Wild Heist at Peacock Manor Slot Review & Free Play

Wild Heist at Peacock Manor: Crack the Vault for Hand-Picked Free Spins

It's a late night at Peacock Manor, and four thieves with crooked noses are crouched under a window. They're eyeing a golden peacock with a pink diamond in its chest. 

Thunderkick lets you run the job on a five-by-three grid, where random wild tricks can strike on any spin. Crack the vault, and you plan your own free spins with cards, from extra spins and multipliers to a gang ready to go wild.

Thanks to a steady supply of golden W wilds, my base game was fairly eventful, as I constantly filled my bag with wins between 0.5x and 3x my bet. Every wild pays the same, 2x for three, 5x for four and 20x for five. That puts them at the top of the paytable, level with the golden peacock, which pays a bit more for three, 2.5x the bet.

As much as it seemed I'd land enough scatters to open the vault and get my eyes on some serious cash, the vault on the right side of the grid stayed locked for more than 150 spins. At one point, I got so frustrated with the repetitiveness of the base game that I turned on autoplay, made a coffee, and still nothing had happened when I came back.

Therefore, a whole interesting bonus system stayed a theory this time, but let's walk through it quickly. Three golden keys unlock the vault, and before any free spins roll, the crew spreads a deck of cards over the manor's blueprints.

You pick 3, plus one more for every extra key, up to 5. Each card is a piece of the plan. It can add extra spins, +1 to the win multiplier, one of three wild tricks, or a robber who switches sides and turns wild. Land two or more keys during the spins, and the crew goes back to the table for a re-pick, up to 4 more cards.

Overall, after a glance at the design and paytable, I thought I was in for an exciting session. On the contrary, for the first 50 spins I was eager to see the bonus on my screen, but after that, it was just pointless spinning.