Whilst many ‘scary’ slot games often have a comforting feel or may use cartoonish characters to lighten the atmosphere, you’ll find none of that in the Darkness slot game.
Designed and developed by Print Studios, and released through the Relax Gaming platform, Darkness offers a unique and unsettling experience for those brave enough to try it, with a frighteningly good top prize of 20,000 times your bet stake!
At the beginning of the game, you’ll see a slider that lets you choose the brightness for the slot, but the developers suggest making the screen so dark that the slot is barely recognisable. Even with the brightest setting, the gameplay is still shrouded in darkness. Winning combinations will then light up, enhancing the eerie feel to the game. Play the slot in a darkened room with the volume turned up for a truly terrifying experience.
The action takes place in a dimly lit mansion, with all sorts of sinister figures lurking within its depths.
Features of the Darkness slot game
Darkness is played on a 5×4 grid with 26 winning paylines. All the symbols are named so that, despite the dimly lit reels, you can distinguish the winning symbols. You’ll find Light Wiccan Twigs, Vibrant Wiccan Twigs, Noble Wiccan Twigs, Eldritch Wiccan Twigs, Vials, Daggers and Chalices. To accompany you on your horrific experience, you’ll find Isadora, Agatha and the Dirge Wild.
SuperSpinners
There are 14 SuperSpinner positions across the reels, with a random amount active on any spin. They are depicted using a numerical value illuminated by a lantern. If a winning line passes through a SuperSpinner, the payout is multiplied by the value shown. Should a win cross more than one SuperSpinner, then all the multipliers in that winning line are applied.
Giant Symbols
Giant Symbols can land randomly on any spin and will cover an area of between 3×2 and 5×4 on the reels. All the positions covered by a Giant Symbol count as single regular-sized instances of the symbol indicated. Look out for these closely, as the dimly lit Giant Symbols slide over the reels from right to left, covering several spaces.
Dark Ritual Bonus
If 3, 4 or 5 Scatter symbols (depicted as pentagrams) are landed on any base spin, the game moves to the Bonus round, where you’ll receive 10, 12 or 14 Free Spins respectively. The Bonus round is played on a pentagram-shaped play area, and when a Dirge Wild lands on any of the five points, it sticks in that position and awards two extra Free Spins. If the pentagram is completed and all five points are filled with Dirge Wilds, Lucifer will be summoned. This turns the entirety of reels 2, 3 and 4 Wild for the remainder of that Bonus round.
Feature Bet
Select ‘Feature Bet’ and you will get the option of two Bonus enhancements. When Scatter Boost is activated, more Scatter symbols will appear randomly on the reels. The additional cost for activating the Scatter Boost is 50% of the current bet. The Bonus Buy feature allows players to trigger the Free Spins immediately for a cost of 100 times their bet stake.
The atmosphere of the Darkness slot game
Darkness is a truly one of a kind experience in the world of horror slot games. If this genre of games is your thing, this is the perfect game to test your nerves.
The chilling background music enhances the gameplay, as do the shadowy figures that lurk on the outer edges of the screen. Once you trigger the Bonus game, the setting and music changes. The ritual starts with the chanting of each Dirge Wild that lands on a point of the pentagram. The more Dirge Wilds that land, the more intense the chanting becomes.
If all five points are filled with Dirge Wilds, Lucifer will be summoned and the face of the devil encompasses the entirety of reels 2, 3 and 4.
The game is full of originality, and you can see a lot of thought has gone into the design of the various symbols and characters, as well as the accompanying sound effects.
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You can check out the gameplay and try the slot for free when playing in ‘demo mode’. Get accustomed to all the features before playing the game for real money.
Check our other slot reviews for some scary games, including Blade & Fangs and Baron Lord of Saturday. You’ll also find a selection of games reviewed in the articles Horror Slots and Halloween Slot Games.
