Wolf Power Hold and Win

Overview Wolf Power Hold and Win

Players are welcomed to the enchanting and awe-inspiring Blue Mountains of Oregon in this most recent game created by Playson. It seems that amazing creatures and stunning mountain landscapes are the order of the day with this slot. As you progress through this very typical American wilderness epic, you will encounter creatures such as the dangerous but beautiful to behold brown bear. In addition, the game also displays horned owls and bald eagles, as well as mountain goats and of course the stunning wolf.

When it comes to the features and mechanics of this game, Playson have designed the gameplay with multi-layered bonus-rich content. It is somewhat like its cousin slot Buffalo Hold and Win but with a little more complexity. Features that are included in this game comprise stacked wilds, nudge wilds, multipliers, re-spins, free spins, as well as a power symbol-determined range of jackpots. The most valuable one of which is worth 500x your stake.

Theme and Symbols

As you will have gleaned from the opening sequence when you start the game, this slot is all about the American wilderness and the unique and magnificent flora and fauna that inhabit it. Playson also does justice to the theme, rendering each animal and mountainside in superb detail.

The background for Wolf Power Hold and Win is a mountainside vista at night illuminated by a full moon which casts a bluish hue across the valley. In the foreground is a line of trees which are most assuredly shadows of the tall evergreen firs that dominate that part of the world. Further towards the back are the peaks and valleys of the mountains themselves creating great shadows across the landscape. The whole scene is rather tranquil and provides a calming setting for this exciting slot game. The board looks like it was made as a sign for a wood cabin that you might find in these mountains. Its simple design provides a structure for the symbols to sit in but is not in any way obstructive.

The symbols as ever for online slot games of this sort of design are split in to high and low paying sets. The lowest value symbols on the board are the J-A royal card symbols which are decorated in block colours fringed with a line of gold. Each of these pays 2.5x your stake for 5 on a pay line. The next set of symbols include the various birds and beasts that you see on the reels. These are the owl, bald eagle, mountain goat and brown bear. Each of these pays 12.5x your stake for 5 on a pay line. The large wolf symbol is the stacked wild. The scatter for this game is the picture of a mountain. The sun symbol is the normal wild and the golden coin with a howling wolf on it is the power symbol.

Game Play

Wolf Power Hold and Win is played on a 5-reel, 3-row board with 20 pay lines. To create a win in this game, players must match a minimum of 3 symbols across the board on a pay line, starting from reel 1. The betting range for Wolf Power Hold and Win is 20p to £100 per spin.

To adjust their bet levels, players can use the bet changing tool located on the left-hand side of the spin button which looks like a stack of coins. Further information regarding the slot, including a display of the paytable, can be viewed via the menu icon on the bottom right-hand side of the screen.

The spin and auto spin buttons are located directly under the reels. The volatility for Wolf Power Hold and Win is rated in the medium to high range. The return to player percentage for Wolf Power Hold and Win is 95.04%, which is a little under average for a game of this type. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 1,272x your stake.

Features

There is a lot of bonus content available for this game. Let’s dive into it.
The first bonuses to explain are the two types of wild symbols that appear on the board. The first wild is just a regular stacked wild, it will appear in the base game only. It, like any conventional wild, will help to form wins by substituting in for any other symbol bar the scatter or power symbol.

The stacked nudge wild on the other hand is a little different. For a start, it can only land in the free spins round. If it is part of a winning combination it will nudge to fill the reel that it is on completely, thus making it far easier to score wins.
The next feature for this game is called the bonus game and is triggered when you land 6 special energy power symbols or a combination of bonus and power symbols. The special bonus game is where this game gets its name as it makes full use of the ‘Hold and Win’ game mechanics. This game can be triggered from the base game or from within the free spins round. When triggered, the game will grant you 3 re-spins. However, just for these re-spins, only gold coins and power symbols will land on the reels (plus blank spaces). Every bonus or power symbol that does land will become instantly stuck to its position. When this happens, your re-spins will also be reset to 3.

Filling the screen with bonus and power symbols will grant you a special x2 multiplier. The bonus game is also how you manage to trigger the various jackpots. Each of these depending on its size, awards an instant cash value to your earnings.
The next bonus is the free spins round. To activate this round, you must land a minimum of 3 scatters. Doing so will give you 8 free spins. In this round, stacked wilds that you have accrued up to this point in the base game transform into nudging wilds. The nudging wilds as explained previously can turn whole reels wild, causing an increase in the frequency of wins.

Lastly, there is the Wolf Power: Hold and Win Jackpot bonus. This game has 4 in-game fixed jackpots. The jackpot bonus that you are awarded depends on the number of powerful symbols that you collect. The jackpots are explained below:

2 power symbols award a Mini Jackpot payout of 20x your bet.
3 power symbols award a Minor Jackpot payout of 50x your bet.
4 power symbols award a Major Jackpot payout of 150x your bet.
5 power symbols award a Grand Jackpot payout of 500x your bet.

Conclusion

Like Buffalo: Hold and Win, Wolf Power Hold and Win is beautifully made with real care given to the graphics and illustrations. However, it also has a collection of features that raise its playing experience above its brother slot. The defining difference being the power symbols and the great jackpots that one can receive from collecting them. On the downside, the RTP is rather poor and the top payout of 1,271x your stake is nothing to shout about.