Reindeer Wild Wins Slots
Rudolph, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dasher, Prancer… ah, whatever. You don’t need to know the names of all of Santa’s reindeer to play Reindeer Wild Wins, the 5x4 instant-play video slot from Genesis Gaming. The title, released in April 2015, is less about St. Nick and more about Nordic hunting. The practice of hunting reindeer is alive and well on the snowbound steppes of Greenland and Iceland, though you needn’t support the act to score some big wins on this excellent slot.
Reindeer Wild Wins follows three intrepid huntresses as they stalk their elusive prizes. The game offers 1,024 ‘ways to win’ rather than traditional paylines, meaning adjacent reels pay left to right without taking heed of any specific line configuration. The game also includes wild and scatter symbols, as well as free spins and a bonus game. The features make for an enticing package, especially when you consider the excellent, photorealistic graphics and rich animations. Read on for a full breakdown of this exciting new casino slot.
A Global Game
Reindeer Wild Wins is a character-driven slot game, more and more of which are flooding the market at present. Slot games have come a long way since the days of cherries and BARs. This particular title’s story is a mix of fantasy and picturesque Nordic scenery, which should appeal to lovers of both video slots and video games. Reindeer Wild Wins is also one of few casino titles that is totally global, seeing as it’s available in 22 languages. The All Pays function solidifies the title’s claim to be a truly modern game.
Hunting Reindeer
The large 5x4 reel grid appears against an icy backdrop: snow-caked fir trees surrounding a glacial lake. The grid itself is designed to resemble an animal hide stretched taut, anchored to the reel border with hooks. It all makes for a bit of a visual feast.
The minimum wager of the game is 0.40, though you can stake 80 if you want. Icons include a reindeer, glittering with ice, and the three huntresses. The huntresses resemble characters from lore, or perhaps from a Hollywood action movie: one is holding a sword and wears face paint; another’s face is shrouded by her hood. They’re definitely not to be messed with, whatever way you want to slice it. To make it easier to differentiate between the huntresses, each appears linked to a colour, the colours being blue, green and red.
At minimum bet, five reindeers pays three credits, four pays 2.50 and three pays two. The character symbols are the next best, with the hooded huntress attached to the most generous pay-out.
The game’s lowest-paying icons are the playing cards, of which there are six: 9, 10, J, Q, K, A. Players can choose to activate Autoplay, which will result in 25 automatic, uninterrupted reel spins.
The theoretical return-to-player average is 96.21%.
Mystic Reindeer Free Spins
The Mystic Reindeer Free Spins feature is triggered when a player lands three, four or five scatters anywhere on the reels. Doing so will award eight, 15 or 20 free spins. The feature can also be re-triggered an unlimited number of times: two, three, four or five scatters triggers five, eight, 15 or 20 additional free spins. The total wager, meanwhile, will be the same as the game that activated the feature in the first place. The scatter is also linked to values in the pay-table, meaning you can grab cash for three, four or five.
During the bonus feature, any wild that appears on the reels will animate to reveal a multiplier of x2, x3 or x4. Multiple multipliers will be – you guessed it – multiplied together, so a pair of x2, for instance, multiplies all wins by 4. The maximum potential multiplier, therefore, is x64.
The wild substitutes for all other symbols in the game except the scatters. When one or more wilds substitutes in a win, the highest win is paid. The wild symbols only appear on reels two, three and four and they are not linked to any pay values in their own right.
Worth Going Wild For?
There’s much to recommend Reindeer Wild Wins. Like every ‘All Ways Pay’ game, the action comes thick and fast, and the swift pace is accelerated further by the presence of scatters, wilds and multipliers. Dive into the Nordic wilderness and see how you fare.
