We'll always have a soft spot for zombies, the undead creatures who stalk humans and turn them into...well, other zombies. Getting in on the zombie apocalypse are Leander Games, whose beautiful 3D graphics-heavy Zombie Rush is a joy to behold. Like a top BetSoft or Sheriff Gaming online slot, the Zombie Rush video slot has amazing animated reels and a central character who stands on the side of the reels as you play.
With free spins bonus action and some potentially big wins, could Zombie Rush be the horror-themed slot you've been waiting for? Let's investigate with our new review.
Zombie Rush is set in a future city decimated by nuclear war and a nasty case of the zombies. Buildings burn in the background and rubbish is strewn across the streets. Our hero stands with a baseball bat on the edge of the reels as they spin.
The slot has 20 fixed paylines, and coins can be set from 0.01 to 5.00 for a 100.00 max bet. As winning combos are spun, a female heroine jumps onto the screen to give our boy a high-5.
While playing, Zombie Rush seems like a fairly volatile slot, and the payouts back that up. The low limit symbols are fairly mean payers for the players, with the Nuclear Warning sign dishing out just 4x-40x for 3-5 of a kind. The baseball bat (5x-50x), zombie brain (7x-75x) and weird zombie vegetables pay 10x-90x.
Further up the scale, we find three zombie meanies (paying 15x-25x for 3OAK to 150x-250x for a top payout), and our heroes. Claire pays 40x-400x while our male, baseball bat-wielding hero, Max, pays 50x-500x.
The 'Re-Spin' feature is quite neat. Every time you land a winner made up of 2, 3 or 4 matching symbols you might earn a random re-spin of just the non-matching reels.
The game's Wild symbol is the drum of toxic liquid. It will replace all regular icons other than the Scatter symbols, and pays 75x-1500x on a win line.
Free spins can be won by landing the 'Free Spinz' symbols on Reels 1, 3 and 5. You can still make use of the 'Nuclear Zombie' feature here too. 10 spins are won in total. If a Wild stops on the screen over one of the three zombies, it becomes a Nuclear Zombie - and a temporary Wild symbol. As a result, all zombies pay out the same as the regular Wild.
During a nightly chase away from the zombies, our hero has misplaced Claire. Can you find her? If you land three Door symbols on Reels 2, 3 and 4, the 'Finding Claire' feature starts.
Max must select and open doors to reveal special items: a cash prize, a key + real cash prize, a zombie, or Claire. A key advances you to the next room and bigger prizes, while a zombie ends the bonus game. If you locate Claire you'll bag a massive prize and bank all your collected cash.
Zombie Rush is a lovely-looking online casino slot, there's no denying it. But it's a volatile beast with an RTP sub-95%. That's a shame, as the bonus features are pretty interesting. On the rare occasions we triggered free spins, we managed to secure a 75x line bet win, helped by those Nuclear Zombie Wilds.
If you like some animated mayhem and a few bonus features, but don't mind the variance, check out NetEnt's Jack & The Beanstalk. True, it doesn't have mindless zombies roaming around the city, but it does feature 3D graphics, a cool Shifting Wild, and some big bonus features.