Horror House Slot

Horror house as the name suggests is a horror themed slot from booming games which can be played from a minimum bet of 10 cents. It’s a 5-reel 5 row slot with starting pay lines of 45 and can end up paying from 3125 ways. How does this happen? Well, in the beginning of every spin 12 spots from the grid will be blocked and remaining 13 will be available for symbol connections. After the first connection a re-spin feature will start and two spots will be unlocked and you will now have 135 ways to win. On second and third connections you will remove two blocks each and will now get 105 and 675 ways to win. The fourth and fifth re-spins will remove will again remove two blocks each and you will get 1125 and 1875 ways to win. The final successful connection will see you remove the last two spots and this will also trigger the free spins. You will get 8 free spins and, in this feature, you will always have 3125 ways to win.
Horror house has 6 major symbols and these pay from 20x to 2x your bet on connections of 5 of a kind. There are 5 minor symbols as well and all of them pay 1x your bet on connections of 5. You need to connect an identical symbol a minimum of 3 times for a successful connection. Wild symbol is also an important part of the game but they only appear on reels 2, 3 and 4.
I like games like these where you have to progress through levels to achieve free spins. Yes, at times it’s frustrating when you stop at one level before the free spins are about to trigger but that’s gambling. The base game is really good and after the fourth re-spin you start getting good hits. The base game at 3125 ways has given me lots of 50x to 75x hits. The bonus rounds at times can be disappointing but most of the times you get wins above 50x. There is no free spin hit frequency on this game and any spin can trigger free spins. I have had sessions where you can get 3 features in under 20 spins and one feature in 300 spins.

The payout values of minor symbols are extremely low. On some hits you get multiple connections and it’s not even equal to your bet size. The bonus feature only has one good spin and rest pay less than 5x.

I don’t play games from Booming Games at all, unless for a contest, but today, I decided to give a few of them some tries. Horror House was the first one I had chosen, trying it out for the very first time. The game has 5 reels and 5 rows, with 3125 paylines in total, but the game starts with only 45 paylines in a 1-3-5-3-1 rows format. The minimum bet size per spin is only 0.10 EUR so that’s affordable for everyone.

To get to that 3125 paylines game, you need to get 6 consecutive wins in a row. Each win opens up 2 rows progressively, starting from reel 1, from 1 row into 3 rows, then to reel 5 into 3 rows, then back to reel 1 into 5 rows and so on, until all 5 rows are finally open. There are no Bonus or Scatter symbols to trigger the free spins feature game, so this is the only way to get them. The sad thing is, the feature only awards 8 free spins, without any win multiplier in play, and without any retriggering of more free spins either. That really sucks and doesn’t look attractive at all.

Looking at the win values of the top symbols, Dracula pays 20x, Frankenstein pays 10x, whilst the rest (Werewolf, Chucky Black Cat and Spider) pays from 5x down to 2x the bet size. The Wild symbols are non-paying, do not double any wins with it, are not stacked, and appear only on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. One more point that really sucks. However, the maximum possible win is indicated as 4800x the bet size, so I guess this maximum win can only be achieved from the accumulative wins of those 8 free spins.

Now comes the real play part. Having seen how low the paytable and the win values of the high symbols are, I can only expect a mediocre game play from this Horror House game. Yes, true enough, the overall game play was quite dull, the base game wins are hardly more than 2x or 3x the bet size, and only from the 8 free spins can wins over 50x be achieved. I managed to get 2 feature games in under 500 spins done, getting a low 36x win at first but then followed by a much better win of 378x.

This Horror House game could be a lot more interesting to play if it has win multipliers in both the base game and free spins play, and with more free spins retriggering possibilities.