Harvest Wilds (Hacksaw Gaming) – Review & Demo Play

Harvest Wilds Slot Overview

As a long-time slot grinder, Harvest Wilds felt like a welcome veg-only detour. The 7x7 grid uses cluster pays, so any group of 5 or more matching vegetables hits, then tumbles clear for fresh drops. The windswept autumn farm backdrop fits the harvest theme, and the game wastes no time getting to its hopping multipliers shtick. It’s simple to read on mobile, and the grid gives enough room for clusters to form around wilds without turning the screen into chaos.

Under the bonnet, Harvest Wilds is highly volatile with a 96.35% RTP and stakes from 20p up to £100 a spin. There’s no traditional free spins round; instead you get Feature Spins as an optional mode, while the base game can still reach the same heights on a good chain. The headline number is 10,000x max win, which relies on large veggie clusters and the Sunflower multipliers stacking up. Expect dry spells punctuated by drawn-out sequences when the board lights up.

Harvest Wilds Slot Information

The paytable sticks to vegetables. Lows are peppers, parsnips, carrots and pumpkins, with 15+ clusters paying in the 20x to 30x band. Premiums are aubergines, broccoli, radishes and corn, and when you land 15 or more of a kind, returns jump to 75x through 200x, with corn sitting at the top. In practice, I found premium clusters matter most once multipliers kick in, as low symbols mainly clear space and help keep the cascades moving while you build position.

Special symbols carry the engine. Seed symbols sprout into Sunflower Wilds whenever at least one win is present, and each sunflower starts at x2 and can substitute for all pays. Water drops feed the Rainmeter on the right, holding up to five respins in escrow. Fertiliser upgrades the multiplier on one sunflower by +1, while Epic Fertiliser increases all present sunflowers by +1. These upgrades stick for the current spin sequence, letting values grow before the board finally bricks.

Harvest Wilds Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	15+	x200
	13+	x20
	11+	x10
	10	x6
	9	x4
	8	x3
	7	x2
	6	x1
	5	x0.5
	15+	x75
	13+	x10
	11+	x6
	10	x4
	9	x3
	8	x2
	7	x1
	6	x0.4
	5	x0.3
	15+	x75
	13+	x10
	11+	x6
	10	x4
	9	x3
	8	x2
	7	x1
	6	x0.4
	5	x0.3
	15+	x75
	13+	x10
	11+	x6
	10	x4
	9	x3
	8	x2
	7	x1
	6	x0.4
	5	x0.3
	15+	x30
	13+	x15
	11+	x3.75
	10	x2
	9	x1
	8	x0.45
	7	x0.35
	6	x0.25
	5	x0.15
	15+	x30
	13+	x15
	11+	x3.75
	10	x2
	9	x1
	8	x0.45
	7	x0.35
	6	x0.25
	5	x0.15
	15+	x20
	13+	x10
	11+	x2.5
	10	x1
	9	x0.75
	8	x0.4
	7	x0.3
	6	x0.2
	5	x0.1
	15+	x20
	13+	x10
	11+	x2.5
	10	x1
	9	x0.75
	8	x0.4
	7	x0.3
	6	x0.2
	5	x0.1

Harvest Wilds Slot Features

Cascades are standard: winning clusters vanish and new tiles fall. Between each event, Sunflower Wilds hop to new positions, which is where the Hoppers concept shines. You can have up to four sunflowers active at once. Each can rise to x4, and when more than one participates in the same cluster, their values multiply together. Four maxed sunflowers produce x256, which is the magic number that turns even modest clusters into table-shaking hits.

Rainmeter respins are the glue. Storing up to five drops, they fire one by one after cascades end, giving the grid fresh life without resetting the sunflower set-up. I’ve had spins that lasted minutes when respins, cascades and upgrades aligned, nudged along by single Fertiliser hits at the right moment. The flipside is brittle spells when seeds appear with no initial cluster, as they won’t sprout and you never get the engine turning over.

Feature Spins come in three flavours where available: pay 5x for two seeds at start, 25x for three, or 100x for four, with RTPs roughly 96.27%, 96.38% and 96.34% respectively. Be mindful the buy toggle stays on until you switch it off. I like the adrenaline of the four-seed set-up, but it can still fizzle if the first tumble misses. Everything those modes can do is possible in the base game; you just see the good stuff less often.

Harvest Wilds: Slot Verdict

Harvest Wilds is classic Hacksaw: clusters, cascades, hopping multipliers and tough maths wrapped in wholesome farm art. I rate it for sessions where I’m happy to grind for that one explosive chain, fuelled by Rainmeter respins and upgraded sunflowers pushing towards x256. The lack of a conventional bonus will put some off, yet the flow suits the grid. When it hits, it hits properly; when it doesn’t, you’re waiting on seeds plus an opening cluster to spark the run.