Wilds of the West Slot – Free Demo

A gunslinger on top of a 6x4 pay table

Far be it for me to declare that there are numerous internet slots that focus themselves on the Wild West theme. Some may claim too numerous. NetEnt’s Dead or Alive and Pragmatic Play’s Wild West Gold are two of them, and Wilds of the West is Silverback Gaming’s take on the theme.

Loading the slot will give you a grid composed of 6 reels, which is accompanied by a count of 4 rows. So you shouldn’t discover anything too unusual in terms of the general display. A win needs matching symbols on adjacent reels from the leftmost one, in any row, and only the longest combination for each symbol is paid. As well as this, the game has a count of 4,096 ways to win for you to wager on, and at the same moment, before each spin, you can adjust the size of the bet that you lay as well. I left mine at 10 credits for the whole session, starting from a balance of 5,000 credits.

Then, upon the reels of the game, you’ll discover symbols beginning with those ranging from 10 through to A, and the A symbol supplies you with a top prize of 0.6x your stake. K pays up to 0.2x the stake, while Q, J and 10 each top out at 0.16x. Next in sequence is the symbol of the cowgirl, trailed by one of the sheriff. The cowgirl and the sheriff pay the same, up to 0.8x the stake for six of a kind. A gunslinger, who caps these symbols off, can be spotted next, and he can present you with a peak payment of 1.2 times your stake. Those figures are per way, and two or more matching symbols on the same reel multiply the win.

What the sheriff’s badge does for three to five spins

What would an internet slot title about the Wild West be without some built-in functions? Nothing, I’d argue. That is why I’m pleased with what functions the Wilds of the West slot title includes. Two of them involve the Wild locking in place, once in the base game and again during the free spins. The first of these functions is the wild symbol. It is that of the sheriff’s star badge. In the initial instance, it will deputise for different symbols upon the reels of Wilds of the West, which signifies that it can aid you with creating winning combinations across the reels. Once a Wild lands in the base game, it locks in place for between 3 and 5 spins and keeps substituting on each of them, its badge reading “Locked” alongside the spins left, and several can be locked on the grid at once.

Furthermore, three of the Gold Cart scatter symbols turning up will trigger the game’s free spins round, and you’ll be handed 10 of these to work through. Gold Carts that land during the round award more free spins, though neither of my two rounds retriggered. There’s a supplementary advantage to this round, too. Any Wilds already fixed when the free spins round begins will remain fixed, and whenever a fresh Wild moves into sight on a reel, it will remain fixed until the free spins conclude as well. My two largest base-game wins, 350 credits on spin 227 and 200 credits on spin 267, both came with locked Wilds on the grid.

Final Minty Score: Everything in Wilds of the West runs through one change of state on the sheriff’s badge: in the base game a locked Wild holds for 3 to 5 spins, in the free spins it holds until the round ends. My 380 spins made most of their money on the second rule, and the spin 225 round alone paid 1,530 credits, 153.0x the stake, close to half of the 3,300 credits won.

A card to guess, then a wheel

Final but not least, Wilds of the West also possesses its own gamble round to trigger. It is presented after some of your wins, and through this, you will be requested to predict the colour of the following playing card to be flipped over. Get the colour correct and your winnings will be doubled. But the Bonus Wheel lets you wager them for a shot at free spins.

Spins 189 and 225

My two Free Spins Bonus rounds, on spins 189 and 225, paid 490 and 1,530 credits, or 49.0x and 153.0x the stake, which came to 61% of the 3,300 credits I won over 380 spins, and I finished at 4,500 credits. I’m fond of the free spins round of course, with the extra advantage of the fixed Wilds to aid raise your wins, and then for Silverback Gaming to also integrate a gamble round into the action is simply the concluding piece of the build.