Wolf Howl slot review (Just For The Win)

Just For The Win and has surprised us very positively with their online Wolf Howl slot.

The biggest complaint about earlier Just For The Win games was that it was so damn hard to win enormously big money.

And everyone knows high variance slots of online casinos are popular among the money- and kicks driven slot players.

Just For The Win has also looked at the immense popular Nolimit City and Relax Gaming slots from the corner of their eyes for inspiration.

These slots follow a relatively fixed format:

• They have a boring base game
• You can buy the bonus feature
• The bonus game is feature-rich and can earn you a lot of money
• So, players are nudged towards the expensive bonus buys

Wolf Howl neatly follows these unwritten laws, and it has to be said: it works like a charm. We couldn’t stop playing.

With Wolf Howl, you can win more than 25,000 x the total bet, so it’s not chicken feed.

Would Just For The Win finally have discovered a formula that works for them?

Wolf Howl gameplay and features

As we said, the base game doesn’t have much depth, and we won’t spend much time on that in this review.

There are 10 paylines, divided over 5 reels with 3 rows of symbols.

You can wager between 10 cents and $€ 10 per spin. This relatively low top-end bet is directly related to the ginormous potential of Wolf Howl: this is a super high variance slot.

The theoretical payout rate is 96.15%. That is on par, but there are better-paying slots.

Symbols and payouts

The symbols consist of a mix of wild animals (the high symbols) and card symbols (the low symbols).

A 5-of-a-kind of the high symbols (hare, eagle, bear, moose) yields between 6 x and 20 x the bet.

The card symbols award you a maximum of between 3 x and 5 x the bet.

The wild symbol is the wolf: it replaces all symbols except the scatters. Spin five of them on an active payline for a prize of 50 x the total bet. Wilds can also contain multipliers.

Free spins bonus

You can win the free spins bonus by spinning 3 or more scatters.

If you don’t feel like waiting for that, there is a lovely inviting Buy a Bonus option.

These are the three free spins bonuses and their corresponding Bonus Buy prizes:

• 3 scatters: 8 free spins (costs 90 x the total bet)
• 4 scatters: 15 free spins (costs 159 x the total bet)
• 5 scatters: 30 free spins (costs 314 x the total bet)

And then… the game goes wild and starts firing on all cylinders.

The scatters cause extra wild symbols to appear on the reels. But there’s more. If an additional wild symbol hits an existing wild symbol, the wild gets an extra multiplier of +1. This can go up to a maximum of x5.

If you spin your scatters during the free spins, you will also get extra free spins in addition to extra wilds.

1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 scatters will give you 2, 5, 8, 15 and 30 free spins, respectively.

The more scatters you spin, the more exciting it gets

So the more scatters you manage to spin during the free spins, the more free spins, the more wilds and the higher the multipliers.

Before you know it, the free spins have become a real wild-spin bonanza with massive multipliers.

Our verdict on Wolf Howl

The bonus round of Wolf Howl is a very entertaining concept, but be careful; it’s hugely addictive. This is truly the ultimate “right; this will truly be my last Bonus Buy for the evening”.

And that’s what you said to yourself 8 Bonus Buys ago.

Do you have a big bankroll and an iron discipline? Then Wolf Howl will be right up your alley.

Two thumbs up for Just For The Win.