horseshoe money symbols and campfire scatters ignore all of that. They stay where they landed until the tumbling stops, and neither of them is worth anything until a COLLECT star appears. When one does, it resolves after the last tumble, taking the cash value of every money symbol on the grid and the free spins in every campfire together. The money symbols run 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 8x, 10x, or 15x the bet. Four fixed jackpot horseshoes join them at Mini 20x, Minor 50x, Major 100x, and Grand 2,500x.
Golden Collect
Within free spins, a gold version of the star can appear on any reel. It collects the same way, and then it moves down the grid. If the GOLDEN COLLECT is above the bottom row, the grid respins and drops it one position, and the respins keep coming until it falls off the bottom. Every drop is another collection, so one gold star can collect several sets of money symbols before it leaves. Campfires that arrive with a star, gold or silver, add their spins again for each star showing.
The Wheel Before the Round
Before free spins begin, the game offers a wheel. Take it, and one option adds 3 spins while the other adds 5. Five gambles are allowed in total, and a win moves you up the ladder until the total can reach 100 spins. A loss takes the round away entirely. Above all, the rules put a hard stop on the result. A win is “limited to 5,000x bet”.
The Price of a Shortcut
Two stake-side options exist for players who would rather not wait for a star. The Ante Bet costs 1.5x your stake, doubles the natural chance of the round, and puts more campfires on the reels. It also disables the Buy while it is switched on. Buy Free Spins costs 120x and guarantees a minimum of 3 spins, which is the shortest round the game can hand you.
How to Play
The Independent Top Row
Reels 1 and 6 can show up to 7 symbols each. Reels 2 to 5 show up to 6, plus one more position on a top row that spins right to left on its own, and that extra strip is how this Megaways build reaches 117,649 ways. The MEGAWAYS counter above the reels changes every spin as the reel heights change, so the same stake buys a different board each time. On a phone or tablet, the reels are the tap target. A tap stops them early, and holding the spin button gives you turbo speed.
Stacked Scatters, No Trigger
Because money symbols and campfires survive the tumbles, a star that lands late in a sequence still collects everything on the grid. The reverse matters more. A reel can fill with campfires and pay nothing, and no amount of them changes the odds of the next spin. There is no counter moving towards a trigger here, so a screen that looks close to a round is often not close to anything. Free spins run on their own reel set, and that set is the only place the gold star appears.
RTP
Pragmatic Play’s own screens carry a LOW VOLATILITY badge on this game, which is the oddest thing about it.
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Minimum bet | $0.20 |
| Maximum bet | $360.00 (Ante Bet, 30x bet multiplier) |
| Ante Bet | 1.5x stake, 30x bet multiplier against 20x for standard play |
| Buy Free Spins | 120x stake, disabled while the Ante Bet is on |
| RTP | 96.46% standard, 96.47% Ante Bet, 96.51% buy |
| Operator versions | 95.56%, 94.48% |
Operators can run either of the two lower versions in the last row, and the demo here uses the top one.
Paytable
The white horse leads at 5x for 6 matching, and every figure below is quoted per unit of bet.
| Symbol | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White horse | 1x | 2x | 3x | 5x |
| Dark horse | 0.7x | 0.9x | 1.1x | 2x |
| Cowboy | 0.6x | 0.8x | 1x | 1.5x |
| Cowgirl | 0.5x | 0.7x | 0.9x | 1.2x |
| A | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.5x | 0.75x |
| K | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.6x |
| Q | 0.1x | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.5x |
| J | 0.05x | 0.15x | 0.25x | 0.4x |
Ultimate Slots Verdict
A faithful port with one change under the paint. Free spins need a collect star rather than a count of campfires, and that makes the round rarer and harder to see coming. The wheel that follows is the best idea here.
✓ What We Like
- The COLLECT star takes money values and free spins in one action, so a single symbol can settle a whole tumble sequence
- Money symbols and campfires stay put through the tumbles, giving a late star plenty to pick up
- GOLDEN COLLECT respins move the symbol down the grid and collect again at every position
- The pre-round wheel shows the odds for each step, so the risk is visible before you take it
- The 2019 art carries over intact and suits the wider Megaways frame
- Four fixed jackpot horseshoes appear alongside the ordinary money symbols instead of appearing only inside a separate feature
✗ What Could Be Better
- No scatter count means no near-miss you can read, and 2 campfires are worth exactly what 3 are without a star
- The buy guarantees only the shortest possible round for a price well above the studio's usual
- A losing gamble wheel can wipe out a round you have just paid for
Detailed Review
Reviewing Pragmatic Play’s Mustang Gold Megaways
Set this against the 2019 Mustang Gold, and the gap comes down to one symbol. In the original, campfires did the work on their own, and a count of them started the round. Here they are inert until a star finds them, and the star arrives at random. That is the port’s real design decision, and everything else about how the game feels follows from it.
The art has aged well. Prairie sunset, a purple sky, two horses over a carved wooden frame, and a cowboy who tips his hat from the middle of the grid. Pragmatic Play repainted nothing for the Megaways version and did not need to, and this is still one of the better-looking Wild West sets the studio has put out. The frame is wider and busier.
A trigger with no counter behind it shapes how this game behaves. You cannot watch two campfires and know you are close, because a third campfire is not what you are missing. You need a star, and a star can land on an otherwise dead board. Long stretches with no rounds are the price of that, and a 96.46% RTP spread across many small tumbles, and a few rounds that arrive unannounced, is not the profile the front of the game advertises.
The buy guarantees 3 spins and nothing beyond them, so the wheel is the more interesting purchase of the two. A round of 3 can become 100 before it starts, and the game shows the odds for each step under the wheel as you go. A losing wheel takes the lot. That is a real decision rather than a formality, and free play is where you can watch it resolve a dozen times without a stake behind it.
This is a port that kept its looks and made its round harder to see coming. The horseshoes, the jackpot plaques, and the pair of horses all survived the rebuild intact, and the wider frame flatters them. What didn’t survive was the comfort of watching a third campfire drop and knowing what it meant.
