Peter Hunter

Grab the old rifle, load up some bullets and come shoot a few critters with software provider Peter & Sons in the online slot Peter Hunter. Being a Peter & Sons slot, this means it is cartoon critters getting whacked rather than spilling the blood of unsuspecting beasts foraging in a forest. Hunting isn’t something you see much in a slot, and considering Peter & Sons’ reputation for original presentation, it’s with suspenseful anticipation we mosey on into nature and prepare to blast some of it.

First, a brief conspiracy theory. Due to the name of the company, one wonders if perhaps this game tells the story of someone at Peter & Sons doing a spot of virtual hunting. Maybe not, though, since the studio is based in Armenia, and Peter Hunter, as the game info states, is held in the wild, sprawling lands of Siberia. Although, maybe they’re on holiday? Anyway, whatever the case, Siberia it is, and the game presents this part of the planet as a highly wooded area chock full of wild animals just waiting to be hunted. It’s a huge plot of land, too. In real life, that is. At 12.8 million square km, according to Wikipedia, Siberia is about 24 times the size of metropolitan France and about 54 times the size of the UK, taking up around 9% of the land on Earth. You can imagine then there’d be a lot of stuff in there to hunt, and in this game, a hunter literally hangs out next to the grid targeting symbols and letting them have it with his rifle.

The grid in question has 5-reels, 3-rows, and is in possession of 20 paylines. Peter Hunter describes itself as a medium/high volatile slot producing an RTP of 96.3% (three lower levels are available, too). This figure appears to apply whether regular betting 20 p/c to £/€100 per spin or when buying the free spins feature. To score a normal line win, you’ll need to land at least 3 matching symbols across a payline on adjacent reels beginning from the leftmost side of the grid.

Heading deeper into the paytable, we come across Peter Hunter’s pay symbols. These include 10-A card ranks as the low pays, and a duck, fox, moose, and bear as the high pays. When winning lines made up of 5 matching symbols land, the rewards are 4 to 6 times the bet for the low pays and 10 to 30 times the bet for the high pays. Wilds assist players by substituting for all regular pay symbols. Wilds are present on all reels and have the same value as the bear if making wins of themselves.

Peter Hunter: Slot Features

Peter Hunter uses a progressive Cash Collect feature that can lead to free spins when it triggers a certain number of times. Alternatively, players may buy free spins from the feature buy.

Cash Collect

In the base game, when the scatter symbol lands, high-pay symbols become Cash symbols. Cash symbols move towards the scatter, leaving behind a bet multiplier value on each position they pass through. When Cash symbols reach the scatter, the hunter shoots them, and the values are collected.

Free Spins

Each time the scatter lands in the base game, it is collected on a meter above the reels. When 7 scatters have been collected, 3 free spins are awarded. Free spins are played on a 5×5 gaming panel, and extra free spins are awarded when scatter symbols land on the reels. On each spin, 1 scatter and random high-pay symbols land. Each high pay symbol travels to the scatter leaving behind a trail of bet multipliers. When the hunter shoots – if a travelling high pay symbol is hit, its value is multiplied by the hunter’s multiplier; if the hunter misses, the symbol randomly changes its position. Whether hit or not, Cash symbols always make it to the scatter where their trail of values is awarded. The hunter multiplier increases when certain numbers of Cash symbols have been shot.

Buy Free Spins

Players are able to buy the free spins round for the cost of 80 times the bet. Be aware that when buying the bonus, you get 3 free spins rather than 5 when triggering it naturally.

Peter Hunter: Slot Verdict

In the past, like a while back, Peter & Sons’ slots sparkled with graphical singularity but sometimes were not quite as dazzling in terms of creative gameplay. Those days are long gone, and while Peter & Sons’ slots continue to stick out like a sore thumb graphically (in a good way), the studio has picked up its feature game, too, so both parts of the puzzle tend to go hand in hand. Peter Hunter delivers sonically, too, making it an all-around interesting package to try out.

One of the main standouts is the unique hunter blasting Cash symbols feature. This you can sample in the base game as well as in free spins. Less potent in the main game, naturally, since the Hunter Multiplier is not present and Cash symbols do not get shot at while travelling. The core idea, Cash symbols trotting to a scatter leaving behind bet multiplier values which are awarded when they reach it, might sound simple on paper, but when seen in action in a hunting game, where a chap armed with a rifle blasts critters, it’s quite amusing to behold. Free spins were even more amusing, and not just because of the hunter multiplier. Sometimes Cash money symbols would bob and weave, duck and dive all over the place, hopping from one position to another as the hunter shoots but misses them as they travel towards the scatter. If it almost feels cruel in some ways, it might pay to keep telling yourself Peter Hunter is a game, and not real life, like the wacky interplay between Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.

It’s kind of hard to envisage how this would play out, perhaps, yet Peter Hunter’s ultimate trophy is a max win of 10,000x the bet. One can only imagine the hail of bullets required to hit a target like that. However, even if big game hunters don’t manage to take home the main prize, Peter Hunter is a clever hunting slot regardless, giving players something that they probably haven’t seen before.