Rich Wilde and the Wandering City

Rich Wilde and the Wandering City is a Play’n GO slot released on November 18, 2021, moving the explorer away from fixed paylines to a 5×3 grid with 243 ways to win. The stated theoretical RTP is 96.20%, volatility is high, and the win cap reaches 10,000x the bet, with a probability the studio itself cites at roughly 1 in a billion spins.

A diamond symbol carries the same dual role the series has used since Book of Dead: it is both wild and scatter, substituting broadly while also triggering the bonus. Landing 3, 4, or 5 diamonds pays an instant 0.8x, 1.6x, or 4x the stake on top of opening free spins, so the trigger itself is never a dead spin even before the bonus starts.

Free Spins and Expanding Symbols

The diamond trigger awards 10 free spins, and the round can retrigger up to 5 times, adding another 10 spins with each retrigger for a maximum stretch well beyond the base allocation. As in Amulet of Dead, one randomly chosen paying symbol, high or low value, becomes an expanding symbol for the round, covering its full reel whenever it lands as part of a win.

Random Multipliers

Separately from the free spins, random x2 multiplier symbols can appear on reels 2, 3, or 4 in either the base game or the bonus round. Multiple x2 symbols landing on the same spin combine, up to a maximum of x6, applying to both ordinary wins and any win formed by the round’s expanding symbol, which lets a single lucky spin stack two escalation mechanics at once.

Wandering City Review

Wandering City is the series’ clearest 243-ways entry, built on the theory that ways-based math and a familiar wild-scatter trigger can coexist without needing a cluster grid or a charging meter. The instant cash value baked into every trigger is a small but real improvement over a pure free spins gate, guaranteeing some return the moment the bonus lands. The random x2 multipliers are the game’s real differentiator, since they can double or sextuple wins in the base game long before free spins ever arrive.

Against the meter-driven Tome titles released around the same period, this is the more traditional, more immediately readable design, trading structural novelty for a format most slot players already know how to read at a glance. The lost-city setting also gives the game a distinct visual identity within the franchise, floating stone platforms and half-buried statues in place of the tombs, temples, and libraries the rest of the series draws on, even though the underlying wild-scatter-and-expanding-symbol formula stays close to what Book of Dead and Amulet of Dead already established. For players who want the multiplier chase of a ways-to-win slot without a meter to track, it fills that gap cleanly, and the retrigger structure means a single hot free spins entry can keep compounding well past its initial 10-spin allocation, particularly once several x2 multipliers stack together on the same winning spin.