Wild Depths Slot – Free Demo
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Pragmatic Play
Bubble wilds in Wild Depths climb one row per spin and keep the reels respinning until they float off the top, each carrying a x2 that multiplies with the next. My 330 spins at 240 credits returned 40.9%, and a single 12-spin Free Spins round paid 35x.
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Pearls, starfish and a bubble that doubles
So what is this slot then? Anything fresh on offer aside from a novel theme? For certain, the initial impression resulted in mixed emotions. It is a Pragmatic Play release with an underwater theme built around fish, shells and roaming wilds.
Wild Depths is a 5-reel, 4-row slot with 40 fixed paylines. Line wins pay for matching symbols on a payline, and symbols can land single or stacked.
On the reels, you will spot low-value 10 to A royals as well as starfish, seashells, fish and a bubble wild symbol. The bubble wild appears on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 only and substitutes for every symbol except the scatter. This wild holds a x2 multiplier. The red starfish, purple seashell and green seashell make up the medium tier, paying 2.5x to 5x the stake for five of a kind. The fish are the highest paying symbols. There are three of them, in blue, yellow and orange, and five of a kind pays from 7.5x the stake on the lowest of the three. 5 of them across a payline pay up to 20 times the stake. Five of a kind on the 10 to A royals pays between 1x and 1.5x the stake.
The scatter symbol is the pearl in a clam. Unlike the wild, it can land on all five reels. It is included since the slot comes with a free spins round. Three, four or five scatters award 6, 9 or 12 free spins respectively.
A wild that climbs off the top
The Roaming Wilds feature is core to the game, and the mechanic goes into effect if a wild lands on reels 2 to 5. A wild that lands stays on the reels after the spin ends. The wild moves up one position on each spin until it leaves the screen. Roaming wilds on the reels trigger respins. The respins continue while wilds stay on the reels. Landing a wild during free spins also triggers a respin.
This way, players can possibly hit multiple x2 wilds in one win. One captured spin showed four x2 wild bubbles on reels 2 and 4, and it paid 960 credits at a 240-credit stake. These multiply together. During free spins a win multiplier also rises by 1 with each respin, with no limit, and resets when the respin sequence ends.
Final Minty Score: 330 spins at a 240-credit stake gave back 40.9%, and 8,400 of the 32,424 credits won came from one 12-spin Free Spins round.
Spin 252 carried the whole session
At least during my testing session, the game did not seem to be well balanced. Only 65 of the 330 spins paid anything, and 31 of those returned less than the 240-credit stake. The session returned 40.9% over 330 spins. The balance fell from 100,000 to 53,224 credits, and the longest run without a win lasted 20 spins. It's a carefree and soothing slot regardless, although wagering is serious business. The only Free Spins round arrived on spin 252 with 12 free spins and no retrigger, and it paid 8,400 credits, or 35.0x the stake.
As a fan of high volatility, this is likely a slot I will opt to play. Wild Walker and Release the Kraken Megaways are two other Pragmatic Play slots on the site. As I have discovered, there are plenty of different tastes out there.