The Wolf’s Bane Slot

One of the latest releases from Netent,with 5 reels and 10 Paylines. The only thing that manages to do is to approach mediocrity. With poor paytable and annoying sounds,no second reason for me to try on this slot.

This game reminds me a lot of NetEnt’s much earlier hit game, The Bloodsuckers. Although I do like that game, it wasn’t one of my favourites. With this newish game, The Wolf’s Bane, it looks nice and interesting enough to make me want to give it a try at least, and that’s exactly what I did for a few hours. Well, at least I’m satisfied that I could get a few hours of playtime and not just a few minutes, as many of other newer games tend to do, hehehe.

What matters most to me, as with every other game, is how good the paytable is, specifically, the win values of all the symbols. In this game, things doesn’t look that good at all, that’s because getting 5 Wild symbols would only pay 50x the total bet, same as for the top regular symbol, whilst both the Scatter and Bonus symbols are non-paying, so there’d be lots of missed small wins during play - not to my liking of course! The free spins game starts off with only 10 free spins, without any win multipliers, unless you get the Wild Multiplier mode – again not to my liking. Thankfully though, more free spins can be retriggered, but I’ve only gotten one time of that Retrigger business, so that’s not good either!

The Bonus game is rather disappointingly boring, if I may say so, because I don’t like ‘Pick-Me’ bonus features, whereby the payouts would usually hardly ever be good enough. In this game, that Bonus game would pay anything from 2x to 50x the total bet, out of 3 items to pick, so getting that 50x win may not be that difficult – in fact, I managed to get it 3 or 4 times within one play session, so that wasn’t so bad after all, hehehe.

The free spins have 4 modes, whereby clicking the ‘STOP’ button would randomly stop on one of the modes – Expanding Wild, Wild Multiplier, Regular Wild or Spreading Wilds. Which pays better? Well, hard to say for certain, but my best win so far came from the Expanding Wild mode, getting 3 Wild Reels 2 times, plus one Retrigger - nonetheless, the final payout was still a disappointing 167x! How big can the wins in this game go? God knows, but getting all Wild symbols on the 10 paylines would pay a nice 500x win, but then again, how often can anyone expect to get such a win, right? The Wolf’s Bane is just a decent game, and that’s about it!

The Wolf's Bane is a slot I found out about nearly 2 months ago when Videoslots were running a tournament on this new release. I played hundreds of spins on it and I had managed to explore all of its features so later on I was curious to try it out with a few small deposits.

The Wolf's Bane is a NetEntertainment slot with 5 reels and 10 paylines, therefore you can bet as little as 10 cents per spin which is quite good for low-rolling, an alternative to Starburst or other similar slots. Right off the bat, I do enjoy the theme of this slot, it's dark and witchy and it's the perfect design for Autumn season.

So the game has a base game feature and a free spins bonus round. The base game feature isn't too exciting as you need to get bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 and for that, you will have to choose one of the bonus symbols to reveal your coin prize. It ranges from 10x-50x bet and I've got a 50x bet win once from it- in that case, it was a nice boost, but generally, I'd get like 20x bet win, so it's nothing really major.

Then, if you collect 3 scatter symbols (but for more you get more free spins) you will receive one of the free spins bonus rounds with different features. My favorite so far is the expanding wild feature as it can expand wild symbols into a whole wild reel and will add another reel into a wild, or if there's no wild on the spin, it will place one. Due to this feature, I've had a couple of decent 5oak wins.  My second favorite is the wild multiplier feature as there wilds have multipliers and additional wilds are added on the reels.

I think that this probably is a bit underrated slot. I think it has decent winning potential, in my experience, it isn't too difficult to trigger the bonus round and it can be a good balance boost as it has given me a bonus right before getting bust, literally saving my balance. This won't be a game I can't wait to play regularly but I think it's a good option for small balance and balance boost.