Agnes Mission Wild Lab

Agnes Mission Wild Lab: Slot Overview

One of the standout lines in the Jurassic Park movie franchise comes from mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), who said, 'Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.' There is a sense of this reckless abandonment to scientific advancement going on in developer Foxium's online slot Agnes Mission Wild Lab - a slot which got us thinking about concepts like technology, morality, whether there are lines science shouldn't cross and who gets to say what they are. Oh, and it comes with several features, including Agnes Coin Collect, Toxic Mutation, Walking Wild Lab Respins, and Agnes Mission.

Agnes Mission Wild Lab came across as a modern version of the classic Frankenstein tale. That is, losing control of one's creation and only considering the dangers after it's been unleashed on the world. In the world we live in, this could potentially apply to any number of things, from AI that sees humans as a menace to apps engineered to keep us scrolling. Perhaps presenting this idea in an overtly threatening way, in the form of a dangerous alien species as Foxium has done, is needed every now and then to help prevent humanity from sleepwalking into a wilfully ignorant demise?

Let's not forget Agnes Mission Wild Lab is, first and foremost, an online slot and not an essay on ethics. As such, one of the first things to know is that the game comes with four RTP models, so if you're shopping around for the best one, be on the lookout for the 96.23% version. It's a medium volatile slot, packing an enticing max win, and allows players to stake 20 p/c to $/€25 on each paid game round.

Agnes Mission Wild Lab is played on a 5-reel, 3-row, 20 payline game grid, with an Extra Reel up top where Collect and Embryo symbols may land. On the main grid, 10 pay symbols appear. These are split into low-pay 10-A card royals and a high-pay collection of gadgets and characters – Microscopes, Test Tubes, Security Officers, Scientists, and Bosses. Landing a five of a kind winning line is worth 3-5x the bet for the lows and 7.5-20x the bet for the higher value group of symbols. Normal 1x1 Wild symbols can appear on any reel, too, substituting for any pay symbols, and are worth up to 20x the bet for a line of five.

Agnes Mission Wild Lab: Slot Features

For such a technologically minded slot, you might be surprised at how traditional many of the features are. The key to most of them is the Extra Reel running on top of the normal reels. On this Extra Reel, Collect Symbols and Embryo Symbols may land.

Collect Symbol

Agnes Coin symbols appear on any of the normal reels displaying cash values or one of the four jackpots. These are the Mini, Minor, Major, or Grand, worth 25x, 100x, 500x, or 2,000x the bet, respectively. Each Collect Symbol on the Extra Reel awards the value of any Agnes Coin symbols simultaneously in view.

Walking Wild Lab Respins

Landing an Embryo symbol on the Extra Reel triggers the Walking Wild Lab Respins feature. The reel below the Embryo is transformed into a full reel Walking Wild. Walking Wilds move 1 position to the left on each respin. If an Embryo lands on the Extra Reel, it increases the win multiplier by +1, up to a maximum of x5. When the last Walking Wild reaches the leftmost reel, the feature ends, and the Waking Wild disappears on the next spin. Walking Wild Lab Respins are free, and Collect or Agnes Coin symbols do not appear during them.

Agnes Mission

When Embryo symbols land on the Extra Reel, they are also collected by the Embryo Meter. When 12 Embryos have been collected, the game flips to Agnes Mission mode. In this mode, no Embryos are collected, yet there are said to be better chances for Agnes Coin Collects and more Walking Wilds. The Walking Wild Lab Respins feature turns at least 2 of the rightmost reels into wild reels. When the Walking Wild Lab Respin feature ends, so does Agnes Mission. Spins in Agnes Mission are paid, but respins remain free.

Toxic Mutation

The final feature is the Toxic Mutation which can trigger on any spin. A Toxic Fog moves across the reels, shuffling reels to make a winning combination.

Agnes Mission Wild Lab: Slot Verdict

Any number of movie influences might have gone into Agnes Mission Wild Lab, subconsciously or not. It has hints of Predator, Alien, and the Amazon show The Expanse, amongst others. It's a more advanced world than the one we live in, but not so advanced as to think the events taking place couldn't happen to us one day. There's a sense of inevitability about it, really. While some, if not most, people would baulk at the idea of tinkering with a species that has the potential to wipe us out, others may be so hell-bent on progress for the sake of progress or so paranoid they are willing to do anything. This includes messing around with a specimen called… Agnes. Great name, by the way. Adding a humorous element like that took the edge off and helped us enjoy the absorbing game world.

Once we clocked what Agnes Mission mode was all about, disappointment did creep in. Agnes Mission Wild Lab is screaming out for a monstrous bonus round to kick the game into overdrive. Keeping it this way kind of limits Agnes Mission Wild Lab to being a less ambitious money symbol collect game, and there are loads of those out there already. For good reason, sure, but with so much creativity jammed into Agnes Mission Wild Lab's theme and presentation, adding something extra, something really wild, could have pushed the game into a higher orbit.

Hopefully, this comes across as being constructive rather than negative because Agnes Mission Wild Lab was a fun game to review, though it did get drearily repetitive being stuck in Agnes Mission mode when Embryos weren't landing. Foxium is a creative bunch, and when they let loose, they turn out unique experiences like Cossacks The Wild Hunt. Agnes Mission Wild Lab is there, thematically, and it can generate wins as high as 10,000x the bet. But numbers are only one part of the puzzle, and it feels like Foxium missed an opportunity to let its gameplay creativity soar as high as its wandering thematic musings.