Wild Showdown

Wild Showdown by Light & Wonder is the new summer release in 2022 with 5 reels, 4 rows, and 95.96% RTP.  Using the Wild West aesthetic, the Wild Showdown video slot is thrilling and action-packed adventure in the American frontier. It features a 5×4 reel board with 1024 ways to win and a 30,000x maximum payout.

The game is on the lower betting side with a maximum $20 wager. Don’t let that get you down! Light & Wonder’s video slot offers a complex Wilds and Scatters interaction system and is perfect for both beginners and veterans. Below you can read our Wild Showdown slot review where we go in-depth into the game’s special features and payouts.

The base game, not accounting for the extra features, has a standard 5-reel board with 9 regular symbols. The symbols include typical Wild West paraphernalia: five low-pay card royals, liquor bottles and glasses, a gunslinger, a saloon lady, and the sheriff.

To win, players must line up three identical symbols on reels adjacent to each other. This means that you do not have to roll identical symbols that are next to each other, they simply need to be on 3 reels that are adjacent.

There are 1024 potential winning combinations in the Wild Showdown slot that are all paid out from left to right separately. But beware: only the highest winning combinations are accounted for! If you visit the info screen in the settings menu, the paytable will show your current bet configuration on the symbols.

Light & Wonder Wild Showdown offers two different RTP settings – a 95.96% and a 94.02% variant. We were optimistic and took the higher one as the optimal version, but you are more likely to encounter the 94.02% RTP version which is less than ideal so be careful. Regardless of the Return to Player rate you get, the volatility in Wild Showdown is high, and dare we say, wild. You can wager up to $20, producing wins of max 30,000x the stake.

To play Light & Wonder Wild Showdown video slot for real money, players need to bet anywhere from $0.20 to $20 wagers. The highest wager is noticeably on the lower side compared to other video slot games on the market,b ut the payout of 30,000x means you can get very lucky.

Furthermore, there are 1,024 potential winning combinations using the 9 regular symbols. This brings the maximum payout or jackpot to 30,000x the original wager.

Another noteworthy detail is that Wild Showdown’s RTP is 95.96%, which puts it on the below-average side. However, the 94.02% version is more widespread. Players should know that in combination with this percentage, the game is quite volatile. The high volatility is likely due to the special mechanic behind the gun-barrel symbol mechanic which we will discuss further.

The video slot Wild Showdown by Light & Wonder has a lot of interaction between its symbols. These are all of the special symbols in the game currently.

• Wild Symbol – Let us start with the basic wild symbol in the shape of a sheriff star that appears on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. This symbol replaces all symbols in order to achieve a winning combination, except bonus and gun chamber symbols.
• The Multiplier Gun Chamber – Secondly, this special symbol appears on reel 2 and has several special functions. It serves as a wild first and foremost. However, when you roll it the symbol extrudes from the reel slightly and spins, revealing a random multiplier. The multipliers range from x2, x3 to x10 on the golden bullet. The revealed multipliers are applied to any wins generated during the current spin and stick during free spins.
• The Wild Gun Chamber – Thirdly, this symbol is similar to the previous one as it also serves as a wild. It additionally extrudes from the reel when rolled and reveals the number of wilds that will be added to the reels. The number of bonus wilds can be 1, 2 or 5. This is a great way to earn extra winning combinations.
• Scatter Symbol – Finally, the bonus scatter symbol only appears on reel 3 and triggers the free spins of Wild Showdown slots. Eight free spins are awarded in total and all the previous symbols, except the basic wild, are locked in place for the duration of the free spins.

Wild Showdown video slot brings us a great combination system between the different special symbols. For example, while the scatter free spins are active, all the gun chamber symbols will spin each roll and supply additional multipliers or wilds to the combination.