Peter Hunter: Slot Overview

Dust off the trusty rifle, pack a few rounds, and head out to bag some cartoon critters in Peter & Sons’ online slot Peter Hunter. As you’d expect from a Peter & Sons slot, the “hunt” is played for laughs rather than gore, with animated animals taking the hits instead of anything remotely realistic. Hunting themes aren’t exactly common in slots, and given Peter & Sons’ knack for quirky presentation, it’s easy to feel a bit of suspense as you step into the wilderness and get ready to start firing.

Before we get going, a quick conspiracy thought: with a studio name like Peter & Sons, you can’t help but wonder if the game is a tongue-in-cheek tale about someone at Peter & Sons doing some digital hunting. Probably not, though, since the developer is based in Armenia, and the game info says the action takes place in the vast wilds of Siberia. Unless they’re on vacation. Either way, Siberia is the setting, portrayed as a dense, heavily wooded region packed with wildlife just waiting to be targeted. It’s enormous, too—at 12.8 million square km, Wikipedia notes Siberia is roughly 24 times the size of metropolitan France and around 54 times the size of the UK, covering about 9% of Earth’s land. With that much space, you’d expect plenty to hunt, and here the hunter literally stands beside the grid, taking aim at symbols and letting loose with his rifle.

The playfield is a 5-reels, 3-rows setup running on 20 paylines. Peter Hunter labels itself as a medium/high volatile slot with an RTP of 96.3% (and there are three lower RTP options as well). This RTP seems to apply whether you’re playing normally at 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin or purchasing the free spins feature. Standard line wins require at least 3 matching symbols landing across a payline on consecutive reels, starting from the leftmost reel.

Looking through the paytable, Peter Hunter’s symbols include 10-A card ranks as the low pays, while a duck, fox, moose, and bear make up the higher-paying icons. When 5-of-a-kind line wins land, payouts range from 4 to 6 times the bet for the low pays and 10 to 30 times the bet for the high pays. Wilds help out by substituting for all regular pay symbols. They can appear on every reel and, when forming wins on their own, pay the same as the bear.

Peter Hunter: Slot Features

Peter Hunter runs with a progressive Cash Collect feature that can eventually unlock free spins once it has triggered enough times. If you’d rather skip ahead, free spins can also be purchased via the feature buy.

Cash Collect

During the base game, when the scatter symbol appears, high-pay symbols become Cash symbols. These Cash symbols then move towards the scatter, and as they travel they leave a bet multiplier value behind on every position they pass. Once the Cash symbols reach the scatter, the hunter shoots them, and the values are collected.

Free Spins

Whenever the scatter lands in the base game, it is collected on a meter above the reels. After 7 scatters have been collected, you receive 3 free spins. The free spins round uses a 5×5 gaming panel, and extra free spins can be gained when scatter symbols land during the feature. Each spin drops 1 scatter along with random high-pay symbols. Every high pay symbol travels to the scatter, leaving a trail of bet multipliers behind it. When the hunter fires – if a travelling high pay symbol is hit, its value is multiplied by the hunter’s multiplier; if the hunter misses, the symbol randomly changes its position. Hit or miss, Cash symbols still reach the scatter, where their trail of values is paid out. The hunter multiplier rises after certain amounts of Cash symbols have been shot.

Buy Free Spins

You can purchase the free spins feature for 80 times the bet. Note that buying the bonus awards 3 free spins instead of 5 when it is triggered naturally.

Peter Hunter: Slot Verdict

Back in the day, Peter & Sons slots often stood out for their distinctive visuals, even if the gameplay ideas didn’t always hit the same heights. That’s no longer the case, and while the studio still looks unmistakably different (in the best way), it has also stepped up the feature design so the visuals and mechanics now feel like a matched set. Peter Hunter also delivers on the audio side, making it a well-rounded and genuinely intriguing slot to test out.

The headline attraction is the unusual hunter-shooting-Cash-symbols mechanic, which you’ll see both in the base game and during free spins. It’s understandably toned down in the main game, since the Hunter Multiplier isn’t active and Cash symbols aren’t being shot while they travel. Still, the central concept—Cash symbols marching toward a scatter while dropping bet multiplier values that pay when they arrive—may read as straightforward, but in motion, inside a hunting setup where a rifleman is blasting away, it becomes surprisingly entertaining. The free spins round ramps up the fun even further, and not only because of the hunter multiplier. At times, Cash money symbols would weave and juke around the grid, bouncing from spot to spot as the hunter fires and misses while they head for the scatter. If it feels a little mean-spirited, it helps to remember Peter Hunter is pure cartoon logic—more like the oddball back-and-forth of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd than anything real.

It can be tricky to picture exactly how it all comes together, but Peter Hunter’s top prize is a max win of 10,000x the bet. That’s a serious trophy, and you can only imagine how many shots it takes to land something like that. Even if players don’t end up claiming the biggest payout, Peter Hunter remains a smart, inventive hunting slot that offers a style of gameplay many people likely haven’t come across before.