Dead Man's Trail

Provider

Relax Gaming

Default RTP

See in-game info screen

Volatility

High

Maximum win

See in-game info screen

Core mechanic

Collect

What we can tell you about this title

This is a Relax Gaming slot built around a collect mechanic, and this page is going to be unusually direct: we could not verify its return percentage or maximum win to the standard we apply everywhere else on this site.

Rather than fill those fields with plausible-looking numbers, we are setting out what is known, what is not, and exactly how to find the real figures in thirty seconds.

A naming question worth resolving first

Relax Gaming's well-documented title in this space is Dead Rider's Trail, which appears in the studio's own promotional material among its best-known releases.

If your lobby shows a similarly named game, check the exact title before assuming any figure applies to it. Studios release variants — Dream Drop jackpot versions, sequels, regional editions — under closely related names, and third-party databases attach figures to the wrong one routinely.

What is and isn't verified

Figure	Status
Studio	Relax Gaming — confirmed
Core mechanic	Collect-style feature
Volatility	High, consistent with the studio's range
Return to player	Not verified — read the Game Rules
Maximum win	Not verified — read the Game Rules
Studio catalogue average	96.05% across 107 titles
Studio range	Roughly 96% to 99%, with ~94% alternative builds

Why we leave figures blank

It would take one line to publish a plausible 96.2% and a 10,000x ceiling here. Both would be reasonable guesses given the studio's catalogue, and you would have no way of knowing they were guesses.

That is precisely the reason not to. A figure presented without qualification reads as verified, and a wrong RTP is worse than a blank one — it stops you doing the check that actually protects you.

This site publishes "check in-game" on around a dozen pages for the same reason, including Misery Mining, Lil Devil where two reputable sources differ by more than a factor of two, and Snake Arena where three releases share a name.

What Relax's house patterns tell you

What can be said with confidence comes from the studio's consistent behaviour across the titles we have verified:

• Returns are above average. The catalogue average is 96.05% across 107 games, with standouts at 98.12% (Marching Legions) and 99% (Book of 99).
• Alternative ~94% builds circulate for most titles, and operators choose.
• Bonus buys frequently return more than base play — documented at 98.00% on Money Train 2 and 96.50% on Money Train 4.
• The RTP figure sits in the Game Rules at the bottom of the paytable, not on the first screen.
• Ceilings vary enormously — from 7,776x on Temple Tumble to 150,000x on Money Train 4.

None of that substitutes for the actual figures. It does mean you can predict the shape of what you will find, and recognise immediately if something is off.

How to read the figures yourself

1. Open the game in real-money mode, not the demo. Demo builds do not reliably reflect the live configuration.
2. Open the Paytable from the game menu.
3. Scroll to the bottom, to the Game Rules section — this is where Relax places the return figure.
4. Read the theoretical return and the maximum win.
5. If bonus buys are offered, check whether a separate return figure is published for them.

Collect mechanics and what to check

Collect features are now everywhere — cash collect, coin collect, symbol collect — and they share a structure. Three questions determine whether any given implementation is generous:

1. Does the collector persist? If it stays across spins or respins, the game builds. If it resets, every sequence starts cold.
2. Do collected values compound? A collector that multiplies as it gathers produces a long tail; one that simply sums produces a flatter distribution.
3. How often does the collector land? The most generous rules are worth nothing if the collector appears rarely.

The Money Train series answers those questions with persistent collectors that compound aggressively, which is why its ceilings run to six figures. Apply the same three questions to whatever you find in this game's rules and you will know roughly what to expect before staking anything.

The 94% alternative version

Whatever the headline figure turns out to be, industry documentation on this studio is explicit that a roughly 94% alternative version circulates for most games and operators choose which to stock.

That is a difference of about $20 per $1,000 staked against a typical 96% build. Confirm which you have before committing a session.

Stake sizing in practice

• Read the return and maximum win before your first spin — on this title especially, since we cannot supply them.
• Budget 250 to 300 spins as a default for a high-volatility Relax title. The studio's extreme titles warrant 300 to 500.
• If the figure you find is materially below 96%, the same studio's better-documented titles are a better use of the session.
• Count button presses rather than animation events.
• Set a deposit limit before you start.

