Silent Run is a 25-payline video slot which operates on the NetEnt software platform. The game has a wild card, which is a Bulb symbol. Moreover, there is an Echo Bonus symbol, in the form of a Green Radar icon which activates the bonus game and an Echo wild symbol, an Orange Radar, which searches for hidden wild cards. Players can test the slot on this page for free or play the game for real money in any of the listed NetEnt casinos.
Prior to searching for hidden torpedoes, one should regulate their wager. Pressing “Level” chooses the bet level and “Coin Value” adjusts the coin size, ranging from 0.01 to 0.5. To start the game, players should push “Spin”. “Max Bet” turns the reels at the highest available bet, while “Autoplay” allows players to spin the reels a number of times without interruption.
The Echo Bonus symbol on reel 3 activates the Bonus game. The symbols sends out 3 sonar signals, searching the reels for hidden torpedoes, finding a random number between 2 and 5 torpedoes. The number of torpedoes found determines the number of torpedoes in the Bonus Game.
In the Bonus game, players choose an enemy ship and fire torpedoes to reveal prizes. If the Premium Ship is hit, wins are larger. Each ship torpedoed displays a different win amount. The multipliers in this game are x1, x2, x3, x5 and x10. The Bonus game is over when all of the torpedoes have been fired. The maximum single win in the Bonus game is 250,000 coins, while the maximum total win in the Bonus round is as many as 256,600 coins.
5 Submarine symbols emerging on an enabled payline will award a jackpot of 1,000 coins.
Game Play
Level: Choose the bet level.
Coin Value: Adjust the coin denomination.
Spin: Start the game.
Max Bet: Spin the reels at the maximum number of paylines, highest bet level and the current coin size.
Autoplay: Play the game automatically for a selected number of rounds.
Silent Run is one of the very few games that has a battleship and a submarine as the main characters. The game is based on sea battles between destroyers and submarines, a seek-and-destroy game, if you like, and I'm always a fan of such action movies, especially involving submarines, so it was no surprise that I was attracted to this game just by the sight of that submarine! Hehehe. But as the game goes, that's about all that excited me, as I later found out.
Here is yet another one of NetEnt's numerous games that has non-paying Wild, Scatter, and/or Bonus symbols in a game. The Wild and the Bonus symbols do not pay anything for getting them, so that got me saying "what the argh!". Why NetEnt loves to do this I can never understand! Just to reduce the number of winning possibilities perhaps? Whatever the reason, it sucks! If that's not bad enough, the other symbols in the game have very low win values too, from just 1000x down to 60x the line bet for getting any 5 of them. Sheesh! I'm so used to seeing 5000x the line bet for Wilds, 100x the total bet for Scatters, and 2000x the line bet for the next highest paying symbol, but none of these are present in Silent Run's paytable. So my first impressions on this game also went down with the paytable. Luckily it didn't get torpedoed, otherwise this game would have ended with just a 1 Star rating from me! Hahaha.
The game's paytable may be quite horrible to me, but a lot of those horridness were salvaged by the interesting gameplay. The Wild Echo feature when activated, for example, would search for hidden Wild symbols within the reels and reveal them, so you get random Wild symbols appearing on the reels. Similarly, the Bonus Echo feature would search for hidden torpedoes and reveal them too. When torpedoes are found, a Bonus game is triggered. Here's where the action begins, hehehe.
Each torpedo awards one shot at a battleship. Each hit increases the multiplier to the next higher level, up to 10x, which is a pretty good multiplier for the last torpedo, so don't miss hitting that battleship! Ah, don't worry though, those torpedoes never miss! Hahaha. What matters most is how much each hit would pay - sometimes peanuts, sometimes big cakes, depending on your luck of course, but most of the time, no big cakes! Still, torpedoing down those battleships is quite fun, seeing the battleship explode is exciting, and seeing it throwing out a big cake is simply exhilarating, hehehe.
Any free spins? What? Getting those torpedo shots aren't enough? Hmm, not for me, they aren't! I want some free spins too! I always like free spins, but so sorry, no such thing in this game! Sigh.