Wild Flower: Slot Overview

2020 turned out to be a busy period for Australian developer Big Time Gaming, with the studio rolling out a run of new mechanics like Megaclusters, Megaquads, and Megapays. Even with a team clearly determined to keep feeding a hungry gambling audience, those newer ideas didn’t land with the same impact as Megaways. For some critics, that suggested BTG’s spark might be fading. Then again, Megaways wasn’t a smash from day one either, so it may be wiser to hold off on any final verdict until we’ve seen a few more releases.

That leads us to Wild Flower, a slot that immediately feels like BTG thanks to how closely it echoes earlier titles. BTG even says Wild Flower ‘follows in the footsteps of Danger! High Voltage, The Final Countdown and Lil’ Devil.’ Still, this isn’t a cautious copycat meant to coast on past success. More like Victor Frankenstein, Wild Flower stitches together familiar parts from other games and sparks them into something that stands on its own.

When it comes to comparisons, Lil’ Devil is likely the first reference point once Wild Flower appears, largely because it uses the same kind of 6-reel, 4,096 win ways setup. Visually, the backdrop is a bit eccentric, shifting colours across an outdoor snowy forest where a huge moon sits in a clear night sky. The game’s lore talks about an endless winter created by an eternal frost curse. Your role is to push through the ice and snow by breaking that curse, allowing Wild Flowers to bloom again. The story’s enjoyably strange tone gets an extra jolt once the soundtrack kicks in. As with Lil’ Devil, Big Time Gaming has teamed up again with British Rockers The Cult, who provided music for the game. On paper, Wild Flower could sound like a chaotic mix, but once it’s all in motion, it comes together in a surprisingly enchanting way.

Playable on any device, Wild Flower lets you stake 20 p/c to $/€20 per spin. From a numbers perspective, it’s hard to argue with what it offers—assuming you’re the type of player who enjoys a highly volatile math model, which is notably higher than its sibling slot Danger High Voltage. The RTP is solid at 96.52% – 96.59%, and the upside potential is strong enough to make even the biggest slots pay attention (more on that shortly).

Wins are awarded when three or more matching symbols land next to each other starting from the leftmost reel. At the lower end you’ll see 9-A royals, while the better-paying symbols include things like pentagrams, paws, wolves, and eerie red hooded witches. There’s a definite Little Red Riding Hood vibe here, just reworked into a more adult twist.

Wild Flower: Slot Features

Wild Flower comes loaded with punchy mechanics, featuring reactions, two free spins games, plus their mega free spin variants. Supporting win creation are 2 wilds symbols that can show up on any of the middle 4 reels. Both act as full reels wilds and substitute for all symbols except the scatter. The key difference is that ice wilds carry no multiplier, while flower wilds boost any win they help form by x8. If multiple flower wilds contribute to the same win, their multipliers combine for bigger outcomes.

Hitting 3 or more regular scatter symbols activates free spins, and you can pick from 2 options:

• Multiplier Ladder Free Spins – starts with 12 free spins. Each reaction win during this feature move you along a multiplier ladder by +1. Landing 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters retrigger 8, 12, 16, or 20 free spins. Unlimited retriggers are possible
• Sticky Wild Free Spins – Starts with 7 free spins. Before this round starts, 1 royal symbol is randomly selected to be the sticky wild. Whenever this symbol lands on reel 2-5, it turns wild and is locked into position on the reels for the duration. When a reel is filled with wilds, 3 more free spins are added.

If free spins are triggered with a mega scatter symbol on reel 6, you’re able to choose mega versions of those same 2 features:

• My Heart Beats Faster – the mega version of the multiplier ladder free spins. When a wild is used in a win in this version, it makes the next wild display a progressive multiplier. There are 12 sets of wild multipliers, and if they reach the highest level of x500, x600, x700, or x800, they stay there for the rest of free spins. If wilds appear but do not substitute in a win, no increment occurs.
• The Most Beautiful Thing – the mega version of sticky wild free spins. If a sticky wild lands on top of an existing sticky wild, it turns into an x2 sticky wild. Landing another one on top of that transforms it into an x3 sticky wild. Maxing this feature out means you’ve got an insane 12x12x12x12 wild bank blowing up wins.

Wild Flower: Slot Verdict

Wild Flower may well give extra ammunition to those who argue BTG’s originality is slipping (the same was said about Lil’ Devil, which still went on to become a huge success). For everyone else, Wild Flower is an outstanding next step, built in the same spirit as earlier favourites like Danger! High Voltage, The Final Countdown and, naturally, Lil’ Devil. It isn’t a totally fresh act, but like the best games inspired by what came before, Wild Flower grabs the strongest elements and cranks them up to the extreme.

With this much power packed into the bonus rounds—especially the mega versions—it would have been ridiculous to pair those sky-high multipliers with average or limited potential. Wild Flower doesn’t make that mistake. The base game can already deliver up to 46,100x the bet, yet that’s dwarfed by the free spins potential, where a single spin can reach as much as 114,000x. After watching Lil’ Devil smash expectations of what players thought was possible, numbers like these are guaranteed to catch the eye of plenty of win chasers.

Big Time Gaming stepping back from trying to reinvent the wheel with more ‘Mega’-named innovations, and instead reworking and elevating classic-style ideas, has clearly worked here—producing a genuinely impressive slot. Blending high-energy rock from The Cult with huge figures gives the game a lively edge that felt absent in something like Chocolates. The result seems tailor-made to excite fans of BTG’s classic, big volatile big potential games, and it also feels like the kind of title that will show up in highlight reels for a long time.