Better-documented alternatives

Title	Return	Ceiling	Character
Marching Legions	98.12%	10,000x	Best value on the site after Blood Suckers
Money Train 2	96.40% (98.00% buys)	50,000x	Best-priced bonus buy anywhere
Temple Tumble Megaways	96.25%	7,776x	Readable mechanic, lively base game
Hellcatraz	96.46%	51,840x	Three modes, each separately priced

How to judge the figures you find

If the return reads	What that means
97% or above	Excellent — toward the top of this studio's range
96.0% to 97%	Standard for Relax; catalogue average is 96.05%
Around 94%	The reduced alternative build — play elsewhere
Below 94%	Unusual for this studio; verify you have read it correctly

For the ceiling: anything up to about 10,000x is modest and generally means a livelier base game. Above 50,000x puts the game in the extreme-tail bracket where most of the return sits in outcomes you will not see.

Common misconceptions

The first is that a missing figure means a bad game. It means our sourcing came up short, nothing more.

The second is that a figure appearing on several sites is verified. Aggregators copy each other, and one error becomes three sites' consensus within a year.

The third is that similar names mean similar maths. Relax's families — Money Train, Snake Arena, Temple Tumble, the Dream Drop variants — all carry different figures under closely related titles.

Who this suits

This suits a player who has opened the game, read the Game Rules, and likes what they found. That is a genuine recommendation rather than a hedge — Relax's design quality is consistent and their returns are above average.

It suits poorly anyone deciding from a review, because on this title no review — including this one — can tell you what you are actually being offered.

FAQ

How this site sources its figures

Since this page is about the limits of our sourcing, it is worth setting out how the process works.

1. Studio publications first. A developer's own game page or press release outranks everything else.
2. Regulatory and licensing documentation where available.
3. Established RTP indexes that publish figures per build rather than a single number.
4. Cross-checking across independent sources, with disagreement treated as a finding rather than a problem to average away.
5. The in-game paytable — which outranks all of the above for the build you are actually playing.

When steps one to four produce a confident figure, we publish it. When they produce conflicting figures, we publish the conflict — as on Iron Bank where two ceilings circulate, and Razor Shark where published maximums differ by a factor of thirty-four.

When they produce nothing attributable, we publish nothing and say so. That is this page.

Why blanks are more useful than they look

Most affiliate sites fill every field, because a blank looks unfinished and a number looks authoritative. The result is pages where verified and invented figures sit side by side, indistinguishable.

The cost of our approach is that this page cannot tell you whether the game is worth playing. The benefit is that when a figure does appear elsewhere on this site, it means something — and that the habit we push on every page, opening the info panel before your first spin, is the habit that actually protects a bankroll.

If you find a figure in-game that contradicts something published here, the game is right about your build. That is true on every page, not just this one.

Who Relax Gaming actually is

Context that helps when a title's figures are hard to pin down.

Relax Gaming was founded in Malta in 2010 and acquired by Kindred Group in July 2021 at a valuation of roughly $350 to $380 million. Critically, it operates as both a game developer and an aggregator — its platform distributes thousands of third-party titles alongside its own in-house releases.

The verified Relax range, for comparison

Since we cannot give you this title's figures, here is the range to judge whatever you find against. Every number below is verified from published sources.

Game	Return	Ceiling
Marching Legions	98.12%	10,000x
Hellcatraz	96.46%	51,840x
Money Train 2	96.40% (98.00% buys)	50,000x
Temple Tumble Megaways	96.25%	7,776x
Snake Arena	96.25%	Not published
Money Train	96.20%	20,000x
Iron Bank	96.20%	46,000x
Money Train 4	96.10% / 94.10% / 92.10%	150,000x

Two things to take from it. The in-house range clusters between 96.1% and 96.5%, with Marching Legions as a deliberate outlier — so a figure in that band is normal and anything below 96% indicates a reduced build. And the bottom row shows the spread that configurable builds create: the same game, four points apart, depending on which version your casino stocked.