Wanted Dead or a Wild Slot Review

Wanted Dead or a Wild Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Wanted Dead or a Wild slot is played on a 5×5 grid and has 15 fixed paylines. Winning combinations are formed by matching at least 3 symbols from left to right, starting from reel 1.

Stakes range from a low 20p up to £100 per spin, thus catering to players who enjoy both low and high stakes. To change your total bet, simply use the arrows to the left of the spin button. Turbo spins and autoplay is also possible for players outside the UK.

The Wanted Dead or a Wild RTP is 96.38%, which is above the 96% average for an online slot. However, the hit frequency is pretty low compared to other slots on the market at 19.3%. This means that just under a 5th of all spins on average will result in a winner.

The maximum win is 12,500 x your stake, which is pretty generous and higher than the usual 10,000 x you normally see with a lot of Hacksaw Gaming titles. The bonus features will give you the best chance of landing the top prize with the multipliers and sticky wilds on offer.

Theme – merciless outlaws and deadly duels

Set on a dark night with the sun beaming brightly in the background among what looks like a blood-soaked sky, the Wanted Dead or a Wild slot doesn’t instantly give you Wild West vibes if you ignore the symbols. The graphics are great though and the visuals work really well on both a desktop and smaller devices.

The soundtrack doesn’t scream Western either, but it feels like a modern twist to the old school Wild West movie soundtracks. Although it doesn’t really match the theme, I found the audio to be pleasant and enjoyable. Once a bonus feature lands, things take an eerie turn which adds to the overall appeal of the slot. The provider never lets us down with its impressive audio.

On the reels, you’ve got your usual A-10 royals as the lower-paying symbols. The higher-paying ones include a goat’s skull, a bandit, a moneybag, a whisky bottle, which every person enjoyed in a Western saloon, and a gun chamber. The gun chamber symbol pays the most, with 3, 4 or 5 in combination paying 2, 10 or 20 x your stake.

The game’s Wild also pays 20x your stake if 5 of them land anywhere on the reels. It substitutes for all except VS and bonus game symbols.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
10	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.5 or 1 x stake
J	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.5 or 1 x stake
Q	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.5 or 1 x stake
K	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.5 or 1 x stake
A	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.5 or 1 x stake
Goat Skull	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 2.5 or 5 x stake
Bandit	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 2.5 or 5 x stake
Moneybag	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 5 or 10 x stake
Liquor Bottle	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 5 or 10 x stake
Gun Chamber	3, 4 or 5 = 2, 10 or 20 x stake
Wild	Substitutes for all except VS and bonus game symbols
Dead Symbol	3+ triggers Dead Man's Hand feature
Duel Symbol	3+ triggers Duel at Dawn feature
Train Robbery Symbol	3+ triggers The Great Train Robbery feature
VS	Expands if it forms part of a win and displays multipliers

Wanted Dead or a Wild Mobile

Produced with HTML5 technology, the Wanted Dead or a Wild slot game is available to play on mobile, tablet and desktop devices. The 5×5 grid setup works particularly well on smartphones, including those using iOS and Android.

Wanted Dead or a Wild Bonus Features

This game benefits from 5 bonus features, with multipliers and Sticky Wilds playing a big part. There are two features that both give 10 free spins, with another giving 3 spins and a Showdown ending for potentially big wins. Here’s a breakdown of how each bonus feature works.

VS Symbol

Each VS symbol that lands as part of a winning combination will expand and cover the entire reel. It will show 2 outlaws fighting with different multipliers. The one that wins will get his multiplier applied to the entire reel. The whole reel also then turns Wild.

If you manage to land more than 1 VS symbol then the values will be added and then multiplied with the line wins. Furthermore, if a VS symbol lands on each reel so that the whole 5×5 grid is covered, the grid will be treated entirely as Wild.

The possible multiplier values you’ll come across are 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x, 20x, 25x, 50x and 100x.

The Great Train Robbery feature

Lands 3 or more Train Robbery symbols in the base game to trigger this bonus feature. This is all about the Sicky Wilds and you will be awarded 10 free spins. All landed Wild symbols will remain sticky for the duration of the bonus round, it’s that simple

Duel at Dawn feature

3 or more Duel symbols in the base game will trigger the Duel at Dawn feature. This is where you get 10 free spins with more VS symbols added to the reels, which we’ve explained all about above.

Dead Man’s Hand feature

3 or more Dead symbols will trigger this feature and your goal here is to collect as many Wilds and Multipliers as possible during the initial collect phase of this bonus round.

Wilds are collected to the left above the reels and the multiplier total is displayed to the right, as shown in the screenshot above. Each time you collect a Wild or a Multiplier symbol, the spins reset back to 3 until you land 3 non-winning spins in a row.

Once 3 spins haven’t produced anything, you will then head to the Showdown part of the feature where you will get 3 spins. Each spin will have the number of collected wilds applied to the 5×5 grid, so there is potential for some big wins here.

Bonus Buy feature

Available in most territories apart from the UK, you have 3 options you can buy:

Wanted Dead or a Wild Review Summary – a great and action-packed 5×5 grid

If you’re looking for a Wild West-themed slot that veers slightly away from the typical stuff you see with many other slots, this might just be the one for you. The gameplay really does resemble Gladiator Legends in terms of features, which is a fantastic slot. If you love that then you’ll love this.

The graphics are solid and the soundtrack is superb. It’s not your typical Wild West music, which is what makes it stand out compared to others. The main attraction here though is the bonus features that come with numerous Sticky Wilds and Multipliers up to 100x. The slot is fun to play, but the much bigger wins arguably don’t arrive until the Showdown part of the Dead Man’s Hand feature.

Looking for some more Wild West action with a bit more oomfph? Check out Microgaming’s Western Gold 2 Double Barrel slot with its 25,000 x max wins and free spins feature with 5 exciting modifiers.

Another one that might take your fancy is Nolimit City’s Tombstone RIP. Arguably one of the best and most controversial slots ever made, it has multipliers up to 999x as well as a max win potential of 300,000 x your stake! it’s not for the faint-hearted though.