Wild Pride Slot Online from Booming Games

Wild Pride is an African savanna pokie from Booming Games, released in 2017 on a 5x3 grid with 10 fixed paylines. The return to player is 95.08%, which sits below the 96% market average, and volatility is low, so the game pays small amounts often rather than rarely and large.

Coin values run from 0.01 to 20, which puts the total bet between NZ$0.10 and NZ$200 across the ten lines. There is no jackpot and no bonus buy. Two main features that carry the game are free spins with a 2x multiplier and the Interacting Symbols mechanic.

Wild Pride keeps its feature set short, but both of them are worth understanding before you set a stake, since they have very different payout mechanics.

Game symbols

The lion and the lioness are the highest-paying animal symbols, ahead of the zebra and the antelope, paying 50x for five of them. Card ranks from A down to J fill the low end and pay up to 10x. The Wild is the game logo, a savanna silhouette stamped with the game name, and it substitutes for everything except the scatter. It also carries the largest paytable value of any symbol of up to 500x. The scatter is an African buffalo, and it’s easy to miss on the reels, since it has no special frame or animation to mark it out.

Free spins

Three or more scatters anywhere on the reels award 10 free spins. Every win during the round is doubled, and scatters keep landing while it runs. This means that three more scatters retrigger another 10 spins. Booming Games did not tie a separate bonus round to this game, so the 2x multiplier inside free spins is the only way wins get boosted. 

Interacting Symbols and the Majestic Win

When the lion and the lioness land next to each other anywhere on the reels, a short animation plays and the Majestic Win pays out. The base-game value is 5x the total bet, doubling to 10x during free spins. It needs a lion and a lioness together, not two lions, and it does not depend on a payline. On a low-volatility game with no jackpot, this is where the more interesting payouts sit.

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Note that the paytable multipliers count from your line bet, while the Majestic Win counts from your total bet. At the NZ$0.10 minimum, the line bet is one cent, so a 5x total-bet Majestic Win pays NZ$0.50, the same as 50x on a line. Always compare payouts using the same calculation method before deciding if they're generous.

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The presentation is the strongest part of this pokie. The hand-painted sunset backdrop and the drum-led soundtrack are a level above what a ten-line game usually gets, and the Interacting Symbols animation gives the theme a point. A 95.08% return is lower than average, and low volatility means the Majestic Win and free spins, which are only bonuses, rarely arrive close together. It works as a casual game between heavier sessions rather than a target in itself. New Zealand players who want more from the same studio can compare Cash Pig or the hold-and-win format of Buffalo Hold and Win. The game runs on HTML5 and works in a smartphone browser without an app, which puts it among the more portable mobile slots.