Tombstone RIP

Tombstone RIP Review

This game certainly doesn't shy away from portraying the most brutal aspects of the old Western Frontier. Tombstone RIP features a grotesque public hanging theme and a record-breaking 300,000x potential.

This release is a brutal upgrade. The reels are framed by the gallows, and the monochrome visual presentation is bleak. The slogan ‘brutality - then you die’ really says it all, and it’s perhaps best to think of this as a ‘do or die’ jackpot slot.

Tombstone RIP Slot Features

You can switch on the Enhanced Bet if you wish, and it costs 10 % more per spin. This guarantees a scatter on reel 2 on each spin, which increases your bonus round chances while making it even harder to win in the base game. The RTP increases from 96.08 to 96.28 %, and we’ll provide all bonus round hit rate details below.

With a base game hit rate of only 8.7 %, base game payouts don’t come along very often, but all symbols on the last reel count as 2, and only premiums land there. The 5 premium character symbols pay between 1 and 4 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and you better take a deep breath before we drill down on the core features.

You get stacked xNudge Wilds (hanged characters) on the 3 middle reels, and they always nudge fully in place while the wild multiplier increases by +1 per nudge. If more than one xNudge Wild is part of a win, the respective multiplier values are added together.

Regular Wilds appear on reels 2 to 5, while Splitting Wilds can only land on the 3 middle reels. Splitting Wilds split both themselves and all other symbols on the same reel in two, and wilds step in for regular pay symbols to help complete winning combos. The Splitting Wilds mechanic increases the number of win ways.

You can land the xSplit Wild on reel 5 only, and it counts as 2 symbols. It also slices symbols to the left in 4 unique ways, but only on certain rows. Split symbols can be split again by this feature, and xNudge Wild multipliers are doubled via this mechanic.

The xRIP feature nullifies any win, in the base game or in the bonus round, that's lower than your bet size, making the gameplay even more unforgiving.

Landing only 2 Hang ‘Em High scatters, which is one short of triggering the bonus round, converts them to Reel Split Wilds. If you land the Boothill scatter (lands on reel 5 only) without the necessary 3 Hang ‘em High scatters to trigger the Boothill bonus round, it turns into a character symbol that becomes wild on all reels. A random symbol is also upgraded with a multiplier between x5 and x999.

The Hang ‘em High Freespins round (hit rate 1 in 194 spins (1/96 Enhanced Bet)) awards 8 free spins, and the non-resetting win multiplier increases each time you land any type of wild symbols (regular wild +1, xSplit Wild +2 and xNudge Wild +1-3). Landing the Boothill scatter on reel 5 upgrades the bonus round to the Boothill Freespins with +2 extra spins, and you have a 1 in 109 spins chance of doing that. Your win cap chance is 1 in 1.36 million, compared to 1 in 130 million (1/81m Enhanced Bet) from a base game spin.

The Boothill Freespins round (hit rate 1 in 85,000 spins (1/63K Enhanced Bet)) awards 10 free spins if triggered from the base game. It comes with the same win multiplier system as the regular bonus round, while also turning all instances of the premium/character symbol on reel 5 into wilds. In addition, a random character symbol is assigned with a multiplier between x5 and x999 for each spin, and this multiplier adds to the overall win multiplier if part of a win. Your max win chance in this feature is 1 in 16,000 spins.

Finally, non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can buy both bonus rounds from the in-game menu. The Hang ‘em High feature will set you back 70x your stake (RTP 96.47 %), while you’ll have to cough up 3,000x your stake for the Boothill feature (RTP 97.03 %). According to the game provider, you will not even win your money back 85 % of the time with the regular freespins round, and 70 % of the time with the super freespins round.

The 200 Spins Tombstone RIP Slot Experience

You get a taste of the brutal base game, before we trigger the Hang ‘em High bonus round close to the 1-minute mark. We purchase the top-tier Boothill bonus round right after, around the 2-minute mark, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

This game might be considered as going into a dark and grim corner with all these gut-wrenching and morbid releases. If that were to happen though, this is a Wild West genre with its brutal realism, ‘Insane’ volatility (especially invented for this release) and eye-watering 300,000x potential.

This bleak and brutal game is really something. The original game looks like a cartoonish fairground stand in comparison, and the public hanging win story is not even the worst we’ve seen from this developer. The game provider themselves have deemed it ‘unplayable’, and even if you consider that ‘reverse psychology’, you will be feathered and tarred in most sessions - not to say ripped to shreds and eaten alive.

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