Wolf Moon Rising

Wolf Moon Rising Slot Review

Aurora ribbons streak green and violet over a snowbound forest, lit by one fat moon. Wolf Moon Rising stakes nearly everything on that single light: strip away the doubling, the coin flip and the instant-win moons, and what’s left is a hunt for one five-of-a-kind wild that nothing else on the paytable comes close to.

It’s a Betsoft build running at 96.53% RTP across 25 paylines on a five-reel grid, with the Elemental Wild the richest symbol on the board at 10,000x the total bet for five. The studio’s catalogue wanders far wider than this forest, from Primal Hunt to Take Santas Shop and Thai Blossoms.

Whether one symbol can carry a whole game is the question this one poses.

How the Base Game Pays

Wins pay left to right across the 25 lines, with the longest combination on a line taking the payout and every line win multiplied by the line bet. Five of a kind on a win line pays once, so stacked grids don’t double up. The Elemental Wild appears anywhere on the reels and substitutes for everything except the Feather Talisman and the Wolf Moon.

Symbol values are multiples of the total bet, and the spread between the top of the paytable and the bottom is unusually wide:

• Elemental Wild – 0.4x for two, 8x for three, 80x for four, 10,000x for five
• Howling wolf / white wolf (high-value pair) – 0.08x for two, 1x for three, 4x for four, 300x for five
• Feather Talisman (scatter) – 5x for three, 20x for four, 100x for five
• Eagle – 0.6x, 4x, 16x
• Grey wolf – 0.4x, 3x, 10x
• Bison – 0.4x, 2x, 10x
• A – 0.4x, 2x, 5x
• K – 0.2x, 2x, 4x
• Q, J, 10 – 0.2x, 1x, 4x
• 9 – 0.08x for two, then 0.2x, 1x, 4x

The shape of that list tells you how the game plays. The wild’s five-of-a-kind is the ceiling, and nothing else on the board comes close to it. The win potential lives almost entirely in one symbol landing perfectly, or in the free spins round stacking its two modifiers on whatever the reels serve up.

Only three symbols pay at all for two of a kind: the wild, the wolf pair and the 9. Everything below the wolf pair is small-change territory, with the royals capped at 5x even for five across a line.

Fortune Under the Full Moon

The Wolf Moon is a special scatter with a job that couldn’t be simpler: every one that lands awards an instant win of 1x the total bet, paid on the spot. Even a single moon pays something, which is rarer than it sounds.

It doesn’t trigger a round, doesn’t build towards one, and doesn’t combine with anything else – it’s a small, dependable sweetener between the bigger swings. Because each moon is worth the same flat amount, clusters of them are worth counting. Two moons return twice the bet, five of them would return five times it, and none of it depends on paylines or positions.

For a game whose line wins can be modest, that flat per-symbol payout is the steadiest drip in the maths model.

Twelve Free Spins, Doubled

Landing three or more Feather Talisman symbols anywhere on the reels awards 12 free spins. Before the round begins, the talisman itself settles up as a scatter win, so the trigger carries its own payout on the way in. The round then does its work with two modifiers stacked together: all wins pay both ways, and every win is doubled.

Both-ways pays is the more interesting of the two. On every one of the 25 lines, a combination reading right to left now counts as well as left to right, which effectively doubles the number of directions each line can hit in.

The doubling multiplier then sits on top of that, so every win during the round is worth twice what the same line would pay in the base game. There’s no retrigger. Twelve is what you get, and once they’re done the round is finished – landing more talismans during the feature does nothing to extend it.

The wild remains the symbol to watch, and with wins running both ways, five wilds have twice as many routes to complete a line as they do in the base game.

Double Up: a Coin for the Brave

After any standard win, the DOUBLE UP button opens a coin flip. The flow is a simple four-step affair: choose to gamble all or half of your winnings, call heads or tails, watch the coin spin, and either collect or go again.

A correct call doubles the gambled amount, and you can repeat as many times as you like, pressing a growing pot against a 50/50 outcome each time. Pressing COLLECT banks everything and returns you to the reels at any point, so the size of the gamble is always your call – a half-stake flutter after a modest win, or everything after a big one.

One restriction applies: the gamble isn’t offered after a free spins win, so the round’s biggest payouts can’t be pressed. For base game results it’s available after any standard win.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

This is a patient game. Most of a session runs on modest line wins and the odd moon paying for itself, while the real money waits on a wild lining up perfectly or the talismans arriving. That single chase is the reason to pick it: you always know exactly what you’re hunting, and it’s lit up brighter than everything else on the board.

The free spins round is the best stretch, because both-ways pays and the doubling mean one good line returns four times its base value – a bigger multiplier than most bonus rounds manage. The weakness is how quickly the rest of the paytable shrinks: after the wolf pair, values drop to loose change, and twelve spins with no retrigger means the highlight passes fast when it comes.

It suits players who like an old-fashioned 25-liner with clean rules and an optional flutter after every win, and it will leave anyone chasing layered feature stacks hungry. One big moon over a quiet forest, and a long night of small company on the way to it.

Wolf Moon Rising FAQs

• What is the RTP of Wolf Moon Rising?

  Wolf Moon Rising runs at an RTP of 96.53%.
• How do you trigger free spins in Wolf Moon Rising?

  The bonus starts when three or more talismans show up anywhere on the reels – they don’t need to sit on a payline. The triggering combination also pays a scatter award before the round begins.
• What do you get during Wolf Moon Rising free spins?

  Twelve free spins where all wins pay both ways and every win is doubled. The round cannot be retriggered.
• Can free spins be retriggered in Wolf Moon Rising?

  No. Free Spins cannot be retriggered, so landing more talismans during the round does not award additional spins.
• What does the Wolf Moon symbol do?

  Every Wolf Moon symbol that lands awards an instant win of 1x the total bet, paid immediately. A single moon is enough to win something, and the payout doesn’t depend on paylines or positions.
• How does the Double Up gamble work in Wolf Moon Rising?

  After any standard win you can gamble all or half of your winnings on a coin flip, calling heads or tails to double the stake. You can repeat the gamble as many times as you like, or press COLLECT to bank your winnings and return to the game. It isn’t available after a free spins win.
• How many paylines does Wolf Moon Rising have?

  Wolf Moon Rising has 25 paylines, paying left to right, with line wins multiplied by the line bet. The longest combination on a line awards the payout.
• Who makes Wolf Moon Rising?

  Wolf Moon Rising was made by Betsoft and released on 27 August 2019.