Wild Survivor

Play'n GO built Wild Survivor around a wilderness scene of mountains, a stream and dense woodland, with the reel panel held between wooden logs. It was released on 8 May 2024. The layout is a plain 5x3 grid with 10 fixed paylines, and a win needs three to five matching symbols in a row starting on the leftmost reel. Bets span 0.10 to 50 per spin.

On the maths side, the highest RTP configuration is 96.2%, and four reduced versions run at 94.2%, 91.2%, 87.2% and 84.2%. Volatility is medium, scored 6 out of 10, and the maximum win is 3,000x the stake.

The paytable has two tiers. Card ranks from Ten through Ace are the cheap symbols, paying 3x to 5x for a full line of five. The upper tier is made of animals: fish, ducks, deer, wolves and bears, with five matching animals returning 10x to 40x. The wild stands in for any symbol except the scatter.

The main mechanic is the Wild Prize. Animal symbols can arrive carrying a cash value that is randomised every spin, and that value is only collected when a wild lands to pick it up. In the base game, wild respins can begin at random, and the prizes in play there are 1x, 2x or 5x the bet. The free spins round draws from a much taller set: 1x, 2x, 5x, 10x, 25x, 50x, 100x and 250x.

Free spins are triggered by scatters in the base game. Three, four or five of them hand out 10, 15 or 20 spins respectively. No scatters appear once the round is under way. At the very start, the game picks one of four boosters at random. The Knife adds 3 extra spins. Night Vision lifts the multiplier on animal wild prizes by one step. Calls & Lures raises how often animal symbols turn up, and the Mug Booster does the same job for wilds.

Every wild that lands during the bonus is logged on the Wild Checkpoints panel, a track of 12 positions. For each fourth wild, the player gets another 5 free spins and the prize multiplier climbs by one: x2 when the fourth checkpoint is reached, x3 at the eighth and x4 at the twelfth. If the Knife booster was the one selected, the multiplier starts at x2 and each checkpoint value is one step higher.

With only ten lines and medium volatility, the base game moves at a steady pace. The bigger numbers come from the bonus, where repeated wilds keep collecting prize values under a growing multiplier.