Heart of the Frontier Slot

Take a trip to the wild west in Heart of the Frontier, a western-themed slot game from Playtech. Played using a 5 reel, 20 payline game engine, it comes with stacked walking wilds and a free spins feature where those stacked wilds are frozen. Play on your desktop, tablet or mobile device from 20p and £2,000 per spin.



A classic one-horse town, complete with saloon and hotel forms the backdrop to the reels in Heart of the Frontier where the women are in charge here. Joining the playing cards (which really are playing cards rather than just numbers and digits), horse shoes and sheriff's badge are a saloon bar gal, native American and a cowgirl. All 3 of these symbols can land fully stacked and fill up entire reels.

The Heart of the Frontier is the standard wild - it replaces all other symbols as well as offering payouts of 20, 50 and 500 coins for a 3, 4 or 5 wild combination. It's not the only wild on offer either - look out for the female sheriff and the woman bandit, both of which are expanding wilds.

Whenever the sheriff wild lands, it will expand and then lock. On each spin, it will then move 1 reel to the right. The same applies to the bandit, only she moves 1 reel to the left on each subsequent spin.

Things get especially interesting when the sheriff and bandit wilds are on the reels at the same time as they'll trigger the Showdown Free Games feature and give you 5 free spins. All the sheriff and bandit wilds are locked in position for the duration of the feature. Any sheriff or bandit wilds that land during the feature will also expand and then lock into place for the remainder of the feature.

After the free spins have finished, there'll be an animated shootout which will leave 1 of the stacked wilds intact. When you resume the base game action, this stacked wild will be in place and will start moving either to the left or right on the spins that follow.

We really liked Heart of the Frontier - the visuals are a delight and the whistling soundtrack comes straight out of a spaghetti western. The feature may not offer many free spins but the stacked frozen wilds can be very lucrative indeed. We managed to win well over 350 times our stake after filling reels 1, 2 and 3 with stacked frozen wilds.

Heart of the Frontier is a gun-toting delight - the sound and visuals are excellent and the bonus feature a cracker. Even if westerns aren't your thing, we'd recommend having a look at Heart of the Frontier. Get lucky with the stacked wilds and there could be loot aplenty on offer in this here town. If you like Western themed games, you can’t beat Dead or Alive by Net Entertainment.