Wild Shark

Wild Shark Slot Review

Amatic’s Wild Shark is a game of massive wins, and pretty big bets too. This 50 payline slot comes with extended reels as well as some simple bonus spins to give you a better winning chance. If you’re looking for some undersea action then this slot has you covered with plenty of fishes, not just sharks.

The game is set in some serene sea, or at least that’s what it looks like with all the blue surrounding the reels. Once the shark enters the reels that serenity is broken, but otherwise all the wild things swimming around create quite an enjoyable experience. Audio effects are somewhat primitive, whereas animations are a bit more enjoyable than you’d think with the classic look at first.

Wild Shark offers a setup of five reels with four symbols each, that is complemented with 50 paylines. This is a bit of an unusual setup for Amatic, but not all that common with other online games. For example, you can play Dolphin Quest by Microgaming, which offers much the same setup without all the sharp teeth.

This is one of those classic slots that looked good on cabinets and terminals, but certainly don’t play all that well on mobile devices. You can get a good gaming experience on tablets, but it’s desktops that really bring out the immersive sealife. If that’s not a bother for you, and you don’t mind the high bets, then the wins that you can find in this online game are something you’d be hard-pressed to find anywhere else.

How to Play Wild Shark

It’s rather easy to play Wild Shark – just press the Start-button, and if you get wins simply press Collect or Gamble. The game offers 50 paylines, but you can also choose to play with 10, 20, 30 or 40. The bet per line varies from 10 to 100 coins, also increasing in increments of ten. 

You can also enable AutoStart, which will spin the reels for you until you disable the feature. It’s a nifty little feature if your bankroll can take it. With ten coins bet per line you can win up to 25 000 coins from a single five symbol combination. Obviously, the coins translate differently to different currencies. It is possible to play with a small bet, but this means disabling most of the paylines.

Most of the symbols found in this game are different fishes. There’s a couple of turtles in the mix, some starfish and even some seashells. The shark is, as the name implies, a wild. Unlike in most Amatic games, there are no classic symbols anywhere on the reels. Overall most symbols pay out quite nice wins from any five symbol combos, and substantially smaller wins for a combination of three.

Following specials can land on the reels:

• Wild – The Wild Shark, substituting for all others except the bonus. Helps you form winning combinations.
• Bonus – Pays out scatter wins and also launches the bonus spins.

Wild Shark Slot Features

With the paytable reaching into stars with the normal wins, there really isn’t all that much space for special features. In fact, in addition to the wild symbols, there are just two: the bonus spins and the gamble mode.