Money Train 2

Money Train 2, released by Relax Gaming in April 2020, is our first review of anything from this specific studio, and it is also the first game in our lineup with a fully named bonus round, Money Cart, sitting alongside a standard base game rather than being the entire feature set the way Reactoonz's mechanics were.

The Wild West and steampunk mashup The theme here blends a Wild West train robbery setting with steampunk mechanical flourishes, five reels, forty paylines. It is a more elaborate visual presentation than the straightforward fruit and gem themes we saw in the Amusnet classics, closer in ambition to the layered feature titles like Gates of Olympus or Reactoonz than to a simpler line-pay slot.

RTP and volatility Return to player sits at 96.4 percent, comfortably in the middle of the range we have seen across most slots on this site, just behind Gates of Olympus at 96.50 and just ahead of Fire Joker at 96.15. Volatility is rated high, consistent with a game built around triggering a distinct, separate bonus round rather than paying steadily through base game spins, a structure we have now seen repeatedly across titles like Dead or Alive II and Legacy of Dead.

What the Money Cart bonus round actually is Our records confirm this game features a named bonus game called Money Cart, triggered through scatter symbols, alongside wild symbols and a multiplier component in the base structure. We want to be careful here the same way we were with Fire Joker: our data confirms the bonus round exists and is central to the game's design, but we do not have granular mechanical detail on file for exactly how modifiers or multipliers stack within that specific round for this release. If the precise mechanics of the Money Cart feature matter to your decision to play, check the in-game rules screen directly, since we would rather point you there than describe specifics we cannot verify from our own records.

Betting range You can stake from 0.10 up to 20, a narrower ceiling than Sweet Bonanza or Gates of Olympus but roughly in line with Bonanza Megaways's 0.20 to 20 range. This puts Money Train 2 toward the more conservative end of stake flexibility among the high volatility slots we have reviewed, better suited to a larger number of smaller-stake spins than to occasional large single bets.

The bonus buy option, and our standing position on it Money Train 2 offers a bonus buy, letting you pay directly to trigger the Money Cart round rather than reaching it through ordinary scatter symbols. We have said this consistently across every high volatility title that offers this option, on Sweet Bonanza and Gates of Olympus specifically, and we will say it again here: this does not improve your underlying expected return, it is priced to reflect the game's own odds of triggering the feature naturally, and it should be treated as an optional, expensive shortcut rather than a value play, used sparingly if at all.

Relax Gaming as a studio, and why we mention that here This is our first game from Relax Gaming in our reviews, distinct from the Amusnet, NetEnt, Pragmatic Play, Play'n GO, Big Time Gaming, and Microgaming titles we have covered so far. Introducing a studio through a title built around a dedicated bonus round rather than a simpler mechanic tells you something about the kind of catalogue this studio tends to build, layered, feature-driven slots with a strong emphasis on a distinct bonus event rather than continuous base-game engagement.

How this compares to what we have reviewed so far Against Bonanza Megaways, this shares a similar betting ceiling but trades the variable-reel Megaways engine for a more conventional fixed 40-payline structure built around a single named bonus round. Against Dead or Alive II, both games concentrate almost their entire payout potential into one triggerable feature, though the presentation and named bonus branding here is more elaborate.

Who this suits Players who enjoy a game built around reaching one clearly defined, well-branded bonus event, and who are comfortable with high volatility sessions where the base game exists mainly to build toward that moment rather than to pay steadily on its own.

Who should look elsewhere Anyone who wants granular detail on exactly how the Money Cart round's mechanics work before playing, given the gap in the specific modifier detail we have on file. Anyone tempted to lean on the bonus buy as a reliable shortcut to value, since it is not one.

Our honest take 96.4 percent is a solid, mid-pack return, and the dedicated Money Cart bonus round gives this game a clearer structural identity than some of the more open-ended cascading titles we have reviewed. Confirm the exact bonus round mechanics on the game screen before you play if that detail matters to you, and treat the bonus buy the same way we have treated it everywhere else on this site: optional, expensive, and not a source of extra value.

Slot outcomes are random and no bonus round trigger is owed after a dry stretch. High volatility guarantees long stretches without a major win, and the bonus buy does not improve your odds. Set a strict budget, never chase a loss, and stop when you planned to. Ages 18 and over only.

A closing thought on named bonus rounds generally Games that build a whole marketing identity around one specific, branded bonus event, Money Cart here, the Gargantoon merges in Reactoonz, the wheel tiers in Mega Moolah, tend to concentrate player attention and expectation on that single moment more than a game with a more diffuse feature set does. That is not inherently good or bad, but it does mean the gap between a session where you reach the feature and one where you do not feels larger and more noticeable than it would on a game like Live Roulette or Live Blackjack, where value accrues more evenly across many smaller decisions or spins rather than concentrating in one branded event.

Where this leaves our slot coverage so far Between the classic three-reel format of Fire Joker, the origin-story Egyptian slots in Book of Dead and Legacy of Dead, the invented-the-genre Bonanza Megaways, and now this dedicated-bonus-round structure from Relax Gaming, our reviews now span a genuinely wide range of slot design philosophies. If you are trying to figure out what style of session actually suits you, comparing across these different structures is probably more useful than judging any single game's RTP figure in isolation.