Rise of the Sabertooth

Rise of the Sabertooth: Slot Overview

Play slots long enough, and sooner or later, something's going to start rising. Rise of Samurai (on more than one occasion), Rise of Olympus 100, even Rise of the Mountain King to name but three. Today, it's the turn of a prehistoric feline to rise, and, well, it's not clear what it's going to do: take over the world, rule the range, evolve thumbs and become the dominant species, something else? The species in question is one of the toothiest cats to walk the planet and plays the lead role in software provider iSoftBet's online slot Rise of the Sabertooth.

Rise of the Sabertooth's base game takes place in a rocky environment littered with bones, bow, and arrows. Each of the animal symbols is done up in war paint, too, as if about to do battle, but the overall vibe of Rise of the Sabertooth is one of cartoonish humour rather than serious conflict. Something along the lines of The Croods or Ice Age for a motion picture comparison.

Moving to the betting side, gamblers may choose a stake from 20 c to $/€20 per spin and have access to two bonus buy options. The math model weighs in on the medium-high volatile side, while RTP is in the 96% range. Any rising is made possible on a 5x4 gaming grid where the 20 paylines award wins when matching symbols land consecutively from the leftmost reel.

At the bottom of the Payouts section of the paytable are 10 to A card royals, firing out 2 to 2.5 times the bet when a 5 OAK winning line lands on the board. Next up is a wolf, a woolly mammoth, a crocodile, and a sabertooth tiger as the high pays. Hitting a line of 5 identical premiums awards 5 to 20 times the stake. Regular wilds and stacked wilds are part of Rise of the Sabertooth, both are able to substitute for any regular pay symbol. One more symbol for now is the mystery symbol, which reveals any paid symbol when they hit. A combination of wilds only pays like the highest-paying symbol.

Rise of the Sabertooth: Slot Features

If any rising is going to happen in Rise of the Sabertooth, it'll most likely be in tandem with its features – Super Sabertooth Spins, free spins, super free spins, and bonus buys.

Super Sabertooth Spins

Whenever a super symbol lands, Super Sabertooth Spins are triggered. First, the super symbol expands into a full reel wild and may reveal an x2 or x3 multiplier. In free spins, the multiplier is guaranteed. Multipliers are applied to any wins, and then the super spins occur. The stacked wild moves left one reel, and any new wins are multiplied. If another stacked wild lands in view, the multiplier is added to the overall multiplier, and the spins continue. When the Stacked Wilds have all shifted off the leftmost reel Super Sabertooth Spins end. Super Sabertooth Spins are basically free respins.

Free Spins

Landing 3 or 4 scatter symbols grants 6 or 8 free spins, respectively. In free spins, stacked wilds are guaranteed to reveal at least an x2 multiplier and award respins till the stacked wilds spin off the leftmost reel. Respins do not count towards the number of free spins. Free spins cannot be retriggered.

Super Free Spins

Hitting 5 scatter symbols in the base game awards 10 super free spins. In this one, any stacked wild is guaranteed to reveal at least an x2 multiplier. Triggered multipliers in super free spins remain persistent for the duration of the feature and can be bettered by landing another stacked wild. Stacked wild multipliers are additive. This round cannot be retriggered, either.

Bonus Buy

By using the bonus buy, players can get 6-8 free spins for the cost of 80 times the stake or 10 super free spins for 200x the stake.

Rise of the Sabertooth: Slot Verdict

According to Britannica, sabertooth cats existed from 56 million to 11,700 years ago, which is an impressive amount of time to walk the earth when you think about it. Our ancestors have been around for 6 million years or so, though modern humans have only been here for a fraction of that time at around 200,000 years, and look how quickly we've managed to screw the place up. Reckon we can keep this going for another 50 million or so years like our sabertoothed friends? It's hard to see how it is possible to continue the current rate of consumption for anywhere near so long. Surely, a monumental shift will have to happen in our ways of thinking, or a colossal catastrophe will cause a reset, or worse. Never underestimate the human spirit and all that, but what are we compared to the titanic forces flowing through the vast, cold universe?

Ah well, till then, we've got slots like Rise of the Sabertooth to wile away the spare moments. It provided a neat, prehistorically-themed distraction while it was in action. Colourfully designed, long-extinct animals painted in war colours appear on the reels, looking as though they are ready to duke it out for domination. Super Sabertooth Spins brighten the base game with their roaming stacked wild ways, and modifiers which multiply are never a bad thing. Reviewed around the same time, Backseat Gaming's The Cursed King arguably did it better, providing multipliers of up to x100 to go with its full reel wilds. Wild stacks only roamed during free spins in Backseat's game, though, whereas here, they roam at all times, whether that's a deal clincher or not.

There was nothing about Rise of the Sabertooth, which was a clear-cut deal breaker, though. At the same time, it didn't dump a hugely memorable session out, either. An okay game, then, nothing spectacular, nothing terrible, a playable prehistoric slot with roaming full stack wilds, possibly holding multipliers. That's it, really.