Wild Booster

Theme and Design

A Very Simple, Video Slot Design With Bright Lights And Loud Soundtrack

Wild Booster is a classic old skool video slot with a nice modern twist through the multiplier boosts in the feature rounds. It wouldn’t look out of place on a Vegas slots floor with all it’s classic fruit machine icons, bright flashing colors and lights and noisy bleeps and disco soundtrack. If you like that kind of traditional production then you’ll love Wild Booster. There is not much more to say about the audio-visuals here. It’s a long way from the modern games from the like of Hacksaw and Nolimit City, but it will please some players.

RTP and Variance

Wild Booster has at least 3 possible RTP settings. I have seen it running at 96.47%, 95.46% and 94.47%. The optimum level of 96.47% is very good but you should check the game info screen before you part with you money to be sure you are playing at this, or the 95.46% level, for the best return on your wagering.

The game has a 5/5 rating on Pragmatic Play’s own volatility scale so it can be very unpredictable and occasionally throw out some massive wins thanks to the boosted multipliers that I will explain further into this review.

Maximum Win

The top payout in Wild Booster is 5,000x which is not huge, but normal for a Pragmatic Play game. Other games from the same studio with a similar model include Hot Fiesta (5,000x) and Panda’s Fortune 2 (5,000x).

Symbols and Paytable

This is a classic slot machine with 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 paylines. You’ll need 3 or more identical symbols to land from left to right on a payline to trigger a win and there is some good value in the paytable a the top end.

Starting with the lower value symbols, they are the traditional playing card suits: Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades with prizes of up to 3x the stake when 5 appear on a payline. Meanwhile, premium symbols are represented by Cherries, the Orange, a Strawberry, a Lemon and a Red Seven which deliver between 5x and 30x your bet for 5 of a kind.

Special symbols include the Wild and Scatter, with the Wild substituting all other icons bar Scatter when completing win combinations. The scatter itself is depicted as a huge, grandiose Diamond and it is vital as it triggers the Super Boost Free Spins where all the best wins are.

Features and Gameplay

I found the gameplay in Wild Booster to be straight forward. The base game can be a bit slow- it doesn’t pay out that often due to the high volatility, but the 2 free spins options - Mega or Ultra Boost - are fast-paced and compelling. You want to unlock these features to get any joy out of this game.

But lets start with the one base game feature ...

Wild Boost With Up To 100x Multipliers

Whenever Wilds appears on the reels, the Wild Boost Multiplier Feature may be randomly activated. This gives you up to a 100x Multiplier which is applied on all wins which contain at least one Wild.

Super Boost Free Spins

The headline act is this one. To enter you need to land at least 3 diamond scatters anywhere on the reels.

Before the feature begins, you can choose either the Mega or Ultra free spins option. Both have a progressive multiplier feature, activated by landing more scatters.

Mega Boosts With Up To 100x Multipliers

If you opt for the Mega Boost, you’ll be given 5 free spins and an initial 2x Multiplier which is applied to all wins that include a Wild.

During the round, each time that you collect 5 Scatters on a spin, the Multiplier will grow, to 5x, then to 10x and if you have 15 scatters, to 100x. In addition to the progressive multiplier, 5 extra spins are added with each step up.

Ultra Boost With Up To 50x Multipliers

If you choose Ultra Boost then you also get 5 free spins to start, and a 3x Boost Multiplier which is applied to all wins that include a Wild. Each time that you obtain 5 Scatters, the Multiplier will grow, initially to the value of 6x, then to 12x and finally to 50x. And once again, each time that 5 scatters are collected, 5 extra spins are added to your total. In the Ultra Round, there are MORE scatters on the reels to give your more chance of hitting that top mutiplier value.

In short, the Mega means a bigger multiplier to aim for, but less scatters to do so with. it's a matter of which option you feel more comfortable with.