Introduction to Wild Skullz
Wild Skullz is a casino slot from Pragmatic Play featuring a made-up heavy metal band. Heavy metal is a powerful and influential rock music genre that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It’s characterized by loud, distorted guitars, which you’ll hear plenty of in this slot. Bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple shaped the early sound, inspiring countless subgenres such as thrash, power metal, and death metal. Heavy metal often explores themes of rebellion, fantasy, and personal struggle, giving it emotional intensity and cultural depth.
The five members of Wild Skullz can all appear as Expanded Wild Symbols, helping you to create winning combinations on the reels. The Expanded Wilds can have multipliers of up to 512x, and you’re guaranteed one of them on every Free Spin.
If you want to hang out with this band more, you can play the free demo at the top of this review.
Theme, Gameplay, and Payouts
Wild Skullz is a video slot from Pragmatic Play featuring 5 reels with 3 rows and 243 ways to win. The Min.bet is 0.2, and the Max.bet of 240 can be raised to 1,200 using the Ante Bet. The default RTP is 96.44%, but the game is also released with RTPs of 95.52% and 94.46%. Wild Skullz has very high volatility and a max win of 10,000x the bet, which is awarded 1 time in 10,989,010 spins. The hit frequency of 23.64% means that almost every fourth spin is a winner, and the Free Spins trigger 1 time in 250 spins.
Wild Skullz takes place on a big stage. The reels are the centre of attention, set against a frame of skulls and fire. To the sides are pyrotechnics and TV screens of skulls. To the right of the reels stands a guitarist, playing what seems to be a 5-stringed guitar. He’s wearing a white face mask and a leather jacket with thorns. There’s a heavy tune playing when you spin the reels. To make a win, you need to land at least 3 matching symbols on adjacent reels, starting on the first reel to the left. The game is available on mobile phones, tablets, and desktop computers.
The lower-paying symbols in Wild Skullz are 10, J, Q, K, and A. They pay between 0.75x and 1.25x the bet for a 5-of-a-kind win. The higher-paying symbols are keyboard, microphone, drumset, and electric guitar. They will give you between 2.5x and 6.25x for a win of 5 symbols. The Wild Symbol substitutes all symbols except the Scatter Symbol.
Special Features & Slot Mechanics
What is the max win in the slot Wild Skullz?
You can win up to 10,000x the bet.
What features are available in the slot Wild Skullz?
The features are Wild Symbol, Free Spins, Special Bet, and Feature Buy.
Wild Symbol
The Wild Symbol substitutes all regular-paying symbols, but not the Scatter Symbol. There are also five Expanded Wild Symbols, depicted by the members of the game’s fictional band. They can land with multipliers ranging from 2x to 512x, which will be applied to all wins the symbols are part of. Only one Expanded Wild can land per spin.
Free Spins
You trigger the Free Spins feature by landing 3 Scatter Symbols on the grid. You start with 5 spins and an Expanded Wild Symbol that will appear on the fifth reel. On every following spin, the Expanded Wild will move one step to the left. If you land a Scatter Symbol, which can only appear on reel 5, the Expanded Wild is moved to the fifth reel again, and you’ve got 5 spins.
The Expanded Wild doesn’t have any multiplier when it appears. Whenever it takes part in a win, it gets a multiplier of 2x, which will double for every following win. The feature ends when the Expanded Wild Symbol reaches reel 1 and no Scatter Symbol appears.
Special Bet
You can pay 5x the bet for the Ante Bet, which increases the chances of triggering the Free Spins. The paytable stays intact. You can also pay 10x the bet for the Super Spin, which guarantees to land an Expanded Wild Symbol. You cannot trigger the Free Spins in the Super Spin.
Feature Buy
You can buy the Free Spins for 100x the bet, or the Super Free Spins, where the Expanded Wild starts with a 32x multiplier, for 600x the bet.
Final Thoughts on Wild Skullz
Wild Skullz walks onto the stage with a loud guitar riff, throws some fire into the air, and gives us a pretty solid concert. It might not become the greatest show you’ve ever seen, but it’s definitely entertaining enough to keep you in the crowd. The heavy metal theme is fun and nicely presented, especially if you enjoy darker visuals, skulls, and dramatic music that makes every spin feel a little more intense. However, real metal heads will probably feel that this is more of a stereotypical way to portray a band than a really cool one.
The Expanded Wilds are clearly the stars of the show, and the possibility of multipliers going all the way up to 512x adds more excitement than a rock show at a crowded stadium. The Free Spins feature is also interesting thanks to the moving Expanded Wild, which creates a sense of progression and keeps you watching the reels carefully. Landing a Scatter Symbol will restart the Expanded Wild on the fifth reel, give you more spins, and increase the chances of landing big wins since the multiplier grows for every win made.
For other rock n roll games, don’t miss NetEnt’s classics Jimi Hendrix and Guns N’ Roses.
Wild Skullz from Pragmatic Play delivers a fun heavy metal theme with strong multipliers. This game may not headline the biggest festival, but it still puts on a show that most players will enjoy.
