Wunderfest

Perhaps the greatest celebration of beer and sausages anywhere in the world, Germany’s annual Oktoberfest provides a much sought-after destination for anyone looking to celebrate life’s deep and simple pleasures. In Wunderfest, Booming Games turns this nationwide party into an international online slot, available on computers, tablets, and mobile devices thanks to its HTML5 design. Expanding symbols during free spins offer players the chance to turn liquid gold into the solid, spendable variety.

Theme

The reels are set in a traditional Bavarian town, complete with cobblestone streets and kegs of beer just waiting to be tapped. Gaming symbols include a blue-clad Mädchen and green-clad Mann, each toting a full mug of beer, another blonde lady without one, mugs of beer, sausages, pretzels, greenery, and a green felt hat. A wooden cask of beer acts as wild, additionally providing this game’s top payout at a whopping 10,000 times the bet size for five-of-a-kind, while a red seal with a traditional Bierstein acts as scatter, the gateway to bonus features. An accordion- and tuba-rich soundtrack may be culturally accurate and enhance the sense of transport to a faraway place, but it sure does get annoying fast.

Betting Options, Functions and Features

The German attention to detail is well-known throughout the world; this trait has clearly inspired this game’s design team, as nothing here has been overlooked. There are 10 fixed paylines, each paying from left to right, with bet per line variable from 0.01–3.00. This yields an overall per-spin betting range of 0.10–30.00 times the betting currency. Auto-spin up to 100 spins, quick spin, detailed payable and game rule information, as well as sound options are all available on pop-up screens. The overall theoretical return to player ratio sits around the industry average at 95.1%.

Germans are not, however, known for a great sense of fun, and indeed, there are not a great deal of bonus features to be won in Wunderfest. This is made up for, however, by the excellent winning potential of the expanding symbol feature. The appearance of three of more Bierstein scatter symbols trigger the free spin feature. Before free spins begin, an expanding symbol is selected at random: whenever three or more of the selected symbol appear on at least three different reels, these symbols will expand to fill their entire reels. Though the wild symbol will not substitute for the selected symbol, this is still a chance for major payouts, with the chance of all reels being entirely taken up by the selected symbols, with all paylines triggered.

Our Take

The semi-comical soundtrack aside, Wunderfest makes a great case for itself as a slot worth noticing. Anyone who can’t travel to Germany for Oktoberfest in person will find this game as good as substitute as one can have while staying sober, and the expanding feature will give players a lot to look forward to.