Werewolf The Becoming

Werewolf The Becoming Slot Review

Stone pillars capped with carved gargoyles stand either side of the reels, mist pooling along a stone ledge below while a pale moon glows behind the top of the frame. Spinomenal’s gothic forest is painted with real care, and it earns its mood. The most interesting decision in it gets made before the first spin turns: how many of a hundred paylines you switch on shapes everything from the cost of a round to what the bonus can pay.

It runs on a 5×4 grid with a player-chosen 10 to 100 paylines, an RTP of 96.04%, and a free spins round that can award up to 100 spins from a single scatter hit. Spinomenal know these woods well: Werewolf The Hunt and Werewolf Darkest Flame prowl the same territory, with Wolf Fang Eclipse not far behind.

Symbols and Pays

All symbols pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win on each line counts. Wins are multiplied by the bet per line. Every qualifying line win in a single round adds together into the total for that spin, and malfunction voids all pays.

Choosing Your Lines

The number of active lines is yours to choose, anywhere from 10 up to 100, adjusted with the plus and minus buttons on the left of the control panel. It’s the game’s most distinctive bit of housekeeping. Fewer lines means a cheaper spin and thinner coverage across the 5×4 grid.

More lines costs more per round but catches combinations the narrow setups miss. That balance is left entirely to you, and it’s a genuine lever rather than a cosmetic one. During free spins the bet buttons are disabled, so whatever you set before the trigger is what you play the round with.

Round the control panel out and there’s the usual supporting kit. Auto play runs continuous spins at your selected bet from a configuration screen where you set the number of rounds, and it stops the moment you press pause. Turbo mode shortens each round as far as the game allows, toggled by the rabbit button at the bottom left on desktop or through the settings menu on mobile, and it can be switched on straight from the auto play screen as well.

Help and settings lock during a spin. Every win in a round displays in the WIN field as it lands.

The Paytable

The paytable is tiered in the usual way, with the horror-themed symbols well clear of the royals. Values below are multiples of the total bet, for 3, 4 and 5 of a kind:

• Cross: 700x / 3,000x / 10,000x
• Claws: 600x / 2,000x / 6,000x
• Gun or Potion: 200x / 400x / 1,200x
• A or K: 150x / 200x / 400x
• Q or J: 100x / 150x / 200x

The Cross is the premium by a wide distance, and the gap between it and the Claws is nearly as wide again. Below the Gun and Potion, the card royals trail off gently rather than falling off a cliff, which softens the dry spells a little. The full Cross line pays 10,000x the total bet.

The wild is the werewolf himself, and he counts as any symbol except the Free Spins scatter. Five wilds on a winning line pay bet per line x3,000, which makes him the richest symbol on the board. He doesn’t substitute for the scatter, so he builds line wins and nothing else.

The scatter, meanwhile, appears as its own Free Spins symbol and does nothing in the base game except wait for company.

Free Spins

3 or more scattered Free Spins symbols trigger the round, and the awards step up sharply with the scatter count:

• 3 scatters – 10 free spins
• 4 scatters – 25 free spins
• 5 or more scatters – 100 free spins

The bet per line and number of lines carry over exactly as they were in the spin that triggered the round. Scatters only count during the base game, so the round plays out on its own terms once it begins. The jump from 25 to 100 spins on a fifth scatter is the game’s one genuinely dramatic number.

Stacked Wild

During free spins, a stacked wild sits on one random reel for each spin. Which reel it lands on changes every spin, so the coverage moves around rather than settling in one place. Combined with the carried-over line count, that roaming stack is where the round’s win potential lives.

Buy Feature

The Buy Feature skips the scatter wait and triggers a free spins round immediately. Pressing the button opens a window where you can modify the bet, the number of lines and the number of free spins you’ll play the round with. The buy price is then set according to those selections, so a bigger bet, more lines or more spins all raise the cost.

It’s a configurable purchase rather than a fixed one, which fits the game’s choose-your-own-lines approach. The same line choice applies here as in the base game: a wide setup raises the buy price, a narrow one keeps the price down. Whatever you select in the buy window is what the round plays with, line for line and spin for spin.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

This is a slot about setting your own dials. Under the moon and the gargoyles, Werewolf The Becoming plays like a machine you tune before you trust it, and the tuning is the reason to sit down at it at all.

Its strength is that the line choice runs through everything: the base game, the bonus and the buy menu all answer to the same decision, and a roaming stacked wild that plays across whichever line count you carried into the round gives that decision real teeth. Its weakness is the base game itself, which leans almost entirely on the Cross and the wild while you wait for scatters to show up.

It suits tinkerers, and players who’d rather shape their own coverage than take a fixed setup from the studio. If you want constant feature fire, this forest stays quiet for too long between moons.

Werewolf The Becoming FAQs

• What is the RTP of Werewolf The Becoming?

  Werewolf The Becoming runs at an RTP of 96.04%.
• How many paylines does Werewolf The Becoming have?

  Between 10 and 100 paylines. You choose how many lines are active, and that choice stays with you into the free spins round.
• What is the grid size of Werewolf The Becoming?

  The game plays on a 5×4 grid, with symbols paying left to right from the leftmost reel.
• How do you trigger free spins in Werewolf The Becoming?

  Land 3 or more scattered Free Spins symbols in the base game. 3 scatters award 10 free spins, 4 award 25, and 5 or more award 100.
• Can free spins be retriggered in Werewolf The Becoming?

  No. Scattered Free Spins symbols only count during the base game, so once the round begins it plays out for its full count of spins.
• What does the stacked wild do in Werewolf The Becoming?

  During free spins, a stacked wild is placed on one random reel for each spin, and its position changes every spin.
• Can you buy the bonus on Werewolf The Becoming?

  Yes. The Buy Feature lets you purchase and immediately trigger a free spins round, with a window where you can adjust the bet, lines and number of free spins before paying the buy price.
• When was Werewolf The Becoming released?

  Werewolf The Becoming was released on 31 October 2022.