Aurora Wilds Online Slot Machine – Free Play & Review

In part, the inspiration for the theme of Aurora Wilds is going to come from the Northern Lights. You see the phenomenon occurring at the top of the screen, in a night-based landscape. On the reels, you get a bit of a mix of symbols, some of them being Native American inspired.

You get high paying classics, like the Bar or the Lucky 7s, but there are also themed icons with tribal style eagles, horses, turtles, fish and rabbits. It’s an OK design, not very interesting or particularly well made, but it’s not one that I’d call ugly.

Developer

Microgaming might be the company releasing this slot machine on their network, but the actual developer is Neon Valley Studios. Microgaming has a number of such partnerships, with smaller independent studios, where they get them to create exclusive slot machines for them.

In exchange, they claim them as their own and give them plenty of exposure. There is a lot higher variety of content, the costs of development are smaller, and Microgaming can release more slot machines each month.

How To Play It

You are going to have a betting range going from $0.10 to $60, for each spin. The slot offers you 10 lines to play on, so bets of up to $6 appear to be possible for each one. The minimum bet is at a very small $0.01.

You are looking at a game with 5 reels, occupied by 10 active lines. It’s not that unusual of a game, particularly if you’ve tried the Starburst slot before, so it should be easy to play.

Special Features

It’s not a very long list of features, that you’re going to find in Aurora Wilds. Quite a simple game, for the most part it will focus only on respins and expanding wilds, but you can read more on how those work below.

The expanding wild is reserved for appearances on the middle columns, so you can have at most three of them in view at the same time. On the plus side, as an expanding wild, it will occupy 3 positions on each reel and it will contribute to all 10 active lines.

As an expanding wild lands on the reels, the game triggers a Respin feature. It locks the triggering wild(s) in place, and then respins the remaining reels.

Should additional wilds appear on the other reel(s), you can get additional respins triggered. At most, you can end up with three wild reels and you can go through three respins. The potential for rewards is huge, since in that case you’d be guaranteed 10 winning combinations, of 4 symbols or more in each case.

The only other bonus feature will be the Jackpot Wheel. You need scatter symbols with the Gold Wheel appearing on the middle three reels simultaneously. In exchange, the feature that you get to access will have fixed jackpots ranging from 15x to 2,000x total stake (Grand).

Maximum Payouts

For this game, it’s mostly the fixed jackpots that promise the most. You can get the Grand Jackpot, and it will deliver top wins of up to 2,000x total stake ($120,000). If you’re interested in the regular combinations and their potential, those will offer up to 25x on each line, or up to 250x total per spin ($15,000).

As for the kind of experience you can count on, it’s a game with medium volatility, where the RTP is at 96.20%. Both are acceptable for such a game, especially at the payout level it is at.

Summary

Aurora Wilds is slightly on the boring side, with a single major feature included inside and with standard graphics, but it could still work for Microgaming’s fans, if they’re looking for a game with medium volatility.