Halloween Fortune Slot

Pros Tips

Despite its medium level of volatility and rather high RTP, Halloween Fortune may prove to be quite a demanding video slot. I had to spin through more than 150 base game spins before I eventually made it to the free spins bonus. So, I’d still set a relatively low bet level to increase the chances of triggering free spins several times.

The other reason behind this is the fact that outside of the free spins bonus, the video slot has very little to offer in terms of mechanics. You’ll want to capitalize on the free spins win multiplier as much as possible to hit bigger and better wins and without a bonus buy option, this may take a while to activate.

Halloween Fortune Slot Bonus Features

You enter the spooky woods of Halloween Fortune to find five reels and three rows that can have up to 20 active paylines. All symbols pay from left to right and you get bigger and better rewards for combinations featuring more identical symbols.

Rather than the usual royal card symbols, you get a selection of witch-related talismans and animals at the bottom of the paytable. This includes a witch’s pendant, a magic potion, a skull candle, a raven and a black cat. The highest win you can get from here is 300x your stake for five identical symbols.

If you’re hoping for more substantial wins, then you’ll be looking toward the three top-paying symbols. These tokens show the video slot’s witches in all their ghastly glory, with the red, blue and green witch symbols paying out 400x, 500x and 1,000x your stake for five identical symbols, respectively. Wilds and scatter symbols also have a pay value, but more on that later.

Wilds

Wild symbols in Halloween Fortune are represented by the iconic jack-o’-lantern and they step in for any missing pay symbols in a combination. Apart from helping save near misses, they can also help improve the value of a win by increasing its symbol count.

Wilds are also the highest pay symbol in the game, awarding wins of up to 10,000x your stake for five identical symbols. Whether you’re playing in the base game or free spins, they’re always the symbols you’ll hope to see most of.

Scatter Symbol

Now the scatter symbols in Halloween Fortune are quite different than the scatters we get in other video slots. These symbols don’t have anything to do with unlocking free spins game modes. Instead, scatter symbol payouts are multiplied by the total bet and added to the line wins. So, you effectively get another way to boost wins further per round.

They may not be the most rewarding symbols in the game but landing five matching scatter symbols will still get you a 50x win. They’re the symbols showing the video slot’s logo, landing in both the base game and free spins.

Free Spins

Instead of scatter symbols, you’ll need to watch out for bonus symbols to make your way into the free spins bonus. These cauldron shaped symbols can land on any of the five reels, and you’ll need a minimum of three to trigger the bonus mode. But before jumping into the bonus rounds, you’ll need to pick through a few different options.

First, pick from one of the three witches. This will determine the number of initial free spins you get, ranging from three to 20. Next, you’ll need to pick from six magic potions, revealing a win multiplier between 2x to 10x and this will apply to all your free spin wins. Throughout the bonus, you can get even more bonus rounds by landing more bonus symbols, and there is no limit to the number of free spins you can add to your tally.

The free spins bonus doesn’t change all that much in terms of gameplay, other than adding the win multiplier, which remains consistent for all the bonus rounds. There is also no way to buy into the bonus, so you’ll be relying on bonus symbols landing on the reels to unlock the free spins rounds.

Halloween Fortune Slot on Mobile

Most of us nowadays play our video slots on mobile, so it has become a requirement for games to work well on our phones and tablets. But with Halloween Fortune having originally released more than a decade ago back in 2012, I had my doubts as to whether this online slot would have the level of mobile optimization I’m looking for.

Things started on the wrong foot, as I was immediately asked to turn my Android phone around and play in landscape mode. But beyond that, everything else was working fine. The touch controls felt easy and intuitive, and the game’s performance was equal to the desktop experience. The online slot is compatible with both Android and iOS devices and works across all modern mobile browsers.

Conclusion

I’m always cautiously optimistic when revisiting an old release. Will it still feel as great as it did back when it launched? Or will my nostalgia forever be crushed by the realisation that what I once thought to be amazing now feels ridiculously dated?

These were the sort of thoughts that went through my mind before I fired up Halloween Fortune again after so many years. At a glance I was quite impressed, the visuals still look decent enough and the slot certainly manages to capture the right, eerie vibe. But after a couple of spins, I started noticing all of its shortcomings.

There are barely any animations to speak of and the sound itself is rather boring. I hoped the soundtrack would grow into something more menacing, but it just remained the same throughout all my time with the game. The highlighted paylines after wins also felt very old, which can be equal parts nostalgic and irritating.

The same applies to the video slot’s features. There are barely any mechanics to speak of, other than a win multiplier that kicks in during the free spins bonus. It felt quite barebones and I kept wishing there was some feature to keep me engaged during all those base game spins.

Perhaps the online slot’s saving grace is its rewarding symbols. Even some of the low-paying tokens can lead to substantial rewards and landing wild combinations always proved to be immensely rewarding.

So, there’s still quite a lot of value left in Halloween Fortune, but you’ll need to be willing to put up with a lot of dated features and visuals to get there.