Sheep Gone Wild

Review Sheep Gone Wild

This new title by the designers of Red Tiger Gaming comes with a standard game board that you have probably seen in other launches: 5 reels and a total of 25 fixed paylines. Regarding the look and feel, players can expect reels made of wooden planks loaded with shiny symbols in great colours. The funny dog below the matrix and the sheep on a farm behind it make sure players will feel comfortable from the very first spin, that is, if you like animals the way we do. The wolf, however, pops up around the grid every now and then which is something to watch out for. The audio the game comes with, reminds us of a western setting.

How to Play

Getting to know how Sheep Gone Wild works shouldn’t be a very big challenge, especially if you’re already familiar with other online pokie games by Red Tiger. When you’re ready to play the Sheep Gone Wild pokie, head to the circle made of gold featuring a couple of dark arrows. It can be found on the edge of reel 5, and a click on it spins the 5×4 layout.

• Go to your favourite online pokie website NZ and look up this game by Red Tiger Gaming in the lobby.
• Launch this pokie on either a computer or smartphone.
• We recommend players to check the betting options by pressing the bet icon on the left. There, they will find several values starting with the lowest $ 0.2 and ending with the highest $ 6 bet per spin.
• You can use the fast-forward sign to make the spins end faster. The auto-icon gives you a chance to activate the automated spins. You can check the payout table and analyse the rules by pressing the pays or help signs or the three lines. Also, the square enables users to maximise the screen size and the speaker for the audio.

Always ensure to enjoy the pokies in the demo mode first and set budgets for win and loss limits. Playing online pokies should be about the fun factor only.

Symbol Wins

Sheep Gone Wild is packed with sleeping sheep, but there is also a hungry wolf and other animals to be found in the game. This makes it a bit Red Riding Hood, a bit Shaun the Sheep. Either way, the farm theme works well. Sheep Gone Wild looks great and the banjo audio adds to the quaint vibe. The reels hang against a farm backdrop and, on them, low value symbols are recognised by 10 to Ace royals. High values include a hen, a cat, a pig and a cow. The Farmer is the most lucrative symbol, rewarding you with 200x the stake for 5 of a kind combos. Sheep Gone Wild comes complete with a sheep Wild symbol which substitutes for all regular symbols to create winning combos. The Wild also pays out 200x your stake if you land 5 at once. The Bonus Scatter is represented by the wolf symbol and you need to land at least 3 to activate the Wolf Spins round.

Bonus Features

There are 2 features found in the Sheep Gone Wild pokie game. In the basic game you have to rely on the Sheep Snatch giving you the prizes. Additionally, there is a free spins feature. Below, we will explain what the different features can do for you:

Sheep Snatch

The Sheep Snatch feature can become active at any time during the game. What happens then is that a sheep appears on the screen, which is then grabbed by a wolf. The wolf will then reward you with 1 of the following 2 modifiers:

• All units of any low pay symbol will be turned into wilds.
• You will be rewarded with a x2 or x3 win multiplier for the active spin.
• However, the interesting thing is that this feature in Sheep Gone Wild can become active up to 3 times in a row during a single spin. This can increase the win multiplier enormously.

However, a maximum has been set by Red Tiger. For example, the win multiplier in the base game can never exceed x8.

Sheep Gone Wild Free Spins

You can earn 7 free spins in Sheep Gone Wild by spinning at least 3 scatters. However, before the free spins feature starts, 15 sheep will appear on the screen. From those 15 sheep you can choose a few that the wolf can grab. How many sheep you can choose depends on the number of scatters you have turned. For example, you can choose 3 sheep with 3 scatters.

Each sheep seized by the wolf grants 1 of the following 3 modifiers:

• All units of any low pay symbol will be turned into wilds. This applies to all units of that paying symbol that land during the free spins feature.
• A win multiplier of x2 or x3 is added to the game. It can go up to x10 at most. You receive 2, 3 or 5 extra free spins.
• By spinning a scatter during the free spins feature of Sheep Gone Wild, you get to choose an extra sheep from the original selection. Sheep that you have already clicked on cannot be selected again.

Bonus Buy

When you press the violet Buy Feature button, you will see two options:

1. The Sheep Snatch feature can be bought for 8x your stake.
2. Access to the Wolf Spins can be bought for 100x the stake.

Payout Metrics

Sheep Gone Wild has an RTP of 95.69%, which is under the general average for online pokie games. This however is a fairly standard RTP rate for RTG pokies, so we suggest you don’t worry about it too much although we would’ve preferred different numbers. The title also offers top wins of 13,409x your bet per spin. Bigger wins are a lot more likely to come in the Wolf Spins round, where you can grab multipliers worth up to 10x. Volatility is labelled as very high (5 out of 5) and definitely something to bear in mind. The hit frequency of Sheep Gone Wild is set at 4/5. All together, we would say that the stats this game comes with are somewhere between good and bad as we’re happy with the top potential win, but not so keen on the lower than average RTP rate.

Summary

The Sheep Gone Wild pokie is very impressive from a visual point of view. The symbols in the game are very detailed, the graphics are great, and we love the extra screens you get access to during the two bonus features. When it comes to the game themes, Red Tiger Gaming have delivered a great game. They made sure there is a real narrative with welcoming characters. When it comes to gameplay, the features are fairly simple but very rewarding. If you manage to grab more than one sheep in the Sheep Snatch feature, wins can stack up. Landing a farmer combination and 3 sheep will make you win up to 1,600x your stake with one win in the base game alone. The main objective is to get to the Wolf Spins round. In this round your bonus picks will make the difference. Win multipliers are clearly the most lucrative, and combined with wilds and extra spins, it really gets exciting. This gives you the best chance at getting to those 13,409x bet max wins. All in all, the Sheep Gone Wild online pokie is lots of fun and boasts a very decent top win potential.