Night Wolf Darkest Flame

Night Wolf Darkest Flame Slot Review

The ground burns before anything else does: cracked rock glowing lava-red at the frame’s edges, slate-grey stone around the columns, embers flecking the gold-trimmed title plaque. Night Wolf Darkest Flame, from Spinomenal, gets more out of ten lines than it has any right to, because every symbol can land doubled and stretch a small grid into a very long ladder. It runs on a 6×3 grid with 10 fixed paylines and an RTP of 95.79%, and the twelve-owl line at the top of that ladder pays 50,000x.

Sister titles in the studio’s wolf pack include Wolf Fang The Origins, Book Of The Night Wolf and Werewolf Darkest Flame. The owl at the top of the ladder pays 50,000x for twelve, and that’s the fire everything else orbits.

The Base Game and Its Symbols

The grid is six reels across and three rows deep, with wins paid left to right from the leftmost reel on 10 fixed lines. Only the highest win counts on each line. Multiple line wins in a single round add together into the total.

Stakes are set by choosing a bet per line with the plus and minus buttons, and every win on a line is multiplied by that bet per line. Auto play runs continuous spins at the selected stake from its own configuration screen, and Turbo Mode shortens each round to its minimum length.

The twist is that every symbol can land in single or double form, and a double symbol counts as two singles for winning combinations. That’s how a paytable on a six-reel grid stretches from three-of-a-kind all the way to twelve. It also means the same symbol can pay twice as much when it lands doubled, without the ladder itself changing.

The animal symbols sit at the top of that ladder, and the owl is the richest of them by a distance. The royals prop up the bottom.

• Owl: from 200x at three through 1,600x at five and 9,000x at nine, up to 50,000x for a full twelve – far clear of everything else on the reels
• Eagle: the second predator, paying 150x for three, 1,200x for five and 20,000x at twelve
• Moose and Fox: a shared row worth 100x at three, 800x at five and 15,000x for twelve
• A and K: 50x opens this row, which climbs to 600x at five and 10,000x at twelve
• Q, J and 10: the basement tier – 50x for three, 400x for five, 6,000x for twelve

Those four animal rows are the “medium symbols” the free spins round picks between, which is worth remembering when the wheel decides what your bonus is worth. A chosen owl round and a chosen 10s round are very different propositions.

The wild counts as any symbol except the Free Spins and Bonus symbols, and it can land stacked across a full reel, which on a three-row grid means a wall of wolf. Six wilds on a winning line pay bet per line x5,000. It’s the one symbol that doesn’t need doubles to matter.

Stacked Wilds

While the reels are spinning, wild symbols might appear on the reels in stacked form, increasing the chances of winning. When a stack fills a reel, several lines can improve at once. It can fire on any base game spin.

Only Double Symbols

The second random modifier can also fire mid-spin: Only Double Symbols turns every symbol on that spin into its double form. Since each double counts as two singles, the whole grid is suddenly working with the top half of the paytable, and twelve-symbol lines only exist when doubles land.

This is the modifier the long ladder was built for. Every symbol on the screen carries its doubled weight at once, so the difference between a quiet spin and a twelve-symbol line comes down to which symbols the modifier lines up.

Both modifiers belong to the base game only. Neither changes what the reels pay, only how likely the longer combinations are to form.

Free Spins

Three scattered Free Spins symbols on reels 2, 4 and 6 trigger the feature from the base game. The round opens with a wheel spin that decides two things at once: how many free spins you get, and which one of the four medium symbols is the only medium symbol that participates in the round, in both its single and double form.

The wheel awards between 10 and 40 automatic free spins, with segments showing 10, 13, 15, 20, 30 and 40. The bet per line stays the same as the game that triggered the feature, and the plus and minus buttons are disabled while it runs, so what the wheel gives you is what you play with.

• Trigger: 3 scattered Free Spins symbols on reels 2, 4 and 6, base game only
• Spins: 10 to 40, awarded automatically by the wheel
• Wheel segments: 10, 13, 15, 20, 30 and 40 spins
• Medium symbol: one of four, chosen by the wheel, in single and double form
• Stake: bet per line matches the triggering game

The Bonus Game

Three scattered Bonus symbols on reels 2, 4 and 6 trigger the bonus game, again from the base game only. It starts with three spins and a meter to fill.

Scattered winning symbols collected during those spins count towards the meter, and every five winning symbols collected fills one cell and increases the winnings. Scattered +1 Spin symbols add extra spins to the round, which is the only way it extends.

Once all spins are used up, the round pays out according to wherever the meter has reached, so the collection run matters more than any individual spin inside it.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

Most of what makes this game worth a session happens before any bonus lands. The double symbols give ten fixed lines a twelve-deep ladder, and a stacked wolf reel or an all-doubles spin can light the whole thing up in one go. Against that fire-lit backdrop, the reels are the show, and that’s the reason to pick them up.

Its best trick is the Only Double Symbols spin, which puts the top of the paytable in play everywhere at once. Its weakest is the free spins wheel: it fixes both the spin count and the single medium symbol before a single free spin resolves, so one poor spin of that wheel can flatten the round before it starts. The metered bonus game is serviceable but slight next to both.

It suits players who like their interest paid in the reels rather than saved up for a feature, and anyone happy hunting the 50,000x line without a shortcut. Anyone who wants a round with decisions and a build will find the fire here warms rather than burns.

Night Wolf Darkest Flame FAQs

• What is the RTP of Night Wolf Darkest Flame?

  Night Wolf Darkest Flame runs at an RTP of 95.79%.
• How do you trigger free spins in Night Wolf Darkest Flame?

  Three scattered Free Spins symbols landing on reels 2, 4 and 6 during the base game trigger the feature. A wheel then awards between 10 and 40 automatic free spins and selects which single medium symbol participates in the round.
• How does the bonus game work?

  Three scattered Bonus symbols on reels 2, 4 and 6 start a round with three spins. Every five winning symbols collected fills one cell of the meter and increases your winnings, while scattered +1 Spin symbols add extra spins. When the spins run out, you’re paid according to the meter’s position.
• What does the Only Double Symbols feature do?

  It’s a random base game modifier that causes all symbols on a spin to appear in their double form. Since each double symbol counts as two singles for winning combinations, it opens up the longer pays on the ladder, up to twelve-of-a-kind.
• What does the wild substitute for?

  The wild counts as any symbol except the Free Spins and Bonus symbols. It can appear stacked on the reels, and six wilds on a winning line pay bet per line x5,000.
• Can the bonus game be retriggered?

  The bonus game doesn’t retrigger in the usual sense, but scattered +1 Spin symbols collected during the round award additional spins, extending it beyond the initial three.
• How many paylines does Night Wolf Darkest Flame have?

  The game is set to 10 fixed paylines on a 6×3 grid. All symbols pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win on each line is paid.
• Who makes Night Wolf Darkest Flame?

  Night Wolf Darkest Flame is a Spinomenal slot. Its release date is 13 October 2022.