Captain Wild

Producers rarely choose superheroes as the main thematic inspiration for a slot game. Therefore, it is exciting when a game comes with such a premise. This product introduces you to the powerful and cape-wearing Captain Wild. However, unlike Bat Man or Wonder Woman, Captain Wild is less concerned with dolling out justice to criminals and more driven by finding you more wins on the board. Mechanically, this is a five-reel, three-row game with twenty pay lines. The RTP for Captain Wild is 95.3%, and the top win available is 5,763x the stake. This game is available to play on mobile, laptop and desktop platforms.

Captain Wild Overview

The featured content for this game begins with the free spins round. The free spins round comes with a modifier, meaning the winning payout could be subjected to multipliers. To activate this feature, players must land three or more of the bonus icons on the matrix at the same time. The next feature here concerns the progress bar you can see on the left-hand side of the screen. This meter fills a little more with every dead spin you find in the game. Once the meter is filled, it will trigger the Intergalactic Wheel Bonus. This prize wheel bonus can result in multipliers to your win and big payouts. All features will be explained in more detail later in the review.

Captain Wild Theme and Symbols

The theme for this game is a classic comic book hero theme. This theme usually involves a display of good versus evil, manifested in battles between a hero and a villain. In this case, the hero we are talking about is Captain Wild. He looks like superman but with a big W replacing the large S on his chest. He even has the fifties haircut and the enormous flowing cape. On the other hand, the villain is a dead ringer for Loki, as featured in the various Avengers movies. The designers have pooled ideas from multiple sources and combined them into something not wholly original but different enough not to be blatant copying.

The background of this game is a view of Earth from space. The implication of this image (as is often the case with Superhero comics) is that the world's fate is at stake in this game. Indeed, if Captain Wild can't defeat the green-glowing villain, the world will plunge into chaos and sadness. The image is an excellent signal to the player that the stakes are high and that this game is happy to stick to the regular tropes of this genre. The playing board for this game is a futuristic display panel from a spaceship in the colour of North American justice (red, white and blue).

The symbols are split into low-paying, high-paying and special symbols. The low-paying symbols are the J, Q, K and A in playing card royals. The most valuable of these is the A, worth 5x the stake for the top combination. On the other hand, the more valuable icons are the newspaper, the ray gun, the fist, the bomb, the ring and the picture of NYC in trouble. The NYC picture is the most valuable regular icon, worth 75x the stake for the top combination. The specials in this game include the wild, the super wild, the bonus scatters and the mystery symbol.

Game Play

Captain Wild is played on a 5-reel, 3-row machine with 20 fixed pay lines. To win combinations, players must land three or more matching symbols on pay lines moving from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel. The betting range for Captain Wild is 10p to £15 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stakes up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen.

Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen. Volatility for this slot is rated in the high range. The return-to-player percentage for Captain Wild is 95.3%, which is below average. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 5,763x the stake.

Captain Wild Features

The first feature to explain here is the free spins round. This feature is triggered when players land three or more scatters simultaneously. During the free spins, the villain will fly onto the reels and distribute radioactive substances on one or more of the reels. If a wild lands on the same reel as one of these substances, it will decrease the radioactivity and increase the stake multiplier.

If a Super wild lands on one of the reels, however, it will reduce the radioactivity on all reels, and the multiplier will be increased by the number of cleaned reels. Furthermore, all wins found in the free spins round will be multiplied by the number selected at the beginning of the round.

The next feature to elaborate on is the progress meter bar. This is the bar located to the left of the screen. It fills up a little more for every non-winning spin. Once it has become full, it will automatically trigger the Intergalactic Wheel feature. When the Intergalactic Wheel feature is triggered, the game will make you choose between the hero and the villain. After this, the wheel will begin spinning. If you land on the same colour you picked, the displayed multiplier on that segment will be added to your total stake. The maximum multiplier you can find during this bonus feature is 100x your bet.

Conclusion

With an exciting and distinct theme, this is one of the most fun and visually diverting free online slots no deposit. However, things are a little more disappointing in terms of how it plays and the payout potential. This is because the RTP is very low, and so is the top payout. In addition, the features seemed difficult to trigger and not overly rewarding when they finally were. As such, this might be a game better played for laughs in the demo mode. We suggest you to try also Bigger Bass Bonanza from our free slot collection.