Built by the Lodge · Live on Stake.us
Fang & Fur
A wolf pack and a bear clan fight over the same ridge. The free-spins battle decides whose sticky wilds and multipliers own the rest of the round.
- RTP
- 96.50%
- House edge
- 3.50%
- Max win
- 18,000×
- Volatility
- High
- Grid
- 5×4
- Paylines
- 20 fixed
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Read this bit first. We built this game. We earn when you play it, and we earn again if you sign up to Stake through our link. That makes this the single least neutral page on the site, and pretending otherwise would undo the point of everything else here. So: the specs below are lifted straight from the math that ships to Stake's servers, the house edge is printed at the top rather than buried, and nothing on this page will tell you a slot is a way to make money. It isn't. Full disclosure.
The idea
Most battle-themed slots paint a fight on top of ordinary math. Fang & Fur makes the fight be the math: Alpha Kael's wolves hold the pine forest, Grizzly Tor's bears hold the amber cliffs, and the free-spins feature is a tug-of-war across the middle of the grid for territory that pays.
The territory battle
During free spins the two leaders lock into a mid-grid struggle. When it resolves, the winning side plants sticky wilds across its territory and hangs persistent 2×–5× multipliers on them — for the rest of the feature, not one spin. A round where your side takes the ridge early compounds from there, which is where the 18,000× ceiling lives.
Two factions, two wilds
Wolf and bear wilds are separate symbols loyal to their side. Which faction is winning isn't cosmetic — it decides where the sticky wilds land when the dust settles. You can read the state of the round at a glance, which is exactly how we think a slot should communicate.
Developer perspective
Fang & Fur is our answer to a design problem: free-spins features where nothing is at stake between spins. The territorial battle means every spin of the feature moves a war — and the winner's sticky wilds and persistent multipliers make the second half of the round play differently than the first. The cost we accepted: a battle that can go against you is real variance, and we tuned it high on purpose. Audio was this game's hard blocker for weeks — we held submission until the soundtrack earned the theme rather than shipping silence.
Every way to play it
All modes run at the same 96.50% RTP — buying a feature doesn't buy a better edge, it buys a shortcut past the waiting.
| Mode | Cost | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Base | 1× | Standard play — faction wilds for both sides |
| Pack Boost | 2.5× | More faction wilds in the base game |
| Get Territory | 80× | Straight into the free-spins territory war |
| Get Alpha Clash | 180× | Free spins with a guaranteed battle |
| Get Mountain War | 350× | Guaranteed battle with boosted sticky values |
What 96.50% actually means
Every one of our games runs at a 96.50% RTP, which is the same thing as a 3.50% house edge — and you don't have to take our word for it, because Stake prints "Edge: 3.50%" on the game page itself. Go and look.
Here's what that number honestly means, and what it doesn't. Over a very large number of spins, the game is built to return 96.50% of everything staked. So the expected cost of putting a dollar through it is about three and a half cents. That's the price of the entertainment, and it's a fair one by slot standards — plenty of games run worse.
What it does not mean is that you'll get 96.50% back tonight. High volatility means the individual results scatter enormously around that average: long dry stretches punctuated by rare big hits is the intended shape, not a malfunction. A max win is a genuinely rare event. If you want to see what variance does to a bankroll over a session, the Strategy Lab will show you, and it doesn't flatter anybody.
The only advice worth giving: decide what the evening costs before you start, treat it as spent, and stop when you said you would. No spin pattern, bet-sizing system or time of day changes a 3.50% edge. If it stops being fun, here's where to get help.
Where to play it
Fang & Fur is live on Stake.us, exclusive to Stake, and built on Stake Engine — Stake's platform for independent studios. It also carries Stake's 2× VIP points multiplier, which is a genuine reason to pick it over another studio's game if you're working a VIP tier.
Don't have an account? Our step-by-step Stake signup guide walks through it, including the blocked-state list and the difference between Stake.us and Stake.com.
Questions people actually ask
What is the max win on Fang & Fur?
18,000× your bet — second-highest in our fleet. Like every max win, it's the rare ceiling, not a session expectation; high volatility means long quiet stretches are part of the design.
What RTP does Fang & Fur run?
96.50% in every mode, same as our whole fleet. Stake prints the 3.50% edge on the game page and we publish it here — buying a mode changes the pace, never the price.
Does the battle actually change the odds mid-round?
It changes where value lands, not the certified math. The winning faction's sticky wilds and persistent multipliers shape the rest of the feature — the overall RTP stays 96.50%.
Which bet mode is the best value?
None of them — all five run the same 96.50% RTP. Higher modes buy frequency and guarantees, not a better price. Pick by how much variance you enjoy, not by expected value.