Halloween Vacation - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Introduction

Founded in 2007 and based in Asia, Spadegaming focuses primarily on the Asian market, choosing its themes to match. However, this particular Spadegaming online slot is an exception to the company’s usual practice, because although Halloween celebrations are a big deal in many Asian nations, it has become a huge worldwide phenomenon. Many developers have used Halloween before, and even games like the Reel King Megaways slot has a ‘spooky’ Halloween version. In our Halloween Vacation slot review we’ll look at how well they’ve tailored this free slot to an international audience.

Halloween Vacation has five reels and three rows with 50 paylines. The minimum bet size is 0.10 and the maximum is 100. There are five high-paying symbols: a ghost woman, a guitar, a flower, candles and challah bread. There are six low-value symbols, which are the six highest playing cards. There is also a scatter and a wild.

Theme, Graphics and Soundtrack

Halloween Vacation has more in common with the Mexican Day of the Dead, but the design certainly does a good job at atmospheric presentation. The graphics are intricate and darkly colourful, the symbols slightly grotesque. Animation is restrained but effective, and the soundtrack slightly tongue-in-cheek. Good fun.

Halloween Vacation RTP and Variance

The game’s RTP is unknown. Itsvariance is also unrecorded.

How to Play Halloween Vacation

1. All payouts are calculated according to the paytable.
2. Wins are for combinations of identical symbols which land adjacently on active paylines, reading left to right and starting from the leftmost reel except for scatter wins. Scatter wins are multiplied by the total bet and are added to line wines.
3. Only the highest symbol payout will be awarded on a single payline.
4. Wild symbols appear randomly on reels 3, 4 and 5 in the base game. They substitute for all other symbols except scatter symbols. Stacked wilds appear in the base game only.
5. Scatter symbols appear randomly anywhere on the reels during the base game. If three or more scatters appear on the reels, they will trigger the free game feature. Scatter symbols do not appear in the free game.
6. Click on the coin stack to call up the bet options. Here you can choose your bet and see how the different values, levels and credits work to set the bet level.
7. Press the purple play button or press the space bar to spin the reels.
8. Click the top right button to enter turbo mode.
9. If you prefer the game to play automatically, click on the small play button to enter autoplay mode. You can choose a number of automatic spins or select the infinity symbol for continuous play. You can also set flags to exit auto mode when certain events occur, including a simple win, a free spin win, wins over a certain level and user-defined increases or decreases in your balance. When autoplay begins you’ll see the number of spins remaining displayed. To exit autoplay just click on this button.
10. Your running balance and the current bet level are displayed at the bottom right of the screen.
11. We support safe gambling initiatives like BeGambleAware. If you choose to place bets, then please remember that you could lose as well as win. Abide by sensible limits and bet no more than you can afford to lose. It’s a good idea to try an online slot in its free slot version first so you can see if you’ll feel comfortable risking money on it. If you do gamble, please always use the self-regulating features in your account. When you stop enjoying it please stop playing.

Bet Sizes and Paytable Wins

Bets are from 0.10 to 100.

Matching symbols pay in combinations of 3x to 5x. Full details are in the paytable, but the highest multiplier values are as follows:

Ghost woman

5 = 4

Guitar

5 = 2.50

Flower

5 = 1.50
        
Candles, Challah Bread

5 = 1.25

Ace, King

5 = 0.75

Queen, Jack

5 = 0.50

10, 9

5 = 0.25

Scatter

5 = 12.50

Max-win 1,000x

Volatility Medium

Top RTP 96.71%

Halloween Vacation Bonus Features

Free Games

Three, four or five scatters trigger the free game and award eight free spins. During the feature the wild appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 only. When it lands it will stay in position until the end of the free game.

An expanding wild appears on reel 3 only, and wins that include wilds will be multiplied by 2x. In the next spin the multiplier of the expanding wild increase to 4x and then 8x. It disappears on the next spin. If it appears on the last or second to last spin of the free game, the reel will keep going until the multiplier reaches 8x and then the game will end.

Halloween Vacation Review: Our Verdict

This is a fresh take on Halloween with its rich Mexican imagery. As far as the game play is concerned, it’s quite basic, but despite that it in preparing this slot review we found that it looks appealing and definitely holds the interest. For its difference alone it’s well worth a try.