The Wild Life Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

The Wild Life Review

With The Wild Life slot, developer IGT takes players on a wild ride to the African savanna to hunt for epic wins. The game comes packed with awesome features, though, as the title implies, it's all about the Wilds here. Players will benefit from Expanding and Sticky Wild symbols, and those can lead to payouts of up to 2,500x the stake.

The Wild Life - Slot Outlook

Although the game was released in 2017, it feels like it's been there forever. However, whether or not IGT has gone for some sort of a retro thing, The Wild Life slot looks more dated than stylish. The backdrop, done in red and orange, showcases an African sunset, and at the bottom are sitting flat-top Acacia trees. The background image is simple and really far from charming, though, the comics-styled symbols on the reels look fairly nice. The 5x3 reel set itself has some kind of vegetation on the sides, and it produces 10 ways to play on each spin, paying both ways.

The relaxing tribal soundtrack that blasts off your speakers once you press that spin button fits the gameplay perfectly, immersing you into the action, and it picks up the tempo when you hit wins or bonus features.

The Wild Life Slot - Reel Screen

Players drop in by setting bets from £0.1 to £200 per spin, which should appeal to many. The volatility tends to the high side of the spectrum, while the RTP varies between 92.16% and 96.16%. The maximum possible jackpot is 2,500x the bet, which means high-rollers can hope for payouts of up to £500,000.

There are 9 pay symbols in The Wild Life slot, and those are split into highs and lows. On the lower side, we see classic A-J royals, while the higher-value section is made up of familiar African wildlife representatives. The latter lot includes sin ascending order zebras, giraffes, rhinos, elephants, and lionesses.

All symbols pay from 3-of-a-kind and more, and 5-of-a-kind wins are worth from 5x to 250x your bet. The lion is Wild, and it's the most desired symbol out there for it not only substitutes for any other regular symbol to help you achieve wins, but also plays into the features, covered below.

The Wild Life - Bonus Features

The Wild symbol can only appear on the three middle reels during both the base and the bonus games, and whenever it substitutes in a win, it expands to cover the reel entirely and turns it into wild.

Look out for Africa Scatter symbols, as whenever 3 or more appear in view simultaneously, the Free Spins feature comes into play. Three, four, and five bonus symbols appearing in any position on the reels during the base game award 10, 15, and 20 free games respectively, plus retriggers are possible. Each Scatter symbol that lands on the reels during the feature grants +2 extra free spins, up to a maximum of 200. The Free Spins bonus operates in a similar way to the base game, though, a major difference is that expanded wild symbols turn Sticky and stay for the remainder of the bonus.

The Wild Life - Slot Verdict

Although The Wild Life slot is not the best-designed safari slot out there, it's a decent game for sure. The Expanding Wild symbols that are available at any stage can produce solid wins, and should you get at least 2 of them during the Free Spins, big wins will start coming right away, especially considering the game's both ways pays mechanic. All up, there's little to complain about, and those really into the African thing will surely appreciate IGT's brainchild.

Pros

• Expanding Wilds at any game stage
• Up to 200 Free Spins with Sticky expanded Wilds
• Wins of up to 2,500x the stake

Cons

• High variance and variable RTP
• Outdated visuals