10,000 Wolves 10K Ways: Slot Overview

It's 10K time, folks, due to the release of 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways, an online slot from software provider ReelPlay. The studio has proven to be nothing, if not persistent, as 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways appears to be the twelfth offering in the 10K lineup. Great news for gamblers who can't get enough 10K shenanigans in their lives, not so great for those who aren't enamoured with the range. Truth be told, it's been a patchy series of slots, so it wasn't with great enthusiasm that 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways was fired up and put through its paces. Less so when it became clear what a total rehash the whole thing was.

By rehash, it means 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways serves the same features and gameplay found in slots such as 10,000 Wonders 10K Ways (which this is basically a clone of) and the first one, Hypernova 10K Ways. If the game's creator had injected some originality into the presentation perhaps the repeat performance of the same action wouldn't have felt quite so redundant. But ReelPlay essentially switched to Wolf Gold mode when making 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways, so players get wolves and moons and all that. They also get a rocky landscape and a sky transitioning from day to night, or vice versa.

As with all 10K way slots, the grid consists of 6 reels holding 4 rows, each spinning vertically, plus a 4-position reel on the top that spins horizontally. This setup provides an unchanging number of 10,000 ways to win. The math model is medium-high volatile and comes with a default RTP of 96.16%. When picking a stake to start running amongst the wolves, the options are 20 c to $/€20 per base game spin.

Having 10K Ways means winning combinations start from the leftmost reel and hit along adjacent reels, regardless of row height. As lows, 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways has 9 to A card rank symbols, then deer, cougars, eagles, and wolves for the highs. Six-of-a-kind low pay wins award 0.5 to 1.2 times the bet, increasing to 2 to 100 times the bet for a 6 OAK picture symbol result. Paw wilds appear on the top reel only, substituting for all symbols except the scatter.

10,000 Wolves 10K Ways: Slot Features

For features, 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways keeps things on the simple side, with just a bonus respins feature to go over.

Bonus Respins

Moon symbols are the bonus respins scatter, displaying 1x to 100x multipliers as well as Diamond Bonuses. Diamond Bonus scatters are red, pink, green, and blue diamonds worth 10x, 50x, 250x, or 2,000x the bet, respectively.

Hitting 6 or more scatters in the base game triggers the bonus respin round. For it, 3 respins are awarded, and all scatter symbols are held while all other positions respin. When new scatters appear, they are held, and the respin count returns to 3. When no more respins remain or all positions on the grid are filled, the round ends, and each scatter in view awards its value. Pink and red diamonds may be won more than once per feature, whereas the blue diamond and green diamonds may be won only once per feature.

10,000 Wolves 10K Ways: Slot Verdict

ReelPlay has been plugging away at these 10K slots for a while now, and they just don't seem to be getting a heck of a lot better. At best, they sort of tread water going nowhere; at worst, they seriously flounder. There have been highlights of a kind. Bucks and Does 10K Ways was different, and Thor 10K Ways was all right. The problem is slots like 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways, which bring absolutely nothing new to the table in terms of either gameplay, regurgitating features of the past, or the Wolf Gold wannabe theme, which was arguably démodé already, several years ago.

There's not much to bang on about 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways' action, where there are basically two ways to win. Hit combinations of matching symbols or hit at least 6 scatter symbols to traverse into the bonus round, where the respins round is about as rudimentary as a hold 'n win feature can be. Don't be waiting for a single special symbol to show up and augment play. No, there is nothing more sophisticated than landing scatters then totalling their values up at the end. As for winning potential, 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways info page did not divulge a figure, but the two previous related slots' circa 5,600x the bet might serve as a guide.

So ends the review of 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways, which went about as good as expected once its roots and family tree had been discerned. To put it politely, if you don't manage to catch up with 10,000 Wolves 10K Ways, you aren't really missing much.