Horror House Slot

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.