Darkness Slot Review
Darkness is the perfect example of a Halloween-themed video slot capable of filling your soul up with chilling horror & ecstasy of winning simultaneously. While it has its share of gory-themed gambling games, this particular slot presents a unique kind of experience able to both scare and delight.
Needless to say, the graphics and music here are truly scaring the living daylights with every minute detail of this slot design & soundtrack. But even those aren’t the best here to wow players. There are x20,000 max win, Giant/Wild/Scatter quite beneficial special symbols, and Dark Ritual Bonus game with up to 14 starting free spins, giving hope to summon Lucifer himself.
It is the Medium-High-volatility video slot with a not poor Hit frequency of 32.99%. So, be sure you won’t be left without any cash prize. Whether those let you get enough to turn a profit is a responsibility of just your Good Luck!
Darkness by Print Studios Video Review
Darkness General Characteristics
- 26 paylines
- 5 reels and 4 rows
- Medium-High Volatility (4 out of 5)
- RTP: 96.14% (Scatter Boost: 96.40%, Bonus Feature Bet: 96.79%)
- Hit frequency: 32.99%
- Bonus / Free Spins Frequency: 0.33% (1 in 300.38 spins)
- Bonus Frequency Bet Boost: 0,82% (1 in 122.19 spins)
- Average Bonus Win: x96.58
- Max Win Probability: 1 in 6.7 million
- Bet amount: 0.1 EUR - 50 EUR
- Maximum win multiplier: x20,000
- Maximum win value: 1,000,000 EUR
- 9 main symbols
- Additional symbols: Wild, Scatter, multipliers
Darkness Bonus Features
There are a lot of bombastic bonus features applying for this slot. That's why we can't wait to start explaining those in detail.
SuperSpinners
It is a tremendous innovation, helping many times elevate your initial win prize. There are 14 SuperSpinners all around the playfield, periodically highlighting some multipliers. Here’s a thing — not every single one of them takes particular value during the current spin. So, it’s just a matter of random — which SuperSpinner activates and with what multiplier value. To get a cash prize multiplying, its pay line has to cross the highlighted SuperSpinner, located to the left of a symbol from within the winning sequence. If there is more than one crossed multiplier, they all are applied one by one.
Dirge Wild
This one picture has quite simple gameplay mechanics, strongly traditional for such kind of special symbols, allowing it to substitute any other pics on the reels, except for Scatter. That effectively helps to increase the overall win number. In terms of symbol substitution, Dirge Wild acts the same in both — base & bonus games. Also, there is a x50 per bet win prize for those who collect 5 Dirge Wilds on the playfield at once.
Giant Terror Symbol
Periodically, through the reels toward the left flies the Giant Terror symbol. Sometimes, it stops inside the playfield ground, taking varying sizes, starting with 3x2 & finishing with 5x4. As a result, upon reels stopped spinning, all those paying pics inside the Giant Terror symbol area became identical. Sometimes, that helps to get a big prize.
Scatter
At least 3 Scatters can start the Dark Ritual Bonus FS game. Here is a table with all possible awards for the respective Scatter quantity.
Dark Ritual Bonus
The central gambling quest here is the bonus game with free spins, which allows, under certain circumstances, even to face the prince of evil, Lucifer. To get this, the draw on the playfield pentagram existed with 5 places intended exclusively for Dirge Wilds. Every time one of those special symbols lands on the Pentagram corner positions, it immediately becomes sticky until the Dark Ritual Bonus game ends and adds 2 extra free spins.
To finish the Dark Ritual, you need precisely 5 of them successfully located at the destined positions. If this mission is accomplished, Lucifer's image occupies the 3 central reels and acts as a Wild, generating big wins in conjunction with already mentioned SuperSpinner multipliers.
Feature Bet
Here is the buy bonus function with two eligible options — Scatter Boost & Buy Bonus, beloved by most gamblers. The first one costs x1.5 to the current stake and intensifies the frequency of Scatters landing on the reels, increasing the chances of FS round triggering by almost 2.5 times. The second allows you to trigger the Dark Ritual bonus game during the following base game round and will cost x100 by the bet.
Our Experience Playing Darkness
There is a time for the real-experience adventure to the Darkness world saturated by the horror & dark science of Lucifer's summon. We've made it for you, putting €200 on the line during the 300-spin game session.
The first hundred spins brought us almost 30 wins during the base game, but sadly, most of them were too small, varying from €0.2 to €10. By the way, the last cash prize we got was thanks to the x10 SuperSpins multiplier. Unfortunately, many prizes were even less than the initial stake, and we didn’t trigger a bonus FS game even once, while there was one time with 2 Scatters on the reels during the 25th spin. Moreover, the twice-activated Giant Terror symbol feature didn’t bring us even a penny. So, nothing is surprising that upon the 100th spin completion, our game balance totaled just €135.5.
The second part of our dark-gambling party presented us with 34 wins, ranging from €0.2 to €25.4. That last sum we had got during the 41st spin, thanks to the Giant symbol feature triggering. Including another three times when this bonus function was activated, it has earned us a total €38.6. There were three times when 2 Scatters simultaneously appeared on the reels (14th, 29th, and 97th spin). But the Dark Ritual bonus game triggering slipped us away again. Despite a lot of base game wins, the total balance finally amounted to just €110.9.
During the last 100 spins, there were 34 winning amounts, varying from €0.2 to €19.4. The highest cash prize is a result of the Giant symbol feature triggering within the 30th spin alongside the two applied in-turn multipliers — x3 and x2. Despite as many as five times when 2 Scatters appeared simultaneously on the reels, The Dark Ritual Bonus game triggered just once — during the 19th spin. It earned an overall €25.9. The final game balance totaled €76.
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Darkness Verdict
So, if you are not superstitious and do not mind anything embarrassing about being a little bit terrified while playing the gambling game, Darkness is what you need to taste.
There is a super-grand bonus feature with a Giant Terror symbol that may occupy even up to 5x4 size, making highly possible the chances of a great win due to the identical paying pictures throughout its entire area. There are also a few things concerning the FS round. First, the initial free spins quantity is up to 14. But even a minimum starting number of those due to 3 Scatters reaches 10 FS. Second, you can get up to 10 extra free spins during the bonus game due to the Sticky Wild symbols. Third, five Sticky Wilds not only bring the x50 payment according to the official paytable but also make Lucifer appear, or rather its image of 3x4 size, acting like one giant Wild special symbol. And don’t forget about the multipliers, which are also present within the bonus game. As a result, there is an RTP value of 96.14%, which is higher than the average.
Among the flaws are as many as ten undersized payments, which don’t cover the initial bet, and not an impressive number of win lines. The horrifying-bloody design we didn’t count as a con because it’s just a matter of personal flavor.
