Witchcraft Academy Slot

Magical-themed slot games tend to be either very interesting, or otherwise, depending on each individual tastes and preferences. This Witchcraft Academy game reminds me of Harry Potter’s adventures, but in this case, we have Earthan and Efora instead, both students in the academy. This game is all about their adventures when they found a mysterious dungeon within the academy’s library, and thereby unlocks some mysterious events. Well, honestly speaking, they aren’t mysterious at all, because they are merely trying to unlock the Free Spins feature game, that’s all, Hahaha.

Playing with 5 reels and 4 rows, the starting bet is kept low at just 0.20 per spin, so that’s pretty good. However, after lurking into its mysterious paytable, I was literally shocked when I saw all the win values of the symbols – they are all extremely low! In fact, I can even say that these are the lowest win values that I have ever come across from any game so far – totally and ridiculously low! How come? Well, the Wild and the Bonus symbols are both non-paying, whilst Earthan, the highest paying symbol, would pay a blardy damn low win of just 1.5x for getting all 5 of him!

Quickspin has a few games that would pay 2x the total bet for getting 5 of the highest paying symbols, but NetEnt has since broken that record with its Temple Of Nudges game, whereby getting 5 of the highest paying symbols would pay an absurd win of just 0.36x the total bet! Nowadays, you simply cannot expect to get any decent wins from new NetEnt games, including this Witchcraft Academy game - NetEnt has gone down to rock bottom!

Having said all that, I was indeed very reluctant to even give this game a try, but changed my mind just to confirm my perceptions. True enough, the game played very badly right from the start, dishing out ridiculously low wins, and even the few free spins games that I managed to get couldn’t produce any nice wins, unless you can consider a 51x win as nice! Would I want to play this Witchcraft Academy game ever again? Not on anybody’s life! Hahaha.

Witchcraft Academy is a 5-reel, 4 rows, 20 fixed pay line slot from Netent. The slot benefits from wild substitutions, an Element Bonus feature and free spins features.

This games graphics look superb as you spin the reels with owls, dragons, witches and wizards. It does not come with your standard card deck symbols, but instead the low paying symbols are magic potion items that I believe the witch is using to brew something. The wild symbol substitutes for all symbols except the scatter symbols and only appears on reels 1, 2, 4 and 5. I must admit the wild symbol is very active during the base game, but you have a lot of none winnings spins during the base game. Teasers happen often, but that 3rd bonus symbol is difficult to land at times.

Landing 3 or more bonus symbols anywhere on the reels trigger the Elements Bonus feature. You then choose the witch or the wizard to cast an element shot at a random column. The amount of element shots you get depends on how many bonus symbols triggered the feature , i.e. 5 Element shots for 5 bonus scatters. An element shot is randomly made with 1 of 4 elements. The witch element is the owl and the wizards element is the dragon. When each element hits, it clears the closest symbol in the column.

The element shot can give you a coin win of between 10 and 200 times your total stake. If it hits an armour guard, the armour guard explodes hitting all symbols adjacent to it either horizontally or vertically. If it hits a scatter symbol, the free spins feature the symbol represents is unlocked.

In the feature you can win extra spins, a multiplier as well as a full stacked wild on reel 1 and 5. My free spins sessions has been cold, I think my biggest win was x60 my bet and took almost 200 spins to trigger the bonus feature. Not sure how exactly you will win big but this is not my cup of tea of a slot.

This year is apparently the year of might and magic in the online gambling branche because there are a lot of games have been released from various games providers with might and magic theme. So this means the competition is still ongoing, the battle of the giants will never end and we are in the middle of it, in fact they are fighting to win us, well actually to win our hard earned money hehehe.

Earlier this year we have seen a witch themed game from Play'n Go with the name Sweet Alchemy, I mention this game because this is the only game that is very similar to NetEnt's Witchcraft Academy. Graphically they look very similar, they look very stunning, they are a treat to your eyes you can count on that. The only difference between those two games is the gameplay. Sweet Alchemy's gameplay is just like Viking RuneCraft and Gemix while Witchcraft Academy gameplay is just normal like other slots, spinning reels.

I must admit that I like Witchcraft Academy a lot more than I like Sweet Alchemy, the reason of it is very simple, Witchcraft Academy pays more frequently and thou the payout is not that great but it is better than Sweet Alchemy. We all know that payout is the most important thing about a game, when the game lack of good payout, we kinda avoid them all, at least I still do.

Witchcraft Academy is a 4 x 5 game with a max paylines of 20, that's too me a little disappointing because I expected more from those reels size but the game pays both ways, just like Starburst so that makes it even. When the bonus feature is triggered, it can go 2 different ways, only cash prize or cash prize plus free spins bonus, so free spins bonus is not guaranteed in this game, it depends on your choiches during the character selection, the more statues you destroy the higher your chance of winning the free spins bonus.

This is not a bad game and it is certaintly worth trying. It is a small step towards the right way but NetENt has a long way to go to get my attention again. They have gain a little bit of my attention back by releasing a few nice games, Lost Relics, Witchcraft Academy, Bollywood Story and Moonshine Riches that is only avaliable at BML Group Limited casinos.