The official advertising clip implies that the scenery of this wild animal life game is North America. Sure, there are many aurora borealis to see in Canada all year through: above Alberta’s Rocky Mountain, in the Yukon Territory, or the provinces of Manitoba, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
There, besides aurora-viewing, you can get outnumbered by moose, deer, coyotes, wolves, bears, and foxes. But for all we know, this setting could also be Iceland, Greenland, or, why not, Norwegian Polar Park, where is created an amazing Wolf’s sanctuary, to thrive in a beautiful ecosystem.
So, we don’t know which geographical place had JustForTheWin studio precisely in mind when creating the game. What we do know are the technical attributes with which they built it. This is a game with 10 (fixed) pay lines, with an ordinary layout of 5×3, High Volatility, RTP of 96.15%, and a tempting maximum win of 250 000 CAD (or as the provider promotes 25 000x the total bet via max bet).
Get ready for an arctic wildlife adventure. Launch the Wolf Howl online slot directly via the link on our page. It is free and doesn’t require registration.
Personal testers’ opinion about Wolf Howl slot
- This is one machine with the indicative settings of JFTW Studio and the expectable high-quality graphics, coupled with a splendid soundtrack. Still, as aforesaid with an absent memorable topic, the game will hardly become your favourite.
- Paytable-wise: Scatters that don’t pay and 2 types of Wilds: A) Regular and B) with Multipliers (x-Wilds). The first is the top symbol with 30x the total bet for 5OAK, and the second doesn’t pay but brings a variety of coefficients. In this valuation line, the main spins are predictable and quite orthodox (with only Wilds and up to 3x Multipliers) to break the humdrum of the low number of pay lines. The poor hit frequency of approximately 22% (typical for any high variance game) incontestably doesn’t help to preserve the balance.
- In the Free Spins, one can mostly expect wins between 85x and 250x the total bet. The maximum score our test team has booked in this mode was 900x the total bet, which is a good outcome, but only possible after we bought our way to the Free Spins. If you are tempted to pay for your bonus, rather than to wait for it (as we were), keep fingers crossed that this will deliver an amount higher than the purchase price.
- And if you don’t understand how the Wolf Howl slot Free Spins work, dear reader, you are not alone!
We, too, couldn’t make heads or tails of it – it is nowhere explained well, and after hours of playing and trying to decipher how it works, we only got more frustrated. Let’s just put it this way:
- Now and then in the Free Spins, you will get the Moon Scatter.
- Obviously will give you extra + 2, + 3 spins etc.
- It will make on display some beautiful regular Wilds and x-Wilds (as decoration/promise).
- But they are only imaginary. As if you were playing a slot with real physical reels, then this Moon option generates x-Wilds, which get frozen to their real location on that drum. If by luck, randomly on some of your future spins (till the end of this bonus) the drum stops on that specific place again, there will be an already created x-Wild. Now, imagine that you get very, very often this Moon option. So, soon you will get long strips containing plenty of places occupied with such x-Wilds (they will look like stacked x-Wilds).
- But immediately on your current or next spin, you will not get anything from them.
However, it seems needlessly complex. Frankly, we are not interested in what happens behind the scene (we already know there is 1 thing called RNG – Random Number Generator); we need to understand what happens in front of our eyes! Well, thank you, JFTW – for making our lives more difficult!
Altogether, we leave neutral recommendations for playing at this wildlife slot with real deposits, as well as with bonus money. You can certainly try your luck if you like edgy game sessions, but to achieve 1 major win here would not be a trouble-free operation. Plus, short game sessions, pared with tiny bankroll on the get-go, inevitably will go to bust here. Players with a healthy budget seem to enjoy the Wolf Howl slot the most. Lastly, be careful with the Bonus Buy feature – it is extremely addictive.
Bonus Features
Regular Wilds – employed for the usual substitution and bring some cash at the same time.
Multiplier Wilds – (x-Wilds) – employed for boosting the payout of combinations on any of the pay lines. In the main game, they can drop in the x1/x2/x3 calibre on reels 2/3/4. Naturally, if 2 such x-Wilds fall inside a winning combo, they will be multiplied by each other.
Scatter Adder – By random in the base game, you can be granted 2, 3 or 4 Scatters.
Buy FS Feature – Left of the grid is a button to buy a Free Spins round. It increases the slot’s RTP slightly to 96.42%.
The expenditure for them is as follows:
- 8 FS for 93x your total bet
- 15 FS for 159x your total bet
- 30 FS for 314x your total bet
Free Spins – 3/4/5 Moon Scatters will initiate 8/15/30 FS, respectively. Before Free Spin number 1 and during each spin in the bonus Wild Call feature is available. It is when the Moon Scatters shift into Regular or x-Wilds. They also transform the neighbouring symbols into these 2 types of Wilds. A progressive multiplier is applicable: if an x-Wild drops next to a Moon Scatter, it will receive an upgrade (up to x5); if it is adjacent to 2 Moon Scatters, it will receive a double upgrade. The Wilds subjected to the Wild Call feature will be glued to their place (only imaginary – check our explanation 1. to 5. above) till the end of the bonus. Additional Scatters deliver extra FS (up to 30).
Settings
- Provider – JustForTheWin (Microgaming)
- Payment lines – 10 (fixed)
- Volatility – High
- The default range of bets – 0.10 to 10 CAD
- Playing field – 5х3
- The maximum winning is – 25 000x the total bet
- Bonuses – 2 types of Wilds, Scatter Adder, Buy Feature and Free Spins
- Free Spins – Yes, plus possible re-trigger
- Progressive Jackpot – No
- Gamble feature – No
- RTP – 96.15% to 96.42% (allows getting a positive expectation of winning at the casino)
