o# Blood Moon Wilds

Building on similar titles in Yggdrasil’s game library like Vikings Go Wild, the developer encourage us to embrace life’s darker side in their high quality 20 payline video slot set in the Victorian era of New Orleans, dripping with atmosphere.

Behold the full moon rising above the traditional 5x3 setup, which transforms the game’s central characters into gold-hungry werewolves as day gives way to night and the game takes on an altogether darker tone.

Let’s see what exactly Yggdrasil have in store inside this strangely enticing game..

Design

Produced in typically polished fashion by Yggdrasil, the graphic work in Blood Moon Wilds is of the highest order. We’re taken to dark and and spooky wasteland of New Orleans depicting a distant country manor, while an equally eerily sounding audio score ticks over to complete the scene and ramp up the suspense. You get the feeling things could taken a turn for the worse, or better, at any moment - and this keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout.

At the high end of the paytable you’ll find the game’s four heroes - each possessing transformational qualities at the sight of a full moon, with the low end of the scale dominated by playing card symbols.

The steely-eyed red-headed lady is the most lucrative of the demonic-looking village folk, serving up wins equating to 50x your wager when five show up at a time.

Gameplay and Features

The general gameplay in Blood Moon Wilds follows the standard slot playbook. Find at least 3 matching symbols in adjacent positions beginning at the left outermost reel to land yourself a win.

The lunar calendar dictates the pattern of the game, which is displayed in a window above the reels. Each spin brings a new lunar phase, and a full moon proceeds to turn all high paying symbols into Werewolf Wild symbols to help you create winning assortments.

Blood Moon Wilds is bursting with other features that can trigger at random:

• Win Multiplier: At random, win multipliers ranging from 2x to 5x are added into the game to boost your earnings;
• Additional Free Spin symbol: This sees one extra Free Spin symbol join the reels to help you trigger the lucrative bonus round;
• Wild Transformation: All visible instances of one high paying symbol become wild with the Wild Transformation feature;
• Full Moon Nudge: The Full Moon Nudge feature nudges the current moon’s phase at any time into its full state - and prompts the transformation of high paying symbols.

Blood Moon Wilds Free Spins

Scatter symbols are also central to the gameplay in Blood Moon Wilds, with at least 3 required in order to trigger the Free Spins bonus round.

Help yourself to a maximum 20 Free Spins for every additional Scatter symbol that appears on the reels as follows:

It’s possible to boost your free spin count by landing an extra 2 Scatters during the round, while free spins also see the addition of a new red blood moon to the Lunar Calendar. Should this special moon appear, it will proceed to transform the four high paying characters again into Werewolf Wilds, however they will then freeze in place for the duration of the entire feature to enhance your winning opportunities.

Blood Moon Wilds Volatility

Yggdrasil score the volatility as ‘High’ for this game. It calls for a healthy dose of patience, plus a sufficiently full account balance, if you’re to emerge a winner in the long run. The RTP, meanwhile, comes in at a respectable 96.2% - so you can expect to reclaim a fair amount of your bets on average.

While the base game can throw up moderate wins from time to time, you’ll find the premium rewards inside the Free Spins bonus round after catching 3 Scatters.

Blood Moon Wilds 2 on Mobile

Players can get their lunar fix on the go, with the video slot optimised perfectly for mobile play. The numerous bonus features and excellent graphics make this a superb game to be enjoyed on all modern handheld devices.

The Verdict

Fans of Halloween through to cult phenomenon like the Twilight franchise will feel right at home with this blood-curling effort from Yggdrasil, whose intensity is cranked up by some clever sound effects.

The high volatility ranking means the slot is certainly not for the faint of heart, but there are considerable wins in the offing here, worth up to 5,000x your stake in the base game for a full screen of red-headed ladies, paired with a 5x random multiplier.

While incorporating a werewolf theme does not take Yggdrasil off in a new direction, the slot excels for its use of the lunar calendar - which dictates the flow of the game, alongside a handful of other features that throw up plenty of variety.

The developer deserve praise for applying an original touch to a tried and tested theme, and fans of the genre may be pleasantly surprised with what Yggdrasil have concocted with this absorbing outing.

Blood Moon Wilds at Wildz Casino

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