Each year we get to carve new pumpkins and play new, delightful Halloween-themed video slots. That’s what’s great about such holidays – they are about the same thing every year, but somehow each season is different, authentic and feels fresh. However, when it comes to slot machines, the good ones stay put – Halloween slots get frequented more often during the holidays and then some other themes gain popularity, but the best ones are played by horror lover all year long. Here’s which slots you can play any time, and get properly spooked and entertained.
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Halloween Fortune
Halloween Fortune was developed by Playtech and right from the start the slot drew attention with attractive graphics and suitable musical background, powerful enough to send shivers down your spine while giving you the right amount of motivation to keep spinning the reels. With 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 paying lines, Halloween Fortune has all that it takes for a proper video slot. The game engine is supported by gorgeous graphics, so subtle and gloomy, yet vibrant and intriguing. In the background, you’ll see a dark, cloudy night with a full moon and a small house where witches dwell. The reels are transparent and all the buttons are converted into items such as books, boxes, leaves and pots all tied up together with spider web.
The screen is covered in Halloween motifs, symbols being three attractive witches, a black cat, a raven, a skull candle holder, a potion and an amulet. The pumpkin is the game’s Wild, and the logo the Scatter symbol. With an RTP of 97.06% and a Witches Brew Bonus (a combination of free spins, pick-em bonus and multipliers), Halloween Fortune is not just a spooky slot – it’s a brand on its own.
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BloodSuckers
What good is Halloween or any other terror-inducing occasion without vampires? It just wouldn’t be the same without those extraordinary creatures and their main representative count Dracula. In form of BloodSuckers, Net Entertainment is offering a well thought-out game with impressive graphics and neat animations. With a gore feel to it, BloodSuckers has dim lightning, fangs and blood spurts everywhere. Despite being drawn and two-dimensional, the slot’s imagery has a Victorian feel, a period most associated with vampires in popular culture. The game has 5 reels and 3 rows, with 25 win lines available. The symbols are mainly creatures of the night, as well as potions, spell books and garlic.
The eerie adventure takes a serious turn when bonus rounds are activated. There’s a free spins round with 10 free plays and tripled wins, and a Bloody Hammer Bonus game where you choose coffins and slay vampires for coins. Kill the bloodsuckers and you’ll earn a small fortune; the game benefits from an extremely high RTP anyway – 98%!
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Zombies
Another one developed by NetEnt, Zombies takes on the theme of the undead walking around, eating body parts and turning people into brainless monsters. This is a 5×3 video slot with 20 bet lines. The player experience is supposed to be terrifying but highly entertaining at the same time, as the game features remarkable animations and overall eerie music. The symbols are downright creepy, for you’ll see brains, eyeballs, axes and baseball bats covered in blood. The Zombie is the Wild, and it appears stacked, covering the entire reel.
The Scatter is zombie-sickness antidote and three of them will trigger free spins. It’s not an ordinary free spins round, because you get to shoot zombies with a shotgun and multiply your wins up to 10 times. A little bit of toxic fog never hurt anybody – if you turn into a zombie at least you’ll be rich!
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Spooky Family
Clearly, this is not the Adams Family slot, but it’s as close as it gets. Developed by iSoftBet, the slot has characters inspired by the most popular gothic family ever. Morticia, Gomez, Fester, Wednesday and Lurch lookalikes will take their positions on the reels, which, by the way, are set against the big gate to their haunted manor. The slot has a standard reels grid and 20 paying lines whose number you can reduce if you want. The skull is the Wild, and it is essential to the Wild Chance feature available on non-winning spins. The Scatter, a vortex, pays out scattered wins and the house symbol triggers the Family Pet Bonus round. In it, a wheel of pets appears; you spin it and feed the pet, after which you’ll receive a corresponding prize.
Spooky Family also has a random Darkness feature and you don’t need any winning combinations to activate it. The game just spontaneously awards you with cash prizes. There is also a Gamble feature and the top payout is 5,000 coins for five Gomez faces.
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Witch’s Brew
When it comes to brewing your fortune, Witch’s Brew is the right slot to do it with. It was released by Realtime Gaming, celebrating big wins an all things macabre. Load the game and you’ll find yourself in an old basement, joining a cute-looking green-eyed witch beside a boiling cauldron, working on her magic. Other symbols include a toad, eyeballs, potions and condiments, a candle, some roots, a wizard and a black cat. The witch is a Wild that doubles wins, and there is also a Dragon Fang Wild which works like a regular Wild card. The Goblin Blood vile is the Scatter, and if you manage to collect 5 of them, you’ll win 125 free spins! If you land 4 Goblin Blood symbols, the reward is 25 free games. For 3 of them you’ll receive 10 free spins, which is also great.
Any of the two Wilds can trigger the Wild Brew feature – three of them need to appear on the middle reels for a re-spin. An excellent slot about witchcraft and wizardry, RTG’s Witch’s Brew has become an all-time classic for all you lovers of nightmarish slots.