HORROR HOTEL
Horror Hotel online slot produced by Relax Gaming comes with a default 96.17% RTP and a 6-reel, 6-row playing area featuring a “cluster pays” win evaluation mechanism.
The taxi pulls up at a massive iron gate, and the air suddenly becomes dense. You double-check the reservation on the phone, looking out of the car’s window and back at your emails to ensure you’re at the right place. Beyond the gloomy entrance lies a cobbled path, twisting and turning between destitute tombstones occupied occasionally by vicious-looking ravens. You were sure that the hotel’s name was some kind of an inside joke and that in reality, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
By the looks of it, it’s a real deal. The outside is far from welcoming, so you silently hope it’s just the exterior that’s supposed to make a shocking first impression. As you step slowly toward the front door, a malicious howl pierces the air, causing ravens to scatter instantly from all around. Ok, probably just a wolf. Just as you finish that thought, a tormented scream comes from the same direction, and after two seconds, everything falls silent. Was this booking a good idea after all?
HORROR HOTEL
Horror Hotel online slot produced by Relax Gaming comes with a default 96.17% RTP and a 6-reel, 6-row playing area featuring a “cluster pays” win evaluation mechanism.
The taxi pulls up at a massive iron gate, and the air suddenly becomes dense. You double-check the reservation on the phone, looking out of the car’s window and back at your emails to ensure you’re at the right place. Beyond the gloomy entrance lies a cobbled path, twisting and turning between destitute tombstones occupied occasionally by vicious-looking ravens. You were sure that the hotel’s name was some kind of an inside joke and that in reality, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
By the looks of it, it’s a real deal. The outside is far from welcoming, so you silently hope it’s just the exterior that’s supposed to make a shocking first impression. As you step slowly toward the front door, a malicious howl pierces the air, causing ravens to scatter instantly from all around. Ok, probably just a wolf. Just as you finish that thought, a tormented scream comes from the same direction, and after two seconds, everything falls silent. Was this booking a good idea after all?
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SLOT DETAILS
Provider:
RELAX GAMING
Layout:
6x6
Theme:
MONSTERS
Pays:
CLUSTER PAYS
RTP:
96.17%
Bets:
0.10/50
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Horror Hotel by Relax Gaming- Online Slot Review
Ah, the pleasures of travel and temporary accommodation. There's plenty of that in our business, allowing us to test a wide range of options. Some are better, some worse, but none come close to the creepy atmosphere served in the Horror Hotel slot. It's not that serious, though, because the game offers a quality cartoon design with humorous animations, especially on high-paying symbols represented by various creatures like a mummy, a werewolf, Frankenstein's monster, and a vampire. In summary, traditional representatives of the horror genre.
The entire setting outside the reels creates a grim vibe through a dark and spooky landscape of a graveyard illuminated by the full moon. The sounds efficiently intensify the feeling through constantly blowing wind and an uneasy tune that peculiarly combines different instruments. A Harry Potter and teenage horror movies music mix, if you will. We can't argue that it accurately matches the softer sides of the theme and generally sets the right mood. Now that we are somewhat comfortable with the creepy surroundings, it's time to check how we can use them to our advantage.
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How To Win On Horror Hotel Slot - Features & Mechanics
Symbols sit firmly enclosed in a square stone frame. It fits a 6x6 grid where you expect to match at least 5 symbols adjacent horizontally and vertically, forming a traditional cluster. The paytable range extends to payouts of 35+ instances (so 1 short of a full screen), which in the case of the top-paying symbol mean a prize of 5,000 times the bet. Score that 4 times in the free spins, and you'll arrive at the maximum possible win for this game - 20,000 times the bet. The entire game's mechanics rely on one ingenious feature that makes such situations likely to happen.
Mystery Symbol
Every winning cluster instantly transforms into a set of mystery symbols. After the initial wins are awarded, all instances that didn't partake in successful combinations clear off the grid, while the question mark icons remain and fall to the bottom of the view. The empty spaces are then populated by another wave of symbols, after which the mystery icons reveal a matching outcome. If that set connects with at least one more matching symbol, the sequence continues. Analogically, any separate clusters formed apart from the one resulting from the feature also trigger successive reactions. In essence, every single win is the beginning of a potential chain reaction where you're guaranteed an extra win on a cluster of the same size.
Horror Hotel Free Spins
A minimum of 3 Bonus Symbols trigger 5 free spins, plus 1 extra for every additional instance. You can collect them throughout consecutive cascades within the same spin, so they don't need to land all at once. In the bonus round, two awesome surprises await. Firstly, there's a persistent progressive multiplier that increases by 1 whenever a win transforms into mystery symbols. Secondly, Wild symbols are guaranteed on every spin, and their number also grows by 1, starting from a single instance at the beginning of the bonus.
Horror Hotel On Mobile
Smartphones are an inherent element of our everyday life, especially when traveling. However, if you're not much of a globetrotter, there's also good news because the slot comes in the latest HTML5 technology and is available on all mobile devices. The landscape view won't hold many surprises if you've already tried the game on a desktop. The portrait orientation suits the 6x6 matrix perfectly, while the background gives us a full view of the journey, starting at the bottom of the hill among gravestones and reaching a moonlit hotel at the top.
Final Thoughts
Even though it's way past Halloween, Relax Gaming decided to treat us with a spooky theme twice a row. Just recently, we were invited for a deadly hand with Grim the Splitter, and now we go on a mandatory trip to a hotel none of us would deliberately choose. It's an exciting tour, though, as the studio delivers a detailed and thought-through design that seamlessly connects with the features and mechanics. We were especially charmed by the fantastic animations of the monster symbols and hilarious overweight bats carrying heavy sacks with your winnings when you score big. Subtle details like changing the word RIP on the tombstone in the base game into RIH (deliberately misspelled "rich" or Rest In Horror/Hotel?) in the bonus are always a clever touch.
Building a slot relying on one feature may sometimes seem like a shortcut to players, but game designers undoubtedly know it's not the case. Balancing out one mechanism without having any other to compensate for an excess or deficiency of RTP is not easy. However, it feels like mathematicians from Relax Gaming know their trade because even though volatile, the mystery symbols feel pretty rewarding when they build up into several cascades. And that's only when talking about the base game. In the free spins, the progressive multiplier and guaranteed Wilds boost the potential immensely despite the low number of initial spins. Since you only need a single symbol to keep the chain reaction going, they often cover more than half the screen, which is a truly thrilling view. Horror Hotel is an expertly-crafted game that brings together the excitement of two aspects - a spooky theme and a versatile feature -enveloped in a thoughtful design.
