There’s a gentle feel to the design here. A lush green forest forms the backdrop to the action. On the dark reels you’ll see lower value A to 10 royal values as well as bamboo trees and a furry animal, both of which award payouts of 5 times your stake if you land 5 across a payline.
Next come the single panda and the panda family. These will get you 12.5 times your stake if you land 5 in combination. The traditional Chinese building is the game’s wild. As per usual, it replaces all other symbols apart from the scatter. The wild can be extremely lucrative too, awarding a payout of 25 times your stake if you land 5 in the same payline.
Panda’s Run comes with a Free Spins feature - to trigger it, you’ll need to land the golden tortoise scatter single on reels 2, 3 and 4 on the same spin. Your reward will be 5 free spins. All winning combinations landed during this round benefit from a 2x multiplier boost which sees the payout doubled. Retriggers are possible here too meaning you can get 10 free spins in total.
Like most offerings in the Tom Horn Gaming portfolio, Panda’s Run is a very straightforward slot. The visuals are simple but well done and the traditional backing track is a good fit for the theme.
This won’t be a game to play if you’re after a huge variety of extras. All that’s on offer here are the free spins. The 2x multiplier certainly helps move things along and gives you top payouts of 2,000 times your stake on each free spin. As far as volatility goes we’re somewhere in the middle with balanced payouts.
There’s nothing very spectacular about Panda’s Run either in terms of design or gameplay. Sometimes we just want a simple, gentle slot game and Pandas Run is precisely that. It won’t be for everyone but if you want to just sit back and hit autoplay then this is as good an option as any. I would much rather play the volatile Geisha’s Fan (from Tom Horn Gaming) or Panda’s Fortune from Pragmatic Play which features pandas.