The Wild Gang

Theme and Design

A Classic Western Slot With Outlaw Gang

Pragmatic Play are pulling many Western tropes out of the bag for this one – the last gang in town, blood red skies and a lonely mining town. In short, they’ve gone for the darker side of the outlaw narrative in keeping with current trends. The setting is a dusty old main street, red rock mountains in the distance and a wood-framed reel set in the foreground. A classic slow Mexican guitar soundtrack completes the picture. It’s not as dark as Nolimit City’s True Grit or Tombstone RIP of course, but the atmosphere is still tense and the scene well set.

RTP and Variance

The Wild Gang has three available RTP settings – which you play at will be at the discretion of the slot site you choose. They are 96.02%, 95.03% and 94.03%. There is little between them and you wouldn’t notice the difference between 94.03% and 96.2% when you were playing. But still, to give yourself the best chance of coming out on top, look for sites that run the game at 96.2%. In our testing I have found that MrQ (Lindar Media) and Barz Casino (White Hat Gaming) consistently run these games at the top level.

NOTE: During BOTH free spins rounds the RTP will increase by 0.02% (so to 96.04% at the optimum level).

This is also one of Pragmatic Play’s high variance games so expect a volatile payout distribution. The game can swing from low to high in an instant where wilds, multipliers and free spins combine to kick out big wins.

Maximum Win

The maximum payout you will see from this slot is 10,000x which is good for a Pragmatic Play slot. There are games from this provider with bigger potential but this still represents a good opportunity.

Symbols and Paytable

The first thing you need to know is that The Wild Gang is a win ways slot. That means wins are triggered by landing 3 or more identical symbols on adjacent reels, regardless of their row position, from left to right, starting at the left most reel.

The second thing to know is that the game has a different configuration for the base game and free spins round. In the base game there are 6 reels with a row set up of 3-4-4-4-4-3. In the Dead or Alive free spins round that shifts to 4-4-4-4-4-4 to increase the win ways in play.

That means you have 2,304 win ways in the base game (3x4x4x4x4x3), then the classic 4,096 in the Dead or Alive free spins round (4x4x4x4x4x4).

Symbol values are OK, not huge, but remember you have lots of multipliers to power them up. There are 9 pay symbols in all. That’s 4 low payers – jack, queen, king and ace – valued at from 0.15x for 3 jacks up to 0.7x for 6 aces. And 5 premiums – cowboy boots, bottle and shot glasses, knife, pistol and sheriff’s badge – valued at from 0.25x for 3 cowboy boots up to 7.5x for 6 sheriff’s badges.

There are also our 4 outlaws who represent both Wilds and Scatters which is explained in the next part of our review.

Features and Gameplay

The Wild Gang Complete Paylines and Trigger Free Spins

Unusually for an online slot, The Wild Gang uses 4 Wild symbols, and they all double up as scatters. They are represented by the four outlaw characters that give the game its name. They can drop on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 at any time.

During the base game, if any of the gang drops onto reel 2 or 3 then they count as a wild and substitute for any pay symbol to complete a win way. Importantly, they also come with a wild multiplier of 2x, 3x or 4x which is randomly applied and triggers if a win passes through that wild.

If 2 or more multiplier wilds are in a win way, their values are MULTIPLIED. That’s great because a 4x and a 4x would become 16x!

Now, the Wild Gang also function as scatters. If 3 or 4 land on one spin in the base game, then the free spins round is triggered.

Mystery Symbols Transform Into The Same Symbol

There is also a Mystery Symbol in this game which shows the gang all together on horseback. When it lands, all instances will transform into the SAME pay symbol before wins are calculated. This can be useful in helping to complete win ways.

Two Free Spins Rounds

The Wild Gang has TWO free spins rounds. Let’s look at them one by one.

Wanted Free Spins are triggered by landing 3 scatters on one base game spin. You get 8 spins where the gang members are always wild and NEVER scatters.

The first time any gang member drops they will have a 2x multiplier with them. The second time, they will have a 3x multiplier with them. But thereafter, NO multiplier.

Dead or Alive Free Spins are triggered by landing 4 scatters on one base game spin. Now, the reels expand to the full 6x4 configuration with 4,096 win ways in play. You get 8 spins where the first time a gang member drops they have a 2x multiplier and the second time a 4x multiplier, and thereafter, NO multiplier.

In BOTH rounds there is a progressive multiplier that is displayed to the side of the reels. It starts at 1x and is multiplied by each multiplier that appears on the reels during the free spins. So it can grow significantly over the round.

At the end of the round the total multiplier is applied to the total win from the round.

And finally, if in either round you land all FOUR wilds on one spins, you’ll be credited with an extra 2 spins. That can happen on TWO occasions, but no more.