wild north slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

It shouldn’t take too many guesses to figure out the theme of Wild North – set in the cold, desolate arctic plains; the slot features a range of amazing animals who populate this part of our beautiful planet. I can imagine this one went down particularly well with Norwegians and other Northern Scandinavian players! I’m a sucker for Play’N’Go’s graphical style, and sometimes worry that I praise them too much for the quality of the symbols and backdrops their artists produce. I guess it just gels with my personal tastes particularly well. The soundtrack provides an interesting backdrop, but if I had to make one gripe, it would be that Play’N’Go uses the same sound win effects in all of their games – come on, guys, a little variety wouldn’t kill you, would it? Finally, If you want to try something similar to this game, you could check out Hacksaw Gaming's Alpha Eagle or Nolimit City's Buffalo Hunter.

Opening the paytable for the first time on Wild North, I was slightly taken aback – the wild symbol only pays 12.5x your stake for a full line of five. So, I guess the RTP must be contained in the picture symbols, right? Strangely not. The Reindeer takes the top spot yet pays half that of the wild symbol at just 6.25x your stake for a line of five. After this, the payouts drop to 5x, 3.75x, and 2.5x for the other animals before we get to the very poorly paying Ace through to the 9 royal symbols. Ouch. So what is going on here? With a 5x4 grid and 7 free spin features, I can only assume that the majority of the RTP is locked up in the bonus rounds. Keep reading to find out if that is the case.

Many developers would set the minimum bet of a 40 payline game at €0.40 per spin, but Play’N’Go is from a different school of thought – you can bet as low as €0.20 if you wish, or as high as €50.00 per spin if you are feeling truly crazy. That’s actually a little low by this developer's standards – they often let you bet €100.00 per spin!

base game & modifiers

So as mentioned previously, the 5x4 reel set in the base game doesn’t have too much to keep you interested – this is definitely a game where you will spend almost your entire session waiting for the scatters to drop. Also, According to the paytable, this game contains stacked symbols, yet I didn’t see any during my testing during the base game – I guess it means during the bonus rounds. This is disappointing, though, as very little is going on during base gameplay already. It would be nice if you could at least hit a big win from a bunch of stacked symbols now and again.

wild north slot bonus features

Okay, Play’N’Go, you truly need to pull it out of the bag here – what have you got for us? You will need three Northern Lights symbols on reels 1, 3, and 5 to trigger the bonus wheel. This has seven segments which correspond to the following seven features:

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the great wilderness feature

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wild lynx feature

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running reindeer feature

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savage bear feature

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wolf pack feature

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eye of the owl feature

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wild north explorer feature

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