Intriguing New Video slot From Microgaming

October 1, 2018

The much awaited video slot from Microgaming titled Wicked Tales: Dark Red went live last week. Canadian players can enjoy this fantastic slot machine at online casinos like Jackpot City, Platinum Play and Lucky Nugget on desktop and mobile gaming platforms. Dark Red has been developed exclusively for Microgaming by Triple Edge Studios. Canadian players will recall earlier titles like Playboy Gold and Halloween from this team. In fact, Dark Red incorporates the Wandering Reels feature that was first introduced in Halloween and was extremely popular.

In Wicked Tales: Dark Red Microgaming has recast the classic children’s story Little Red Riding Hood and presented players with an adult version. The leading games supplier had earlier carried out similar transformations in a series of video slots titled Rhyming Reels. The highest paying symbol is the grown up, enchanting and axe wielding Dark Red. The Big Bad Wolf has become a werewolf that is shown in human form and wolf form in separate symbols. Then there is a locket with a picture or her parents presumably. The low paying symbols are red candles, gold coins and the usual playing card icons. The game logo is the wild symbol and it also awards the same payouts as Dark Red.

Wicked Tales: Dark Red is set in a foreboding forest that looks very similar to her childhood home. The highlight of the video slot game is the Wandering Reels feature. This is a group of three reels that spin together and can randomly stop in any of the three possible positions. These reels will have four rows, whereas the other two reels will have three rows. 25 fixed paylines run across these reels. The Wandering Reels contain Jumbo Blocks that are 3x4 in size. When the Wandering Reels land in the first three reels with a full Jumbo Block the payouts are humungous.

Landing three full moon symbols in the base game triggers the Wolf’s Wheel Bonus. You will spin the wheel for cash prizes, multipliers or bonus features. One of them is the Forest of Fortunes pick objects bonus game on the second screen. You select from a number of leather pouches to earn cash prizes and multipliers for the prizes. If you reveal a werewolf then the feature will end. If you reveal an axe first then it will protect you from the werewolf. Landing a high symbol during the wheel bonus activates the free spins round. You will be awarded 9 free spins.