Wolf Moon Slots

Introduction to Wolf Moon

Wolf Moon is a five reel online slot with four rows of reel symbols. The game allows wagers on units of ten, twenty, thirty, or forty pay lines. Players can wager between one and seventy-five credits per line, for a total wager range from 1 to 3,000 units per spin. Since this is a penny slot, your actual bet-per-spin can range from $0.10 up to $30. On Amatic's Wolf Moon slot, a max bet is any credit amount applied to all forty lines. That means you can technically place a max bet of just $0.40 per spin, though you'll miss out a little on the game's wager multiplier opportunities with a bet that low.

Wolf Moon's theme is difficult to pin down. We'd be foolish not to admit right up front that it looks like a rip-off of the classic Kevin Costner film Dances with Wolves. There's even a white man with a beard in military uniform that acts as the game's main character. We have to say he looks decidedly similar to Mr. Costner. This similarity is carried out in the game's other symbols – wolves, totems, and wind-swept frontier land. Amatic hasn't released a licensed online slot yet – could Wolf Moon slots be their first go at developing branded games?

If so, it's a weak attempt. The game's plot is non-existent, it includes very few special features, and even the payouts are on the disappointing end of the spectrum.

We noticed a funny detail about Wolf Moon's payout schedule – winning the top prize may not always be as lucrative as winning the second most valuable payout. Here's why: the top fixed jackpot is worth 10,000 credits, triggered by spinning five of the game's wild symbols on an active line. The next-highest payout is worth 8,000 credits, but since that payout is triggered by spinning five bonus symbols, you get free spins as well as a chance at a multiplier. Technically it could be more lucrative than the top prize.

Actually, because of the game's gamble feature, one or two other low payouts could be increased at least to the value of the game's top prize.

Wolf Moon slots include a gamble feature. As far as we can tell, this is a feature common to all online Amatic slots, and most of their land-based ones. Every payout is eligible for a simple gamble option – choose the color of the next card out of a simulated playing card deck, and you win double the payout. Because of this feature, a payout of 4,000 credits (for the game's fourth-largest payout) automatically becomes equal to its second-largest.

Game Symbols

Below is a quick guide to all the symbols using in Amatic's Wolf Moon online slot machines:

• Wild Symbol

  A howling moon silhouetted against the game's titular moon.

• Bonus Symbol

  A traditional Native American dreamcatcher.

• Wolf

  The face of a noble and gorgeous wolf.

• Totems

  Three different intricately-carved totem poles.

• Soldier

  The white-faced soldier referred to earlier; obviously a Kevin Costner rip-off.

• Playing Card Symbols

  The traditional colored playing card symbols, the game's least-valuable.

Bonus Rounds and Special Features

If you spin three, four, or five Dreamcatcher symbols on an active line, you'll trigger the game's only special feature – a free spins bonus round that also occasionally pays out a wager multiplier. There's no game to this bonus – once triggered, the game pays you up to five free spins and, randomly, a 10x wager multiplier. These free spins can be re-triggered.