Devil Wilds

Devil Wilds Slot Review

Chains as thick as a wrist sag across a cavern lit the colour of a forge, embers drifting up through the haze while golden light bleeds between stone pillars. That’s where Playtech have set Devil Wilds, and the studio has built the entire game on a single wager: that wilds alone, thrown at the reels in bulk, are enough to carry both the base game and the bonus. It runs at 95.5% RTP on a five-by-four grid, and there isn’t a multiplier, a jackpot or a second mechanic anywhere in sight.

Wild-heavy games are familiar ground for this studio – Better Wilds made the same mechanic its selling point, and Buffalo Blitz is still one of their best-known entries. Devil Wilds goes all-in on the idea, tying its free games to a pot of wilds that empties as the round plays out.

Devil Wilds Base Game

The action takes place on a 5×4 grid set into the cavern wall, framed by those heavy iron chains. The character symbols carry the personality: a devil woman against a purple-pink backdrop, a horned devil in fiery orange, a blue troll and a purple ram, with the royals – A, K, Q and J – filling the lower end of the table.

It’s a clear ladder, and the character symbols matter far more than the royals. In descending order of value:

• Devil woman (purple/pink) – the richest regular symbol on the reels
• Devil (red/orange) – second only to the devil woman, and not far behind
• Troll (blue) – a solid mid-tier payer
• Ram (purple) – the lowest of the four character symbols
• K / A – the stronger of the two royal pairs
• Q / J – the bottom of the ladder

The gaps between tiers are steep. The devil woman pays four times what the ram does at the top of the table, and the royals sit well below even that. Everything on the table is priced relative to your stake, so those gaps hold whatever you’re betting.

There’s some care in how the ladder is spaced. The devil woman pays exactly double the troll for both three and five of a kind, and the ram sits in a tight cluster with the troll rather than dropping away to the royals. The two royal pairs tell a similar story: K and A pay double Q and J for three of a kind, but all four royals converge on the same prize for a full line of five. Chasing five royals is the same bet whichever pair you land.

The Wild and the Scatter

The green W wild is worth exactly as much as the devil woman, which makes it the joint top payer on the grid, and it stands in for the regular symbols. When a wild lands as part of a winning line it’s doing two jobs at once – substituting and paying at the very top of the table.

The scatter is a green pentagon, and it doesn’t pay in the usual way. Its whole job is to open the Free Games round. The character symbols themselves arrive stacked, so a reel carrying a full stack of trolls or devils only needs a wild or two alongside it to turn into something serious.

Inferno Spin

On any base game spin, up to 20 wilds can be added to the reels in one go. That’s the Inferno Spin, and there’s no trigger to wait for – it can happen on any spin, with no warning and nothing on the reels to announce it beforehand.

The scale of it is worth pausing on. A 5×4 grid holds 20 positions, so a maximum Inferno Spin can, in theory, fill every single one of them with wilds. Even a partial burst changes the character of a spin entirely, because the wild pays at the top of the table and substitutes at the same time.

It’s the mechanism that keeps the base game moving. There’s no waiting around for scatters to see the reels light up, because any spin can suddenly carry a reel full of wilds, and with stacked character symbols sharing the grid, the top-of-table combinations build quickly when it happens.

Free Games

Ten free games is the fixed award here, whatever you land to get in. What the scatter count decides is your wild budget for the round – the more pentagons you catch at the trigger, the bigger the pot of wilds that rides along with you.

• Three scatters – 10 free games with 30 wilds
• Four scatters – 10 free games with 40 wilds
• Five scatters – 10 free games with 50 wilds

Inside the round, between zero and 20 wilds can stamp onto the reels on any given spin, and they keep arriving until the whole pot has been used up. Nothing is wasted: a wild that hasn’t landed yet is still yours, held in reserve for a later spin.

It’s a countdown you can feel. Every spin burns part of your budget, so the question with each one isn’t just what lands now, but how much is left for the spins still to come. A round that starts hot can go quiet when the pot runs dry, and a slow start can save itself for a wild-heavy finish.

The five-scatter trigger is the one worth chasing. Fifty wilds spread across a 5×4 grid means the back half of the round can play like one long Inferno Spin, with the joint-top-paying wild doing most of the work. Even the three-scatter version arrives with half the grid’s worth of wilds in reserve – a 30-wild pot against 20 positions guarantees there are more wilds than the grid can hold at once, so whatever else the round does, it won’t want for ammunition.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

Playing Devil Wilds means watching one number more than anything else: how many wilds are left in the pot. That’s the reason to pick it – no other part of the game asks to be tracked, and the dwindling budget gives ten free spins a tension the base game can’t manufacture on its own.

The best thing here is that the base game doesn’t feel like a corridor to the bonus. Because any spin can dump up to 20 wilds onto a 20-position grid, the biggest possible result is live on every single spin, and the wild paying joint-top means those bursts carry real money, not just decoration.

The weakness is just as plain: once the wilds run out, there’s nothing behind them. No multiplier, no second round, no ladder to climb, so a round that burns its budget early simply plays itself out. This one suits players who’d rather have a single idea executed with conviction than a menu of half-sized features – a game that keeps one fire burning and tends it well.

Devil Wilds FAQs

• What is the RTP of Devil Wilds?

  Devil Wilds runs at an RTP of 95.5%.
• Who makes Devil Wilds?

  Devil Wilds is a Playtech release, one of the industry’s longest-established slot studios.
• What is the grid size of Devil Wilds?

  Devil Wilds plays on a 5×4 grid – five reels and four rows.
• When is Devil Wilds released?

  Devil Wilds’ release date is 20 April 2023.
• How do you trigger the Free Games round in Devil Wilds?

  You need the green pentagon scatter to land three or more times anywhere in view. Three scatters award 10 free games with 30 wilds, four award 10 games with 40 wilds, and five award 10 games with 50 wilds.
• What is the Inferno Spin in Devil Wilds?

  The Inferno Spin is a base game modifier where up to 20 wilds can be added to the reels on any spin, with no trigger needed.
• How do the wilds work during Devil Wilds free games?

  During free games you have a pot of wilds that depends on how many scatters triggered the round. On each spin, between zero and 20 wilds can stamp onto the reels until the entire pot has been used.
• Does the wild pay in Devil Wilds?

  Yes. The green W wild is the joint highest-paying symbol on the reels, matching the devil woman at the top of the paytable, and it substitutes for the regular symbols.