Beware of the Big Bad Wolf in These Red Riding Hood Slots

13/11/2024 | Categories: Gambling Guides | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 13/11/2024

In our guide to the best Hansel and Gretel games, we hinted that we are gearing up for a Red Riding Hood addition to our folk tale slot article series, but we forgot about it. Well, we got reminded of this by a fan, and here we are presenting you a list of five reel spinners based on this renowned European story whose roots can be traced back to various Old Continent regions, with one of its earliest written versions getting penned by 17^th-century French author Charles Perrault. Naturally, it is the 19th-century iteration by the Brothers Grim that most of us have read, and it is this writing that has inspired almost thirty slots where a young girl in a red hood journeys to visit her grandmother deep in the woods, while a treacherous wolf plans to have her for lunch.

Unfortunately, a truly great Red Riding Hood game has yet to be made. The ones available on the Interwebz are not very impressive, but from those on hand, here are the five we see as the best of this bunch.

Red Cap

We start this list with a game from Endrophina, which, in our eyes, probably presents visuals, most faithful to the images that come to mind when most of us think of Red Riding Hood. Red Riding Hood is not little here; she is a young adult, a tad sexualized one, par the course for more than a few games exploiting this theme.

Visually, Red Cap looks decent, enough, boasting a palette consisting of mainly primary colors that have a good level of saturation to them, but not an overly high one. The illustration here have a very digital painting vibe, and the audio side of things is average at best.

Regarding specs, you get a free spin bonus activated by three or more scatters. The title character is the wild, and you have a risk round, where you can double your winnings up to ten times. The RTP of this 5×3 spinner with twenty paylines stands at 96.03%, and the most you can hope to win on this 2020 Endrophina title is a reward worth x3,000 your stake.

Lil Red

Okay, maybe it is a tie between Red Cap and RTG’s Lil Red regarding which slot has graphics that are the ones most one expects to see in a Red Riding Hood game. In fact, the illustrations in these two picks are fairly similar in character design, with the old nanna being a tad different. We would favor the presentation in RealTime Gaming’s product, which is a cascading 5×3 one, with medium variance, an RTP of 95.94%, and two hundred and forty-three paylines.

In the version we played, the minimum bet was 0.3 credits, and the maximum was thirty, with the noted maximum exposure being listed as x2,000. RTG spinners are not known for their wealth of extra features, and that sadly holds here also, as you only get bursting wilds and a free spin round that awards fifteen to sixty complimentary gaming rounds for three to five landed scatters, respectively, in a bonus where a progressive global multiplier is active.

Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood

Fairytale Legends is a slot series from NetEnt that consists of three products. This one, a Snow White entry named Mirror Mirror, and a Hansel and Gretel one that we have talked about before. Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood showed up online in October 2016 and is a low-medium variance spinner with a ranging RTP that usually sits at 96.33% at most sites. This reel-spinning game’s betting range with a 5×3 symbol layout with twenty paylines moves from $0.20 on the lowest end to $200 on the highest. However, we have seen some platforms list wager sizes from $0.10 to $100 for this NetEnt creation.

Presentation-wise, there is nothing super attractive here, and this title has a similar style to the others in the Fairytale Legends mini-franchise. In our opinion, this spinner has a mobile game-type Red Riding Hood character, who is blonde here and is the substitution symbol of this slot. The sticky wilds where the game’s main character morphs into a wild and stays in place, activating a re-spin in the key defining feature of this NetEnt product. You also have a Fairy Godmother in Fairytale Legends: Red Riding Hood, which randomly activates three symbol morphing modes. On top of these, a Treasure Chest Bonus is in play, triggered by three chests, and it has free spins, an instant prize up to x14, and a Beware the Wolf mini-game, where you move across a board, collecting rewards up to a maximum of x500.

Adventures of Lil Red

Here is another fairly simple gaming option with this motif, implementing a 5×3 setup with a respectable fifty paylines and an above-average RTP of 96.9%. It comes to us by Ruby Play, who unleashed it in June 2021, without much fanfare, and to a reasonable level of success.

The variance here is medium-to-high, and the illustrations are like something from a children’s book, with super-saturated colors. Adventures of Lil Red has a free spin bonus that awards up to one hundred on-the-house spins with giant tokens landing on the middle three reels, multipliers, and potential retriggers. It also has a Through the Woods repsin mode and four possible jackpots, attained through a jackpot pick triggered by a wild, which is Lil Red herself. You must pack your screen with fifteen green or red apples to collect the main one. Six or more of these activate the Through the Woods feature.