London Tube: Slot Overview

Cor blimey mate, grab your travel card; we're heading beneath the streets of one of the world's great cities to catch a train through miles of winding tunnels. Sitting on the London Underground as it reels off names like Baker Street, Embankment, and Westminster is like a bizarre journey through the past, yet, in the present. A wonder of engineering, the London Underground was the world's first underground train and trips back then must have been pretty uncomfortable by modern standards. Gaslit, steam-driven, wooden carriages, still, you got where you were going while avoiding the topside congestion. Now, it's even better, and, armed with travel cards in hand, we embark aboard Red Tiger's own brand of it in the online slot London Tube.

London Tube splits its time between the base game, where players stand on a platform, and free spins, where you get a chance to board one of the trains. The base game is split even further into chunks of ten spins; how and why this is so is covered in the next section. Till then, grab a handrail or a seat, check the Tube map to make sure you're heading in the right direction and let's see where this train trip ends up - all while minding the gap between the train and the platform, of course.

Okay, so no travel card is needed to board this train, but players will have to pick a bet where the options are 10 p/c to £/€40 per spin. Like a bumpy stretch of track, London Tube may have a few bumps of its own provided by a medium-high volatile math model, generating a maximum return to player value of 96%.

With a grid made up of 5 reels of 4 rows, London Tube supplies 1,024 ways to win - left to right from the leftmost reel. Ten regular pay symbols are used. The low pays are 10 to A card symbols with British flags on them, while the high pays are a chap paying games, a lady listening to her device, a lady peering over the top of a book, another gent with headphones, and a policeman. When 5-of-a-kinds hit, they award 0.4x to 1x the stake for the lows or 1.4x to 4x for the highs. The newspaper symbol is wild, appearing on all reels to substitute any pay symbol. A win with 5 wilds in it pays 4 times the bet.

London Tube: Slot Features

The 10-spin cycle in London Tube can culminate in a feature known as the Train Arrival and is joined by free spins with roaming Train scatter awards.

Train Arrival

On the first 1 to 9 spins of a cycle, when a Tube symbol lands, it leaves a Golden Frame on its position. If a Tube symbol lands on a Golden Frame, it is duplicated to a non-framed position. On the 10th spin, if at least one position is framed, then the Train Arrival feature is activated, and all framed positions are upgraded with one of the following bonuses:

  • Wilds - wilds appear to substitute for any regular pay symbol type.
  • Ways Multiplier - the number of the symbol that lands on these positions counts as the ways number shown. Values can be 2x to 10x.
  • Cash Prize - random values of 1x to 50x appear and their total is paid out.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 Train scatters triggers 9, 12, or 15 free spins, respectively. Between free spins, 3 Golden frames may move around the grid to random positions. At the end of the spin, frames award either wilds, ways multipliers, or cash prizes. Landing a scatter symbol on free spins moves the train to the next station. Its progress is displayed above the reels. When reaching a Bonus station, players may be awarded 3-5 bonus spins, 1 or 2 extra Golden Frames, or a win multiplier of x1, x2, or x3. The win multiplier may stack and does not reset till the round ends.

London Tube: Slot Verdict

Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, for lovers of literature, a trip around London is like entering the pages of a real-life novel. And few ways get you from A to B around the city quite like a journey on the London Underground. Especially at busy times of the day when you kind of have to lose yourself in the flow of wave after wave of passengers. This is quite the opposite experience to London Tube, which is largely devoid of passengers, commuters, tourists, mice or advertising. Devoid of much life in general in many ways, though, the symbols go some way to negate this effect. London Tube arguably lacked the same level of witty vibrancy as Pragmatic Play's Down the Rails slot as a comparison.

Then again, we probably shouldn't complain about getting a carriage all to ourselves, so let's look at some of London Tube's other positives. These include a bright, light attitude, a 10-spin cycle which triggers from a set of three modifiers on the tenth spin rather than just one, and free spins with roaming Golden Frames triggering features on each free spin. That bit and the game's overall feel did bring back one or two memories of Nolimit City's London slot Punk Rocker (which had to have the London underground logo removed due to copyright issues). The two games are clearly very different, though. Where Punk Rocker had a raw, sod-the-system spirit, London Tube is a lot less confrontational. The sensation of danger at any moment has been scrubbed back, though it's 2,100x the bet max win would probably cover the cost of a one-month travel card (depending on the bet size, perhaps).

So, as we pull into the final stop on the trip, how did London Tube stack up? For the most part, it was entertaining enough. It was nice having a trio of different features to look forward to on 10th spins rather than just a wild symbol spray, and the roaming effect in free spins is a nice touch. A fun game then, but one which feels a little sanitized, a little lacking in depth and danger when compared to the two possible competitor slots mentioned above.