The Wild Bunch Slot Review
Dust hangs over an empty main street at sundown, wooden false-fronts receding into the haze, sepia outlaw portraits watching from the frame. RAW iGaming have taken that scene and made the town’s whole population do a job: every outlaw on these reels is a multiplying wild, and every spin you play without shooting one of them down is a spin the bonus round will remember being poor.
The maths runs at 95.41% RTP on a 5×3, 243-ways grid with mid to high volatility, and the whole game leans on one idea: the outlaws you collect in the base game decide how good your free spins can be. The studio’s catalogue holds other character-driven builds too, including Diamond Pups Bling Bling Smash Pots and Mighty Eagle Canyon Run. Whether the posse earns its posters is what the rest of this comes down to.
Outlaws on the Reels: The Base Game
The Wild Bunch plays out on a 5×3 grid with 243 ways to win, so any matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left will pay, regardless of position. Wins are counted on the standard left-to-right basis and only the highest combination per way counts. It’s a familiar setup, and the game doesn’t complicate it.
The twist is the cast. There are five different Outlaw Wilds, each a character in their own right, and each a multiplying wild worth up to 5x. They substitute for other paying symbols and carry their own multipliers, so a spin with two of them in the right places can turn a modest line into something much better.
Alongside them sits a BONUS symbol, labelled plainly on the reels, and landing enough of it is what carries you out of the base game. Every other system in The Wild Bunch exists either to improve the spins between bonus triggers or to make those triggers worth more when they arrive.
Above the reels sits a row of five WANTED poster panels, tracking a Collected Multiplier value. This is the game’s running tally of everything the sheriff has shot down, and it’s the number the bonus round inherits. Watching it climb is the base game’s whole engine of anticipation.
The screen tracks the essentials in one place:
- Ways to win: 243, shown as a live counter beside the reels
- Five Outlaw Wilds, each multiplying wins by up to 5x
- Five WANTED poster panels marked x1 through x5, one per outlaw
- A Collected Multiplier total that the free spins round inherits
- A BONUS symbol that carries you into the feature
- A Double Bonus Chance toggle that boosts the odds of triggering the bonus
That last one is the only bet-side decision the game asks you to make. Switching on Double Bonus Chance costs 0.75 on top of the 2.00 base stake, and in exchange it doubles your odds of triggering the bonus feature. You’re paying a little more per spin to see Dead Men Free Spins sooner rather than later.
Multiplier Collection
The Sheriff Wild is the connector between the base game and the bonus. When he lands, he fires his six shooter and drops Outlaw Wilds onto the reels, and every outlaw he hits adds its multiplier to your collection. The panels above the reels light up as the total climbs.
The more he shoots, the better the feature can be. That’s the entire pitch of the base game: every sheriff sighting is a deposit into a pot you’ll cash in later, and a base game without him is a base game going nowhere.
It works as a chain, and each link is worth naming:
- The Sheriff Wild lands and fires his six shooter
- Any of the five Outlaw Wilds he drops joins the reels
- Each dropped outlaw’s multiplier is added to the Collected Multiplier
- The running total sits on the WANTED posters until the bonus triggers
- Dead Men Free Spins begins its progressive multiplier from that total
Because the outlaws go up to 5x apiece, a single busy stretch of sheriff appearances can move the total a long way. A quiet stretch leaves it sitting at x1, and there’s no way to rush it along. The only lever that touches the bonus at all is the Double Bonus Chance toggle, and that changes how often you arrive, not what you arrive with.
That division of labour is worth being clear about. Frequency is for sale; the multiplier total is earned one outlaw at a time, over as many base game spins as it takes. It makes the WANTED posters the most honest readout in the game: they show exactly what the base game has produced so far and nothing else.
Hangman’s Re-Spin
The middle feature is the strangest one. When it triggers, the hangman’s nooses drop down over the reels, remove every losing symbol, and replace them with new ones, guaranteeing an improved win on that spin.
It’s a safety net rather than a jackpot mechanic. The win is guaranteed to be better, not guaranteed to be big, and as a piece of western staging it’s a strong fit. It breaks up spins that would otherwise be plain losses.
The removal and replacement is total: every symbol that didn’t contribute to a win goes, and the nooses fill the gaps with fresh ones. If the new symbols connect where the old ones didn’t, the improved win can be a step up rather than a nudge, but the floor is what’s guaranteed, never the ceiling.
Dead Men Free Spins
The main event. Dead Men Free Spins moves the game to a 5×4 reel set and brings the outlaws back from the dead, with a progressive multiplier that starts at the total of everything you collected in the base game. The counter ticks up from there, so a fat collection up front isn’t just a head start, it’s the foundation the whole round builds on.
The round makes the collection visible in a way the base game can’t. A multiplier that begins at x1 climbs slowly and pays like it. One that begins at x15 starts most of the way to the interesting numbers, and every win it takes along the way is scaled accordingly.
What the round changes from the base game:
- Reel set expands from 5×3 to 5×4
- Progressive multiplier starts from the Collected Multiplier total
- The outlaws return as the round’s cast
- Multiplier continues climbing as the round runs
The larger grid means more positions per reel, giving the multiplying outlaws more room to line up. The round is simply a bigger stage for the same cast. A free spins counter tracks your remaining spins, so you always know how long the outlaws have left to work with.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Playing this is less like spinning reels and more like running a tab in a frontier saloon: most of what happens before the bonus is bookkeeping for it. That’s the one reason to choose it over plainer 243-ways games, and it’s a good one. Every sheriff sighting matters, even on a spin that pays nothing.
The strength is that nothing here is filler. Hangman’s Re-Spin catches the losses, the outlaws multiply the wins, and the posters keep score. The weakness is the ceiling on a bad day: the bonus inherits whatever the base game earned and nothing more, so a session the sheriff mostly skipped pays like one. Mid to high volatility doesn’t bail you out of that.
This is for players who enjoy a long build and a bonus that remembers it, and it isn’t for anyone who wants the feature to arrive ready-made. Ride in patient, and the posse pays its dues.
The Wild Bunch FAQs
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What is the RTP of The Wild Bunch?
The Wild Bunch runs at an RTP of 95.41%. -
Is The Wild Bunch high volatility?
The Wild Bunch is rated mid to high volatility, so wins can be spaced out and the collection mechanics reward patience. -
How many paylines does The Wild Bunch have?
The Wild Bunch uses 243 ways to win rather than fixed paylines. Any matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left will pay. -
What is the grid size of The Wild Bunch?
The base game plays on a 5×3 grid. The Dead Men Free Spins bonus expands this to a 5×4 reel set. -
How does the Multiplier Collection work in The Wild Bunch?
When the Sheriff Wild lands, he shoots down Outlaw Wilds with his six shooter and collects their multipliers, up to 5x each. The running total is tracked on the WANTED posters above the reels and becomes the starting multiplier for Dead Men Free Spins. -
What does the Hangman’s Re-Spin do?
When it triggers, the hangman’s nooses drop down, remove all losing symbols and replace them with new ones. The re-spin guarantees an improved win, though not necessarily a large one. -
What does Double Bonus Chance do in The Wild Bunch?
Double Bonus Chance is a toggle costing 0.75 on top of the base stake. With it switched on, your odds of triggering the bonus feature are doubled. -
When is The Wild Bunch released?
The Wild Bunch’s release date is 25 July 2024.
