Wolf Gold Ultimate Slot Review

There are three main features—Money Respin, Ante Bet, and Feature Buy.

Money Respin

The core feature of Wolf Gold Ultimate is the Money Respin Feature. This is triggered when 6 or more Money symbols (depicted as moons) land anywhere on the reels. Once triggered, the regular reels are replaced with 3 grids of 5x3 and one grid of 5x1, where only Money symbols and blanks appear.

You start with three respins that reset every time a new Money symbol lands.

• Landing 9 Money symbols unlocks the second 5x3 grid.
• 18 Money symbols unlock the third 5x3 grid.
• 32 Money symbols unlock the final 5x1 grid.

On the 5x1 grid, special symbols like Collect, Plus Cash, and Multiplier appear to boost your payouts. The Collect symbol will gather the values of Money symbols across the grids, Plus Cash will add extra value to the symbols, and the Multiplier will multiply all the Money symbol values by a random factor (2x, 3x, 4x, or 5x). You need to either exhaust all respins or fill all grid positions to end the bonus round.

Ante Bet and Bonus Buy

Both of these features have been added to update the original Wolf Gold game. The base game RTP of 96.47% increases to 96.54% during the Ante Bet and to 96.56% during the Bonus Buy features. These are typical features that do the following:

• The Ante Bet allows you to pick a multiplier between 25x or 40x. The Bonus Buy feature is turned off and the chance to win Money Respin grows at 40x.
• The Bonus Buy feature allows you to buy into the Money Respin feature for 80x your current bet. 6, 7, or 8 Money symbols are guaranteed to hit on the spin.

Pragmatic Play’s Wolf Gold Ultimate takes us back to the classic experience after seven long years. It has some new features and updated graphics. The game maintains the same 5-reel, 3-row structure with 25 fixed paylines, where players can wager between £0.25 and £250 per spin. It carries an above-average RTP, medium volatility, and a max win potential of 5,000x. The key draw is the Money Respin feature that unlocks additional grids for an opportunity to make it big.

The absence of free spins makes the base game a little flat, putting the focus on the Money Respins, Ante Bet, and Bonus Buy features.

Rating: 6.5 (Okay)

With the removal of free spins, Wolf Gold Ultimate is kind of in a tricky place. There is no “normal fun” anymore. The entirety of the max win potential is now tied to the Money Respins feature, which can get quite hard to trigger or boring beyond a point. Essentially, the game is a slight upgrade over the original (better designs for the symbols mainly) while introducing the Ante Bet and Bonus Buy features because they help providers (and casinos) make more money.