Halloween is officially over, which means it’s time to take down the fake cobwebs, throw out the rotting pumpkins, and explain to your neighbours why there’s a suspiciously realistic-looking corpse in your front garden. Personally, I think it’s a shame. It’s the one night of the year when you can wander around dressed like a serial killer, and people give you sweets instead of calling the police.
But just because Halloween is over doesn’t mean we have to put all the creepy stuff away. Backseat Gaming certainly hasn’t got the memo, with its Gothic Wilds slot keeping the spooky season alive a little longer.
Something wicked this way comes
Backseat Gaming’s Gothic Wilds slot features ten paylines and offers bets from $0.20 to $32 per spin. With a maximum win of 10,000x your bet, you could walk away with up to $320,000 if you’re betting at the highest stake per spin
The slot features very high volatility, which means you should expect virtually no small, frequent wins as you chase those larger payouts. The game’s RTP is 96.01%.
The Gothic Wilds slot features wild symbols that can appear on reels two, three, and four, substituting for regular symbols to complete winning combinations. Each wild comes with a multiplier of 2x, 3x, 5x, or 10x. If multiple wilds contribute to a winning combination, their multipliers are multiplied together before being applied to the payout.
Instead of just one round, the Gothic Wilds slot features three different rounds of free spins triggered by landing three, four, or five bonus symbols. Landing three triggers the Dark Romance bonus game, awarding ten free spins during which all wild symbols become sticky and carry a minimum multiplier of x2. Landing four bonus symbols instead triggers the Gothic Desire bonus game, which also awards ten free spins but increases the minimum wild multiplier to x3.
The last of the slot’s free spins rounds is the Bloody Mary bonus game, triggered by landing five bonus symbols. This awards ten free spins with sticky wild symbols carrying a minimum multiplier of x5.
If you don’t fancy hanging around for a jump scare, the Gothic Wilds slot offers several options to purchase a round of free spins.
Is the Gothic Wilds slot worth rising from the dead for?
When I was a kid, I used to laugh off the Bloody Mary game as complete nonsense. But somewhere in the back of my mind, there was always that little “what if?” scratching away. I wasn’t convinced the Gothic Wilds slot had managed to capture that particular brand of childhood terror until I triggered the Bloody Mary bonus game and watched the character transform into something straight out of my nightmares. It was genuinely unnerving. For that alone, the slot gets my recommendation. The interesting bonus features and potential 10,000x maximum win certainly don’t hurt, either.
I give the Gothic Wilds slot a nine out of ten, with a point deducted mostly because that wonderfully disturbing jump scare is locked behind a bonus feature that isn’t particularly easy to trigger.
If you’re looking for a few other great Backseat Gaming slots, I recommend Crystal Robot and The Three Dudes.
