Dark Family - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Dark Family Slot Review

Jumping out at you and making you shriek is this new video slot from makers KA Gaming. Featuring all of your favourite characters from classic horror movies, this slot offers players 243 paylines and a potential maximum win of 3840x. There’s also a haunting collection of bonuses, including free spins and a ghost who flies over the reels.

Theme

Are you afraid of the dark?

Horror-themed slots have to be one of the most popular genres available for games in online casinos, so KA Gaming were already onto a winner. In Dark Family, they’ve decided to use the light-hearted, cartoon-style horror, which is a great idea. Characters include Dracula, a mummy (who is coming apart at the seams), a Frankenstein’s creature (with a Franken teddy bear), ghosts, and bats.

Gruesomely good

Dark Family uses simple but colourful graphics to get its theme across. The game is set in a spooky graveyard with all of the horror film nods you’d want to see, including spluttering candles, a full moon, and mausoleums spied through the fog. All in all, it’s a great-looking game with a fun feel.

Dark Family RTP & Volatility

Dark Family Slot Volatility

The Dark Family slot has a medium volatility, so you can expect a regular supply of smaller wins.

RTP and Top Wins

The RTP rate of Dark Family is 96%, which is the average for a video slot. The total payout potential is 3840x, which is respectable but admittedly on the lower side of average for most online slots.

How to Play Dark Family

1. The Dark Family slot has a very easy gameplay; give it a try in demo play and you'll be turning the reels like a pro in no time!
2. Get the game loaded up. Click the ‘i’ button to read through the game rules, learn about bonus features, and see the full paytable information.
3. You can change your bet by pressing ‘New Bet’ and selecting your preferred stake. You can also press ‘Max Bet’ if you’d like to go straight to the highest bet.
4. The menu button in the top right lets you change the sound settings.
5. Press the spin button to get the game started. You can also hold this button down to trigger the game’s Autospin feature. There’s a Turbo feature that lets you speed the game up.
6. Play Dark Family responsibly by setting a time limit for your playing session.

How to Win at Dark Family

Wins can be scored in the game by matching combinations of at least three symbols moving from left to right across the reels. There are 243 paylines, which gives you plenty of chances to win.

Top Symbols

Dark Family has a total of 12 winning symbols in the base game.

• The playing cards have the lowest payouts, with a max win of 2x.
• The highest paying of the winning symbols is the Vampire, who offers a total win of 10x.
• The best payouts in the whole base game come from the Scatter ghost, who’ll give you a max win of 20x the win multiplier.

Betting Limits

Stakes in the game can go between 0.3 and 150, so all types of players should find a bet to suit them.

Max-win 3,840x

Volatility Medium

Top RTP 94.00%

Dark Family Bonus Features

This may not be the family you’d want to want to go on holiday with, but a visit to their graveyard comes complete with plenty of bonus features, including a free spins bonus and a scarily good ghost symbol.

Dark Family Wilds and Scatters

A scatter symbol can land in any position on the grid, but wilds can only land on reels 2, 3, and 4. Wilds can substitute for all other symbols apart from the scatter to help you score more wins. Between each spin, the ghost can also float over the reels and add a randomly placed wild or scatter to any position on the reels.

Monster Symbols

Monster symbols (the mummy, vampire, Frankenstein’s monster, and the knife-wielding Alice in Wonderland type) can cover two squares. This means you can get more chances to score more winning paylines.

Dark Family Review - Our Verdict

A Monster Smash?

It doesn’t matter if you’re a horror lover or not; there’s plenty to like about the Dark Family slot either way. The medium volatility means that wins are never too long in coming, while the bright, neon colours and fun graphics will appeal to everyone. 

Hallowinning

The only downside to the game that we can see is that there is no retrigger on the free spins round. This is a shame, especially as you can only gain a maximum of 12 free goes from three scatters, but it doesn’t detract from the game as whole. 

We were also big fans of the ghost symbol that can add either a scatter or a wild to your reels. Multi-function symbols add to the excitement while you’re playing, in addition to giving you the option to score more potential wins.

Do you dare meet the family?

Dark Family is a super fun slot from KA Gaming. It’s not too taxing, and while it’s not the most innovative or feature-stuffed game you’ll find, it’s a great way to spend some time. You can head over to Slots Temple to give it a try in demo mode, along with lots of other KA Gaming slot games.
 

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