Wild Heart Beat Slot Review
A magenta glow fills the screen, brighter at its centre and fading to plum at the edges, with a thick gold bevelled frame sitting over the reels like the lid of a jewel box. Blurred light drifts across the backdrop. It’s a setting that promises a jackpot hunt, and that promise is the most misleading thing about Wild Heart Beat: this is one of the most dressed-up five-payline fruit machines you’ll ever spin.
REDSTONE has built a five-reel, three-row slot on just five paylines, running at 96.36% RTP. There’s no free spins round, no respins, no feature ladder: the entire game is an expanding heart wild, two scatters that pay cash, and a steep paytable. The studio’s shelf of fruit-and-crown titles runs from 5 Wild Crown to Multi Heart 10 and Double Wild Heart Halloween, and this one keeps to that territory.
Reels, Lines and Symbols
The grid is a standard 5×3, but the win structure isn’t ways-to-win or clusters: it’s five fixed paylines, three of them straight rows and two of them shapes. All pays run left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win on each line counts. In full:
- Line 1: straight across the middle row
- Line 2: straight across the top row
- Line 3: straight across the bottom row
- Line 4: a V shape across the reels
- Line 5: an inverted V across the reels
The V lines deserve a second glance. Because they climb and descend across the rows, a symbol sitting on the middle row of reel three can serve both shapes at once, while the corners of the grid only matter to one line each. On a five-line game, that geometry decides where the valuable positions are.
The heart symbol is the wild, and it’s an expanding wild: it can appear on any reel, stretches to cover it, and substitutes for everything except the two scatter symbols. Beyond that, the paytable is classic fruit-machine stock, with the 7 on top. The values run:
- 7: 40 for three, 160 for four, 1,200 for five
- Grapes/watermelon: 16 for three, 40 for four, 200 for five
- Dice: 12 for three, 20 for four, 80 for five
- Fruit mix (cherry, plum or grapes): 4 for three, 8 for four, 40 for five
- Heart wild: 800 for five
It’s a steep ladder. The 7 pays thirty times what the fruit mix pays for a five-of-a-kind, and the cherry, plum and grapes share a single row, so the lower half of the table pays very modestly.
Five hearts on a line is also the second-richest combination in the game, ahead of the grapes and watermelon. With only five lines carrying all of that, the shape of the game is clear: most spins live or die on the heart and the 7.
Expanding Heart Wild
The heart is the whole feature set’s centre of gravity. Land one anywhere on the reels and it expands to fill that reel, substituting for every symbol except the two scatters. It can appear on all five reels, so a lucky spin can stack two or three of them.
When that happens, the wins build quickly. With the 7 paying 1,200 for five, a covered reel next to 7s is where the real money on this game sits. Five hearts on their own pay 800, which is richer than anything except the top 7 line.
The expansion also changes the payline maths. A heart covering reel one turns every symbol on that reel into a wild for all five lines at once, so even a modest stack of low symbols behind it becomes five simultaneous chances at a line win. That’s a lot of leverage from one symbol.
It’s a simple mechanic with no meters, no collections and no variants. It expands, it substitutes, and that’s all it does.
Two Scatters, Two Rules
There are two different star scatters, and they don’t follow the same rule. The gold star pays on any position on the grid. The purple star pays on any position, but only on the first, third and fifth reels. Neither triggers a bonus round. Scatters here are pure payout symbols.
- Gold star: 6 for three, 40 for four, 200 for five
- Purple star: 40 for three
The gold star’s five-of-a-kind is worth 200, matching the grapes and watermelon row exactly, but it doesn’t need a payline to get there. Any five anywhere on the grid will do, which makes it easier to land than its line-based equivalent.
The purple star is the stranger of the two. It pays just a single tier, 40 for three, and only counts on the odd-numbered reels. It’s a flat, narrow payout that exists almost entirely to break up the left-to-right rhythm of everything else.
Because scatters count from any position rather than along a payline, they’re the one part of this game that ignores the five-line structure entirely. Neither is substituted by the heart wild.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.1/10
Playing Wild Heart Beat is a lot of quiet spinning punctuated by the occasional glow of a heart filling a reel, and the chance of seeing two or three of them land together is the single reason to sit down at it. That moment is genuinely good: an expanding wild on a five-line game carries real leverage, and on a paytable this steep it can turn a dead spin into the best win of a session.
The weakness is what’s around it. Four paying symbols, a fruit mix row worth 4 for three, and scatters that pay cash and then leave – the game is one mechanic deep, and it never pretends otherwise. Between hearts, there isn’t much to hold.
This is a slot for players who want to understand every rule before the second spin and who’d rather chase one clean mechanic than a bonus ladder. Anyone who needs free spins or a feature buy will find it in the studio’s other hearts and crowns. For the rest, the jewel box opens often enough to keep the glow warm.
Wild Heart Beat FAQs
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What is the RTP of Wild Heart Beat?
96.36%. -
How many paylines does Wild Heart Beat have?
Five. Three run straight across the top, middle and bottom rows, and two trace a V and an inverted V across the reels. Only the highest win on each line is paid. -
What is the grid size of Wild Heart Beat?
A 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows. -
Who makes Wild Heart Beat?
REDSTONE. -
When is Wild Heart Beat released?
Wild Heart Beat’s release date is 22 November 2023. -
What does the heart symbol do in Wild Heart Beat?
The heart is an expanding wild. It can land on any reel, expands to cover that reel, and substitutes for all symbols except the two scatters. Five hearts on a payline pay 800, richer than any symbol except the 7. -
Do the scatters in Wild Heart Beat trigger free spins?
No. Both star scatters are payout symbols only. The gold star pays on any position, while the purple star pays on any position on the first, third and fifth reels. Neither triggers a bonus round. -
What’s the difference between the two scatters in Wild Heart Beat?
The gold star pays on any position on the grid, at 6 for three, 40 for four and 200 for five. The purple star pays only on the first, third and fifth reels, at 40 for three. The heart wild doesn’t substitute for either of them. -
Which symbol pays the most in Wild Heart Beat?
The 7, at 40 for three, 160 for four and 1,200 for five. Five hearts on a line pay 800, the second-richest combination in the game.
