Abandoned Park

All across different countries, you can find amusement parks that are no longer running. The Abandoned Park slot, available at Concept Gaming casinos, is based on this type of theme. You'll see abandoned rides, reels separated by barbed wire, empty buildings and more in this game, and it's got a bit of a spooky vibe to it as well. They haven't just focused on the visual aspects of the theme, however, as players will enjoy the numerous features that go into the gameplay as well, which helps to make this a fairly well-rounded title overall.

Format and Layout

The format for this game has five reels and three rows with 20 paylines. You can adjust the number of lines activated, but playing with fewer than the maximum of 20 will force you into a situation with a lower RTP, so we don't recommend that. Instead, you can change your bet size if you need to by picking from between one and five coins, and you can make those coin sizes change from $0.01 to $1 apiece. The smallest bet size available is $0.20 per turn, and you can wager as much as $100 per spin as well, so there are bet sizes that you can pick from at virtually any level that you want to play at.

Expanding Wild Symbols

The witch head symbol, which looks like it was a car from a roller coaster or something similar, is the wild symbol in this game. It shows up on each of the five reels, but it does not have its own payouts. With that having been said, it expands any time it appears on the reels to give you even more opportunities to win. When it shows up anywhere on the game board, it will expand vertically both up and down to cover the whole reel and make it full of wild symbols.

This does make it easier to hit multi-line payouts on a single spin, but it does not substitute for the wild bonus symbol that we will mention down below.

Escalating Multipliers Feature

You'll notice that there's a win multiplier listed in the top-left corner of the reels. The way this multiplier works is that getting any win on a given spin will increase the multiplier for the following spin by a factor of one. This can happen over multiple consecutive spins to get the multiplier as high as 5x. When you get a spin that does not have any wins, this multiplier drops back down to the 1x level, and the process starts over again. When you have a multiplier of 2x or higher, the ability to change your bet size is disabled until you have a spin that doesn't win.

Bonus Symbols and Feature

There's a ticket to the amusement park that says "admit one," and it's the bonus symbol in this slot. It's a scatter symbol as well, but it doesn't give you scatter payouts. Three or more anywhere on the game board will give you a shot at the bonus round where you can win some instant payouts.

Jackpot and Top Prizes

Players will see a jackpot amount listed down under the reels. This is won at random on any given spin with no particular winning combo required. All other wins pay in both directions for three or four symbols, but five-of-a-kind wins only pay once per line.

In a bit of a twist, the card rank symbols are the top-level pays in this game. You can score 5,000x for five of the A or 2,500x for five of the K on an activated payline. The wins for the Q or J are 500x and 200x, respectively, for five-of-a-kind combinations. It drops down to 100x for five of the 10 symbol.

Players can score 75x for five of the clown, and five of the teddy bear earns 50x. Wins of 40x are available for five of the head, the figure sitting on the wall or the defunct bumper car.

Our Thoughts

The Abandoned Park slot by Concept Gaming definitely uses a motif that isn't common, and we can't remember anything similar being used in the industry overall. The graphics look a little odd at first, but they fit the concept of the game very well. In terms of gameplay, the pay table is a bit top-heavy, but the multiplier feature and expanding wild help to bring some balance to that. You can actually win up to 25,000x with this multiplier on the regular game, and that's an enormous prize that could be had on top of the progressive jackpot.