Wild North Slot

Wild North Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Wild North slot game features a 5×4 gaming area with 40 paylines. As with regular online slots, winners are created by landing 3 or more matching symbols across a payline, starting from the left.

Step foot in the Scandinavian wilderness with stakes between 20p and £50 per spin. Use the + and – buttons to adjust your bet, but remember that it can’t exceed £5 at UK online casinos. Besides, the autoplay and quick play modes are disabled here.

The default Wild North RTP is 96.55%, which is above the industry average for the best online slots. Note that it can drop as low as 84.55%, so scour around for the highest-paying version. Meanwhile, the game has medium volatility, and it felt just like that during my playtest.

Sadly, the wilderness doesn’t offer big rewards, with the Wild North max win set at a meagre 2,500x the bet. With the 7 bonus features, each with distinct modifiers, the top prize is within reach. That said, if you’re out for life-changing payouts, progressive slots are your best bet.

Wild North Theme—A Cold Wilderness Adventure with Wildlife

Launching the Wild North demo feels like straying into a Scandinavian wilderness with falling snow and frozen trees. You’re still trying to keep warm when you notice fresh footprints of wildlife on the snow—think polar bear, wolf, and reindeer. Credit to Play’n GO for the innovative theme and impressive execution.

I like the attention to the tiny details—right down to the claw design in the title. Although it was released over a decade ago, it stacks up well against many new online slots on the market.

However, a matching soundtrack wouldn’t have hurt, perhaps cultural drums and strings. Still, the low, haunting sound adds mystery to the atmosphere, so I can’t complain too much.

Here’s what the game’s paytable looks like at Wild North casinos:

Symbols	Payouts/Info
9	3, 4, 5 = 0.1, 0.25, 1x the stake
10	3, 4, 5 = 0.1, 0.25, 1.25x the stake
J	3, 4, 5 = 0.15, 0.3, 1.5x the stake
Q	3, 4, 5 = 0.15, 0.35, 1.75x the stake
K	3, 4, 5 = 0.2, 0.55, 2x the stake
A	3, 4, 5 = 0.2, 0.75, 2.25x the stake
Owl	3, 4, 5 = 0.3, 1, 2.5x the stake
Wolf	3, 4, 5 = 0.35, 1.25, 3.75x the stake
Bear	3, 4, 5 = 0.5, 1.5, 5x the stake
Reindeer	3, 4, 5 = 0.75, 1.75, 6.25x the stake
Lynx (Wild)	3, 4, 5 = 1, 3.75, 12.5x the stake; Substitutes for regular paying symbols

Wild North Mobile Slot

After analysing Wild North on my desktop, I played it on my phone and tablet and didn’t notice many differences across the devices. The frozen trees, snowfall, and wildlife all hold up well on small screens, and the controls sit under the grid. Like most free slots, it’s optimised for both portrait and landscape modes at mobile casinos.

Wild North Bonus Features

The provider has opted for quantity over quality, with the game’s bonus features. There are 7, each with distinct modifiers, like sticky and expanding symbols and multipliers.

Bonus Rounds

Landing 3 Northern Lights symbols will trigger the Northern Lights Bonus feature, where you come across a wheel with 7 bonus features. One of the features is randomly awarded.

The Great Wilderness

You will be awarded 3 free spins, with a 4×4 Mega Symbol landing on reels 2 to 5.

Wild Lynx

It awards 3 free spins, with 1 or 2 reels covered by Lynx wild symbols.

Running Reindeer

You’re awarded 1 free spin at the start of the round. Plus, you’ll get 1 re-spin when Reindeer symbols cover reels 2, 3, and 4 or when they form a 3×3 block. More importantly, Reindeer symbols remain sticky for the re-spin.

Savage Bear

You’ll get 1 free spin, and a random multiplier of up to 30x applies to any win.

Wolf Pack

It awards 1 free spin, and 4 Wolves appear on the reels, remaining sticky till the end of the feature. Landing additional Wolves triggers 1 respin. In addition, Wolves are wild symbols in this bonus round, helping to complete winning combinations.

Eyes of the Owl

It awards 1 free spin during which 2 large 2×2 Owl symbols appear. You’ll keep getting respins with Sticky Owl symbols until you hit a win.

Wild North Explorer

In this round, you’ll come across a 20-tile grid where you make picks to reveal hidden prizes. You can win cash prizes or trigger any of the other bonus rounds. The pick will continue until you reveal an “X”, the Great Wilderness, or Wild Lynx symbols.

Wild North Verdict: An Exciting Adventure in the Scandinavian Wilderness

2.8/5

Based on our expert’s review. Reviewed by Olamidotun Otis

Olamidotun Otis

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The Wild North slot game delivers a brilliant winter slot with an impressive selection of bonus features. However, the rewards aren’t quite promising.

Pros

• Offers 7 bonus rounds, each with distinct modifiers
• Novel theme with a brilliant execution

Cons

• The base game lacks enough excitement
• Offers a max win of 2,500x
• Free spins cannot be retriggered

We don’t often see software providers step foot into frigid northern regions, so the Scandinavian wilderness theme gets a warm welcome—well, a cold one, technically. The execution is also impressive. From the frozen trees to wildlife and snowfall, it isn’t bad at all for a 2015 release.

The technical side also holds up well. 1 of the 7 bonus features is randomly awarded when you trigger the bonus round. Each of these features comes with distinct modifiers, including multipliers, expanding reels, colossal symbols, and mystery prizes.

That said, it would have been nice to at least get a bonus feature in the base game—it feels quite bland as it stands. Also, the max win of 2,500x the bet won’t appeal to all, particularly to modern players.