House of Doom 2 slot runs on Play’n GO software and features 5 reels and 20 paylines. The game is a sequel to the original House of Doom slot with the musical theme centered on Swedish metal band Candlemass. With the first look, this one definitely seems to be an improvement in design at least, but let’s take a look in the gameplay department. Bring on the gloom and doom here for fun, or at any Play’n GO Casino for real.
How to Play House of Doom 2 Slot
Set your bets, crank up the volume, and let’s get the reels spinning.
- Increase and decrease your bets with the help of Quick Betting Panel.
- Once the bets are set, hit Spin to get the reels moving.
- If you get tired of manual spin, hit the Autoplay and choose the number of spins that you want to have with no interruptions.
Slot Features
The game comes with not one but 4 different Wilds – Fire Mistress, Metal Priestess, Queen of the Damned and Spirit of Unity. The first 3 come with a special bonus each whereas the last mentioned combines all 3 bonuses into one. Wilds, of course, can substitute for all the symbols in the game except the Scatter.
Metal Mistress Wild awards a multiplier that can be x2, x3, x5 or x10. Metal Priestess will convert all ritual relic symbols into a Skull symbol. Queen of the Damned lands in Spirit Gate, and adds Spirit Gate to all the reels. Last, but not the least is the Spirit of Unity that will award all bonuses at the same time, but it’s only available during Crypt Spins.
Spirit Gate
During the Base game a single spirit gate can appear on any of the 5 reels, and if a Wild lands in those gates it will expand to fill the entire reel and award on respin with a bonus feature.
Free Spins and Crypt Spins
Hit 3 Scatters anywhere on the grid and you will trigger the Free Spins round, if however the Scatter lands on the Spirit Gate the Scatter will be upgraded and award Crypt Spins instead.
In the Free Spins, the active spirit will determine which bonus will applied in the round, and one Spirit Gate will be active during each spin. Once the round ends, a new spirit will become active in the base game.
If the Crypt Spins get triggered in the Free Spins round, the spins from that round will get transferred over to the Crypt spins round. You will have one or even more Spirit Gates active on each spin in Crypt Spins.
Summary
House of Doom 2 seems to be a second chance to organize a proper bash for fans as the first one was good, but not really what you’d call a hit. Visually, the game is definitely better looking and more polished in both terms of graphic and artwork, although it kept that doom and gloom vibe. It’s highly volatile slot but the win potential could be better for something of the sorts, at least we’d expected it, but we cannot exactly say that x6000 cap is insufficient. So, if you liked the first version, you will surely like this one as well.
House of Doom 2 The Crypt was released last month by Play'n Go. Honestly, around 3 years ago, providers released 1 slot per month, now I cannot keep up anymore. When I read the slot name, I would ask myself, which provider this is, just to find out another release from Play'n Go. Now providers release about 3 slots on average per month.
This version is definitely cool and way better than the original House of Doom with 10 pay lines plus that paytable on the first release sucked. This slot has 20 paylines and triggering the free spins feature can be quick for most sessions that I played this slot.
On the reels your royals are from 10 – A's with some scary symbols like melted candles and other things Halloween-related, which are your premium symbols. The game has 3 different wild symbols, and they each have a special effect, up to this day I still do not understand how they work, etc, or get chosen for free spins for that matter. This is one of the confusing games with certain features.
The base game plays well and very interesting, it can keep a steady balance and even low-value symbols pay well. During the base game, a spirit gate will spin and the wilds can randomly appear in the spirit gate if you manage to get a wild, a re-spin will occur with a specific bonus feature.
Landing Scatter symbols on reels, 1 3, and 5 will award free spins. You will start with 10 free spins and you can re-trigger free spins. These special wilds are active during free spins and they can award multipliers, symbols upgrades for bigger wins.
I like the slot, but seems like a very low variance to me, so there is no hit it big and run home from what I can see, even though they advertise x6000 wins possible. With this provider, you just sometimes wonder how do you even get there.