The Ghouls Slots
The Ghouls is a wonderfully animated video online slot game developed by Betsoft and released in January of 2010. A memorable gaming experience is guaranteed over the Halloween holidays and beyond featuring a spooky bunch of characters like zombies, vampires and monsters which are all realised with a cheeky cartoonish style and a lot of humour.
This horror and paranormal themed slot also provides some solid and entertaining gameplay with attractive and enticing payouts that can be won up to 180,000 coins per round not including the jackpot.
A classical gaming grid offers 5 reels with 3 rows and 20 variable paylines which pay both ways. The background shows an old mansion which seems to have acquired some interesting characters like skeletons, skulls and a watching owl who sits above the reels. An out of the ordinary audio showcases the laugh of a cackling witch along with eerie fairground sounds and the howling of a wolf. The visuals are highly effective showing every rich and colourful detail which brings an unforgettable immersive atmosphere for punters.
Firstly, bets will need to be placed to begin gameplay and these can be customised in an attractive range offering a minimum bet per spin of $0.01 and up to a maximum bet of $100.00 per spin. This adequately accommodates a wide variety of gamer from the slot mavens and beginners including high rollers. An optional auto-play button sitting above the reels allows for a number of pre-automated spins to game with which can very handy and useful to those who are more conscious of maintaining a gaming budget.
A pumpkin or Jack O´Lantern represents the wild symbol and it has the power to substitute for all the other gaming symbols with the exception of the scatter symbol (shown as a tombstone) and the bonus and jackpot symbols of the red coated Dracula vampire and haunted house.
There are a number of theme related gaming symbols with the haunted house bringing in the biggest prizes. Five of them landing consecutively award players with 1,000x their bet if they are playing at the maximum wager. The mummy, a green Frankenstein monster, the witch, the howling wolf against the moon, a black cat, green eye and the black and red spider offer nice payouts of 600x, 540x, 360x, 300x, 180x, 120x and 100x for five of a kind respectively.
The RTP (Return to Player Percentage) is 94.8% and this game plays with medium volatility. This makes it an attractive option for most punters as a steady and consistent flow of decent sized wins can be expected over the course of the game.
A number of excellent bonus features are at hand to spice up the action at The Ghouls and the first one is triggered when three or more gravestone symbols land in any position on an active payline. Players are taken to a separate gaming screen which is a graveyard where 6 gravestones lie in the grass and they will need to reveal the prizes by clicking on them. When the collect sign pops up this bonus feature ends and any winnings are then duly paid out. If gamers are lucky enough to trigger this bonus round with more than three gravestones a multiplier is added to augment their winnings.
When three, four or five Dracula icons land on any payline in any position the Free Spins Bonus feature is unlocked. With three icons players gain 5 free spins, with four icons they are awarded 10 free spins and with a combination of five of the vampire symbols they get themselves 20 free spins.
The Ghouls slot game is fully optimised. This allows for in instant and seamless gameplay from either a desktop or a compatible smartphone or tablet device. These devices could be either iOS Apple, Android or Samsung irrespective of screen size.