Gladiators Go Wild Slot – Free Demo

Six reels that pay from either end

The studio's slot is a tale of the arena and the sand. Four grades of gladiator share the reels with the card ranks from 10 up to the ace. It concerns the combat men of antique Rome. Gladiators Go Wild is a 6x3 slot staged across 10 fixed paylines, and it is powered by iSoftBet. A spin costs 10 times the selected coin value, one unit for each of the fixed lines. Wins are gained by pairing symbols from left to right beginning on reel 1 and from right to left beginning on reel 6, and only the top win per line per direction counts, so a line can pay twice on a single spin. Six of a kind is therefore reachable from either end of the row.

Operating in the base game, the game holds one feature — stacked gladiators go wild for the next paid spin. The wilds substitute for every other symbol on the grid.

The symbols on the reels are placed in the arena and comprise the gladiators themselves. Below them sit the 10, J, Q, K and A, and every symbol in the table starts paying at three of a kind. The most generous is the gold-helm gladiator, handing you 400 coins for a 6 of a kind combination, and the wild stands in for any other symbol. With a spin costing 10 coins, that top line comes to 40 times the bet.

The gladiator that stops being a gladiator

Gladiators Go Wild is as simple as contemporary slots come nowadays, and when stacked gladiators arrive, they go wild for the next paid spin. In the one frame I kept from the run, a single gladiator stood the full height of reel 2. Additional stacked gladiators also go wild. A second and a third can land while the first is still in place. All of the stacked gladiators stick, so the wilds can accumulate across successive spins rather than appearing and departing on one. Because wins are read from both ends, a wild column near the middle of the grid feeds combinations in both directions.

There is no free spins game and no bonus buy. iSoftBet had been to Rome before this, in the 2016 Luxury Rome HD across 5 reels and 9 lines, and it put the same count of 10 fixed paylines on the 5 reels of Roo Riches in 2020.

The Minty Take: Two spins out of 490 came in at 107 and 100 times the stake, and without them the 92.3% I recorded would have been a much shorter afternoon. Everything else was line pays under the stake and the wilds sticking around for one more spin.

What 490 spins at 5.00 came to

It's not tough to see why iSoftBet kept Gladiators Go Wild plain, given the lone feature and the both-ways maths. Ten lines read in two directions leaves 20 possible awards to settle on a spin. This is undeniably an uncomplicated slot. What varies from one spin to the next is how many wild reels are still standing from the one before.

I gave the game a long sitting of my attention: 490 spins at 5.00 a go. The stake stayed at 5.00 from the first spin to the last. That returned 92.3% and left a 1,000.00 balance at 810.50. The 810.50 was also the lowest the balance reached all session. I discovered that the sticky wilds do most of the talking, and that you can nearly watch them piling up before the paying spin lands. Every one of those 490 spins was settled in the base game. Only 159 of those spins paid anything at all, and 94 of those paid less than the stake, with the two that counted coming in at 107 times and 100 times the stake — even so, Gladiators Go Wild is a slot that displays iSoftBet at its simplest. That leaves 331 spins that returned nothing and 65 that paid the stake back or better. Undoubtedly, some will reject it due to its absence of a bonus round.