The Last Sundown

The Last Sundown Review

The cyborg-looking siblings, Rae and Devin, take on the arch-villains, Tuco and Lauro, to postpone The Last Sundown, and the backstory is told with impressive animations and voice-overs. The game plays out in a desert town silhouetted by the giant setting sun, and although this is a follow-up to a previous game, both the theme and the core symbol splitting feature is clearly inspired by similar releases.

Different characters, both good and bad, will sometimes manifest on the side of the grid, and, among other things, urge you to get a move on if you take a break. There is plenty of action commentary throughout also, and all the symbol splitting provides a dynamic payways base game. Upgrading more symbols to split is the core bonus round pursuit, and this is where you’re most likely to crack the 18,000x potential.

The Last Sundown Slot Features

The ‘W’ shaped Wild symbol substitutes for all regular pay symbols to help complete winning combos, and it also pays 5x your stake for 5-oak wins. This is the same as the top-tier character symbol, and the premiums thus pay between 1.2 and 5 x your stake for 5 on a payline. Not a lot perhaps, but the split mechanic payways increase can make a huge impact.

Speaking of, the Splitting Symbols mechanic is central to the action in both the base game and during the bonus round. A symbol is randomly selected per base game spin, and all instances of it will split in two (if the symbol lands at all, which is not always the case). This increases the number of win ways up to 7,776 at the most.

You need 3, 4 or 5 med-kit scatters anywhere in view to trigger the Bonus Round. This awards 8 free spins, plus a 5x, 10x or 50x scatter win up front, respectively. A splitting symbol is chosen up front for starters, and a random collector symbol is also chosen. The ladder is collected in the right-hand side meter whenever it lands, and a full meter makes this symbol an additional splitting symbol.

All symbols converted into splitting symbols remain so for the duration of the bonus round, and it’s possible to turn all symbols into splitting symbols. This includes wilds, and you need to collect 5 character premium symbols, 6 lower-value weapon symbols and 4 wilds to convert each symbol type, respectively. You also win +3 extra free spins per symbol you convert.

The 200 Spins The Last Sundown Slot Experience

Our 2:21-minute highlights video starts with a near-miss scatter tease, and we’ve then included one and a half minute of base game play. You thus get the bonus round close to the 1:30 mark, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

While the obvious influence shines through, we give credit for the compelling post-apocalyptic world-building. The characters, animations and action commentary is top notch stuff, and the overall audiovisual presentation is very solid. The gameplay itself is rather simple however, which can be a welcome break from complexity.

The random splitting mechanic is similar to a previous game, but the themes are miles apart. The Cascading Wins with increasing multiplier feature is missing in this follow-up, and it would have made the base game more exciting for sure. Getting ever-more splitting symbols in the bonus round, including wilds, can be fun when things go your way. However, it’s not all that enjoyable when you hardly get anywhere on the meter. Overall, a solid effort that could perhaps have been developed even further in the feature department.

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