Horror Hotel

Review Horror Hotel

Are you up for a trip to a mysterious hotel somewhere in the heart of Transylvania, somewhere in central Romania? The Horror Hotel pokie gives players a mysterious and hence unforgettable adventure with a lot more than just vampires. This title by Relax Gaming comes with a 6×6 grid and gives us cluster pays. From a graphical point of view, this game is another title with cartoony, but great icons in vivid colours. Horror Hotel is set up with blue reels and a frame made of stone around them. You can see the castle above a cemetery and a full moon behind the layout which are probably put into place to make sure you don’t lose attention. The frightening music and great sound effects make sure a unique vibe is created and players in New Zealand are curious to find out more.

How to Play

In Horror Hotel, you will find a 6×6 grid that comes with a Cluster Pays mechanism. Payouts are formed when you collect 3+ identical symbols on the lines. On the playfield, you will see the Nudging full reel Wild put into practice, allowing you to make a respin. Here are some basic steps to follow about how to play this Horror Hotel pokie.

• Go to an online casino that offers Horror Hotel and sign up or sign in. Once you’re set then go ahead and launch Horror Hotel.
• The play button is easily recognised by the black circle with a curved grey pointe. Pressing this button will replace the existing icons on the 6×6 grid with new ones.
• If you use the fast-forward sign, this will speed up the game. In addition, the coins on top activate the betting section that enables players to set a bet amount: this is done from $0.1 to $50.
• The autoplay feature is available in Horror Hotel. You can open it by clicking the play icon and the triple line will reveal the paytable. Once you open the paytable, you can also click the gear on the left to make adjustments to the settings.

Symbol Wins

As a horror pokie, classic imagery forms the background with a castle/hotel and graveyard make up the setting. With a nearly daunting soundtrack, there is also a full moon making sure the atmosphere is creepy at all times. Still, from a visual point of view it has a cartoon feel. On the 6×6 play field, low values include 3 different potions (red, green and blue) with payouts that go up to 500x the bet. The 4 high values are recognised by a mummy, werewolf, Frankenstein and Count Dracula. With 3+ paying up to 1,500x bet, Count Dracula is the most valuable symbol: clusters of 35+ award a 5,000x bet payout. There is also a W Wild symbol that substitutes for all pay symbols. The other symbol to look out for is the Skull Service Bell Bonus Scatter symbol which plays a key role in activating the Free Spins feature. Here is what to expect from the different symbols in Horror Hotel by Relax.

Bonus Features

Hotel Horror uses the cluster pays mechanism. This means that symbols in Hotel Horror form a winning combination if they land in a group of at least 5. It is required that these 5 (or more) identical symbols are adjacent to each other, horizontally or vertically. Thanks to the cluster pays mechanism it is actually quite easy to make major wins without the need to activate the bonus features. These features are still very interesting. Here’s why:

There are 2 important symbols in Hotel Horror:

• Mystery symbol: this symbol can trigger the mystery symbol feature.
• Scatter symbol: this symbol can trigger the free spins feature of Hotel Horror.

Mystery Symbol Feature

All symbols that are part of a winning cluster are turned into mystery symbols in Hotel Horror. You then receive a respin, but not before all non-winning symbols have been removed from the playing field. As a result, the playing field is completely empty, except for the mystery symbols. These mystery symbols then fall to the bottom of the playing field. The other empty positions on the playing field are filled by new symbols that fall into the grid. All mystery symbols convert into the same pay symbol during this respin. If you manage to expand this cluster in this way or if a new winning combination can be formed, the mystery symbol feature will be reactivated and you will receive a new respin.

Hotel Horror Free Spins

Three scatters give 5 free spins in Hotel Horror and for every additional scatter that spins, that number is increased by 1. During the free spins feature, every scatter means extra free spins. The unique thing about the free spins feature of Hotel Horror is that wilds are guaranteed to land on every spin. During every spin an extra wild is added.

In addition, a win multiplier applies during the free spins feature of Hotel Horror. This starts at x1 and is increased by +1 each time a winning cluster can be created. This multiplier does not reset between spins. Thanks to the guaranteed wilds and the multipliers, the chance of winning major prizes during the Hotel Horror bonus round is quite high.

Bonus Buy Feature

If you want to take the most out of the free spins feature without wanting to try your luck, you can also go trigger the bonus buy feature. In this case, you pay 100x the stake and then trigger the bonus game. Doing so will give you an RTP of 96.5% to work with.

Payout Metrics

The Horror Hotel RTP is set at 96.17% which is just above the 96% average for an online pokie game. If you make use of the Bonus Buy feature, the RTP will go up to 96.50%. From a variance perspective, it is very high and ranked as 5 out of 5. All of the above is very typical for pokies by Relax Gaming and not very different from other games. The hit frequency rate comes at 16.1% which means that a win will land every 6.2 spins on average. As for the payouts in this game, the Horror Hotel online pokie offers 20,000x stake for max wins. Winning big will come from the free spins where mystery symbols combine with a progressive multiplier. We believe that these numbers are pretty good, but as for the high variance, it is up to you to decide whether that’s your cup of tea or not.

Summary

Horror Hotel by Relax Gaming is a horror pokie game that will probably give you some thrills and at least some goosebumps. This is a game where an old castle, werewolves, Dracula, Frankenstein, and other creepy creatures are waiting for your company and you really can’t say no. If you can remove all these monsters with the help of the mystery symbols feature, you will get a generous reward. The gameplay of Horror Hotel is of a very high quality, and the plot is interesting. Horror fans will appreciate this and the game scores very well based on our performance metrics for online pokies in New Zealand.

In Horror Hotel there is no need to include a wild in the cluster win to trigger the mystery symbol feature, but the symbol values have taken a hit to compensate. You can still win up to 5,000x your bet from a single cluster though, so it’s nothing to complain about if you ask us. You still also risk getting only 5 free spins, however, and often the feature isn’t as fruitful as hoped for. The game is prolonged by the mystery symbol respins, however, and the increasing amount of wild symbols will help you generate cluster wins. This makes the extra spins more lucrative than usual, and you can still win up to 20,000x the bet. All together, we believe the trip to Transylvania is worth it. Just make sure to hang in there as the thrills and goosebumps might just give you some great prizes if you’re persistent enough.