The Dog House Muttley Crew

The Dog House Muttley Crew: Slot Overview

You know what's about as far away from staid suburban life as it possibly gets? Piracy, yep, piracy, and the reason these two contrasting ways of life have crossed paths, as it were, is thanks to Pragmatic Play's cluster paying slot, The Dog House Muttley Crew. Experienced slot players are probably well aware of the classic sticky multiplier wild slot The Dog House, released to a warm, fluffy, patting-on-the-head reception in 2019. Since then, Pragmatic Play has expanded the doggie charm with additions such as a Megaways version, a Multihold version, and a Western. Now, a pirate version?

Yeah, the theme change is random, but maybe the dogs in this game were lazing about the garden one day and were hit with the thought they were going to be peeing on the same lampposts and sniffing the same butts forever more. Like, that's it, forever. A doggie mid-life crisis, in other words, prompting a drastic life change. So, players catch up with the playful hounds aboard a wooden sailing ship cresting the waves somewhere sunny and warm. The furry characters are back, but this time, they're wearing pirate hats.

The Dog House Muttley Crew is a cluster paying slot, so making winning combinations requires at least 5 matching symbols to be connected to each other in horizontal and/or vertical directions. Highly volatile, players have access to bets of 20 c to $/€240 per base game spin and three bonus buy options. The game's most preferable RTP version is 96.5%, but return values vary slightly when buying the feature.

Ten through to Ace symbols are The Dog House Muttley Crew's low pays, then a bone plus 4 character symbols are the higher value bunch. Clusters containing 5 matching symbols award 0.25 to 2.5 times the bet, while the biggest clusters of 20+ pay 7.5 to 50 times the bet.

The Dog House Muttley Crew: Slot Features

Wild Multipliers, free spins, and bonus buys are the features players can look out for on this voyage.

Wild Multiplier

The chest symbol is wild and lands on all reels, substituting for any symbol except the scatter. Wilds hit with a random multiplier of x2, x3, x5, or x10, which applies to all wins they are part of. If more than one wild is part of the same win, their multipliers are added to each other. A win of 25 clustered wilds pays 50x the bet.

Free Spins

Scatters also appear on all reels. Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatters pays 2x the bet and awards 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. During free spins, any wild that lands remains on the reels until the feature ends. Scatter symbol overlays may randomly appear on top of any symbol. Hitting 2, 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols awards a further +5, +10, +20, or +30 free spins.

Bonus Buy

The free spins round can be instantly triggered from the base game for a set cost. Paying 100x, 250x, or 500x the bet triggers free spins with 3, 4, or 5 scatters.

The Dog House Muttley Crew: Slot Verdict

The dogs do look cute in their little pirate hats, but it's likely that players are more interested in seeing the return of those sticky wild multipliers hitting the screen. The good news is they can potentially work just as well in a cluster pays slot as they did in the original game. As before, free spins are really where you want to be despite the rough weather on display there. It's the sticky quality that makes it so, and getting a collection of wild multipliers crowding up the play area might come in useful for connecting winning clusters. The base game was okay, though, as mentioned, free spins are where The Dog House Muttley Crew woofed into alive.

Perhaps one area where The Dog House Muttley Crew lags is that it didn't feel especially cutting edge or as innovative, let's say, as The Dog House Multihold did, for example. It basically is just The Dog House mashed with a cluster pays mechanic, full stop. In saying that, there are bound to be plenty of players with fond memories of earlier The Dog House games who will lap this one up as well. The game world has an amiable buccaneering quality, it's got history, and it was just a fun wee doggies on the water slot to play. No, The Dog House Muttley Crew doesn't send The Dog House series into blisteringly original territory, yet it's a dependable cluster pays entry into the range.

A 7,500x the bet win cap completes the picture, putting it slightly above the original but lower than others in the series. After seeing the doggies transition to a cluster pays game, what are the odds of getting a scatter-paying slot in a future outing? After giving The Dog House Muttley Crew a go, that would be no bad thing.