Huntress Wild Vengeance

Huntress Wild Vengeance: Slot Overview

To date, it has been impossible to pinpoint where software provider Print Studios might lead players next. From golems to potatoes to ice sprites, the studio's game worlds have been as wildly random as the features which adjoin them. Huntress Wild Vengeance, by comparison, uses more conventional subject matter to dress its action up in, that of North American culture/wilderness. However, this is Print Studios, and they are a creative bunch, so Huntress Wild Vengeance is by no means a Wolf Gold knock-off. Quite the opposite, in fact, and as well as lush visuals, SuperSpinners are back, alongside a nudging Wild Huntress feature with respins and a Global Huntress multiplier, plus free spins with an optional Hunt gamble minigame.

Visuals are one of the main components of a first impression, and Huntress Wild Vengeance's make a good one. It has a grand, stately old museum thing going on, like wandering around New York's American Museum of Natural History, where displays have been set up with stuffed animals and painted backgrounds to give visitors a glimpse of what the scene would be like in the wild. Instead of glass-eyed animals staring at their audience, Huntress Wild Vengeance is more dynamic, where leaves fall, and water rushes amidst an idyllic autumn scene. Things are not as idyllic as they might seem, however, as Huntress Wild Vengeance's story revolves around a Huntress on the lookout for revenge against a beast who killed her family.

To join the hunt, players pick a bet of 20 p/c to $/€50 per spin and saddle up on any device. The gaming occurs on a 5-reel, 3-row game panel hosting 15 paylines for landing winning combinations of three to five of a kind across. Huntress Wild Vengeance's action is driven by a highly volatile math model, generating a theoretical return to player value of 96.45% when playing normally or 97.8% when buying free spins. When triggered naturally, free spins have a frequency of 1 in 169 on average, while regular line wins have a projected hit frequency of 1 in 5.

Prising open the paytable, we find ten regular pay symbols. From low to high, they are 1, 2, 3, or 4 teeth, a rabbit paw, a water pouch, moccasins, an eagle, a fox, and a bear. Landing five of a kind wins awards 0.8 to 1x bet for five of the four teeth symbols or 1 to 20 times the stake for five of the others.

Huntress Wild Vengeance: Slot Features

Huntress Wild Vengeance is split between base game mode and free spins with an optional Hunt minigame. In both phases, players benefit from SuperSpinners, Nudging Wilds, and a Global Win multiplier. Where possible, free spins may also be bought.

SuperSpinners

Look closely at the lines between reels, and you'll see pips lit up with numbers. These are the SuperSpinners. At the start of a spin, each SuperSpinner has a chance to be activated, getting a multiplier of x2 or more. When a winning line passes through an active SuperSpinner, it is multiplied by the value. After being used in a winning line, the respective SuperSpinner increases its multiplier by a random amount from 1 to 9. Should more than one SuperSpinner be used in a win, the values are added together before they get applied.

Huntress Wild Feature

Appearing on reels 2, 3, or 4 are the Huntress Wild symbols. When one hits, it nudges if need be to cover the whole reel, then the Huntress Wild feature is triggered. All SuperSpinner multipliers in view are added to the Global Huntress multiplier and then become inactive. A respin occurs with the triggering Huntress symbol locked and where the Global Huntress multiplier is active. If a new Huntress Wild lands on the respin, another respin is awarded, with the original wild locked in place as well as the new one. Wilds substitute for all normal pay symbols and SuperSpinners are randomly activated on the spin after the Huntress Wild feature.

Free Spins

Landing at least 3 scatter symbols awards free spins. In addition, if 4 or 5 scatters trigger the feature, players win 20x or 100x their bet, respectively. Before free spins start, players have the option of collecting the 10 free spins or playing the Hunt minigame gamble to win up to 26 free spins. To gamble, players have to shoot a bear with a bow and arrow to lock in the amount of free spins. The bear has a chance to escape every time the free spins counter increases. There is a Trial Run option to the Hunt minigame, giving players a free run to test it out.

During free spins, the Global Huntress multiplier does not reset, though it only applies to wins during the Huntress Wild feature. Lastly, where possible, players may be able to buy the free spins round for the cost of 93 times the total bet.

Huntress Wild Vengeance: Slot Verdict

As mentioned, after being thrust into several fantastical settings in the last few Print Studios releases, it felt a little unusual going somewhere more conventional. However, Print Studios has nevertheless made the outdoor setting all their own. They've done this through the particular quality of the graphics, a determined lead character, and several highly functioning features. Like the location, Huntress Wild Vengeance possesses a number of familiar moments. At the time of writing, the movie Prey had recently been released, which saw a female warrior of the Comanche Nation go head-to-head with one of the first Predator aliens to appear on earth 300 years ago.

Here, players go up against a bear instead of an ultra-violent extra-terrestrial, as graphically highlighted in the free spins Hunt minigame. It's not your normal spin a wheel of fortune deal. It's closer to a crypto crash game or something Crazy Tooth Studios might have done like The Incredible Balloon Machine, so it is worth test driving first before having a go for real. Moving on to the Huntress Wild Vengeance feature, which has echoes of Quickspin's Sakura Fortune/Sakura Fortune 2 about it. The two mechanisms aren't exactly the same; here, they always nudge to be fully in view, for one. They also accumulate SuperSpinner multipliers, funnelling them into one overarching Global Huntress multiplier, which can be useful. Whereas Sakura Fortune 2's multiplier was limited, here it has the ability to mushroom, especially in free spins, since it does not reset. Add all these weapons together, and you've got a game that can hit up to 20,000x the bet.

To sum up, Huntress Wild Vengeance mixes a bunch of recognisably comfortable elements with several new ones as well. Or at least, it shuffles them all together until it's performing something unique. This part of the online slot world might be as well-worn as a hand-me-down trucker hat, but Print Gaming's classy production reminds players of why the American wilderness remains such an online slot staple.