Wolf Gold 4 Pack slot keeps the canyon, the wolves and the jackpots that made the original a hit, then quietly drops half of what got it noticed. The giant-symbol free spins are gone. What remains is the Money Respin, the sticky-moon round from the first game, only now it plays out over 4 grids rather than one, which is where the name comes from. Land 3 scatters and a wheel decides which size of that round you get.
The canyon reels are standard Wolf Gold, 5 reels and 3 rows, 25 paylines. A bald eagle, a horse, a cougar and a gold-maned buffalo sit above the card ranks, and a wolf steps in for any animal or card, leaving the scatter and the moons aside. A bonus wheel hangs over the top of the grid at all times.
Land 3 scatters across the 1st, 3rd and 5th reels, and it spins. Where it stops is what you play for, whether that is the Bonus, the Super Bonus, or a prize paid outright at 10x, 25x, 100x, 500x or 5,000x the bet. If you would sooner skip the build-up, a panel beside the reels buys that wheel spin for 100x. It pays for the spin; the wheel still decides the prize.
The 2 features run on the same two symbols. A blue moon lands, sticks where it falls, and holds a value pulled at random from a set that climbs 1x, 2x, 3x on up to 500x and 5,000x the bet. The value is banked when the round is over. A gold moon holds a value from that same set too, just never below 2x, and it carries two extra jobs blue moon doesn’t: landing one resets the respin counter on all 4 grids at once, not just its own, and in the Bonus specifically, it’s also what unlocks the bottom two grids, which start the round chained off.
Trigger the round with 5 moons, or a wheel result of Bonus, and you get the lighter version. All 4 grids appear, but only the top 2 are in play, the lower 2 sealed off until a gold moon frees them. Take the fuller round with 6 moons, with a gold moon among 5, or when the wheel stops on Super Bonus, and every grid is live from the off.
Either way the round begins with 3 respins a grid, the animal symbols fade out, and only blanks and moons drop. It ends when the respins run dry or every grid in front of you is full. Fill a grid completely, and it pays a flat 1,000x on top of its moon values, which is where the largest wins come from. This is high-volatility play, so the moons can stay away through long stretches before a round fills out.
Wins pay left to right along 25 fixed lines, each starting from reel 1, and every line counts its best combination toward the total. The wolf wild fills in for the animals and cards, though not the scatter or the moon symbols, so it can finish a line it cannot begin. The scatter is the exception on that front, and 3 of them are what spins the wheel. 5 buffalo pay $20 at our stake and 3 pay $1, which frames the paytable. We played at $1 a spin, near the low end of a range that runs from $0.25 to $250. Turbo and autoplay are available, and the settings split the prairie ambience from the reel sounds if you want one but not the other.
The return sits at 96.51%, nudging up to 96.55% if you buy the wheel, and the volatility meter shows 5 bolts of 5, so the game runs hot and cold and is best kept to a budget. A few operators load leaner builds at 95.51% or 94.49%, below the demo’s headline figure. The top payout is capped at 5,100x the bet, and if you hit that inside a round, it ends there and pays, with any respins still to come lost.
| Symbol | 5 | 4 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo | $20.00 | $10.00 | $1.00 |
| Eagle | $16.00 | $6.00 | $0.80 |
| Horse | $12.00 | $4.00 | $0.60 |
| Cougar | $8.00 | $2.00 | $0.40 |
| A | $2.00 | $0.80 | $0.40 |
| K, Q, J | $2.00 | $0.80 | $0.20 |
| Wolf (wild) | $20.00 | $10.00 | $1.00 |
Figures are shown at the $1 spin we played, and the same paytable is used in free play.
Everything about Wolf Gold 4 Pack says you are loading the 2017 favourite again: the canyon, the wolves, the jackpots strung over the reels. Play it and the promise is narrower than the packaging. The free spins that shared the billing last time are gone, and what is left is the Money Respin on its own, now stretched over 4 grids with two tiers and a gold moon that can restart a round. It has more room here than it ever had in the original, and that expansion is a genuine one, not a smaller game dressed up as a bigger one. That's what 3.6 reflects, real growth in the one feature this version kept.
The 2017 Wolf Gold ran two features side by side, a free spins round with giant symbols and the sticky-moon respin. Wolf Gold 4 Pack keeps the respin, drops the free spins, and answers the loss by multiplying the round it kept. Where that first game filled one 5×3 grid with moons, this one plays up to 4 of them at once, and the name is the giveaway. It is an idea a returning player knows by heart, only there is 4 times as much of it to complete before the respins run out.
The gold moon is the piece everything hinges on. In the Bonus, it does two jobs at once, freeing the 2 grids that start out chained and resetting every grid’s respins back to 3, so its arrival can turn a fading round into a full one. Its absence does the reverse. We bought a wheel spin that landed on the Bonus and never saw a gold moon. One grid stopped on 3 moons, the next filled to 7, and the round paid $19 from just those two.
The wheel is the only door to the bigger round, and you cannot pick the lock, whether you land your own 3 scatters or pay to spin it. A 100x buy gets you a spin of it, not the round you want, so the wheel alone chooses between a flat jackpot, the 2-grid Bonus and the 4-grid Super Bonus. Landing the best of the three is no promise of a payout either, since the Super Bonus opens all 4 grids but still needs the moons to fill them. Our own 100x buy did just that, and handed back only $44 against the $100 buy in, Mega banner and all.
What redeems Wolf Gold 4 Pack between rounds is the care in the making. The horizon glows orange and pink, birds cross the sky, an eagle calls somewhere off screen, and now and then a rodent breaks cover and scurries over the rocks. Winning symbols light up and bounce, and the wolf turns to howl when it lands in a paying line. Pragmatic has built this setting before, and the detail shows enough to make the standard spins easy company. Whether that is enough comes down to what you came for. This is a slot for players happy to sit and watch, playing the wheel for that hot run of high moons. We never caught it in our review session. The scenery and its wildlife made it an easy place to wait for it.
