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.
Personally I do not know when “Silent Run” was released, but I suspect that is one of the somewhat older slots from NetEnt casinos. With all of these said, and although the slot has also some bad parts of the older NetEnt slots, it is generally a good one that I liked especially because I made me remember some special moments from my past.
So, 20 years ago I was invited to work for a few months in Germany, even in the city that built these famous submarines that made the fear of the Atlantic Ocean during WWII (Kiel). Next to one of these submarines that now has become a museum (“Kaura” or U995) there is a wall about 10 feet high and about as much long on which there are written the names of all those who sacrificed themselves on the seas of WWII. It is needless to say that this wall is filled up to the top with these names. Chilling facts....
Returning to the U-boat itself (U995) I will remember forever how those sailors squeezed to live in such a small place (some of them even slept directly on torpedoes), and the fears that they had to have lived when that emergency red bulb (Wild in this play) indicated a surface attack. It was just creepy, and the slot emphasizes this terrible atmosphere by the background sounds. (Using the streets slang one could say something like: “This was not a game, this was real sh*t, man”).
But back to the slot itself, it is good mainly because occasionally playing its two features one can recover almost all previous loses. In the Echo Wild feature a red ADSIC is pinging to discover the still “invisible” Wild symbols on the reels. Having 5-6 of these Wilds revealed,
the possible win can amount to several good thousand coins (50-100x bet). The same in the Echo Bonus feature, a green ADSIC is looking on the reels for invisible torpedoes. After they are found, it follows a round in which a number of ships are being torpedoed (as many as torpedoes were found). Every ship brings a variable win and advances a multiplier, so the order of sinking the ships counts.
In addition, even during normal spins the payouts are not as small as for other older NetEnt slots. It is true that on the overall after playing about 3000 spins with the minimum bet, I went in loss with 10-15 Euros (and I triggered very hard the Echo Bonus game), but I also had some times when I was playing with extra money.
This slot deserves a good rating if only for its realism with which the real events were transposed into play.