It might sound like the new ride at a local theme park, but Treasure Wild is a slot from developer Pragmatic Play, which indeed mixes treasure with wilds. Treasure is colourfully represented through the game's theme, while wilds are central to a money symbol collection feature. However, like the title, the rest of the game does feel a little slapdash, as if it was knocked together without a huge amount of effort or forethought. Having said that, let's not judge too harshly from the outset and give over to Treasure Wild's charms to see where they lead.
In saying that, the first impressions are pretty underwhelming. There's loads of gold stuff strewn about the place, a chest floating oddly off to the side, and a bunch of glowing lights in the background. The game doesn't have a blazing personality; it's just treasure, which is essentially shiny metal or stones. That's fine since it buys a lot of cool stuff, but there's a distinct lack of depth throughout the whole experience. Action takes place on a 5-reel, 20-payline game grid, where one of Treasure Wild's most stirring aspects is its Walt Disney-esque sounds. In the base game, we get an almost piratical soundtrack so dramatic it's easy to picture an overly enthusiastic conductor utterly surrendering themselves to music, thereby coaxing out a symphony's performance of a lifetime. Trigger free spins, and the soundtrack switches to sort of 60s era Star Trek.
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Treasure Wild is available to play on any device and provides the usual Pragmatic stake range from 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin. A highly volatile slot, the game's math model has been rated 5 out of 5 in this regard, with RTP being available in three different versions for casinos to choose from. The most generous version produces a return figure of 96.53%, dropping to 95.54% or 94.52%, depending on operator settings. Players receive a win once every four spins on average, while the max win has a probability of 1 in 5,908,813 of occurring.
Cursive style J-A royals are used as the low pay symbols, followed by bracelets, chalices, necklaces, bags of rubies, and crowns for the premiums. These high pay icons of wealth are worth payouts of 3 to 15 times the stake for a five a kind winning line. Wilds appear on all reels, substituting any pay symbols, and are worth up to 15x the bet for five of a kind.
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Also appearing on all reels is golden crown money symbols displaying values of 0.5 to 50 times the total bet. Whenever at least one wild symbol lands at the same time as money symbols, it collects all of their values. For each wild symbol in view, the total value of all money symbols on the screen is awarded.
If at least 5 money symbols land in the base game, the free spins round is triggered. Once in, 9 free spins are awarded, and before the round starts, the value of the triggering money symbols is collected, then used as the starting value for the progressive feature. This collected value is displayed on the floating chest on the right-hand side. Whenever new money symbols land during free spins, their values are added to the total value in the chest. Each time a wild symbol hits on a free spin, the currently collected total value is awarded. Free spins cannot be retriggered.
Treasure Wild failed to get much of a hook in at the beginning and didn't progress far from there as testing panned out. It's got a cheerful look, and positive sounds, yet little in the way of long-term personality. Any initial charm is only skin deep, and we are talking about very thin skin here. The scatter collection feature is basically executed most of the time, though it is fleshed out during free spins. Yet, you get the feeling Pragmatic Play didn't think the feature was clever enough to really expand on, settling for using it in a game that didn't require too many resources to develop and could be shipped out the door in a relatively short space of time. Maybe not, but this was the impression Treasure Wild gave off.
The bonus round is where it's possible to squeeze extra value when stacking money symbols, though don't count on it. You can coast through free spins, build up a swag of money symbols in the treasure chest and not land a single wild to collect it; that's annoying. Even more so, if you fail to hit any regular wins in the process, which can also happen. Not saying this scenario is restricted to just Treasure Wild, of course. When luck's hot and the money symbol collection is going to plan, it is fun as decent totals can tally up. At full strength, Treasure Wild can pay up to 4,500x the bet, keeping in mind this figure is a win cap applicable in the base or bonus games.
At the end of the day, Treasure Wild is capable of occasional spikes of adrenaline, and the money collection/chest feature is neat at times. Still, despite the good things, Treasure Wild feels like an in-between game for Pragmatic Play while they gather their forces to create something memorable or a time burner for players to while away a few spins on before taking on something more evolved.
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