The Dog House Royal Hunt Slot Review

The Dog House Royal Hunt Slot Game

This Pragmatic Play series has seen the dog crew undergo metamorphosis, taking after pirates, cowboys, and usual house pets. However, they assume royalty in this new release, transporting you from the capital to the beautiful countryside.

As a result, The Dog House Royal Hunt happens where green meadows, beautiful flowers, and leaping bunnies flourish. Meanwhile, a medieval-age castle sits on a hilly patch in the distance, surrounded by trees and flying birds.

In short, the design represents a tranquil royal atmosphere, where everything is fertile, the air is fresh, and noise is a non-issue. Unless, of course, you enable the grand melody and tranquil sounds to accompany your gameplay.

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Symbols and Payouts

The warm and attractive design extends into the paytable, where different dogs and related items are the symbols. There are eleven regular symbols and two specials (wild and bonus).

The symbols that pay do so along the 20 predefined paylines, starting from the leftmost column to the right and on adjacent reels. The payouts in the paytable change dynamically to reflect the current bet.

I recommend befriending the paytable when playing to keep up with the payout rules, including the specific symbol combinations and payouts.

The low-paying category in The Dog House Royal Hunt includes the typical 10, J, and Q worth 0.1x to 1.25 and the K and A worth 0.25x to 2.5x the bet. Then, the mid-paying symbols are the Bowl of Bikkies, worth 0.4-5x and the Collar, worth 0.6x to 7.5x the stake.

The premiums include dogs with differently coloured frames:

• Yellow - 1x, 2x, and 10x the bet.
• Red - 1.25x, 3x, and 15x the stake.
• Green - 1.75x, 5x, and 25x the bet.
• Blue - 2.5x, 7.5x, and 37.5x the stake.

Since the wild and bonus symbols participate in the features, I’ll discuss them below.

The Dog House Royal Hunt Slot Bonus Features

This slot’s royalty becomes evident in its features, where wild multipliers and free spins with sticky wilds reign supreme.

Wild Multipliers

The Dog House is the wild symbol, which appears only on reels 2-4 and substitutes for all non-special symbols. In every The Dog House Royal Hunt spin, all the wilds on the same reel have a random x3 or x3 multiplier.

The wild multiplier applies to each payline win that it’s a part of. If more than one wild is part of a payline win, all the wild multipliers on the line are added.

Bonus Symbol

This symbol appears only on the odd-numbered reels. Hitting 3 bonus symbols triggers the free spins and awards 5x the total bet. Randomly, if the bonus symbol can move down one position without leaving the reels, it awards a re-spin. The Dog House Royal Hunt reels with bonus symbols move one position down, while the reels without bonus symbols re-spin.

Free Spins

Before the round starts, it awards a random number of free spins, where a 3x3 grid spins automatically to reveal the number of free spins between 1 and 3 in every cell. The numbers in every cell are added to get the total number of free spins.

All the wilds that hit on reels 2 to 4 during this feature remain sticky for the whole bonus duration. The sticky wilds reveal a multiplier when they hit, remaining so until the end of the feature. The bonus symbols don’t appear on the reels during this feature.   

Buy Bonus

You can instantly trigger the bonus feature from The Dog House Royal Hunt base game as follows:

• Pay 100x bet to trigger the free spins with 3 Bonus symbols guaranteed on the triggering spin.
• Pay 500x stake to activate the Royal free spins. In this variant, the feature wild symbols carry 10x or 20x random multipliers whenever they hit.

How to Win at The Dog House Royal Hunt Slot

This gameplay presents a simplistic layout with 5 reels and 3 rows. Like many conventional slots, you win when at least 3 identical symbols land on adjacent reels and the predefined 20 paylines from the leftmost column to the right.

Your playing budget must support the €0.20 and €240 bets per spin. You select the bet amounts using the “Plus” and “Minus” buttons flanking the Action icon.

After picking an ideal bet, hit the Spin button (crowned circle) to start The Dog House Royal Hunt spin. Otherwise, if you fancy laid-back action, enable the Autoplay function to preselect several spins that start automatically.

You can speed up the reels using the Quickspin and Turbo Spin features and access the paytable and game rules by clicking the Menu icon.

The Dog House Royal Hunt Slot RTP & Volatility

The game’s theoretical RTP is 96.53% when playing the regular spins. However, the payback rate changes to 96.51% when using the buy features. As a high volatility game, it pays out less often on average but can award up to 8,000 times the bet!    

The Final Thoughts

Could the way Pragmatic Play has invested heavily in this sequel be a sign of how much somebody in the Malta-based company just loved dogs? Maybe. And even if it isn’t the case, the series has undoubtedly served players with solid gambling experiences, making it highly successful.

Seeing the ‘Mutley Crew’ take after different personalities with every release is good. This time, they take after royals hanging out in an Arcadian paradise. The design is generally tranquil unless you ignite the soundtrack.

Like its predecessors, The Dog House Royal Hunt assumes a simplistic gaming process, which most players will fancy. However, the features only include wild multipliers that become sticky during the free spins.

I liked how the design was typical of most bureaucratic monarchs, where only a few resources are available to the citizens. The only downside is that one must work extra hard to hit the big wins, in this case, up to 8,000 times the bet. But if you’re a cynophile, then you better get ready for some belly-rubbing action.