Dr Wildshock: Mad Loot Lab Slot Machine – Free Play & Review

The dark lair of a villain is the setting for the latest slot machine from Microgaming and Gold Coin Studios. Together, they’re giving us a story about Dr Wildshock, an evil scientist. We see a dark laboratory in the background image, and cartoon-style symbols on the reels, telling a story set sometime in the future.

Dr Wildshock will be in the top symbol, while other premium positions are occupied by robots, failed experiments (frog/rat hybrid), and brains kept in special containers. Even the lesser symbols are themed in this case, with images showing us magnets, potions, remote controls, or ray guns.

Developer

You don’t get a lot of other games from Gold Coin Studios, but this small developer has released other slots in the past, most of them for Microgaming’s collection. Silver Seas, Animals of Africa, or Smooth Sailing, are some examples.

How To Play It

For betting purposes, Dr Wildshock: Mad Loot Lab has the equivalent of 20 lines, and it allows for up to 5 coins to be used in wagers placed on each one. With denominations between $0.01 and $0.10, you can spend up to $10 each spin ($0.50 per line).

Looking at the actual game area, we don’t find 20 lines there. Instead, it’s a system with 5×5 reels, where a winning combination requires that you have 3 to 5 adjacent symbols, and this can happen on a row or reel (horizontally or vertically).

Special Features

The Wild symbol is present in two variants, its logos being placed on red or yellow signs. The yellow version is the one you will see most often, used as a substitute, and being collected so that you can get the free spins triggered through them.

The second version, colored in red, is an exploding wild. If you can get this type of wild to contribute to a win, it will explode during the next roll, and it will deliver up to 4 regular wilds in random locations. If a regular wilds lands on a position where there is already such a symbol, then the multiplier for it will go up. This can even result in more wilds, if a multiplied exploding wild appears.

Having a wild be part of a combo, will add to the multiplier by 1x, available for the next roll. Winning combinations may also form only with wilds in them, in which case they pay as much as 60x the stake.

Finally, one of the main roles of the wilds will also be their collection in a special meter. You need between 3 and 8 wilds, and in exchange you get 10 free spins. If you fill the meter again after that, the free spins retrigger, but only with 3 more rounds.

Maximum Payouts

I think that you’re going to love how well this slot machine can pay. $250,000 is the highest payout that a player can expect, provided that he’s using the maximum bet of $10. A 25,000x the stake return is possible, but that’s only because this is a highly volatile release.

There is an RTP range as well, and while the highest value is a decent 96.26%, there are two others which are lower, so I’d recommend you always check this figure, before you start playing the slot.

Summary

Dr Wildshock: Mad Loot Lab is an interesting slot machine, for a number of reasons. It has a theme that people will likely enjoy, particularly with that cartoon-style evil scientist in the main role. It also gets features that don’t feel common, and its potential is above average even for a high volatility slot.