Train to Seoul Slot Free Demo

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Here at JohnSlots, our team of experts has come up with a brilliant way to analyse video slots and create informative, user-friendly reviews. I’ll walk you through our process below.

Features and mechanics are the first elements we look at in a video slot. We assess how these features work individually and how well they connect to create satisfying gameplay loops. Innovative and original features get a special mention too.

Next is the game’s math model. We look at RTP, volatility, bet levels and maximum win caps to determine how even the model is and how rewarding (or otherwise) the game can be. Lastly, we focus on visuals and sound, scrutinising the video slot’s theme, graphics, animations and sound design.

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Pros Tips

Trust me when I say, that Train to Seoul is a very highly volatile video slot. It can take an immensely long time to activate the free spins bonus and even when you do, there is no guarantee of landing anything worthwhile.

Play the long game in this case and set the bet level to your lowest possible option, making sure you buy yourself enough spins to hit the free spins bonus as many times as possible. This is the best way to land the game’s biggest wins through the help of expanding, sticky wild symbols with win multipliers.

Although there are a couple of bonus options, these can set you back quite a bit and with such a low success rate, I’d steer clear of them both. This is particularly true of the more expensive bonus buy option which costs 300x your stake.

Train to Seoul Slot Bonus Features

These infected train tracks are made up of five reels and five rows that put together 15 paylines. To score wins, you’ll need a minimum of three identical symbols landing on adjacent reels and the more symbols you have in a combination, the better the resulting payout.

There are five low-paying symbols which display a blood-splattered crowbar, flame-thrower, torch-light, first-aid kit and gruesomely modified baseball bat. They all have equal payouts starting at 0.10x your stake for three matching symbols and capping at 1x when landing five identical tokens.

The more rewarding symbols introduce us to the video slot’s human and zombie inhabitants. These include zombie versions of a woman, an old man, a young man and a brute, as well as the game’s human protagonists. Payouts vary according to each symbol, starting at just 0.50x your stake and maxing out at 20x your bet for five identical symbols of the human protagonists.

The online slot also includes some useful functions that help you customise your experience. On the first screen, you get to pick between two protagonists, a man and a woman. The man gives you a high level of volatility and the woman has a very high level of volatility. This option can be changed at any time in the game.

You also have an autoplay feature with up to 1,000 automatic spins, as well as a quick spin and turbo mode that speeds up each round. There’s also a battery-saver function that cuts down on animations to save your power when playing on mobile devices.

These basics set the game’s foundations, which get enhanced further once the special features are introduced.

Wilds

Wild symbols can land on all reels in both the base game and free spins, stepping in for missing pay symbols that could form a winning payline. They also combine with existing wins to help you reach better payouts.

Wilds also have a high payout value, equal to the highest-paying symbol in the game, awarding 20x your stake for five identical symbols. They also take on a much bigger role during the free spins bonus.

Scatter Symbol

Scatter symbols only land during the base game spins landing on reels one, three and five. You’ll need to score three in a single round to activate the bonus rounds, landing 10 free spins. Scatter symbols don’t have a payout value and don’t land during the free spins rounds, so there is no way to extend your bonus spins.

Free Spins

The free spins bonus introduces a couple of new features surrounding the game’s existing wild symbols. Wilds can now land as expandable symbols that cover their respective reel. These symbols are sticky and remain active for the duration of the bonus rounds.

Sticky wilds also have a win multiplier, starting at 2x and capping at 100x. You could land expanding wilds on all five reels and the more wilds you have on the reels, the better your chances of hitting the bigger wins.

There are also two bonus buy options to choose from. The first costs 75x your stake and gives you immediate access to the free spins bonus through three scatter symbols. The second costs 300x your stake and comes with one guaranteed expanding wild with a win multiplier.

Train to Seoul Slot on Mobile

I tested Train to Seoul on my Android phone using a Chrome browser to play. The game runs smoothly on mobile, with the option to seamlessly switch from landscape to portrait mode. While landscape mode is very similar to what you get on a desktop, the portrait mode moves interface elements around to make it easier to use the touchscreen controls in a different aspect ratio.

All of the same visuals, mechanics and win potential are present here, so the experience is the same across all devices. You can also play the game on iOS platforms, as long as they’re running modern browsers like Safari, Firefox and Opera.

My Ending Thoughts

I love a highly volatile slot as much as the next hardcore player, but I feel like these don’t need to be achieved at the expense of video slot features and mechanics. While I don’t mind grinding through to spins until I get satisfying wins and special feature triggers, I do want those spins to be nonetheless engaging.

That’s where Train to Seoul truly suffers. Although it cranks up the volatility to incredibly high settings, the feature set is very poor, resulting in some very boring spins where nothing much happens. And even when I activated the free spins bonus and scored some high win multiplier wilds, the result still didn’t feel like it was worth the wait.

Sure, there’s high win potential here at 15,000x your stake, but there are loads of other games out there with equally high volatility and win potential that offer better features. The game does look brilliant though and Pragmatic Play has created a great theme through strong graphics and eye-popping animations.

Ultimately, Train to Seoul’s great visuals and punishing math model aren’t matched by a satisfying feature list.