The setting here is a tropical desert island with the reels flanked by a set of totem poles. You’ll see A to J playing cards alongside flowers, coconuts, chameleons, fish and parrots. The best of the standard symbols is the turtle - land 2, 3, 4 or 5 of these you’ll pocket 2, 50, 250 or 750 coins.
Those numbers are dwarfed by what’s on offer from the wild dodo - it does all the usual substitution tricks and also offers payouts of 0.5, 10, 100 or 500 times your stake for a 2, 3, 4 or 5 symbol combination.
When the wild lands on the middle reel, you’ll trigger the Wild Dodo Re-Spins feature where you will receive 3 re-spins. Better still, you’ll receive a stacked wild on each of those re-spins.
The golden nest symbol is the scatter - when this hits on reels 2, 3 and 4 on the same spin, you’ll trigger the Dodo’s Nest Free Games feature. Pick from the golden eggs to reveal free spins and multipliers. You could end up with 5, 7, 10, 12 or 15 free spins where all payouts are doubled.
Best of all is if you manage to land the full 20 free spins as all payouts are then trebled. Land 3 scatters and you’ll get another set of free spins complete with multiplier meaning you could get 40 free spins with a 3x multiplier.
Wild Dodo is a very well-designed game - there’s great detail in the imagery, even the lower value playing cards look excellent. There’s a steel drum soundtrack to accompany your spins which is an ideal fit for the theme. The range of extras isn’t especially wide but both the features offer some very decent potential. The stacked wilds certainly help the re-spins and the coins can quickly flow courtesy of the multipliers.
If you’re looking for a sunny fillip on a rainy day, then Wild Dodo then should do the trick. I also suggest you take a look at the other NextGen Gaming/Side City Studios collaborations such as Fortunes of the Dead and Egyptian Rise.