The Wolf’s Bane Slot Review
A crooked tavern hangs its lanterns over a fog-bound village street, pumpkins crowd the base of a twisted tree, and a huge pale moon sits behind bare branches. This is a game that spends its imagination on atmosphere and its Wilds rather than its numbers: NetEnt has built a ten-line horror slot where the reels pay modestly and the variety lives almost entirely in which of four Wild features the moon serves up. If you come to it for the win ceiling, you’ve come to the wrong village.
Underneath the fog sits a compact 5×3 grid with 10 fixed lines, running at 96.74% RTP with a 500x maximum win and stakes from 0.1 to 100 per spin. Halloween Jack and Wolf Cub cover similar ground in the studio’s catalogue; this one works a smaller patch of it, and puts its variety into the Wilds rather than the win ceiling.
Wilds and the Paytable
Ten fixed bet lines carry the game, with wins paid left to right. Only the highest combination on each line counts. The Regular Wild substitutes for all symbols except the Scatter and the Bonus symbol, and it doubles as one of the richest symbols on the reels.
The Wild variants pay as follows, as multiples of the total bet:
- Regular Wild: 2,500x for three, 8,000x for four, 50,000x for five
- Wild (green): 2,500x for three, 8,000x for four, 50,000x for five
- Expanding Wild: 50,000x for five
- X2 Multiplier Wild: 8,000x for four, 50,000x for five
Those are strong numbers for a substitute symbol, and they’re the clearest sign of where this game puts its value: on the Wilds, not the regular paytable. A five-of-a-kind Wild line is the best result the reels can produce. Everything else routes through it.
Note what the paytable rows don’t carry. The Expanding Wild has no three or four symbol value, and the X2 Multiplier Wild starts at four. That’s not an error in the listing: those variants simply pay on fewer combinations than the standard Wild does, which makes the draw in Free Spins matter beyond which bonus you land.
Betting works in coins or cash. When playing with coins, the coin value sets the bet through the bet settings; when playing with cash, the bet amount itself is set there. Either way, the ten lines are always in play, so there’s no way to thin the board down cheaply. The balance display shows whatever’s available to bet in the chosen currency mode.
The game runs with a hit frequency of 22%, so roughly one spin in five connects. That leaves four in five that don’t. The Scatter is a full moon, and the Bonus symbol is a separate trigger entirely, both sitting outside the Wild’s reach, so no Wild can stand in for either of them.
Free Spins and the Four Wild Features
Three or more Scatter symbols anywhere on the reels, in the main game or in Free Spins, activate the Free Spins round. Because the moon works inside the bonus as well as outside it, a round that’s already running can be extended by more of them landing. The award scales with the number of Scatters:
- 3 Scatters: 10 Free Spins
- 4 Scatters: 20 Free Spins
- 5 Scatters: 30 Free Spins
The twist is the draw. Each Free Spins session randomly features one of the four different Wild features, which can appear anywhere on the reels. Which one you get is decided at the start of the session, so two bonus rounds on the same game can play quite differently.
- Regular Wild
- Expanding Wild
- X2 Multiplier Wild
- A further Wild variant
The Expanding Wild and the X2 Multiplier Wild are the two that change a session most, one by covering more of the grid and the other by doubling what a winning line pays. The Regular Wild is the plain version of the trick. Whichever arrives, it applies for the whole session rather than spin by spin.
That structure is the game’s best idea. A single bonus round that reshuffles itself each time it triggers keeps a ten-line game from feeling like the same thirty spins twice, and the scalable Scatter award means a lucky trigger starts you at up to thirty spins before the Wild feature even begins working. Retriggers stack on top: three more moons mid-round add another ten at minimum.
The RTP of 96.74% is the total expected return, and it holds regardless of whether you’re betting coins or cash, since the mode changes only how the stake is displayed and set, not what the game pays back.
Pick and Click
The second route into a bonus runs through the Bonus symbols, which land on reels 1, 3 and 5. All three must show up together on those positions in the main game to trigger the Pick and Click feature. Two out of three counts for nothing here.
Because the trigger is main-game only, the round can’t be reached during Free Spins, which keeps the two features cleanly separate: Scatters build one route, Bonus symbols the other. It’s a second way through the fog for a game whose reel count might otherwise suggest there isn’t one.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
This is a slow walk through a very pretty village. Ten lines, one win in five connecting, and long stretches where the fog does the entertaining – the reason you’d choose it over a dozen louder horror slots is that it looks like an illustrated storybook and plays like one too, right down to the moon deciding your fortune before a single free spin lands.
The Wild draw is the best thing here, because it makes every bonus round a different game rather than the same one wearing a different hat. The worst is the ceiling: 500x is a number from an older, politer era, and no amount of Wild variety disguises it.
It’s for players who’d rather a slot be beautiful and unpredictable than rich – the sort who play for the atmosphere as much as the payout. Anyone hunting four-figure hits won’t find them under this moon. For everyone else, the lanterns are lit and the fog is exactly where it should be.
The Wolf’s Bane FAQs
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What is the RTP of The Wolf’s Bane?
The RTP is 96.74%. -
What is the hit frequency of The Wolf’s Bane?
The hit frequency is 22%, so roughly one spin in five produces a win. -
How many paylines does The Wolf’s Bane have?
The game has 10 fixed paylines, always in play. -
What is the grid size of The Wolf’s Bane?
The Wolf’s Bane uses a 5×3 grid. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on The Wolf’s Bane?
Bets run from 0.1 to 100 per spin. -
How do you trigger Free Spins in The Wolf’s Bane?
Three or more Scatter symbols anywhere on the reels activate Free Spins: 3 Scatters award 10 spins, 4 award 20 and 5 award 30. Scatters also work during Free Spins, so the round can be extended. -
How does the Pick and Click feature trigger?
Three Bonus symbols must appear together on reels 1, 3 and 5 in the main game. It can’t be triggered during Free Spins. -
What is the maximum win on The Wolf’s Bane?
The maximum win is 500x your bet.
