Wanted Dead or a Wild: Hacksaw Gaming’s high-volatility western, for operators

The slot that made Hacksaw Gaming a household name

Wanted Dead or a Wild came out in 2021 from Hacksaw Gaming, a Maltese studio then better known for scratch cards. It is a Wild West slot with a dark comic-book style, extreme volatility and three distinct bonus games, and it became a streaming legend almost overnight. Today it is the title that high-volatility players use to judge whether a casino “has the good games”.

Hacksaw publishes an RTP of 96.38% and a maximum win of 12,500 times the stake. That ceiling, reached through stacked multipliers, is what the audience is chasing.

Base game: VS symbols and duels

The game runs on a 5×5 grid with 15 paylines. The base game already has a signature feature: VS symbols. When a VS lands, it expands to fill its reel as a wild and reveals a multiplier, and several expanded VS reels multiply together on the lines they cross. A base-game spin can therefore pay a large win without any bonus, which keeps players engaged between features.

The three bonus games

Scatter combinations open one of three bonus rounds; the paytable shows which combination leads where. Each has its own character:

Bonus buys let players buy directly into a chosen bonus in the markets where the operator offers the option. For your wallet that is a single larger debit; everything after it, inside the bonus, comes as wins.

Who the game is for

Wanted Dead or a Wild is not a beginner’s slot. Its audience is experienced, often young, and follows streamers who publish their biggest hits. That audience is valuable: it plays at higher stakes, stays loyal to studios it trusts and talks about casinos on social media. Strong markets include Northern and Central Europe, Canada, Latin America, Turkey and crypto-first casinos worldwide.

If your lobby only carries low-volatility classics, this player leaves after one visit. Wanted Dead or a Wild, and the Hacksaw catalogue around it, signals that you are serious about high-volatility content.

What to show next to it

• Hacksaw Gaming follow-ups: Dead Men Walking, Stack ’Em, Chaos Crew, Hand of Anubis, RIP City and the “Le” series such as Le Bandit.
• Nolimit City: Mental, Tombstone RIP, San Quentin — the other home of extreme volatility.
• Push Gaming and Relax Gaming: Razor Shark, and the Money Train saga.
• Hacksaw instant games: the studio’s scratch and instant titles, covered on our instant games API page.

Launching it through SoftAggregator

Hacksaw titles are part of our casino aggregator API catalogue. Your team works with the usual three pieces:

1. Catalogue. Filter getGameList on game_type: slots and the Hacksaw provider key, then match the title.
2. Launch. getGame with the player, the game’s id_hash, the language and device=mobile on phones.
3. Wallet. Signed GET callbacks: a debit for each spin or bonus buy, a credit for each win. Bonus-round wins come with no debit attached; the integration docs explain why you must pay them on call_id.

Because the game can pay large multiples, make sure your credit handler has no hidden cap and that large amounts in minor units fit your data types — a 12,500x win on a high stake is a big integer.

Currencies

The player sees the currency you pass at launch. EUR, USD, CAD, SEK, NOK, DKK, PLN, TRY, BRL, MXN and many others are native; for a currency outside that list, run the account in USD or EUR and convert on your side, and talk to us about your needs. The catalogue and currencies move continuously, and the API always reports the current list; if Wanted Dead or a Wild is a must for your launch, we confirm it for your currency.

Why take it through one integration

High-volatility fans want the studio, not only the hit. With SoftAggregator you get Hacksaw, Nolimit City, Push Gaming, Relax and the rest of 200+ providers — 40,000+ games — on one seamless wallet, through the same game aggregator contract, with support that answers fast when you go live.

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