Play Bushido Gold for Free

Betting & Base Game

The bet range of 0.20 to 100 credits is good, with a total of 12 levels, plus X-iter bonus buy options. There’s a starting point of 4,096 ways to win as symbols match from the left over the 6x4 grid. Sticking to smaller stakes, it wasn’t long before I managed to trigger some of the many in-game features, which is a good omen for players looking for frequent bonuses.

Bushido Gold Slot Bonus Features

Avalanches trigger on every spin, removing winning symbols as those above drop down to take their places. This is a popular feature of online slot games, but the Bushido Gold slot machine supercharges the experience by adding an extra row of symbols on each avalanche in a series. Reels can grow to a maximum of eight rows, crossed by 262,144 ways to win. I soon discovered that it’s easier to win across extra rows, although thanks to the high volatility, getting to the full eight rows with four consecutive wins can be hard.

A Slice system helps, running a sword through the game whenever matching symbols are on reels one and six on the same row. It creates two identical rows, although the limit remains at eight.

Symbols, apart from wilds, can be in regular 1x1 format, or 2x2 Super, 3x3, Mega, or 4x4 ‘Epic’ sizes. They count as four, nine, and 16 individual symbols respectively. If they drop down on wins, but leave empty spaces below, new 1x1 examples of the same symbol appear, and I got several nice wins from this mechanism.

Wild bombs act as other symbols and explode when part of wins, removing adjacent symbols and activating any connected feature symbol.

The Ninja is one of those feature symbols, and he fires Throwing Stars at random spots, which then turn into more wilds. I didn’t always get a win from this, but it certainly helped a couple of times.

Wild bombs also activate a cannon, which blasts a pillar of wilds upwards on its reel. Big, 2x2 versions do this to both reels above them. Golden cannon always shoot from the bottom row and as an extra treat, the reels then expand to the maximum of eight rows.

The Bushido Gold online slot free spins feature starts when at least three castle bonus symbols land at once. You get six Ninja Drop free games, plus two more for each additional castle on the triggering spin. They play out in the same way as the base games, with the exception that Ninjas are present throughout, throwing stars around the grid for extra wilds. I had moderate success over eight free spins, winning 16.8x my stake.

Paytable

Matched symbols in an unbroken run from the left pay these portions of the bet -