Wild Depths Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Wild Depths Review

You’re taken below the surface in tropical waters in Pragmatic Play’s Wild Depths, and colorful, cartoonish fish and seashells populate the 5x4 grid. Fans of Pixar’s classic animation blockbuster, Finding Nemo (2003), should feel right at home, but don’t let the rather adorable and idyllic exterior distract you too much. The game has more teeth than a goldfish, to put it that way, but you’ll benefit from a bonus round that triggers every 120 spins on average.

This high feature hit rate probably makes it harder to land solid payouts though, but the potential clocks in at a decent 5,000x anyway, which you might be used to by now from this developer. Upwards-floating x2 bubble roaming wilds livens up the base game, while triggering free respins with an increasing win multiplier in the bonus round. Wild Depths hardly goes overboard when it comes to innovation, but it’s a mood-lifting and simple release that can be enjoyable once in a while.

Wild Depths Slot Features

The mid to high level symbols pay between 2.5 and 20 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and bubble Wilds land on reels 2 to 5 to help complete winning combos by stepping in for all regular pay symbols. The bubble Wilds always land with an x2 multiplier attached, and if more than one wild is part of the same winning combo the respective multipliers multiply with each other as the payout is boosted.

Any bubble multiplier Wild you land on a base game spin will also trigger the Roaming Wild feature. The wild or wilds move one position upwards per paid spin that follows, until it eventually exits the top of the grid.

The seashell with a pearl is the scatter symbol, and you need 3, 4 or 5 anywhere in view to trigger the Bonus Round with an upfront scatter win of 2, 15 or 100 x your stake, respectively. You also get 6, 9 or 12 free spins, respectively, and wilds now trigger a similar roaming wild feature. The difference is that you get free extra respins per roaming wild move, and each respin increases the win multiplier by +1.

The increasing win multiplier will boost any respin win, even if wilds are not involved, but it resets when all roaming x2 wilds have exited the top of the grid. You win +5 extra free spins when 3 scatters appear on the same free spin, and there is no upper limit as to how many extra spins you can get this way.

The 200 Spins Wild Depths Slot Experience

You get to see a larger multiplier wild win in the base game, right before we skip to the bonus round at 1:30 into the 4:24-minute highlights video. The roaming wild respins feature helped us out quite a bit after a while also during the free spins, and we landed some decent payouts.

Review Summary

The Pixar charm is running strong in this cutesy sub-sea Pragmatic Play release, but Wild Depths got more teeth than the wide-eyed tropical horn-blowing fish on the right-hand side. We’re not exactly in shark territory though, but you can expect plenty of base game dead spins due to the high volatility. An adorable installment like this would probably be better off catering to casual punters though, but it is what it is.

The roaming x2 multiplier wilds can land you decent top-up payouts here and there, not least if they multiply their forces, but don’t expect massive base game returns too often. The same goes for the bonus round really, which comes with an unusually high 1 in 120 hit rate. However, the increasing multiplier you get via the roaming wild respins feature can certainly do damage, and up to 5,000x your stake is possible on a very good day.

Pros

• x2 multiplier wilds that float to the top per spin
• FS w/ increasing multiplier per wild move respin
• Bonus round triggers once in 120 spins on average
• Win up to 5,000x your stake

Cons

• Nothing really new to see here

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