Harvest Wilds (Hacksaw) at BC.GAME: Game Review & Theme
It takes place on a windy autumn day as the leaves on the trees turn ruddy brown and prepares to fall for the winter. Autumn was chosen not only to be unusual but also because it's harvest time, when farmers pick the crops they seeded in the spring to get them ready for the next winter.
With the inclusion of seasonal veggies and a view of an orange meadow with a walkway, trees with orange leaves, and a haystack, Harvest Wilds creates an autumnal atmosphere in which to earn winnings on the reels.
Its typical pay symbols number eight. Here, the lower-value quartet of capsicums, parsnips, carrots, and pumpkins is valued at 0.10–30 times your wager for a cluster of five or more fruits or vegetables. Next up are premiums for aubergines, broccoli, radishes, and corn, which are worth 0.30–200 times the stake for a win of five to fifteen or more symbols.
Harvest Wilds (Hacksaw) at BC.GAME: Slot Features
Hacksaw Gaming Harvest Wilds has a Cluster Pays to win mechanism that requires at least five identical symbols to be arranged together on the screen either horizontally or vertically. The game is played on a 7-reel, 7-row interface. The game has high volatility, an excellent RTP of 96.35%, and a top jackpot of 10,000 times the amount wagered.
Starting bets for the game can range from $0.20 to $100 for each spin. Naturally, corn, radish, broccoli, and eggplant are the best representations of this season. Then there is the parsnip, bell pepper, and pumpkin.
Cascades
Fresh and existing symbols can drop down to fill any holes on the grid after a winning cluster has landed and been removed. The procedure will continue if it yields another successful cluster.
Wild Sunflowers Multiply
As long as the grid contains at least one winning cluster, seed symbols that land turns into sunflower symbols whenever they do. Sunflowers can replace any paying symbol because they are wild symbols. Additionally, they have a beginning multiplier of x2. Wild multipliers hop to a different location on the board in between cascades and respins. When more than one Sunflower wild multiplier is used in a win, their values are doubled together. Up to four Sunflower wild multipliers can be active at once. Individual multipliers have a maximum of x4, thus using all four results in total multipliers of x256.
Respins
When a water drop symbol lands, it is gathered in the Rainmeter, which is on the right side of the reels and may hold up to 5 droplets. Each raindrop gathered at the end of a cascade starts a respin.
Fertilizer
Additionally, there are two different fertilizer symbols. The multiplier value on one of the sunflowers is increased by +1 by the standard fertilizer symbol. The multiplier value of each sunflower is raised by one when using the Epic fertilizer symbol.
Harvest Wilds offers three different feature spin options rather than a triggering bonus game, which is similar to ELK's X-iter feature. Player options include:
- Each spin in the first feature spins costs five times the reference wager and begins with two seeds. RTP is 96.27%
- Special Spins 2. Each spin starts with three seeds and costs 25x the reference bet. RTP is 96.38%.
- Feature Spins 3: Each spin starts with 4 seeds and costs 100x the reference bet. RTP is 96.34%.
Buy Bonus
Three bonus features, including three feature, spin modes, are available for purchase. Each spin in these modes ensures the activation of specific features; for instance, in feature Spin 1, each spin starts with two sunflower seeds, in feature spin 2, each spin starts with three seeds, and in feature spin 3, each spin starts with four seeds. On the other side, every spin has a stake that is 5x, 25x or 100x that of a regular spin.
Harvest Wilds (Hacksaw) at BC.GAME: Summary
It's evident that Hacksaw has a thing for vegetables and hopping multipliers, and we certainly don't mind seeing another excellent mobile game from the purveyors of understated charm. Although it may seem at first glance that there is nothing new to observe, Hacksaw is not known for doing things the same way twice. The similarities to Hop 'N' Pop are undeniable, but they prefer to add subtle changes to make each game distinctive.
The major difference in Harvest Wilds is the absence of a bonus game and the presence of the Feature Spins Mode, which is quite novel. When things go your way, having raindrop respins in escrow can prolong your cascading winning run, and a few fertilizer upgrades may push you closer to the 10,000x potential. Even while not every fan of earlier Hacksaw games will enjoy the Feature Spins option, we applaud their openness to trying something new.
