Blood Moon Wilds slot review (Yggdrasil)

Blood Moon Wilds is a werewolf slot from Yggdrasil, a provider known for designing slots with beautiful graphics and innovative bonus features

Whenever a new Yggdrasil slot is released, you can be assured that it’s not going to be your average, run-of-the-mill slot. Yggdrasil always manages to think of exciting new features that stand out. When it comes to creativity, they consistently score high marks.

It’s probably the reason why most slots players are either very positive or negative about Yggdrasil slots. The first group loves all these new features and big themes. The group prefers to cut the crap and feel all those features as too exhausting.

We are fans of Yggdrasil slots: we’re always more than curious about what Yggdrasil has been able to develop this time.

As we mentioned before, werewolves are the main characters in Blood Moon Wilds. And when will werewolves wake up? Exactly, when it’s full Moon.

Hence, it’s not a surprise that the Moon’s position is vital for how this game progresses. When the Moon is in the right place, you can earn extra wilds, extra multipliers and even extra scatters.

Betting is possible from a $€0,10 per spin, and the maximum bet amounts to $€ 100 per spin.

What are the theoretical RTP, the variance and the maximum win of the Blood Moon Wilds Slot?

The theoretical payout percentage is 96.2%. It’s striking that almost all new video slots are around this percentage, which is fair but far from spectacular. Unfortunately, the time when more slots used to have an RTP of at least 97% has gone.

Luckily, we’ve drawn up a handy list of the best paying slots, with old-fashioned high payout rates.

The maximum win of this slot is 2,130x the total bet. The maximum bet of $€100 implies that the maximum prize is just over 200 grand: $€ 213,050.

Yggdrasil gives a score of 47.28 (out of 100) for the volatility of the slot. This translates into a medium variance slot.

Typical top prizes of Blood Moon Wilds are around 500x the bet. Wins of 1,000x the bet are very exceptional.

Gameplay and features of the Blood Moon Wilds slot

Blood Moon Wilds looks stunning. With the atmosphere, the werewolves, the music and the sound effects, it feels like you’re in the middle of a horror movie.

The game has a standard setup with 5 reels and 3 rows of symbols. There are 20 paylines.

Symbols and payouts

The werewolf is the wild symbol and replaces all other symbols except the scatters.

If you manage to spin five werewolves on an active payline, you get a win of 50 x the total bet.

The premium symbols consist of 4 somewhat creepy figures you are likely to avoid when you meet them in real life. It turns out to be the case: These characters will change into a werewolf when it is Full Moon.

The card symbols hearts, spades, diamonds and clubs are the low symbols.

The Lunar Calendar: extra wilds, multipliers, and scatters

You see the Lunar Calendar at the top of the screen, between two stone werewolves.

Every spin can give the Lunar Calendar an extra booster:

• Extra wilds (a premium symbol becomes wild)
• Full Moon (all premium symbols become wild)
• An extra scatter
• An additional multiplier on all wins
• Blood Moon Wilds slot bonus trigger

Free spins bonus

Three or more scatters activate the free spins bonus.

Depending on the number of scatters (maximum 6), you win between 7 and 20 free spins.

During the free spins, the Full Moon feature appears much more often. Besides, you can also play a so-called Blood Moon (the red coloured Moon). It helps you get extra wilds on the reels for the remaining free spins.

If you manage to spin two scatters during the free spins, you are awarded +2 free spins.

Our verdict on the Blood Moon Wilds slot

Blood Moon Wilds is a very entertaining Yggdrasil slot.

The Lunar Calendar Feature can become repetitive after a while, but it can also give you some great extras.

We would have liked to have seen the variance to be a bit higher. If you manage to get a win of 500x the bet, that is already an achievement. Yggdrasil develops the most beautiful and original slots and scores full marks for that. Unfortunately, they continue to show reluctance in making the real high variance slots.

We strongly appreciate the beautiful animations and innovative features. The RTP and variance could both have been higher, though.

3.8 out of 5 stars.

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