Rich Wilde Tome of Madness Slot

Graphics

Rich Wilde is suave in any situation. We know this from his previous slot adventures like his Aztec Idols slot, where he thrashes through the Amazon without so much as a hair being misplaced. He is the James Bond of slot adventure characters. So to see him standing calmly in his trademark slacks and waistcoat in a ghostly tomb should come as no surprise.

Spooky mist surrounds his feet and lightning flashes around him, but Rich Wilde is not fazed one iota. The game takes place to his right, with a Cluster Pays system dropping game symbols into the 5x5 grid. The low symbols are neatly designed, with strange runes painted on the red, blue, orange and green Crystals, but the higher-paying Mask, Ring, Dagger and Amulet reinforce the spooky theme and offer up greater rewards to boot. And if it’s rewards you are after then the game’s three Wild symbols are more than sought after.

The Spell Book, Rich Wilde and Cthullu (an ancient and strange beast with numerous tentacles and a single eye) Wilds all substitute for game symbols. The symbol to the left of the game grid is a meter that fills up with every win, launching the game’s bonus feature when it is full.

Gameplay

As with other Cluster Pays slots the winning game symbols pop, disappear and fall, allowing new symbols to fall from the top and complete new winning combinations. NetEnt’s Cash Noire slot is a great example of a Cluster Pays slot that uses the game theme to really push the pay system to superb effect.

In Rich Wilde and the Tome of Madness each win fills up a circular meter to the left of the reels, filling it with mystical blue energy. At four quarters of the circle, a modifier shoots two special Wilds onto the reels. These Wilds will either be Abyss or Void Wilds, removing a row or column or removing all of a series of symbols respectively and allowing the wins to continue. When the meter is complete and no more wins land, the Other World Free Round launches.

The game awards a number of modifiers active during the Free Round, and depending how many times around the circle the meter runs before the launch of the feature depends on how many modifiers are awarded. If you send the meter all the way round during Other World Free Round you will call Cthulhu, who drops onto the reels and completes Wild wins with his ever-moving tentacles.

Verdict

The Call of Cthulhu is a classic horror tale, so Rich Wilde really is proving his metal in this slot. There is no way you will be ready for a slot as spooky as this, especially if you find the Cthulhu Wild appearing on the reels. The ancient beast was said to send people insane, but if you find him squelching his way down this game grid the only insane thing will be the cash win potential.

His body takes up four spaces, so each of his tentacles touching other symbols complete at least 5 symbol cluster wins. It’s scarily good slot action!