Wildies

Wildies: Slot Overview

Welcome to the world of Wildies, from developer Pragmatic Play, where life is free, breezy, and the food on offer is of the tasty if somewhat unhealthy variety. Of course, only the outer cover is free or breezy, seeing as Wildies is an online slot where winning or losing is down to luck and the cold steel of mathematics. But, let's not worry about the details for now, but place an order to see whether Wildies serves up the sort of food that's of the comfort kind or the type which is tough to digest.

It's unclear exactly where Wildies resides, but it looks like a charming European urban space, maybe France or somewhere like that. It is the sort of place where you order your favourite hot beverage and cake from the local cafe, then sit back to people-watch as the world goes by. A smoking chimney would suggest the temperatures are on the low side, so wrap up in your most chic cold-weather gear. The atmosphere is carefree and relaxed, as if work doesn't exist, meaning the day's toughest decision is which eating establishment to frequent for lunch.

To start snacking on Wildies, players pick a bet where the levels go from 25 c to $/€250 per spin, and a bonus buy is provided, as well. The math model is a highly volatile one, and players can expect a default theoretical RTP of 96.01%. Crossing the 5-reel, 4-row gaming matrix are 25 paylines, awarding wins when matching symbols land from the leftmost side of the grid across adjacent reels.

Of Wildies' 8 regular pay symbols, 4 are J-A card ranks, while the other 4 are candy canes, cups of coffee, jelly, and cakes. Landing 5 royals in a winning line pays 1 times the stake or 12 to 30 times the stake for five of anything else. Wildies' wild symbol can land anywhere, and it always appears covering two positions, either vertically or horizontally. As well as substituting for any regular pay symbol, 5 OAK wild wins are worth 30 times the stake.

Wildies: Slot Features

Wildies lives up to its name by dropping a wild respins feature in the base game and making use of sticky roaming wilds in its free spins round; some even get a multiplier.

Wild Respins

When a wild lands in the base game, the wild respins feature triggers. For the feature, the wild symbol remains on the screen, and the reels respin. If more wild symbols hit on the respin, they also remain in place, and the reels respin again. The feature ends when no more wilds are added after a respin. The second wild that lands in a respin round has a multiplier of x2, the third an x3, the fourth an x5, and the fifth an x10. The multiplier applies to all winning combinations passing through the wilds carrying them. If more than one wild is part of the same winning combination, their multipliers are added to each other. No more wild symbols may land after the fifth one.

Free Spins

Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols triggers 6 free spins. During free spins, all wild symbols remain on the screen until the end of the round and move to a random position on the grid at each free spin. The round starts with 1 wild symbol if triggered by 3 scatters, 2 wilds if triggered by 4 scatters, or 3 wilds if triggered by 5 scatters.

All wilds that land during the round are collected. After every third collected wild, +1 more wild symbol is guaranteed to land on the next spin, and +3 additional free spins are awarded. The second wild added has a multiplier of x2, the third an x3, the fourth an x5, and the fifth an x10. No more wild symbols may be added or hit after the fifth one, and no more retriggers may occur. The round starts with 3 collected scatters if triggered by 4 scatters, or 6 collected scatters if triggered by 5 scatters. Already collected scatters do not award extra free spins.

Buy Free Spins

For 80x the current bet, players can buy the free spins round triggered by 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols. The free spins bonus buy RTP is 96%.

Wildies: Slot Verdict

Wildies was a cosy game, nicely presented, easy on the eyes, and had a calming effect. At least, its graphics and sounds were so. When in action, Wildies can probably be as frustrating and/or rewarding as any other highly volatile slot in this particular weight category. There aren't a huge number of features going on. Everything mainly spins around or off those two position wild symbols. Get loads of wilds, happy days, maybe. Fail to get loads, and there isn't much support to expect from the rest of the game.

Fortunately, since wilds are the main focus, they'll likely hit sooner or later. What's good is Wildies does different things with wilds, depending on which phase of play you're in. The base game is boosted by respins, and hopefully, you see some repeat wilds landing since that's the key to the multiplier being entered. Then there are free spins, where sticky, roaming, multiplying wilds are on the menu - provided you can either collect scatters, trigger the feature with as many scatters as possible, or both. Even with more than one wild moving about the place, Wildies could be a teaser, but it also has a 7,500x the bet win cap, so squeeze this bun hard enough, and jam might come out, theoretically.

Would you want to squeeze it? Yeah, why not? Wildies is an easy going game thematically, with a vaguely Jammin' Jars feel, amongst some potentially interesting wandering multiplier wild action.