Floating Dragon Wild Horses: Slot Overview

Two animals from the Chinese zodiac are paired up in Pragmatic Play partner Reel Kingdom‘s online slot, Floating Dragon Wild Horses. Anyone keeping track will recognise this as the sixth entry in the studio’s Floating Dragon series, which first launched in 2021. Reaching a sixth instalment is usually a healthy sign, and the Floating Dragon line has been boosted by Megaways plus a readiness to lean on familiar mechanics. With Floating Dragon Wild Horses, “borrowed” is no longer the word—this one goes all-in on cloning, mirroring the technical blueprint used in Reel Kingdom’s Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round.

At the very least, Wild Horses brings plenty of drama visually, and Reel Kingdom has made the reels transparent so you can see more of the action behind them. The backdrop delivers a cinematic, flame-lit scene, with a horse-shaped cloud looming over a stretch of countryside. It’s somewhat in the neighbourhood of Floating Dragon Year of the Snake, but it’s a far cry from the bright, clear base-game skies seen in titles like Floating Dragon Boat Festival or Floating Dragon Hold & Spin. It underlines how widely Reel Kingdom can range when it comes to visuals—while mechanically, the studio often circles back to ideas that have worked before.

Floating Dragon Wild Horses uses a see-through playfield built on a 5×3 grid with 10 paylines, paying on winning combinations up to 5 OAK. These figures match the title it’s modelled on, meaning players get a highly volatile setup delivering an RTP of 96.5%, alongside two lower RTP options. Bets run from $/€0.10 to $/€250, and if the ante bet is selected, the stake increases by 50% to improve the odds of landing free spins.

The symbol set includes 10-A royals, plus coins, envelopes, lanterns, sycees, and golden bonsai trees. Landing 5 matching royals returns 5-10 times the bet, while 5 matching premium symbols pay 20-200 times the bet. There are two wild types, and they only show up during free spins. Both wilds can replace any symbol except scatters and the money symbol.

Floating Dragon Wild Horses: Slot Features

The coin pay symbol doubles as the money symbol, carrying values from 2x to 5,000x that can be collected in free spins. Alongside standard triggers, players can also access bonus buy options.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters in the base game awards 15, 20, or 25 free spins, respectively. In the base game, when 2 scatters appear, there is a random chance a further scatter is uncovered by paper lanterns or via a respin effect. During free spins, each wild symbol gathers the values of all money symbols currently visible. Wilds are collected too, and every fourth collected wild of any colour in the relevant meter grants +10 free spins, while the multiplier applied to money symbol collection for that wild colour increases to x2 at level two, x3 at level three, and x10 at level four. Once level four is reached on a meter, it can no longer be retriggered. Three modifiers can also randomly appear during free spins.

• Folding Fans – If wilds are present but no money symbols land, money symbols may randomly be added at the end of the spin.
• Paper Lanterns – If money symbols are present but no wilds land, wilds may randomly be added at the end of the spin.
• Firecrackers – When wilds appear but no coins land, this modifier may randomly transform all symbols on screen except wilds into different symbols at the end of a spin.

Feature Buy

There are two ways to purchase free spins. One option buys free spins with at least 3 scatters for 100x the bet, while 300x also starts free spins with 3 or more scatters, but in that version only 3 collected wilds of any colour are required to activate the feature.

Floating Dragon Wild Horses: Slot Verdict

That all felt strangely familiar. Still, it’s not exactly surprising given how often Reel Kingdom has warmed up its Big Bass framework before—and may well continue to do so. The saying goes that past performance doesn’t guarantee future results, yet it feels like a safe bet the studio will keep pulling variations of these mechanics back out, again and again and again… in one form or another. The slightly alarming part is that Floating Dragon Wild Horses is effectively a remake of Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe, and players already had a version of that through Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round. In other words, this is reheated leftovers—like finding an old pizza box under the sofa during a tidy-up and deciding to eat it anyway, because, well, why not?

So even if dragons and wild horses have nothing to do with fishing, boxing didn’t either, and Reel Kingdom didn’t hesitate to go there. Will players follow? Some probably will. But the ongoing cloning, copying, and reusing can feel tiring if you regularly track the developer’s releases. The theme adds a different coat of paint, yet the underlying mechanics are identical; nothing has been updated. For newcomers, the format can still provide spikes of excitement and the chance of explosive outcomes up to 5,000x, but anyone familiar with Reel Kingdom’s catalogue will likely struggle to overlook the repetition. At this stage, the Big Bass recycling has been so extensive that recognising the original inspiration can feel more like a history exam than a fresh find.

In a different context, the repetition in Floating Dragon Wild Horses might have seemed even stranger than it does here. But coming from a studio that openly embraces reuse, the surprise factor is reduced. That doesn’t automatically make Floating Dragon Wild Horses a great game, though it’s not a total write-off either—so long as you’re the type of player who wants Big Bass-style mechanics delivered in a range of non-fishing themes.