The Dog House Slot Review

The Dog House Video Slot by Pragmatic Play

The Dog House Video Slot by Pragmatic Play is one of those titles that trick you at first sight. When I loaded it, the bright cartoon dogs and kennel backdrop looked like a kids game, but the paytable and high volatility told a different story. You get a classic 5 reel, 3 row grid with 20 fixed paylines, stakes from 0.20 up to 100 per spin, and a max win of 6,750 times your bet.

What hooked me after a few sessions was how simple The Dog House feels while still offering serious payout potential. The base game leans heavily on multiplier wilds that can turn an ordinary line hit into something respectable, and then you have the free spins where those wilds turn sticky. It is pure high variance slot play, clean and punchy, with enough bite to keep even seasoned gamblers interested.

Graphics, Theme & Symbols - The Dog House

When I think of The Dog House, the first thing that comes to mind is the cosy little dog suburb it drops you into. The reels sit in front of a bright wooden kennel and tidy lawns, with colourful houses in the background. Each spin feels playful rather than dark or intense, yet you always sense that something big could drop when those kennels and paw prints line up across the screen.

The dogs themselves carry most of the personality. You have a chunky rottweiler as the alpha, plus a Yorkshire terrier with a bow, a cheeky pug and a long-bodied dachshund. They sit in their own little rooms on the reels, and each has its own animated reactions when part of a win. The lower symbols are bright card ranks, so even the cheap hits fit the light, cartoon style of the slot.

The sound design in The Dog House fits the visuals nicely. The main track is a gentle, bouncy tune that never feels too loud, with different jingles when the wilds land or the bonus teases you. When the free spins trigger, the tempo lifts a bit and those dog barks and win jingles add to the tension. I have had longer sessions where the audio kept the whole thing feeling lively.

How To Play The Dog House

As someone who has spun thousands of slots, I found The Dog House very easy to get into. You choose your stake using the plus and minus buttons, adjusting bet level and coin value until you hit the number you like between 0.20 and 100. The main spin button and autoplay sit on the right, turbo mode is a tap away, and everything you need, including the paytable and rules, sits along the bottom.

How To Win Big - The Dog House

In The Dog House, wins land in the standard way; you match three or more symbols on one of the 20 paylines from left to right. The dog symbols are where the real money sits. The rottweiler can pay up to 37.5 times your stake for five of a kind, the Yorkie pays up to 25 times, the pug 15 times and the dachshund 10 times, while the card symbols carry the smaller line hits.

The slot really comes alive when multiplier wilds get involved. These kennel wilds only appear on reels two, three and four and each one carries a 2x or 3x multiplier. When more than one joins the same winning line, those values multiply with each other, so a simple four-of-a-kind can suddenly be paid at 6x or 9x. Combined with the high volatility, that is where the game can swing from quiet to explosive very quickly.

Different Symbols in The Dog House

The paytable in The Dog House is split between regular paying symbols and special ones. On the regular side you have the four dogs as premium icons, paying between 10x and 37.5x your stake for five on a line, then the collar and bone as mid-range symbols, followed by the 10 to A card ranks, which top out around 2.5x. These smaller wins keep the balance ticking over between the bigger canine hits.

Special symbols shape the bonus action. The shiny kennel is the wild and substitutes for all regular symbols, always carrying that 2x or 3x multiplier, and it only lands on the three middle reels. The jewelled paw print is the scatter and appears on reels one, three and five; hit all three together and you trigger the free spins feature. Once you have seen a few rounds, it all feels very intuitive.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x37.5
	4	x7.5
	3	x2.5
	5	x25
	4	x5
	3	x1.75
	5	x15
	4	x3
	3	x1.25
	5	x10
	4	x2
	3	x1
	5	x7.5
	4	x1.25
	3	x0.6
	5	x5
	4	x1
	3	x0.4
	5	x2.5
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	5	x2.5
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	5	x1.25
	4	x0.25
	3	x0.1
	5	x1.25
	4	x0.25
	3	x0.1
	5	x1.25
	4	x0.25
	3	x0.1
	Wild
	Scatter

How Many Free Spins and other Features in The Dog House

The Dog House keeps its feature set tight, but what is there has plenty of bite. Wilds in the base game already help, yet the real attraction is the bonus round. When three scatters land on reels one, three and five, the rottweiler drags out a wooden contraption with nine little barrels. Each barrel spins to show numbers, and these are added to decide how many free spins you receive, from nine up to 27.

During free spins, The Dog House swaps to special reels. The premium dog symbols can land stacked, so you often get screens full of the same breed. Any multiplier wild that appears now becomes sticky and locks in place for the rest of the feature, keeping its 2x or 3x value on every spin. When you manage to pin a few of them in good spots, line wins can hit levels that feel almost unreal.

The free spins round cannot retrigger, so you tend to know fairly early whether a bonus is going to be average or one of those big ones you talk about later. I have had completely dead features, and I have had sessions where a cluster of sticky wilds on the middle reels carried several spins in a row. That unpredictability suits the high volatility nature of The Dog House perfectly.

RTP and Volatility in The Dog House

From a numbers point of view, The Dog House sits with an RTP around 96.51 percent and a clearly high volatility profile. There are 20 fixed paylines, so you do not fiddle with line selection; you just pick your total stake and spin. In my experience, you can go many spins with only small returns, then hit a single free spins round or stacked wild line that covers several dry patches in one go.

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