Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters Slot

“Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters” is a 5 x 3 reels video slot belonging to the company “iSoftBet” based on the 2013 film of the same name.

This slot has been provided with 10 pay lines where the machine only pays for the lines formed from left to right.

It can be said that to all 11 regular symbols they have been assigned quite interesting prices for 5 of a kind lines, however, only the 4 most important symbols generate interesting payouts for 4 of a kind lines; all other prices are just too cheap to be a slot provided with few lines and many regular symbols.

The wild symbol is expandable, but this one only executes this function if it lands right in the middle row of any reel, and judging by what I could experience, this is not a really strong feature; not many times we have at least two reels expanded simultaneously, and almost never creating important hits.

A round of 15 free spins is the other special feature included in “Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters” slot; during this phase of the game all our wins are paid at 1x, and the extra feature is that each wild symbol that can be extended is frozen in place until the end of the round.

In my particular case, I made hundreds of spins before being able to trigger my first and only round throughout my session; additionally, during these 15 spins, it never appeared any wild symbol on the second row, so I never had any expanded wild, and as it is assumed, my total winnings during this round were totally disappointing, only 13 times my total bet; a totally miserable round IMHO.

With a negative balance, and given the impotence to get some big win that would allow me to recover ground, I made the decision to close my session; I expected more from this video slot, but I see that it is not a good candidate to be included in my list of favorites.

It's nice to have a new Halowe'en themed game to play at this time of year, though I'm actually not all that certain when Hansel and Gretel became witch hunters? Something tells me I might have missed a new TV show or something! Still, this is definitely a great looking game and the presentation did quite impress me especially considering this is an iSoftBet machine.

The introduction screen promises "sticky extended wilds", which looks to be an extremely promising idea for a feature and I was determined to get the opportunity to try it! It took me more than 200 spins to see the feature for the first time and when I did I only managed a single stacked wild on the fourth reel which only formed part of a winning combination on my final spin which was quite disappointing.

I wasn't really sure what was triggering the extended wilds so had to consult the paytable, turns out you need to land them on the middle row for it to happen and the wild also needs to be part of a winning combination in order to extend during the base game too. There's surely some huge winning potential in the free spins as you should theoretically be able to cover the entire screen with sticky wilds. The game advertises a max win of 300,000 coins but I wonder if the sticky wilds would remain in place for a few hits of 300,000 coins if you managed to get all five in place with say, 5 free spins remaining? It's an intriguing prospect and one that will surely keep me trying this game when I can for a few spins!

Out of all of the new spooky games I have tried this year this is probably the best of them, it's maybe not going to make my top ten of all time but it's a solid effort all the same.