Wolf Gold Slot Review

26/11/2020 | Categories: Pragmatic Play Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

Ah, the American West. NetEnt’s Dead or Alive ushered a new era in iGaming by bringing back the western genre into the limelight in 2009. In an attempt to compete with the big boys, Pragmatic Play decided to utilize this popular theme and gave us Wolf Gold. While others focused on cowboys and Indians, Pragmatic emphasized iconic images associated with the American frontier, giving it a mythological feel. Released in April of 2017, Wolf Gold was a huge success, and it still ranks as one of the most played titles for players from numerous countries, including the UK.

Theme & Design

Those who have watched at least one Wild West movie in their life are sure to recognize the sandstone rock formations on the border of Utah and Arizona. Monument Valley is one of America’s landmarks, located deep in Navajo’s Native American Autonomous Region. A painting of this landscape at dusk acts as the backdrop for Wolf Gold. The slot has painterly graphics, and illustrations the kind you would find in a children’s book.

The reels are in the center of your display, featuring a thin golden frame holding them together. They also are embedded in a rock formation of their own. A few shrubs and rocks are in the foreground to give this slot depth as the landscape recedes into the background. The reels spin during magic hour, with a few stars visible in the darkest parts of the sky.

The game buttons are similar to other Pragmatic Play offerings. The spin, auto-spin, and bet size adjusters are on your right, and the info and settings buttons are on your left. Your win amount is displayed in the center. Once you hit a big win, gold coins drop from the sky, and a fiery wolf head appears in the center of your screen.

Specs & Gameplay

Wolf Gold’s layout is your standard five-reel, three-row grid. The slot features twenty-five paylines, and bet sizes range from $0.25 to $125. It is a medium variance game that has an RTP of 96.01% and a max exposure of x5,000. All in all, this is a decent spec combination for casual players.

The game has eight pay symbols. The low-paying ones are your Js to As. If you land five on a payline, you’ll win a prize x2 your bet. The mustang, puma, eagle, and buffalo are the high-paying symbols, and if you hit five of a kind on a line, you’ll win a prize between x8 to x20 your bet. The buffalo is worth the most out of this bunch. The wolf is the Wild, substituting all symbols except for the Scatter and the Money symbol. The Scatter is an image of the plateau, appearing only on reels one, three, and five. The moon is the Money Symbol. These symbols appear in the free spins round and the base game and contain random values.

Bonus Features

If you land three Scatters, the camera pans up to the moon, and Wolf Gold tells you that you have just gotten five Blazin’ Reels Free Spins. You cannot retrigger these, but if you hit three more Scatters during this round, you’ll get three more free spins. Inside this round, the middle three reels combine, and they feature a mega 3×3 symbol, which offers the potential to connect combos en route to big wins.

There’s a Wolf Gold re-spin feature that you can activate by landing six or more Money Symbols. In such a case, a win gets paid out, the wolf howls, and this feature becomes active. All symbols on the grid that are not moons (Money Symbols) fade away and the activating moons get locked in place. The reels will then only display moon symbols. You begin with three re-spins. Each time you land a moon, your number of re-spins gets reset back to three. When the round finishes, all the symbol values get tallied up, and the slot pays out your total amount. If you manage to fill all the grid positions with moons, then you also win the Mega Jackpot of x1,000 your total stake. You can win two other jackpots as well, a Midi and Major one. They payout x30 and x100, respectively.