The Dog House – Dog or Alive Overview
After the very successful release of The Dog House back in 2019, Pragmatic Play also released a couple of sequels, like The Dog House Megaways and The Dog House Multihold.
Now it’s time for another game within this series and this time the game is called The Dog House – Dog or Alive.
I am guessing Pragmatic Play took some huge inspiration from Dead or Alive from NetEnt with this title. Because not only did they add the Dog or Alive, the game also uses a western theme. But with all the familiar symbols. Which, to be honest, does work and looks nice.
The game uses 5 reels that are each 3 symbols high and comes with 20 paylines.
Besides standard card symbols you will also find different dogs in western attire on all the reels. Wild symbols, which are sheriff stars, only appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 and bonus symbols, which are vaults, only appear on reels 1, 3 and 5.
The Dog House – Dog or Alive comes with a very nice maximum payout of 10.000 times your bet and is a high volatile slot game.
Features
Wild Symbols
Like I mentioned above. Wild symbols only appear on reels 2, 3 and 4. In both the base game and during free spins.
Any wild symbol appearing will come with a random multiplier of x2 or x3. And if more than one multipliers appear in a winning combination, they are added up together.
Free Spins Feature
If you land the bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 at the same time, you will be awarded with the free spins feature.
Before free spins start, 9 small reels will spin to award you with 1, 2 or 3 free spins. Meaning that you win a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 27 free spins.
During free spins, all wild symbols will become sticky wilds and will stay on the reels until the end of the free spins. They will also still receive a x2 or x3 multiplier.
Each time you have 3 sticky wild symbols on screen, you will get 3 extra free spins and the multipliers on the sticky wilds are doubled. This means that you can get a total of 3 retriggers, after 3, 6 and 9 sticky wilds.
Bonus symbols don’t appear during free spins.
Bonus Buy
Some casinos will offer the option to buy the free spins feature for 120 times your bet.
Verdict
For me the original The Dog House, was still the best one in the series. The Megaways was fine, the Multihold version didn’t do much for me. But now, with this Dog or Alive version, I must say, I’m having a hard time picking a favorite.
The base game is good, but where this new version really impresses is with that free spins feature. Getting extra free spins each time you hit 3 sticky wilds and also doubling the multipliers, can really award some very big wins.
I thought, oh no, not another Dog House game. But to be honest, this one is really an amazing addition and together with the original, my favorite.
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