Greta Goes Wild: Overview

Editor’s note: Great Goes Wild was initially titled Heidi Goes Wild, but has been renamed (twice) due to copyright issues.

Alright folks, steady yourselves—everyone’s beloved Oktoberfest waitress returns, bouncier than ever. In Great Goes Wild, developer iSoftBet keeps the lively German beer-hall vibe intact, with Greta dishing out wilds, multiplier wilds, sizeable wins, free spins, and naturally, plenty of steins.

Oktoberfest—’Wies’n’ for the locals—hardly needs explaining. It’s among the biggest drinking celebrations on the planet and has sparked endless copycat festivals worldwide. Still, nothing quite matches the original, largely thanks to the unmistakable German culture behind it. Alongside the ever-smiling waitresses, you’ve got top-notch beer, sausages, and lederhosen. Put it all inside a historic Bier Haus with a thumping Oompah band and it’s difficult to find fault.

That’s the atmosphere iSoftBet aims to capture in their slot Greta Goes Wild, and overall they pull it off nicely. The look leans heavily into wooden interiors, the drinks keep flowing, and Greta is the sort of waitress you’d order from even when you’re not actually hungry or thirsty. Once that cosy glow kicks in and the band hits full stride, what else do you need? Oans, zwoa, drei, g’suffa.

With stakes from 20 p/c to $/€20 per spin, iSoftBet has opted for a more straightforward setup than the one in Heidi’s Bier Haus. The action plays out on a standard 5×3 grid with 10 fixed paylines for scoring wins. As a result, the gameplay is simpler than before, and the base game can feel fairly quiet. The RTP sits at 96%, while the high volatility delivers a broad spread of outcomes, backed by a solid top-end potential.

The paytable includes plenty of familiar icons plus a few fresh additions, divided into high and low symbols. The low pays are paisley-style 9-A tiles, while the higher-value symbols are classic beer-hall staples. From lowest to highest they are pretzels, alpine hats, ornate kegs, the happy fellow Hans, and finally the game’s logo at the top. Premium payouts range from 5 to 20 times the stake for landing five of a kind on a payline. Greta acts as the wild, substituting for any symbol except the scatter. She also levels up during the features—so let’s get into that.

Greta Goes Wild: Features

The feature set may be small, but it meshes extremely well, with each part feeding into the next to create a Greta-packed win-fest. First up is the Oh Greta feature, which can trigger randomly on any spin. When it hits, Greta springs onto the screen to guarantee either a bonus or a big win. Big wins are announced whenever a payout of 25x or more lands.

What you’re really hoping for are the stein bonus scatter symbols, which can appear in any position. Landing 3, 4, or 5 on the screen at once awards 10, 12, or 15 free spins respectively. During the feature, any Greta wild that lands becomes sticky and stays in place for the remainder of the round. Even better, if 2 or 3 Greta wilds land on the same reel, they transform into x2 or x3 wild multipliers respectively.

There is one small caveat—more of a rule detail than a true drawback. If 2 or more wild multipliers are involved in the same line win, only one of them will apply its multiplier. If those multipliers have different values, the highest value is the one that counts. Finally, landing one or more sticky wild symbols on each reel awards 2 extra free spins.

Greta Goes Wild: Verdict

Greta Goes Wild is set in a German beer hall, but in terms of gameplay it has clear ties to Dead or Alive 2. That means the base game doesn’t throw many curveballs beyond the occasional Oh Greta appearance, though players who enjoy clean, high-intensity play will likely welcome the more streamlined approach.

Even with those similarities, Greta Goes Wild doesn’t hit quite as hard. Although the potential has been boosted to 8,000 times the stake, the fact that only one multiplier can apply per winning line during free spins feels a little disappointing. That’s especially true because the feature can stack up a fair number of Greta symbols across the reels. Limiting it to a single wild multiplier at a time leaves a slightly sour aftertaste—like forcing down a can of Bud after polishing off a stein of Schöfferhofer Weizen.

Overall, Greta Goes Wild is an Oktoberfest-themed joyride with some genuinely strong highlights. It could have offered more—perhaps higher-paying symbols, a base-game modifier, or letting Greta cut even looser in free spins. Even so, within this fairly specific niche, Greta Goes Wild stands out as one of the better options.