Wild Hike Slot Review

Wild Hike Slot Overview

Wild Hike is a Relax Gaming nature slot that throws me straight into a night-time trek with a campfire flickering beside the reels. The set-up uses 6 reels, 4 rows and 4096 ways to win, so any three-of-a-kind from the left across adjacent reels can pay. Stakes run from 0.10 to 50 a spin, with high volatility that can feel brutal at times, balanced by headline potential of up to 20000x stake.

The RTP sits at 96.09 percent in standard play, which is above many branded casino slots I grind. If I buy regular free spins it climbs to 96.51 percent, and nudges 96.54 percent on the Wild Free Spins buy. On paper those are solid numbers for a high-risk game, and they match the feeling I get when the multipliers land and the balance starts swinging in both directions.

Wild Hike Slot Information

In Wild Hike the low-paying symbols are the familiar 10, J, Q, K and A. Six of a kind for any of them pays 1x stake, so they mainly keep the balance ticking over during dry spells. The premiums are an owl, deer, boar, bear and the wolf, paying from around 1.8x up to 10x stake for six. Full screens of these under a big multiplier are where the slot really shows its fangs.

The howling wolf with a golden W acts as the wild symbol in Wild Hike. It can land on reels 2 to 5 and substitutes for all regular symbols, but reels 3 and 4 are where it gets interesting, since those positions trigger the expanding wild feature. The tent symbol is the scatter, and any time I see two or more tents drop, I start eyeing up both the re-spins and the bonus round.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	6	x10
	5	x5
	4	x3.5
	3	x2.5
	6	x4
	5	x2
	4	x1.4
	3	x1
	6	x3
	5	x1.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.7
	6	x2
	5	x1
	4	x0.7
	3	x0.5
	6	x1.8
	5	x0.9
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.4
	6	x1
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	6	x1
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	6	x1
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	6	x1
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	6	x1
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	Scatter
	Wild

Wild Hike Slot Features

The core mechanic in Wild Hike revolves around expanding wild re-spins. When a wild lands on reel 3 or 4 it expands to cover the whole reel, gains a 1x multiplier, and awards a re-spin. As long as at least one winning combination involves that expanded wild, the game keeps re-spinning and the multiplier climbs by one each time. Lose the connection and the sequence ends, along with the multiplier.

If I manage to land expanding wilds on both reels 3 and 4, things can spiral very fast. Each wild builds its own multiplier and, when they join the same win, those values multiply together before applying to the payout. That stacking effect on 4096 ways, especially with high symbols involved, is where the slot can throw out silly-looking hits, even in the base game, although it does not happen often.

In practice the expanding wild feature in Wild Hike gives the base game a streaky feel. I can spin for a while with only small line wins, then one wild drops and suddenly the multipliers start marching up, dragging scatters into view and teasing the bonus. It suits my style when I am in the mood for swingy sessions, as the feature carries real weight even before any free spins trigger.

Free Spins in Wild Hike

The free spins in Wild Hike trigger when three or four tent scatters land, giving 7 or 10 spins. If they arrive during an expanding wild re-spin, any multipliers already built on reels 3 and 4 carry over into the bonus. During free spins these multipliers no longer reset after a dead spin. Instead they sit above their reels, waiting to attach to the next expanding wild that drops in.

Each scatter that lands in the bonus adds one extra free spin in Wild Hike, which sounds minor but matters once the multipliers start to stack. I have had rounds where a slow start turned around after one big chain, with both multipliers climbing and every new spin feeling loaded. The flipside is that plenty of bonuses crawl by with only modest hits, which suits the advertised high volatility.

Bonus Buy in Wild Hike

The bonus buy in Wild Hike gives two choices. For 75x stake I can buy a standard free spins round with 3 or 4 random scatters, pushing RTP up to 96.51 percent. For 150x stake I get Wild Free Spins, again with 3 or 4 scatters, but here at least one win with double expanding wilds is guaranteed, and RTP edges up slightly further to 96.54 percent.

Wild Hike Slot Verdict

Wild Hike sits in that line of Relax Gaming releases that feel simple on the surface yet can go feral when the stars align. The art, sound and camping vibe do a tidy job without stealing focus from the expanding wilds and multipliers, which are the real draw. With 96.09 percent RTP, high volatility and a 20000x cap, I treat it as a slot for focused sessions when I want serious bite.

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