House of Doom Slot – Free Demo
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Before the reels even move, one of them is picked out at random, and any wild landing on it swells to fill the whole reel. Five bonus rounds across 415 spins paid 309.20 between them. Doom Spins lights two to five reels at once and turns the House of Doom scatter wild as well.
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The Hellgate picks a reel before every spin
House of Doom is a 5-reel, 10-payline slot. Wins pay left to right only, and just the highest win on each line is counted. It contains a Doom Spins feature and a Skulls of Abyss bonus round with the Hellgate. The Hellgate is not a feature you wait for — it runs on every base spin, highlighting one reel at random. House of Doom has a bleak occult theme and revolves around a blindfolded woman, pentagrams and blazing roses. I put 415 spins through it at a stake of 2.00.
The blindfolded woman and the ram skull
Symbols comprise A, K, Q and J playing cards, together with premium symbols in the form of pentagrams, chained crosses, blazing roses, ram skulls and the House of Doom symbol, and the latter is the most lucrative and pays 200.00 for 5 on a payline. The wild is depicted by the blindfolded woman. It substitutes for every symbol except the Scatter. The Scatter triggers the bonus round, with the House of Doom being the free spins symbol. Three Scatters open the pick round, and three House of Doom symbols open the free spins.
Whenever they land on the reel the Hellgate has marked, wilds stretch to cover the entire reel. Inside Doom Spins the House of Doom symbol expands on marked reels in the same way. One reel is marked on every base spin, and the max win is 2,500x. Over my 415 spins only 79 paid anything at all, and 49 of those returned less than the 2.00 stake.
Fifteen skulls, picked until an End symbol shows
Landing 3 Scatter symbols triggers the Skulls of Abyss, and 15 skulls appear on the screen. Two of the rounds I hit across the session were this pick game rather than the free spins. You choose one to uncover a hidden prize, and you keep choosing until an End symbol shows up. The End symbols are House of Doom, 20x and 5x. The coins are applied to the total bet, so a reveal read 6.00 against my 2.00 stake. 1x, 2x and 3x let you choose again.
Cash prizes are added to the total win, and this feature is arguably more appealing than the free spins round, as it can also grant the Doom Spins feature itself. Between them the five bonus rounds I hit paid 309.20, which was 57% of everything I won.
Final Minty Score: The best of my five bonus rounds paid 138.00 at a 2.00 stake, 69 times the money, against a headline max win of 2,500x. The features arrived often enough to keep me in the chair and paid like base-game wins. Play’n GO went back to the same house for House of Doom 2: The Crypt.
Ten free spins that add a second wild
Landing 3 House of Doom symbols will grant 10 Free Spins, and during Free Spins, the House of Doom scatter becomes Wild and substitutes for all symbols. The two wilds then work side by side on the highlighted reels. The Hellgate marks between two and five reels instead of one. That's about it as far as the free spins go. My first bonus round landed on spin 7 and paid 56.00, or 28x the stake. The Free Spins feature can be retriggered by landing 3 or more Wild House of Doom symbols again, for one additional spin per symbol. That sets the ceiling for a single round at 15 spins.
415 spins, 65.5% back
House of Doom is not a generous game. My 415 spins put 830.00 through it and returned 544.00. Let's just put that out in the open immediately. The balance went from 25,000.00 down to 24,714.00. It has a respectable enough RTP of 96.11% and a max win of 2,500x, which my 415 spins never came anywhere close, and the free spins round lacks novelty. It is pretty much equivalent to the main game, plus a second wild. The peak balance of 25,170.20 arrived on spin 20 and was never beaten afterwards.
The bonus rounds were not particularly difficult to trigger — five rounds in 415 spins. The first came on spin 7 and the second on spin 20, after which the gaps stretched to 105 and 95 spins. It seems that most of the payouts are assigned to them, since the bonuses accounted for 57% of everything I won, and only 79 spins of 415 paid anything at all. Two of the five rounds paid 6.6x and 6.0x. 49 of those paid less than the stake, so the balance slid down almost from the outset. The longest stretch without any win was 26 spins, ending on spin 74, and the session as a whole returned 65.5%. The bonuses triggered steadily enough but never paid more than 69x.