Vampire Princess of Darkness Slots
Symbols written in blood, Gothic castles, upside-down bats and hauntingly beautiful vampires are just some of the things to get your teeth into with the Vampire Princess of Darkness video slot from Playtech. Although it comes with the conventional 5 reels, there’s only 5 paylines running across them, with 3 following the horizontal rows of symbols and the other 2 being diagonals from the left side. You’ll need to land at least 3 of the same symbol across any of these lines, but the Vampire Princess is a wild symbol who helps complete combinations and there’s a gravestone bonus icon which triggers a simple side game.
This makes it a relatively straightforward online casino slot machine, which is unusual as the Playtech games developer is known for their innovative bonus rounds. But that shouldn’t put too many people off, as this slot looks great and is certainly has all the visual impact that games from this company tend to feature. It’s also mobile compatible, so you can spin these dark and foreboding reels on iPhones, Android devices and desktop PC’s with no loss of quality or gameplay, winning up to 6,000x the stake whatever platform you are on.
The vampire theme is always a popular choice and this game has all the horror-inspired atmosphere any fan of the genre could want for, from the background image of a full moon, dead forest and the castle, to the haunting music that plays as the reels spin. Even the reels surrounds look like the sort of iron railings that would be seen in a graveyard, so it may be a fairly simple slot machine, but Playtech has lavished plenty of detail on it.
Visiting the Vampire Princess
The blood-soaked playing card symbols are going to complete the most frequently seen win-lines, although the rewards will be correspondingly less than those created by the high-value picture icons. The K will return 5x, 15x, or 40x the amount staked per line, while the A is worth a little more, but it’s the cloves of garlic, metallic cross and blood-filled cup that gore fans will want to see, as these are worth maximum values of 200x, 400x and 800x the line stake respectively when you land 5 of a kind right across the reels.
A bat symbol is worth a consolation prize of 5x the line stake just for being on the first 2 reels of a payline, with 3, 4, or 5 of this cute critter returning prizes of 60x, 300x, or 2,000x. The top prizes however, are won when the castle stops across a line, as just 2 of this creepy symbol will pay out 15x, while 3 of them are worth 100x, 4 castles will pay 500x, and the best prize of all is a massive 7,500x the line stake that’s yours when it’s seen right across any of the 5 paylines.
Last but by no means least, we see the Princess, who is a dark-haired beauty, barely fitting into her violet-coloured dress. She’s a wild symbol, so will complete a winning combination if she’s able to fill in the gaps in a run of matching symbols or to extend a win further to the right side of the game. There’s no actual value to the wild however, nor is she able to substitute for the gravestone.
Digging up Bonuses
The rose-entwined and RIP-inscribed gravestone is another symbol that won’t pay out a direct prize, but landing this image on reels 1, 3 and 5 at once triggers the only bonus feature of the Vampire Princess of Darkness video slot.
It plays out in a graveyard where 5 rows of headstones stretch out into the distance. All that you need to do is pick a single one from the front row to reveal a cash prize, then move on to the next line and pick another.
Although you are sure to win a bonus prize from any of the first 6 gravestones, the next row of 5 will contain some that reveal ‘Collect’, which ends the round. Fortunate players will carry on through the 4 headstones of the next row, then the 3, and 2 of subsequent rows, and finally get to the single one at the end of the graveyard, where a big bonus prize awaits them.
Staking on a Vampire
Because there are only 5 paylines running across these reels, punters will only need a minimum stake of 0.05 to play for real cash. To get the maximum payouts however, the stakes can be raised using the ‘+’ and ‘-‘ buttons, with multiple bet levels possible, all the way up to a high limit of 500.00 per spin. Free Vampire Princess of Darkness video slots are available, although it’s a fairly simple game that you won’t need to practice on.
Autoplay and Turbo modes are options that speed up the spin rates and hopefully the rate at which you collect wins, and with a high return to player percentage, those wins can come in quite frequently.
Baying for more Blood?
If you like the whole vampire theme, then there’s no shortage of online casino slot machines to satisfy the blood-lust of even the biggest horror fans. You can’t get more vampire-y than the Vampire video slot from Espresso Games, which features blood-sucking demons, gargoyles, werewolves, haunted castles and all sorts of other creepy images across the 5 reels. It comes with wild and scatter pays, while landing the Vampire as he bites the neck of an unfortunate young lady, could lead to you sucking up part of a progressive jackpot prize.
NetEnt’s Blood Suckers and it’s imaginatively-named sequel, Blood Suckers 2, are perhaps the most popular vampire-themed slot machines on the market. Blood Suckers 2 ups the gore-fest considerably, as stunning 3D graphics bring the undead back to life and a series of bonus games are triggered. These include free spins with multipliers, a Hidden Treasure round, and random in-game features such as extra scatters, with high value symbols paying out big win multipliers, and a Bonus Shot where additional symbols can also launch the free spins games.
A game Worth Going Batty for?
What the Vampire Princess of Darkness slot machine lacks in number of paylines and variety of bonus rounds, it more than makes up for in high quality design and winning chances. If you really like free spins rounds, then perhaps this won’t be your preferred vampire-themed slot game, but we think the Graveyard Bonus is a good alternative, and there’s a guaranteed coin win at the first level, so everyone can dig up a prize, even if the next row ends the round.
It’s available at the many Playtech-powered online casinos, where it joins the huge range of table, cards and slots, each of which is fully licensed and certified for fair play.
