Victoria Wild slot review

By Yggdrasil

Victoria Wild Slot

Victoria Wild Basic info

Game provider Yggdrasil

Release Date 9/2020

RTP 96.38%

Game Technology HTML5

Popularity Medium

Min bet $0.15

Max bet $45

Max Win bet x 25000

Gamble Feature Bonus game or special game, Freespins, Expanding reels, Sticky wilds, Random wilds

Layout 5x3

Devices Support all devices

Configurable Winlines No

Volatility High

Progressive Jackpot No

Victoria Wild is centred around a female Indiana Jones, a rugged explorer who heads out into the desert to find ancient ruins and hidden treasures. The game features great graphics, an intriguing heroine, a bonus game, free spins and more.

This slot was developed by Yggdrasil through their studio TrueLab and released in 2020, showing off some of their old glory when it comes to the graphics and design that they’ve become famous for. The game shows us deep in the desert with a ramshackle construction framing the 5-reel, 3-row playing field with its 15 paylines. We see Victoria on her motorcycle sitting on the side, while there are ruins and mountains far in the distance.

The symbols are all original, with the usual low-paying symbols being cardinal directions instead of card letters or suits. A simple but effective change that fits the theme a lot better without the developers having any extra work. The symbols aren’t animated a lot but there are some moving parts, including a vulture sitting on the dead tree overlooking the slot.

When it comes to the music, Victoria Wild comes with some familiar but unique sounding songs. The traditional theme of Indiana Jones and similar adventure films is kept intact without making it sound too similar. Different symbols also trigger original sound-effects that fit the setting while making clear something happened in the game.

Symbols

The symbols in Victoria Wild are sharp and well-drawn, looking realistic without being boring. The game comes with High Volatility, a combination of a large number of symbols, the relatively low number of paylines and the features that are difficult to trigger but can offer some big wins.

The symbols in the game include:

  • Wild: Wilds substitute all other regular symbols in the game.
  • Oasis: The Oasis Symbol adds a marker on the treasure map. Get 25 Oasis symbols to activate the Free Spins mode.
  • Scatter: Get 3 or more Scatter Symbols on the screen to activate the bonus game.
  • Victoria: Max. 160x your bet with five-of-a-kind on a win line.
  • Lamp Wild: Max. 160x your bet with five-of-a-kind on a win line.
  • Tornado Wild: Max. 160x your bet with five-of-a-kind on a win line.
  • Revolver: Max. 60x your bet with five-of-a-kind on a win line.
  • Motorcycle: Max. 60x your bet with five-of-a-kind on a win line.
  • Boots: Max. 40x your bet with five-of-a-kind on a win line.
  • Flask: Max. 40x your bet with five-of-a-kind on a win line.
  • S: Max. 20x your bet with five-of-a-kind on a win line.
  • N: Max. 20x your bet with five-of-a-kind on a win line.
  • W: Max. 20x your bet with five-of-a-kind on a win line.
  • E: Max. 20x your bet with five-of-a-kind on a win line.

Players can pick their bet between $0.15 and $45 per spin to make the game more or less risky. The max. win of 25,000x your bet is obviously very appealing but it didn’t feel attainable to me, and it will require a number of features to activate at the right time to ever be plausible. I would recommend players treat this game as not having a jackpot and simply focus on having a good time.

Features

Victoria Wild is a typical Yggdrasil game in the sense that it has quite a number of different features. Not all of them appear as frequently, with the bonus game and free spins mode being exceedingly rare.

  • Wilds: Wilds substitute all other symbols in the game, except the Free Spins and Scatter Symbols.
  • Random Wilds: The Tornado Wild adds 2 to 6 random Wilds to the screen.
  • Sticky Wilds: The Tornado Wilds become sticky during a single re-spin if two Wilds match.
  • Expanding Reels: During the Free Spins mode, the Waterfall Wild fills the entire reel. It can only appear on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5.
  • Free Spins: A roadmap to an Oasis on the side of the screen tracks 25 steps. Every Oasis symbol counts as one step. Once 25 symbols have been collected the Free Spins mode starts with 10 free spins.
  • Bonus Game: Get 3 or more Scatter Symbols on the screen to activate the Bonus Game. This Bonus Game will add up to 11 Temple Free Spins before activating the Wheel of Desires, possibly granting up to 25x the free spins total win.

The vast majority of the time, players will find themselves playing the base game. The Free Spins mode can be triggered by collecting 25 Oasis symbols but this is slow and can take hundreds of spins since the Oasis symbol is quite rare.

The Bonus Game, Temple Free Spins, could activate a lot quicker but in my experience never did. Even just getting 3 Scatter symbols on the screen proved to be an impossible task. It also meant that getting the Wheel of Desires, which happens after the Bonus Game, was invisible to me.

During the base game, you can expect the normal features. The main one is the Wild, but this can be replaced by a Tornado Wild. The Tornado Wild can, but won’t always, add random Wilds to the playing field. Different Tornado Wilds can collide, triggering a re-spin with Sticky Wilds. Just like the Bonus Game, this proved to be incredibly rare and I never saw it happen.

In my opinion, I can’t really credit a slot for having a lot of features when a lot of them simply never appear. This might have been my particular experience playing it but I feel like it was intentionally difficult to do.

Conclusion

Victoria Wild is a nice-looking slot with a lot of enticing elements. The graphics are spot-on as usual, and I liked the music too. The style of the game isn’t very original but the way the developers decided to present it definitely deserves some points.

As a slot, I’m afraid it doesn’t really hit the high quality I’ve come to expect from Yggdrasil. The features that are there all sound very interesting on paper but the fact that almost half of them never appeared as I play should point out the problem. The high volatility is obviously a huge part of this, where players can easily spend a long time without a single meaningful way.

If you are looking for something pretty and relaxing then Victoria Wild might be a good choice. Power players that enjoy looking for games with a high level of risk will also find what they’re looking for here. People that prefer something a little more casual but with an interesting number of features might prefer to look elsewhere, simply because the features are so badly paced out.

Leticia Miranda

Leticia Miranda

Slot Games Analyst

Leticia Miranda is a former gambling reporter who knows everything about slot games and is happy to share her knowledge. She has covered a broad swath of topics and trends on gambling and is always full of new ideas and energy. Leticia also has a master’s degree in journalism from New York University and is passionate about writing.