Sheep Gone Wild Slot Review

25/04/2023 | Categories: Red Tiger Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

We have been on a little Red Tiger Gaming roll. So, we thought we should continue our mini-streak of reviewing recent games from this provider, which has operated under the Evolution banner for the past couple of years. As you probably know, NetEnt bought Red Tiger in 2019, and then a year later, Evolution acquired NetEnt. Today Evolution is releasing Red Tiger products in specific US markets, growing this brand. Which now has over two hundred and seventy releases to its name. Sheep Gone Wild is the latest slot from this provider to appear online, popping up on April 6th, 2023. It did surprisingly well in the first week of its release, entering the top one hundred rankings in most regions and making its way into the top ten in others. However, it is too early to tell if this spinner will have any legs. But, below, we analyze its potential.

Theme & Design

Glancing at Sheep Gone Wild, it is immediately clear that this game has a farming and three-little piggies motif. The latter is a famed fable about a Big Bad Wolf blowing down houses that two pigs build using straw and sticks. Yet, the most massive member of the Canidae family cannot tear down their third abode constructed using bricks. Walt Disney adapted this tale, and Walter Lantz turned it into a musical. Another famous slot that uses this fable as inspiration is Big Bad Wolf by Quickspin. Though, the focus here gets placed more on the sheep than pigs, even though the mentioned super intelligent hoofed mammals are a part of this product’s presentation. Still, the influence is clear, and we can say that this title falls into the growing genre of farm slots. There are around two hundred and fifty of these, with Fat Rabbit from Push Gaming ranking high, and the same applies to Rabbit Garden, Barn Festival, and Chicken Chase, all from Pragmatic Play.

Audio-visually, there is not much to complain about Sheep Gone Wild. In our opinion, this slot gives off similar vibes to Pragmatic Play’s The Dog House series. It implements a kindred color palette and equivalent painterly graphics. But, more so, the analogous feeling it supplies is what makes us provide this description. The gameplay here plays out on a farm, with barns in the background and a dog playing banjo in the foreground, while the reels spin in a wooden frame in center view. The notorious wolf pops up on the screen at various stages of the gameplay from different sides of the 5×4 grid. And we must say that his in-game cameos, along with the cartoony-style animations of this slot and its music, fit its overall presentation nicely. So, Red Tiger did a good job of making this game appealing and having it boast a sense of charm. It also implements the Book of Dead line-win animation.

The button configuration is the usual one Red Tiger implements. You have the spin and turbo-spin functions with the bonus buy option in the bottom right and the auto-spin and stake adjuster in the bottom left. The balance info is in the top left corner of your screen, and the mute, full-screen, and settings icons are in the top right.

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Specs & Gameplay

Sheep Gone Wild is a high-variance slot with a default RTP of 94.69%, which can range depending on the chosen operator. Its max win stands at x13,400, on a maximum wager of $100, which is terrific. The lowest bet you can make on this 5×4 layout game with twenty-five betways is $0.1, and Red Tiger has not published its hit frequency.

You earn prizes in this gaming product by landing at least three identical symbols on one of its twenty-five paylines. That means the hit tokens must be on adjacent reels, touching and paying from left to right. The low-paying ones are A-10 royals, generating wins of x0.8 to x1.5 for five matching symbols from this group appearing in view on the same spin. The premiums are a chicken, a cat, a pig, a cow, and an elderly farmer. These pay prizes of x2.4 to x8 for five-of-a-kind combos.

The wild symbol of Sheep Gone Wild is a sheep, most appropriate, and it also pays rewards of x8 for five instances of it stopping on the screen on a spin, like the old farmer. The burglar wolf is the scatter token here.

Bonus Features

Sheep Gone Wild has two main features. The first is the Sheep Snatch, which can activate randomly on any reel rotation. When it triggers, a sheep pops up, and a wolf grabs it, awarding a modifier. That can be a win multiplier (x2 or x3), or it can lead to transforming a low-paying token into a wild. Know that it is possible for three Sheep Snatchers to get triggered on one spin.

The Wolf Spins activate when you land three or more scatters. The lowest number of scatters gets you seven on-the-house spins. At the start of this round, you select what sheep the wolf should snatch. The number of picks you get here depends on the number of activating scatters. The selected sheep can reveal the mentioned symbol transformations and win a multiplier that can stack up to x10 and up to five extra free spins. In this round, every time a wolf scatter hits, the game provides a new selection from the Picker Bonus from the unselected sheep.

To buy the Sheep Snatch feature, in jurisdictions that allow bonus buys, you must pay a price of x8 your stake, and the Wolf Spins round costs x100 your stake.

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GOSU Verdict

Fun and cute. That would be our short description of Sheep Gone Wild. Is it the best recent Red Tiger game? No. Nevertheless, as far as the farming slot category goes, this title is a pretty quality addition, and with a surprisingly stunning max prize of x13,400 (max bet $100), it is worth playing. It may not be among the most engaging spinners on the market, but its Sheep Snatch mode triggers frequently and keeps things exciting enough. Hence, we recommend that you give it a look-see.